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WAR-GODS OF THE DEEP / CROSSPLOT
Music Composed and Conducted by Stanley Black
Limited edition of 1000 units.

Quartet Records present the first ever complete release of not one, but two Stanley Black scores from MGM feature films!

Stanley Black (1913-2002) was one of the most popular English band leaders who arranged prolifically for the BBC and Decca as well. Coming from the 1930s London jazz scene and a background in radio music, Black's film music career includes over 100 titles, horror films Blood of the Vampire (1958) and Jack the Ripper (1959), the Cliff Richards musical The Young Ones (1961) and the adaptation of Ferde Grofé pieces for Ken Russell’s Valentino (1977). Black’s film music output has been criminally neglected in the last few decades, the only major compilation of his works is Chandos CD The Film Music of Stanley Black. This CD highlights two different films from the composer’s output from the tumultuous 1960s.

War-Gods of the Deep (1965) is an AIP horror film supposedly “inspired by” Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ”The City in the Sea”. The movie stars horror icon Vincent Price as The Captain, a nameless antihero who achieves the gift of immortality in a mysterious city modeled after the legend of Atlantis. Aided by his own crew and a group of mongrels called the gillmen, The Captain unleashes his terror on the local seashores while his kingdom is endangered by seismic activities. Stanley Black’s dark and gothic score could be easily compared to Les Baxter’s similar Poe/AIP horrors – if you enjoy that distinctive Baxter sound, Stanley Black’s War-Gods of the Deep won’t disappoint either.

Crossplot (1969) was Roger Moore’s first theatrically released feature film after doing six consecutive seasons of the The Saint on television. Moore plays Gary Fenn, an ad exec who gets entangled in espionage when he gets asked to find a beautiful Hungarian girl who is in hiding after her friend got killed. Fenn completes his part of the deal but soon finds himself on the run from the well-connected killers who want both him and the girl dead. Alvin Rakoff’s movie is a dry run for Roger Moore’s later role as James Bond even though this film wasn’t as successful as it could have been. The proto-007 feeling is also due to Stanley Black’s cheeky Bond-flavored score, headlined by the John Rowles theme song ”I’ll Find My Love” with imaginative variations peppered thoroghout the score. The music was later tracked into several episodes of cult Roger Moore / Tony Curtis show “The Persuaders”.

Since the recording tapes are completely lost, this release is mastered from music stems elements in mono, courtesy of MGM, accompanied by a richly illustrated 28-page booklet with liner notes by Gergely Hubai, who discusses the composer and the films with a track-by-track analysis for both titles.


This title are available for pre-order now. The CD will ship the second week of February.

For more info and listen the audio samples, please visit www.quartetrecords.com

Bear Mccreary just released the first info about two upcoming soundtracks: Blood and Chrome on March 12th, and Caprica some time in April.

More details here: http://www.cinemediapromotions.com/2013 … -mccreary/

Sorry guys, but you gotta wait one more day for the announcement.


MV

"Passion" is the much-anticipated new collaboration between the modern master of suspense Brian De Palma and the wonderful composer Pino Donaggio, twenty years after their last film together.
Their first collaboration was the horror classic "Carrie" (1976). De Palma had intended for Bernard Herrmann to score the film, but the composer’s untimely death forced the director to look for a replacement. He found a perfect alter-ego in Donaggio, a Venetian composer whose film score debut—the haunting music for Nicholas Roeg’s thriller "Don't Look Now"—had been a great success.

De Palma and Donaggio continued to work together on a number of film noirs, which in addition to being initially successful have gone on to become cult classics of American cinema from the late ’70s and early ’80s: "Blow Up", "Dressed to Kill" and "Body Double". The failure of the thriller "Raising Cain", in the early ’90s, ended one of the more celebrated collaborations of modern cinema ... until now!

De Palma’s new thriller, "Passion", stars Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace. Donaggio's score is suggestive, romantic, stylish and elegant. It is a great pleasure to hear again the unmistakable sweet sound of death, courtesy of Donaggio and De Palma.

Donaggio’s score is performed by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Natale Massara.

"Passion" will be released in France on February 13, and Quartet Records is very proud to present this worldwide release—available with two different covers, both in luxurious digipak format.

The album is now available for pre-order, we expect to ship the last week of February.

For more info and listen audio samples, please visit www.quartetrecords.com

THE OUTSIDERS : THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (1983)
MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY CARMINE COPPOLA

The Limited 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition of 1000 copies.
55 minutes of music, including the never-before released title song 'Stay Gold' performed by Stevie Wonder. A full-color 24-page CD booklet with liner notes by Daniel Schweiger and Francis Ford Coppola's statement.

Ref: MBR-024
RELEASE DATE: March 11th 2013

TRACKLISTING:
1. Stay Gold* (03:29)
Performed by Stevie Wonder
2. Fate Theme (02:30)
3. Country Suite** (04:57)
4. Cherry Says Goodbye** (02:21)
5. Incidental Music 1 (01:13)
6. Fight in the Park (03:25)
7. Bob is Dead (03:32)
8. Deserted Church Suite** (04:14)
9. Sunrise** (02:56)
10. Fire at the Church (02:49)
11. Incidental Music 2* (03:11)
12. Rumble Variation / Dallas' Death** (04:54)
13. Brothers Together* (02:27)
14. Rumble** (04:37)
15. Stay Gold (Alternate)* (02:30)
Performed by Stevie Wonder
16. The Outside In (02:41)
Performed by Bill Hughes
17. Stay Gold (02:28)
Performed by Bill Hughes

* Previously unreleased
** Contains previously unreleased music

TOTAL TIME • 55:02

For sound clips, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/34-t … iders.html

NAPOLÉON ET L'EUROPE / NAPOLEON AND EUROPE (1991)
MUSIC COMPOSED BY WOJCIECH KILAR

Limited Edition of 500 copies.
40 minutes of unreleased music.
Booklet in French and English including director Pierre Lary's statement.

Ref: MBR-023
RELEASE DATE: March 11th 2013

TRACKLISTING:
1. Napoléon et l'Europe (galopade #1) (01:45)
2. Dix-huit Brumaire #1 (01:13)
3. Dix-huit Brumaire #2 (03:17)
4. Dix-huit Brumaire #3 (01:43)
5. Moscou #1 (02:22)
6. Moscou #2 (02:13)
7. Moscou #3 (02:40)
8. Moscou #4 (02:03)
9. Varsovie #1 (00:55)
10. Varsovie #2 (01:44)
11. Varsovie #3 (Plaisir d'amour) (01:57)
12. Varsovie #4 (02:27)
13. Lisbonne #1 (01:05)
14. Lisbonne #2 (01:59)
15. Lisbonne #3 (01:32)
16. Lisbonne #4 (02:00)
17. Capitulation #1 (01:48)
18. Capitulation #2 (02:39)
19. Capitulation #3 (01:55)
20. Napoléon et l'Europe (galopade #2) (01:19)

TOTAL TIME • 39:24

For sound clips, please visit: http://www.musicbox-records.com/en/33-n … urope.html

THE TOUCH – ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK -
FEATURING MUSIC COMPOSED AND CONDUCTED BY BASIL POLEDOURIS

http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/toorsobybapo.html

SRP: $15.95

LISTEN TO A SOUND CLIP FROM the score for THE TOUCH
, http://buysound.webjedi.net/Touch_BSX/0 … 0Touch.mp3

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records will be releasing THE TOUCH, featuring music composed and conducted by Basil Poledouris (CONAN THE BARBARIAN, LONESOME DOVE, THE BLUE LAGOON) for the 2002 martial arts adventure film directed by Peter Pau, starring Michelle Yeoh (TOMORROW NEVER DIES, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) along with Ben Chaplin (THE THIN RED LINE, STAGE BEAUTY, WORLD WITHOUT END) and Richard Roxburgh (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II, MOULIN ROUGE, SANCTUM).

THE TOUCH tells the story of a Chinese family of martial arts acrobats who are, in secret, the guardians of a holy treasure. Their ingrained acrobatic skills (their unique “touch”) allow only them to access the hidden relic. When a ruthless treasure hunter (Roxburgh) kidnaps a member of the family in order to procure the object, the rest of the family, including the eldest daughter’s American ex-boyfriend (Chaplin), pursues him in order to rescue their sibling and recover the treasure.

The film was co-produced by star Michelle Yeoh, who was eager to make a big English language film after starring in Ang Lee’s CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, which had been a huge success at the time. She also hired the filmmaking team, including selecting Peter Pau as the director after he had served as cinematographer on CROUCHING TIGER. The international success of CROUCHING TIGER was a key factor in prompting the mainland China government to support Yeoh in producing the country’s first English-language feature film.

Director Peter Pau was looking for a composer to write a large scale orchestral score for the film, along the lines of Jerry Goldsmith or John Williams. Editor Marshall Harvey was an acquaintance of composer Basil Poledouris and after showing him some footage from the climax of the film, the composer became interested in becoming part of the project.

While the director wanted a large symphonic musical score, he also asked the composer to incorporate some ethnic instruments – the er-hu (Chinese two-string violin), pipa (Chinese lute), and xiao (an end-blown Chinese flute) – in order for the score to evoke the fictional legends that lay at the heart of the story. While he was in Hong Kong, Poledouris also wrote and arranged an end title song, “The Touch,” which was recorded by Cantopop diva Kelly Chen (alternately credited as “Kelly Chan”) in Hong Kong’s Moon Studio.

The score for THE TOUCH was recorded in Beijing at Oasis Studios and performed by members of the China Philharmonic Orchestra. Aside from the Chinese soloists, the score was designed for a standard Western symphonic orchestra, enhanced by layered percussion tracks, which were recorded ahead of time in L.A. and to be mixed in later with the orchestral recordings.

Basil Poledouris was born on August 21, 1945 in Kansas City. He started taking piano lessons when he was 7 years old. Eventually, he went on to become a student at USC, where he studied directing, cinematography, editing, sound and music. In over two decades of scoring motion pictures, he has proven himself a master of melody and emotional power, forging rewarding creative relationships with directors such as Paul Verhoeven, John Milius, Randal Kleiser, Simon Wincer and John Waters. Basil has composed music for films such as BIG WEDNESDAY, THE BLUE LAGOON, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, RED DAWN, ROBOCOP, FLESH AND BLOOD, QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, LES MISERABLES, STARSHIP TROOPERS and FOR LOVE OF THE GAME. For television, he composed music for the epic miniseries AMERIKA and LONESOME DOVE, for which he won an Emmy in 1989.

Released in the US by Miramax in 2002, THE TOUCH was far from the success that Yeoh and Pau had hoped for but all parties involved agreed that the score was a masterpiece. The music was issued twice on CD in Hong Kong and once on a 5.1 mix on DVD in China over a decade ago and all previous releases became immediately scarce.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents THE TOUCH on compact disc again for its first release in the USA. The music has been remastered for much improved sound, along with bonus tracks not available on the previous CD releases. The booklet includes exclusive new liner notes by author Randall Larson, including new insights from Poledouris colleagues Tim Boyle and Eric Colvin, along with the film’s editor, Marshall Harvey on the creation of this unique score, one of the last scores in Basil Poledouris’ filmography.


THE TOUCH is a limited edition release of 2000 units.

TRACK LIST

1. Legend Of The Touch (2:16)
2. The Monkey King Enthralls (1:44)
3. The Loveable Thief (0:32)
4. The Heart Of Don Huang (1:37)
5. In The Heart Of The Night (2:43)
6. Memories Of Days Gone (3:38)
7. Trouble Under Blue Skies (5:31)
8. To The Rescue (0:51)
9. "Who Will Know?" (1:39)
10. Glimpses Down The Path (2:10)
11. A Light Dimmed (2:29)
12. Farewell King Soul (1:47)
13. Healing Of Hearts (3:20)
14. Thru' The Forest (3:11)
15. Secrets Revealed (4:23)
16. "I'll Never Leave You" (4:48)
17. Destiny Awaits (12:49)
18. I Believe (4:30)
19. Time To Choose 03:28)
20. The Touch (3:56)
vocal by Kelly Chen

BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME


http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/be2thpooftio.html

SRP: $15.95

LISTEN TO A SOUND CLIP FROM the score for THE TOUCH
http://buysound.webjedi.net/Beastmaster … 1_Main.mp3

The first 100 copies will be autographed by composer Robert Folk.


February 13th, 2013, Los Angeles, CA) BUYSOUNDTRAX Records will be releasing the soundtrack for BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME, featuring music composed and conducted by Robert Folk (TOY SOLDIERS, POLICE ACADEMY, THERE BE DRAGONS) for the 1991 fantasy film produced and directed by Sylvio Tabet and starring Marc Singer (V, THE BEASTMASTER, DALLAS), the lovely Kari Wuhrer (SLIDERS, EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS, KING OF THE ANTS), Sarah Douglas (SUPERMAN II, CONAN THE DESTROYER, RETURN OF SWAMP THING), Robert Z’Dar (MANIAC COP series, TANGO & CASH) and Wings Hauser (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, VICE SQUAD, SIEGE OF FIREBASE GLORIA) in the role of Arklon.

The character of Dar, valiant warrior who can telepathically communicate with animals, was introduced in Don Coscarelli’s 1982 fantasy film, THE BEASTMASTER. Very loosely based on concepts in Andre Norton’s 1959 science fiction novel of the same name, Coscarelli’s film transposed Norton’s extra-planetary adventure novel to a barbaric sword-and-sorcery world not far removed from that of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, which had preceded BEASTMASTER into production and was released some months earlier in the same year, launching a new but short-lived trend of heroic fantasy movies. While the film did not enjoy huge success at the box office, it did develop quite a strong cult following, thanks to frequent screenings on cable television and this prompted the filming of a sequel nearly a decade later, helmed this time by Sylvio Tabet, who served as executive producer on the original film. Filmmaker Jim Wynorski and his frequent collaborator R. J. Robertson came up with the story and drafted the first screenplay, which was then revised by Tabet along with Ken Hauser and Doug Miles. The story had little connection to the events of the first film and the tone is definitely much lighter.

BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME finds Dar (Singer) confronted by his half-brother Arklon (Hauser) and a sorceress named Lyranna (Sarah Douglas) who have opened a dimensional portal to present day Los Angeles. When the portal opens on our side, it accidentally captures trendy L.A. girl Jackie Trent (Kari Wuhrer), propelling her into Arklon’s world. Befriended by Dar, the Beastmaster brings her back through the portal to Beverly Hills, in pursuit of Arklon and Lyranna before they can obtain a neutron bomb, with which Arklon plans to return and rule their own world.

To compose the music for BEASTMASTER 2, Sylvio Tabet brought in composer Robert Folk after having been impressed by his musical contributions to the cult horror film TREMORS. From the very beginning, Tabet made it clear to the composer that he was under no obligation to reflect the music from the first BEASTMASTER film in his sequel score, as the new story was quite different from the original film. Folk’s music gives the film a tremendous amount of energy, playing straight man to the film’s humorous elements and lending credibility to its formulaic plot. The story’s mix of primitivism and modernity is reflected in the score’s abundant sense of musical contrast, as Folk flavors Dar’s barbaric world with broad musical strokes and violent orchestral interaction, emphasizing the Beastmaster’s confidence while designing more sympathetic melodies for Jackie once she’s become stranded in his primitive home. The BEASTMASTER 2 score was recorded with a 96-piece orchestra in former East Berlin - the reunification of East and West Germany having brought down the Wall that divided the city in October, 1990.

Robert Folk is a graduate and former faculty member of the famed Juilliard School in New York City. Since completing his doctorate, Mr. Folk has composed and conducted the musical scores for over 65 feature films, including ACE VENTURA: WHEN NATURE CALLS, NOTHING TO LOSE, TREMORS, THE NEVERENDING STORY II: THE NEXT CHAPTER, TOY SOLDIERS, POLICE ACADEMY, KUNG POW! ENTER THE FIST, BOAT TRIP, BACK IN THE DAY, AMERICAN PIE: BAND CAMP and most recently, ELEPHANT WHITE, UNDERGROUND, THE SECRET VILLAGE and THERE BE DRAGONS.

Mr. Folk has also composed and conducted numerous concert works including Symphonic, Vocal and Chamber music compositions. His Ballet “To Dream Of Roses,” composed for the Osaka World’s Fair, was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Folk is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

He is a prolific songwriter and producer, and has conducted many prominent orchestras including: The London Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Berlin Radio Orchestra, The Munich Symphony, The Dublin Symphony Orchestra, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra and the London Sinfonia.

Previously released on compact disc in 1991 and out of print for many years, BUYSOUNDTRAX Records brings BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME back to compact disc with remastered sound by Digital Outland. The booklet includes new liner notes by author Randall Larson, including new insights from composer Robert Folk on this exciting large scale orchestral score.

BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME is a limited edition release of 1000 units.

The first 100 copies will be autographed by composer Robert Folk.

TRACK LIST

1. Main Title (1:52)
2. Dar The Hero (9:49)
3. Creature's Story (2:22)
4. Through The Portal (5:09)
5. Jackie Alone On Desert (1:29)
6. Swamp Creature Attacks (2:35)
7. Travel Montage (3:08)
8. Mind Suck (2:05)
9. Police Escape (1:06)
10. Jackie Gets Some Sleep (0:51)
11. I.D. Badges (4:25)
12. Get Arklon (1:47)
13. The Great Escape 04:26)
14. Sharawk Leads The Way (3:32)
15. Neutron Detonator (5:40)
16. Key To The Heart (5:32)

Thomas Glorieux wrote
remastered sound on Beastmaster 2?
if that's true, then I'm sold

Steven wrote
Do we know if Goldsmith's Gladiator is getting a release yet?

justin boggan wrote
Especially not by your post.