{"id":4735,"date":"2012-04-23T08:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4735"},"modified":"2012-04-23T08:02:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T12:02:46","slug":"cd-planet-of-the-apes-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4735","title":{"rendered":"CD: Planet of the Apes (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label: La-La Land\/ Released: February 15, 2012<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length:\u00a0CD1: 22 tracks \/ (75:57) + CD2: 18 tracks \/ (78:24) + CD3: 15 tracks \/ (58:21)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 28-page colour booklet with liner notes by Jeff Bond \/ Limited to 3500 copies.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Danny Elfman<\/p>\n

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Tim Burton\u2019s attempt to remake Planet of the Apes<\/strong> still ranks as one of the director\u2019s biggest creative misfires, largely because he was completely wrong for a tale with far-reaching moral conflicts between rival species and differing time periods, and while Danny Elfman fared much better in capturing the conflicts within his complex score, the music was still designed to support Burton\u2019s unintentional, ill-made choices.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any missed elements within the score, it\u2019s the lack of overt experimentalism as done by Jerry Goldsmith for the original film, but it\u2019s obvious Elfman had to create a new work that distanced itself from the near-perfect 1968 musical vision of a genre master.<\/p>\n

Elfman does get weird & wonderful using his beer-can instrument and fuzzed-up synth drones, but he tends to use them with great restraint in later cues. Most of what\u2019s heard in the score contains the familiar rippling percussion, intersecting voices, and thick waves of frenetic brass and strings redolent of his scores for Burton, but there are expansive swathes of dissonance and raging, clattering percussion (\u201cThumbs Up \/ Trouble\u201d), and after a few listens the score does reveal some splendid little touches where Elfman captures the civility and primal rage of the warring factions, as well as the surreal circumstances of being a human in a world of topsy-turvy evolution (nicely evoked in \u201cThe Escape,\u201d with quasi-Middle Eastern indulgences at the centre of an otherwise sleek orchestral piece.)<\/p>\n

Action cues sound massive, and the clattering of percussion comes in heavy, kinetic waves. Also memorable is the lack of an overt theme: Elfman sort of brings in bits and pieces to mirror the broken world of its central human character, and builds things as the warring species eventually clash in the desert before the film\u2019s ludicrous finale, concocted by multiple screenwriters.<\/p>\n

Elfman\u2019s score originally appeared in a shorter (but still satisfying) album version, but there always seemed to be the odd missing cue needed to bridge material, and La-La Land\u2019s monster set features both the 2001 CD (on Disc 3) and the full score (on CDs 1 and 2), with alternate mixes, percussion tracks & overlays, and a montage of source material. This is basically the final word in Elfman\u2019s POTA score, and the music\u2019s aged surprisingly well, working outside of the film as an epic symphony about simian and homo sapien discord.<\/p>\n

Jeff Bond\u2019s own epic liner notes covers the film production and score\u2019s development, with detailed notes on each track. The set\u2019s engineering and mastering is first-rate, offering beautiful clarity and warm bass.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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