{"id":5026,"date":"2012-06-02T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2012-06-02T15:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T19:28:01","slug":"a-watery-apocalypse-soundtrack-news-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5026","title":{"rendered":"A Watery Apocalypse + Soundtrack News & Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The last week of May\u2019s been weirdly chaotic, featuring a bizarre series of murder & cannibalism reports (relax, there will be no links of this crap) and Toronto\u2019s Union Station flooding <\/a>with storm water & raw sewage \u2013 the latter perhaps a sign better drainage planning should\u2019ve been in the construction currently underway.<\/p>\n

Not long ago, we had flooding that shut down the subway again, and prior to that, a bigger flood where the steps leading down to the subway platform became a river from a Bugs Bunny cartoon (later replicated in Jumanji). In any event, Union station has its share of ongoing flooding issues. An urban explorer took a fascinating image of a flooded office corridor at infiltration.org<\/a>, and a more recent \u2018expedition\u2019<\/a> investigated a flooded, generally sealed off transit tunnel reported used when the subway opened, but sealed perhaps due to an ongoing flooding issue. The selection of images come straight out of a seventies sci-fi thriller (or Mario Bava shocker, minus the primary lighting scheme).<\/p>\n

As for the eating & killing humans thing, maybe its Mars and Pluto in retrograde, with influence from excessive methane gas from the global bovine population, and people not eating enough hard boiled eggs.<\/p>\n

Switching to film music, Intrada announced limited soundtrack releases of Charles Fox\u2019s Foul Play<\/strong> and Michael Small\u2019s The Postman Always Rings Twice<\/strong>, plus two surprises: expanded soundtracks of Henry Mancini\u2019s Charade<\/strong> and Hatari!<\/strong> Both scores, as with most of Mancini\u2019s RCA soundtrack albums, featured a mix of sometimes original \/ mostly re-recorded cues, with a specific slant towards leisure background music, often less than 35 minutes of music.<\/p>\n

The two albums feature original score cuts \u2013 probably the first time (if not the first after a long gap) this has happened with Mancini\u2019s massive RCA catalogue. Weirdly, Charade<\/strong> isn\u2019t a limited release, but Hatari!<\/strong> is, and I\u2019ve a feeling the latter will sell out much faster than the others.<\/p>\n

Kritzerland\u2019s latest trio are equally important: the composer m\u00e9lange that makes up I Married a Monster from Outer Space<\/strong> coupled with The Atomic City<\/strong>, featuring music by one of the most neglected & marginalized genre composers, Leith Stevens. Hopefully this signals a small wave of releases, as there needs to be a legit release of War of the Worlds<\/strong> and When Worlds Collide<\/strong>, not to mention his sublime Destination Moon<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Also from Kritzerland (and also limited to 1000 copies) is Lady in a Cage<\/strong> by ignored Paul Glass (Bunny Lake is Missing<\/strong>), and When a Stranger Calls<\/a><\/strong>, a marvelously chilling score by underrated Dana Kaproff.<\/p>\n

La-La Land Records also released Henry Mancini\u2019s excellent score for Mommie Dearest<\/strong> and Christopher Komeda\u2019s Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/strong>; I\u2019ll cover the former at KQEK.com, whereas a review for the latter will appear in an upcoming Rue Morgue issue.<\/p>\n

Advance words: Rosemary<\/strong> finally sounds good, and features cuts I\u2019m pretty certain aren\u2019t on the older Polonia CD, which was likely sourced from a music & effects mix. LLL\u2019s edition features the soundtrack album released by Dot Records, and the original mono music recording for Rosemary\u2019s Baby<\/strong>, plus some alternates and bonus source cues.<\/p>\n

Note to fans of the film: while not on Blu-ray, the film is back in print on DVD, part of Paramount\u2019s wise decision to reissue long out-of-print catalogue titles that should never have been deleted in the first place.<\/p>\n

As for Rue Morgue, this month\u2019s issue features my reviews of Les Baxter\u2019s The Raven<\/strong> \/ An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong> (Kritzerland) and David Lee\u2019s frankly awesome The Masque of the Red Death<\/strong> (Quartet Records).<\/p>\n

As for new reviews, I\u2019m splitting the 8 into two uploads because I\u2019m in the process of building another website specifically for the audio & video extras related to reviews & interviews at KQEK.com, as well as the short films I\u2019m trying to complete amid a frankly ridiculous schedule. You know when a low-paying gig is robbing you of creative time better suited for things like writing, editing, and filmmaking? A year from now, I anticipate this will no longer be an issue, but it\u2019s a bit of a juggling act, not to mention the compacting of already pressurized frustration. A few things are in the works right now, and perhaps in the coming weeks I\u2019ll add more info.<\/p>\n

As for the new site, hopefully it\u2019ll be live & well by the end of next week, launched with a composer interview you\u2019ll like. There\u2019s a bug in the theme which needs some fixing, but when it\u2019s up & running it ought to look nice, using a fancy-schmantzy Word Press theme.<\/p>\n

As for reviews, there\u2019s Quartet Records\u2019 great 2-CD set of Burt Bacharach\u2019s Casino Royale<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] which differs significantly from the prior Kritzerland <\/a>[M<\/a>] release; and La-La Land\u2019s really gorgeous expanded CD of Maurice Jarre\u2019s A Walk in the Clouds<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>] The last two are a pair of Ernest Gold scores: from Monstrous Movie Music comes the wonderful The McCullochs<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>], and from Kritzerland we have Pressure Point<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>], which I picked up as part of a sale at SAE. I\u2019ve a feeling this is one CD producer Bruce Kimmel waiting long and worked hard to release, and when it debuted, no one cared. Fans of grisly early sixties shockers will be delighted by the grimness of the largely non-melodic score, and the clever way Gold makes use of jazz without crafting a familiar jazz orchestral score.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great gem apparently few know exists on CD, and coupled with McCullochs<\/strong> and LLL\u2019s recent It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>], another example of Ernest Gold\u2019s remarkable talent.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com <\/strong>( Main Site<\/a> \/ Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto’s Union Station floods because we’re not eating enough hard-boiled eggs; soundtrack news from Intrada, Kritzerland, and La-La Land; Rue Morgue CD reviews; plus CD reviews here of Ernest Gold’s The McCullochs (Monstrous Movie Music) and Pressure Point (Kritzerland), Maurice Jarre’s expanded A Walk in the Clouds (La-La Land), and the new 2-CD edition of Burt Bacharach’s Casino Royale (Quartet Records).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1340,1339,741,512,1345],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1j4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}