{"id":4932,"date":"2012-05-24T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2012-05-24T00:02:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:02:12","slug":"cd-red-tails-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4932","title":{"rendered":"CD: Red Tails (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=9\">Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews<\/a> \/ <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=1509\">P to R<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RedTails2012_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4933\" title=\"RedTails2012_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/RedTails2012_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Rating: Excellent<\/p>\n<p>Label: Sony Classical\/ Released: February 7, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Tracks &amp; Album Length: 32 tracks \/ (72:06)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Special Notes: 6-page foldout colour booklet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Composer: Terence Blanchard<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a peculiarity that\u2019s endemic to Terence Blanchard\u2019s scores whenever  he\u2019s involved with Spike Lee \u2013 an almost ritualistic repetition of the same  theme, regardless of the movie\u2019s length or different dramatic beats  (<strong>Clockers<\/strong> perhaps being the most brutal towards listeners) \u2013  which is why <strong>Red Tails<\/strong> isn\u2019t hard to approach with some  trepidation, but free from Lee\u2019s music tastes, Blanchard actually delivers a  pretty solid action score with the requisite heroic, romantic, and combat  themes.<\/p>\n<p>Blanchard\u2019s use of chorals gets a bit heavy-handed near the end (and the  female voices in earlier cuts like \u201cOperation Shingle\u201d border on the shrill  side), but <strong>Red Tails<\/strong> is a fairly muscular wartime score,  performed by a large symphony orchestra with mixed chorus, military percussion,  and lots of rich brass. The hour-plus selection of score cuts makes up a very  satisfying album, swerving from action to gentle romance, and flipping to  hardcore percussion sections, but the integration of synths, electric pulses,  fuzz guitar, and other contemporary sounds might be jarring if one expects a  more classical approach, given the film and source cues (some included at the  end of the CD) are set in the 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>It still works, and Blanchard\u2019s score may yield more of an impact on  listeners away from the film\u2019s melodrama and clich\u00e9s, standing quite well on its  own as a contemporary symphony on the Tuskegee Airmen, and Sony\u2019s CD features a  perfectly mastered score which favours the crisp brass instruments and  thunderous bass &amp; percussion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>External References:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005966\/\">IMDB <\/a>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtrackcollector.com\/title\/94914\/Red+Tails\">Soundtrack Album<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtrackcollector.com\/catalog\/composerdetail.php?composerid=591\">Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=9\">Soundtrack Reviews<\/a> <\/em>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=1509\">P to R<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to:\u00a0Home \/\u00a0Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews \/ P to R . Rating: Excellent Label: Sony Classical\/ Released: February 7, 2012 Tracks &amp; Album Length: 32 tracks \/ (72:06) . Special Notes: 6-page foldout colour booklet. . Composer: Terence Blanchard . . 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