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SOLD OUT!
ROCKET GIBRALTAR
Music Composed and Conducted by ANDREW POWELL
INTRADA ISC 411
For the 1988 Columbia Pictures' film Rocket Gibraltar, English composer, arranger, and performer Andrew Powell composed the heartfelt score. Powell chose parts specific to the story’s dramatic weave: Levi, the grandchildren, Cy Blue, and the titular skiff, Rocket Gibraltar. The music takes the listener through a sonic journey—with elements of classicism, pop, a little blues, and a bit of sturdy orchestral dissonance. These diverse musical styles help to characterize Levi’s various family members and give the film a unique mélange of sonic flavorings. Powell ’s score avoids sentimentality by conveying the earnestness that allows what is in fact a pretty ghastly denouement to succeed as a loving gift in honor of the family patriarch.
Produced by Andrew Powell, Intrada is proud to release this score on its 30th anniversary. The project was spearheaded by Peter Hackman, who's passion for this score started when he first saw the film as a child, driving him for 30 years to make sure this score was released on its own for all to hear.
In the film, Levi Rockwell (Burt Lancaster) is a retired, widowed Hollywood screenwriter whose successful, grown children and their kids arrive to celebrate his 77th birthday in the family home on New York’s Long Island. While the whole family is quite amiable, his daughters and son come with various personal and social conflicts which distract them, leaving Levi to spend most of his time, when not napping, engaging with his eight grandchildren. The film’s sunny storyline shines as it unspools with delightful engagements between affable family folk in which the middle generation, the one that behaves most thoughtlessly, leaves it to the members of the youngest generation to see straight through to the heart of the matter and understand Grandpa Levi’s deepest wish.
This release is limited to 500 units.
INTRADA ISC 411
Barcode: 7 20258 54110 9
Retail Price: $19.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit:
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.11602/.f (SOLD OUT)
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Just two samples in, and I can hear why he had such a passion for this score. Sounds like something to get for sure.
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Samples are so so good. Cannot wait to pick this up.
Thanks you Intrada and Peter for your efforts to release great unheralded gems like this, sounds like it was well worth fighting for!
On an unrelated note, it's kind of amazing that a project with so many famous people involved is totally, 100% forgotten.
I agree, just looking at the cast list, my mind is blown. A film with this many notable people came and went so darn quickly. Glad others will finally be able to understand why this was my holy grail. Knowing others will finally be able to enjoy this means the world to me 
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TerrorVision was their first 500 release and I believe this is their second, don't quote me on that.
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Super excited to know that Peter's dream was realized. I hadnt previously heard of the movie or the score beyond the mystery clips, but looking forward to exploring this.
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The clips sound gorgeous, as expected. There's a hint of the beautiful LADYHAWKE love theme in the main theme there. Always a plus. It's very distinctly Powell. If any of you US citizens could pick this up for me, it would be great, as I can't justify the shipping costs. Then we could agree on a deal after that, maybe.
I can probably do it for you, Thor. Email me: neil dot shurley at gmail
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