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This is a wonderful release for fans of the film and score. So many of the extras are great that I can't put it into words- a practice I've never been very fond of before. This CD is a crowning glory for Lukas & Co. My prediction is that it'll be in my CD player long after I receive the new Intrada Goldsmith.
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I received my copy of “The Wild Bunch” yesterday and had a chance to listen to about half of the film score, Disc 1, last night. The quality of the sound is stunning – every instrument placed exactly into the mix with nuance and clarity – starting with the drum snares in the main title cue which are precise, crisp, and unsettling -- the musical equivalent of a lurking, coiling rattlesnake (or scorpion). Like all of Fielding’s music, for me at least, this creates a unique psychological realm – one in which precise details coalesce into beautiful soundscapes that often shatter, shimmer, or transmute. I had not listened to this music in a couple of years – I am now convinced that this is one of the greatest of scores (just IMHO).
The liner notes are indeed superb – helping to explicate the contours of the music and how it functions in the film. It seems like every CD that features music by Fielding for Peckinpah has a couple of stories that make me thank my lucky stars that I never had to interact with Peckinpah! It is astonishing to me that after hearing the first recording of the score he tried to fire Fielding. Thank God smart-Peckinpah triumphed over idiot-Peckinpah in this case.
This is a wonderful final release by FSM – one that I will be returning to over and over again.
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Dont we have to thank Fielding's wife!!!? Who mediated and insisted and begged her husband to fight his corner and win Sam over.
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Well, according to the liner notes, we also have to thank that chair that Jerry threw at Sam! I do get the impression that Mr. Peckinpah was surrounded by a host of collaborators who did their best to see that his projects got completed in a relatively coherent fashion -- often despite Mr. Peckinpah. Idiot-Peckinpah seemed to get the upper hand a great deal of the time.
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My copy arrived today, what a sensational release, the sound quality and presentation are superb.
Congratulations to everybody involved in this wonderful release, finally, my favourite Fielding score, complete and sounding better than ever before.
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