{"id":6632,"date":"2013-05-21T01:19:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T05:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2013-05-21T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T05:19:46","slug":"cd-sorcery-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6632","title":{"rendered":"CD: Sorcery (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0La-La Land Records<\/a> \/ Released: May 22, 2012<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 28 tracks \/ (60:05)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 16-page colour booklet with liner notes \/ Limited to 3000 copies.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Mark Mancina<\/p>\n

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Most of the cues in\u00a0Sorcery\u00a0tend to average less than 2 minutes, but Mark Mancina\u2019s score for the PS3 game is surprisingly low-key and atmospheric, bearing just a handful of aggressive action cues \u2013 a marked difference from his more familiar action scores and penchant for bombast (Speed<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>],\u00a0Speed 2: Cruise Control<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>], and\u00a0Money Train<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>]).<\/p>\n

The title theme is simple yet evocative of Medieval stories where legends and mystery instilled excitement, danger, and rewards for heroic challenges, and much of\u00a0Sorcery<\/strong> is about a journey through various mystical episodes.<\/p>\n

Mancina\u2019s main theme (\u201cSorcery\u201d) is fairly straightforward, but quite charming when played on uilleann pipes with gilded percussion, and the galloping motif that recurs in transitional and bridge cues, but it’s most attractive elements lie in its intimacy, since most tracks are derived from the main theme.<\/p>\n

The first sense of mood change is conveyed in \u201cThe Nightmare Queen,\u201d with sleek chords on strings, and some furious ascending chords reminiscent of Basil Poledouris\u2019 writing. Mancina also segregates certain sonic densities to specific characters, with the Queen getting heavy vibrato, and the journeying player an airy lightness from woodwinds, with brass and percussion characterizing changes in the relationship between the two, if not their inevitable confrontation.<\/p>\n

Mancina also passes on motifs to different arrangements, such as a lumbering theme variation on heavy strings in \u201cUndead Soldiers\u201d to a soft percussion version with twanging hurdy-gurdy in \u201cThe Island of Lochbarrow,\u201d with menacing woodwinds echoplexed against subtle waves of organic percussion.<\/p>\n

With its gradual sloping towards darker material and more kinetic cues, Sorcery<\/strong> feels like a concise feature film score, although the brevity of the closing cues do make the album\u2019s wrap-up a little too brief.<\/p>\n

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

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Return to:\u00a0Home \/\u00a0Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews \/ S . Rating: Very Good Label:\u00a0La-La Land Records \/ Released: May 22, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 28 tracks \/ (60:05) . Special Notes: 16-page colour booklet with liner notes \/ Limited to 3000 copies. . Composer: Mark Mancina . . Review: Most of the cues in\u00a0Sorcery\u00a0tend to average less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[20],"tags":[454,2043,1637],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1IY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6655,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions\/6655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}