Super Duper Supermensches
Reviews of kissing cousins documentaries Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (Anchor Bay) and Super Super Alice Cooper (eOne).
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Soundtrack Reviews
Reviews of three soundtrack albums: Marc Streitenfeld’s After the Fall (Lakeshore Records), John Lunn’s Electricity (MovieScore Media), and Laura Karpman & Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum’s Regarding Susan Sontag (Lakeshore Records).
MP3: After the Fall (2014)
Although the score is built around a main theme – a series of step-like notes with sudden pauses and melody redolent of a child’s song – there’s a fascinating blend of unique sounds that allow After the Fall to stand on its own as a moody concept album depicting human desperation…
MP3: Electricity (2014)
MovieScore Media delivers another fascinating score evoking the rich warm analogue sounds of early synthesizers, but unlike Test (2014), John Lunn’s Electricity doesn’t seem to have been written to fit between period songs. Lunn’s switch from episodic TV (Downton Abbey) to ethereal electronica…
MP3: Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)
Having not seen the film, the impression of Laura Karpman and Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum’s score is of a documentary that drifts and smashes between collages of stills, film, and other media, with sound design…
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