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Happy Halloween everyone!
Next Wednesday, November 5 at 12 PM PST La La Land will start taking Orders on:
METEOR by Laurence Rosenthal
The the first 100 cds sold will be signed by Mr. Rosenthal. However, these AUTOGRAPHED cds will most likely ship on November 19. Mr Rosenthal is out of the country, but has agreed to sign these booklets for his fans while he is away on Holiday. For those whom do not qualify for an autograph will have their cds shipped next week. (If you are confused let me know and I will explain in further detail)
ABOUT THE RELEASE:
The METEOR score was released at the time of the film only in Japan. A limited edition, promotional CD was issued on behalf of the composer in 1997 with just under 39 minutes of music. This album differs from that release in that a couple of cues have been combined, one new track was located (Track 3b: “The Meteor #2”), and the track names have been transcribed from the original cue sheet titles.
This is a limited edition of 1200 units.
Retail Price: $19.98
NO ORDERS will be accepted until 12 NOON, PST on NOVEMBER 5th, 2008.
See y'all then!
Happy Haunts!
MV
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Happy Birthday MV!
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Has anyone seen this movie? What vein is the music in?
Not sure I could describe it. Suffice it to say its a great score. Some tracks have a russian feel (balaleika), reflecting their part of a bi-lateral approach to the Meteor impact. Brien Keith speaks totally in russian (and its genuine).
Meteor, and Clash of the Titans are Rosenthal's two finest hours. (or more like 5 hours, between them).
Special effects are a bit dated now, and come to think of it, probably were ever then. But as an adventure, I've always thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Anything by Rosenthal is worth getting*. It's a wonder he's not one of the Big Names in film scoring.
(*Especially THE RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE. It's almost unbelievably good.)
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Has anyone seen this movie? What vein is the music in?
Very similar writing for the main theme to his "Fantasy Island" theme, or much of TITANS (in a slower tempo than the main theme there). Very nice Soviet theme (Russian-flavored minor mode) and American theme (brass-centered major mode) both transformed into a fun march at the end.
The meteor itself gets non-modal writing featuring the blaster beam (like a number of scores that year), much like 50's horror score writing. He makes nice and subtle use of synthesizers (as any well-trained musician would, to my mind).
This was the period of his writing I liked best, when RETURN OF A MAN CALLED HORSE, and CLASH OF THE TITANS were produced.
I hope this helps.
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