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That's cool, Thor.
Looking forward to giving it a few spins.
It was my bonus/free disc from Dmitry, who allows you to pick an extra disc FOC, when you order 3 or more from his KMR site.
I'd already bagged the two Pots and the samples from and premise of BADLAND sold me on that one.
I went back and blasted through some further samples and CLOCKWISE really stood out.
I bought 4 but never got offered a freebie?!
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Thoughts folks?
First of all, I'm more than happy that the "Night Watch" score is finally available, since there was no release of Poteyenko's music in my country (I'm from Russia) and anywhere else. I finally listen it and it's perfect! I really like "Prologue" track, "Near the Death" (or "Epitaph" as it's concert version named), emotional "Light and Darkness", eerie "Vortex / Exorcism" and especially magnificent "Shadows of Past Sins / The Bloody Battle", this track is never appeared in the movie in it's the full version, only the fragments of it (the same applied to the other tracks, such as "The Call") and another good moment of this release is to have it in full versions.
The release of "Day Watch" also have its moments - it's a pleasure to listen music without dialogue fragments as it was on the original release, it has a better sound quality and this new album contains an unreleased tracks.
My highlights of this album is - "Love theme" ("Eternal Love" on this album), Both mystical and demonic versions of Tango ("Tango" and "Birthday Party / Tango of Death" respectively), especially the demonic one with it's haunting solo violin and contralto (or tenor) vocal which is rare to film music. Also, it's tracks "Feelings", "Wishes to Son", "The Darkness Coming" (this apocalyptic variation of the Main Theme is stunning and terrifying in the best sense of that word), and "Back to the Beginning".
As a fan of the book series that the films are based on, I can't say that Poteyenko's music is suit up for the Watch universe, but as a soundtrack for the movies it's more than good.
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I haven't had a chance to give either a proper listen yet, but I did blast through around the first 20 some minutes of NIGHTWATCH and was pleased to hear some good old fashioned, melodic and emotional horror music.
The Armenian sounding orchestration in some tracks lent a real ancient vibe to the moody proceedings and there was some epic bombast too.
I will be back with my thoughts once I've fully digested these scores, but for now I will let others extol their virtues.
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You're right Spook, both "Night" and "Day Watch" was a big hits in Russia, especially the second movie.
Well, it seems, that the third movie ("Twilight Watch" according to the name of the third book) was planned, but after the international release of the first one, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to create its own adaptation, and rumors has it, that after this the reshoots of the Day Watch has happened and so now we have a dilogy with open ending.
Also, there are plans to create a new TV-series but this time closer to books atmosphere and lore. Perhaps we'll see it soon.
About the books, it's a good question, but hard to answer. In terms of adaptation both movies are goes far away from books (in fact the first movie and half of the second is based on the first book), so when you read them you'll learn a lot of new things about the lore of this universe and the characters will be very different from their versions from movies. So, if you like the urban fantasy genre, you definitely should try to read this book series, especially the first three.
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You're very welcome 
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Having had to check my copy of THE CODE, due to some mastering issues pointed out recently, I was led to finally give this dark, vampire epic score a first play through (the first one...NIGHTWATCH).
The thing that immediately strikes you (me) is the rich, gothic splendour in the writing.
It's so well recorded and the instruments so well delineated, my ears have almost become unaccustomed to this level of detail this century. Many of the instruments heard here have since been banned, I think (certainly in Hollywood).
It's almost from a different time.
Like Bernard Herrmann and John Williams are still currently writing gothic horror scores (I even heard one of those Leonard Rosenman style build-ups in track 4/Taste Of Blood and those brilliant Herrmann high strings can be heard at the end of track 11/Friends & Enemies).
But you can always tell it comes from Russia, with the Duduk and olde style vocal lament never far away.
I can already tell this is one of those scores that gets better and better with repeated listens, revealing extra layers and dimensions.
If this had come out during my LP or early CD days, it would have been on repeat play for about 3 weeks, until I knew every downbeat to the next track.
Overall, the score reminds me of LE BRASIER by Frederic Talgorn, in it's beautiful, dark anguish.
And I believe DAY WATCH is even better?
If you like good, old-fashioned, thematic gothic horror scores...you know where to go (we need to support good sh!t like this).
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