Soundtrack Reviews
Yes, we’re halfway through April’s first week and it’s grey, raining, temperatures in the minus, and we’ve yet to put our winter coats in sleeves for the summer, switching to light jackets and shoes.
My boots are so well-worn from this &*$^)#!@^$ winter they lack treads on the heels (which themselves have been shaved down to 35 degree angles).
With Hot Docs 20 days away, that means we have about 3 weeks to reach temperatures to make the current environment look like this:
Hot Docs 2013, looking towards the long-dead, long-gutted, now quite doomed McLaughlin Planetarium.
That was April in 2013. Lovely, isn’t it? If we’re denied this in 20 days, the forecasters may be correct in proclaiming 2014’s summer to be chiller than normal. That would blow blue donkeys, and I refuse to believe I’ll still be wearing a heavy coat 4 weeks from today. At least they’re forecasting 12 degrees + sun this Sunday, so perhaps this blacchy weather is a buildup to spring’s formal launch.
Moving forward, I’ve uploaded the first set of soundtrack reviews, with another set + a composer podcast to follow shortly. The first trio includes Rolfe Kent’s Bad Words (Back Lot Music / Universal), Bear McCreary’s Knights of Badassdom (Sparks & Shadows / La-La Land Records), and Tuomas Kantelinen’s Legend of Hercules (Lionsgate).
Also in the works: review of a great 2009 documentary on the Mellotron, featuring interviews with a huge assembly of musicians & composers, including Michael Penn, Fabio Frizzi, and Claudio Simonetti.
Coming this weekend: review of Oliver! on Blu from Twilight Time, another installment of Nikkatsu Naughties, and other neat stuff.
Mark R. Hasan, Editor
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