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Jul 30, 2019 - 3:22 PM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I never saw this film, which just looked like two hideous she-creatures doing bitch battle (I can watch that on any reality TV show these days), but I picked up the score for 2 quid in a CD shop in town recently.
This is the first score CD I own by Richter. I do have his gorgeously melancholic Nature of Daylight music on the Shutter Island CD.
Anyway, it sounds more like stuff Zimmer SHOULD be doing these days, instead of his constant one and two note variations on a minimal theme.
There's a lot of the modern Remote Control style ostinon-and-on-and-on throughout, although Richter does dress it up a bit more now and then. Also there's the percussion drumming. And the slow, sad, drawn-out elegiac music to address the tragedy of it all.
Oh, and some Zadok the Priest riffing to evoke the period.
It's all neither terrible or brilliant.
I too struggle with the somewhat simplistic nature of Richter's music. It gets pretty boring pretty quickly over a length of time.
He's similar to Michael Nyman in that way to me.
For short periods and in small doses, the music can be very enjoyable.
But I can't stick with it over a longer period, like I can with the likes of Williams, Goldsmith, Scott, Poledouris, Holdridge, Broughton and such.
Oh well. That'll be all Jeeves.
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I did see the film because the wife wanted to...and while I liked it fine at first, the score soon wore on my nerves and by the end I felt like it honestly detracted from the film (which itself wasn't very good at all).
Yavar
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I think 'On The Nature Of Daylight' will probably go down as his most famous 'signature' piece, thanks to it's constant use in various trailers, films and TV shows.
It is a beautifully melancholic piece and I urge you to hear the version where it's combined with the Dinah Washington song 'This Bitter Earth' (it can be found on the Shutter Island soundtrack).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-GMG6xhtY
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I like this one quite a bit mainly for the Finale cue. Not my favorite of the composer's scores, but I'd give it a 7 on the Richter scale.
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When it's not being scrupulously facile (in that chipper Downton Abbey sorta way), it's repeatedly overbearing (whereupon I'm reminded of the adage: if your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail).
I was utterly unmoved.
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