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I listened to this as my drive to work listen this morning and just enjoyed it tremendously. HANG EM HIGH I knew from the old lp, but THE AVIATOR is a revelation. It's drop dead gorgeous from start to finish. Beautiful score. This disc is highly recommended. Catch Doug Fake's comments about it today on the Intrada board.
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Oh, yeah, if the two cues from BARQUERO are any indication, we've lost another fine score. I must confess, I've never seen the movie, but the music sure sounds good.
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Oh, yeah, if the two cues from BARQUERO are any indication, we've lost another fine score. I must confess, I've never seen the movie, but the music sure sounds good.
Sadly, we could only find these two cues...
I assure you that if the rest of the score is found, I'm make damned sure it gets released.
We can't get enough FRONTIERE as far as I'm concerned.
Ford A. Thaxton
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I've just fallen off the wagon with multiple orders at SAE and Intrada, but I'm planning to indulge myself with this new Frontiere sometime in the near future.
I'm hoping that since the vaults at Warners are now fully open, we might someday get a taste of some of the fine music that Mr. Frontiere did for the 70's series, PROBE. I remember the theme as being really good.
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I just have to put my two cents in: I just got this and am thrilled. It's a fabulous release, if nothing else because there's so much on it.
"Hang 'Em High" is great, even if it is a Morricone-inspired score (the theme mostly reflects the Morricone style; the rest of the score stands well on its own). "Barquero" is fun as well. But the real prize, for me, was "The Aviator." I've never seen the film or heard the score, but I agree with Roger Feigelson - this is "dynamite." Lush, symphonic, grandly georgeous and frequently powerful music that, frankly, I wouldn't guess as Frontiere's in a blind listening. All together this is a wonderful value for $20.
I also got the "Name for Evil / Unknown" disc, especially since it's being offered at a discount right now, and was very impressed with that as well, although I did know the Outer Limits score already.
All in all a fine batch of scores from a composer who never really got the attention he deserved. Thanks to LaLa Land for helping to change that.
Mark T.
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THE AVIATOR is one of the greatest things I've hear this year. It's top-shelf from beginning to end.
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THE AVIATOR is one of the greatest things I've hear this year. It's top-shelf from beginning to end.
I fell in love with this score only 23 years ago when I first heard it at Tom Null's home when VARESE was considering putting it out.
The album that Varese released was quite good, but due to the limits of the LP format (and some creative choices) the Prologue and Title music was left off, something that always troubled me.
So when this project came up, I did everything I could to include this on this release due to the short running time of HANG'EM HIGH and was able at long last to "Put Right what Once Went Wrong" and include this music on this release and also include a touching moment heard at the end of the film that I also liked very much.
Over three years ago, LA LA LAND had cleared the rights to "Barquero", but dropped the project because we could only locate two cues, but we able to include them on this release.
Off the number of projects I've worked on over the last few years, this one holds a speical place in my heart, Frontiere work deserves to be rememebered just the way Goldsmith, Williams, Bernstein and others should be.
He did far more then some cult TV projects and if I have anything to say about it, that work will see the light of day (as well those TV projects).
I hope you all enjoy this release, it's loads of fun and contains some great music by a composer whose talent is vastly underated in my opinion.
Ford A. Thaxton
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I'm also curious about an answer to Bob's question, so I thought I'd give this a little bump four years later.
Listening to Barquero right now and wishing there were more than just these two salvageable cues...
Yavar
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