{"id":6386,"date":"2013-04-15T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2013-04-19T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:10:45","slug":"cd-jack-reacher-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"CD: Jack Reacher (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Label: La-La Land Records<\/a>\/ Released: January 4, 2013<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 13 tracks \/ (61:07)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 12-page colour booklet with liner notes..<\/p>\n

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Composer: Joe Kraemer<\/p>\n

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After toiling in TV movie land for more than a decade, Joe Kramer\u2019s return to sleek theatrical films is a peculiar homage to the understated orchestral thriller scores of John Williams \u2013 notably his seventies work – where a short theme is spun and re-spun into brooding build-ups with just a handful of \u2018big\u2019 cues signifying face-to-face confrontation.<\/p>\n

Kraemer\u2019s palette is virtually all orchestral, which gives the score a large sonic scope even though most of the cues are designed to maintain an atmosphere of grinding suspicion, if not tease the audience with slow builds. One could argue the music of Jack Reacher<\/strong> is mostly teaser and subtext material, leaving the sonic boom factor to sound effects editors and designers, but even Kraemer\u2019s best-known work \u2013 Christopher McQuarrie\u2019s Way of the Gun<\/strong> (2000) \u2013 isn\u2019t a score with big moments.<\/p>\n

Running a hair over a hour, La-La Land\u2019s CD presents a full package of music (including a bonus track + some liner notes by the composer on the score\u2019s design), but it\u2019s a tough sell to action and Cruise fans because of the score\u2019s focus on being constantly furtive. With no bombast or extended fixations on grimness \u2013 as typical of Howard Shore\u2019s Se7en<\/strong> (1995), or his mini-masterwork The Game<\/strong> (1997) \u2013 the enjoyment in Reacher <\/strong>comes from its quietness (not to mention Bruce Botnick\u2019s engineering), and Kraemer\u2019s lovely colours using banks of brass. Sounds have a disquieting sheen, yet like a seventies score, the retention of some harmony continually recaps the central character\u2019s persona for audiences; and like the scores of that decade, Reacher<\/strong> also demonstrates the variety of dread and drama that can be wrought from just a pair of notes, and much ingenuity.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2013 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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