Not really feeling this one it has a certain 80s vibe about it that does nothing for me.
I died a little inside reading that comment. Must admit I don't detect an 80s vibe at all. Only vibe I pick up is of sheer awesomeness.
Peter
John Bender says that sometimes it is often the listener who is at fault and not the score when a listener fails to connect with a score,it must just be me who is at fault this time. Think if I had owned this score when it came out I may have connected with it and loved it to,it seems more in a style I was into a number of years ago,my taste has shifted so much there is a whole pile of stuff I loved that I no longer listen to now.
This is one EM score which has, to date, eluded me
Tr. 4 Hunters on the Forecastle does re-appear on the score to Il Barone but ... according to www.chimai.com the track is sourced from his non-film work collection of the early 1970's (Sound Dimensions).
I shall keep a look out () for this score!
I did have the CD of this once, but I appear to have ebayed it in a weak moment. I'd have it back in a heartbeat.
Heh heh - keep a look out... he who would pun would pick a pocket...
I was fortunate enough to to frequent a CD/Record store in the early 90s in West L.A. called Disc Connection. The owner, Bernie, was the nicest man and always friendly and easy to chat with. I used to run into Nick Redman there all the time. (Sometimes I'd also go to Rhino Records, which was nearby, and run into Jon Burlingame.)
One time when I was in the store, Bernie had this Morricone CD playing and it caught my ear. I immediately asked what CD it was and bought it on the spot. It's one of my favorite Morricone themes and I'll never forget the first time I heard it.
I always think of Bernie and Disc Connection and will be forever grateful for those days when you could walk into a store and discover a score or have a friendly chat with an owner/employee or another customer.
Wherever Bernie is these days, I hope he is doing well and know that he really touched a lot of people and gave them some great music and memories.
I followed Bernie from Westwood to West Los Angeles to Sunset Blvd. near the DGA. He was a wonderful mainstay for soundtrack collectors. I miss him a lot.
I don't own this CD but I have the theme on a Morricone compilation and find it quite good. Actually, the compilation is somewhat strange: it's not the usual grab bag of original Morricone main titles or love themes, but an actual re-recording conducted by the composer featuring pan pipes on every track, called "Morricone 93 - Movie Sounds". Don't get me wrong, I'm not a grumpy guy and I love the color that pan pipes can bring to a theme, e.g. "Once Upon a Time in America" or "Casualties of War". A whole CD of pan pipes, though, starts to get on my nerves and sound like easy listening. I tend to revisit that CD a couple of tracks at a time.
Hey, this may not be related to Morricone, but I just remembered a favorite pan pipe track: Cosma's main theme from "Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire". That one's a blast!
I don't own this CD but I have the theme on a Morricone compilation and find it quite good. Actually, the compilation is somewhat strange: it's not the usual grab bag of original Morricone main titles or love themes, but an actual re-recording conducted by the composer featuring pan pipes on every track, called "Morricone 93 - Movie Sounds". Don't get me wrong, I'm not a grumpy guy and I love the color that pan pipes can bring to a theme, e.g. "Once Upon a Time in America" or "Casualties of War". A whole CD of pan pipes, though, starts to get on my nerves and sound like easy listening. I tend to revisit that CD a couple of tracks at a time.
I had that compilation too before I encoured the real main theme on the album "Time of adventure". It blew me away when I first heard it, as it's way better than the piece on the pan flute album.
I've been listening to this score a couple of times since I got it a few years ago, and I really like it. I agree with what's been said earlier in the thread -- dig the buildup and the undulating figure in the theme. Love the exoticism of the pan pipes (some of it has a sweltering heat wave style to it, like Vangelis' THE BOUNTY). But also find it too long at 1 hour, with the endless repetitions. So might need a bit of serious whittling to work as a listening experience.
I'm also very intrigued by the premise of this film. Sounds like something right up my alley. I'm just worried about the "B movie", or perhaps TV movie (since it was a TV movie) aspect of it, i.e. the production values and if it just becomes silly. I'll definitely watch it if it ever turns up on a streaming service of some kind.
Must admit I don't detect an 80s vibe at all. Only vibe I pick up is of sheer awesomeness.
