{"id":8362,"date":"2014-04-03T23:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2014-04-04T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:40:04","slug":"mp3-legend-of-hercules-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8362","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Legend of Hercules (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"LegendOfHercules_2014_s\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Lionsgate<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0January 27, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a012 tracks \/ (58:34)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Tuomas Kantelinen<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

After hammering out the film\u2019s main theme \u2013 a heroic track that shares a bit of David Arnold\u2019s Stargate<\/strong>\u00a0(1994) theme, plus a melodic denouement evocative of Basil Poledouris\u2019 Conan the Barbarian <\/b>(1982)\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Tuomas Kantelinen settles into more solid dramatic material, developing the meat of the score with lengthy build-ups and pensive sections, and theme iterations featuring some really beautiful orchestrations.<\/p>\n

Kantelinen\u2019s writing feels both physically and emotionally epic, and from the lengthy cues which make up this engrossing album, it seems he was given liberties to ease into his material in slow waves, moving carefully from gentle to brooding sections (\u201cIntervention of the Gods\u201d), or assemble a great blend of organic sounds to evoke an ancient era using wooden, metal, and classical orchestral elements, especially in pulsing tracks like \u201cTo War.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to obligatory main theme quotations – \u00a0the opening heroic piece, the love material, and a foreboding motif at the beginning of \u201cCaptivity\u201d are very lovely \u2013 Kantelinen drifts through various moods, often showcasing ancient woodwinds or unique choral effects (some of which crest with a strange yet effective accent from shrieking brass).<\/p>\n

Legend of Hercules<\/strong> is extremely grand without being bombastic, and a cleanly engineered soundtrack where every nuance is crystal clear \u2013 although the album could benefit with a more warm bass for extra resonance.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nComposer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> —\u00a0 Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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Tuomas Kanteline\u2019s writing feels both physically and emotionally epic, and from the lengthy cues which make up this engrossing album, it seems he was given liberties to ease into his material in slow waves, moving carefully from gentle to brooding sections (\u201cIntervention of the Gods\u201d)…<\/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":[2635,2634],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2aS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362"}],"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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}