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I put up a suite of score ripped from the film on Youtube, and he left a message last year:
Just saw some of the comments here. I wrote the score to the US release for Making Contact... I was a kid at just 23 years old. Ah, listening to this brings back memories. The company that released the US version wanted an orchestral score as compared to the electronic score that was originally used for the German version. This was the first orchestral score I did and it was a work in exploration... and by that I mean, I was exploring how the hell to write a score. I had written a couple of other electronic scores, but this was the first feature length orchestral one. I wrote non stop for 3 weeks, night and day. Did all the orchestrations myself. Then had 6 copiest over to my apartment for 2 days writing out the parts, then proofing them. I conducted the session, which was done in 7 hours. It was supposed to be a 5 hour recording (that was what we had budgeted) and we had to record almost 80 minutes of music! I remember that I called New World at the end of 5 hours with still 20 minutes of music to record to ask for another $2500 to pay the musicians to do another hour. The musicians ended up giving me an hour for free because they loved the score and wanted to help the newbie. One of the most wonderful days of my life and something I'll always remember even at 52 years old dentist in Atlanta now... Thanks for listening to my rant.
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I can't find the suite, can you post a link?
EDIT: nevermind I found it. Sounds just like a John Williams score from the 80's. I want this on CD!!
Sounds to me like the film was temp tracked with Battle Beyond the Stars. Definitely that flavor of Horner in there. Nice score.
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I tried looking for Paul Gilreath.com but its not there ...
However I can see that he is now a Dentist ... interesting career move
No longer a need to have it, since he's a dentist now.
I think Fred Werner is now a bank manager (or head of a bank chain).
Richard Lewis Warren is an actor now.
I think there was somebody else that changed professions, but I can't recall his name.
On the plus side, you can now get dentistry from somebody who can talk about film scores while he does it. ;-)
If only some enterprising label would get this out.....
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Sounds to me like the film was temp tracked with Battle Beyond the Stars. Definitely that flavor of Horner in there. Nice score.
Or Star Trek II
Clearly he was asked to replicate the "Horner sound" here. The stunning main title cue is basically a variation on COCOON's central theme. There's also some Goldsmith via POLTERGEIST during the action/suspense writing and a lot of Broughton/Williams throughout during the thematic material.
And yet - I don't care. At all. The music is just such a joy to listen to: Lush, heartfelt, incredibly sincere, phenomenally orchestrated and bearing that youthful energy Horner himself was still riding on at that time. It's the kind of music a young composer eager to make a splash used to write back in the day as a way of saying, "Look at this magnificent noise I can create!"
In that regard, it's just wonderful. What a shame that voice/career went unrealized, though hopefully at the very least this will one day get released.
I mean, if the similarly-great vibrant orchestral score by Terry Plumeri for a ridiculously obscure kiddie fair like MR. ATLAS can see the light of day... Why not something like this?
Couldn't agree more. It's nice to see that Roger of Intrada posted in this thread. Perhaps he will look into a possible release? I figured if any label were to take a crack at it it would be Intrada or BSX.
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Maybe if we ask Roger or MV really nicely...
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Yes, the motion is carried. Again.
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Still no release.
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