{"id":90,"date":"2010-09-30T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2010-09-30T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T20:24:16","slug":"soundtrack-reviews-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Reviews & News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just uploaded are a series of soundtrack reviews for a diverse quartet of titles.<\/p>\n

Lakeshore Records offers up two striking soundtracks for a pair of documentaries: Peter Golub\u2019s inventive Countdown to Zero<\/a><\/strong>, and Christophe Beck\u2019s Waiting for Superman<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the latter title is the latest doc from award-winning director David Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth<\/strong>). Beck is perhaps best-known for his Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/a><\/strong> scores, whereas Golub has built up a solid reputation scoring diverse documentaries and fiction films.<\/p>\n

Silva Screen rides the Stieg Larsson wave with a compilation of themes from the first two film in his nasty Millennium Trilogy<\/a><\/strong>, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/strong>, and The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/strong>. The disc features different material than the Milan CD of the first film, and I\u2019ll have a review of that disc shortly. Silva\u2019s album emphasizes themes with more electronic components, and it\u2019s a good sampler of Jacob Groth\u2019s great writing for such a dour crime trilogy.<\/p>\n

Lastly, there\u2019s the pairing of themes and cues from The Lone Gunman<\/a><\/strong> (2001) and Harsh Realm<\/a><\/strong> (1999), two shows created by Chris Carter during his X Files<\/strong> glory years. Mark Snow scored all of Carter\u2019s shows, and while the series died quick and fast at the hands of impatient Fox, the music lives on with this CD. (Those wanting to check out the series can do so via DVD, as both shows are still apparently in print.)<\/p>\n

In brief soundtrack news, Intrada revealed their latest limited edition disc, James Horner\u2019s Uncommon Valor<\/strong> (1983), and Varese Sarabande\u2019s latest Soundtrack Club editions are Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s A Gathering of Eagles<\/strong> (1963), Alfred Newman\u2019s The Snake Pit<\/a><\/strong> (1948) coupled with Robert Emmett Dolan\u2019s underrated The Three Faces of Eve<\/a><\/strong> (1957), and reissue\/CD premieres of Bill Conti\u2019s superb The Formula<\/strong> (1980) and Doug Timm\u2019s Nightflyers<\/strong> (1987). There\u2019s also the DVD\/CD combo Fimucite 2: Closing Night Gala<\/strong> 2008, featuring popular film themes and suites conducted by Diego Navarro and Joel McNeely.<\/p>\n

And Emmy Award-winning composer D. Brent Nelson has a new website<\/a> which features MP3 samples of his excellent music for Days of Our Lives<\/strong>. Those wanting a bit more backstory to Nelson\u2019s work should check out my interview<\/a> with the composer, and review<\/a> of his 2-disc CD of famous Days<\/strong> music.<\/p>\n

Lastly, while I\u2019m getting through FSM\u2019s 5-disc set of TV Omnibus: Volume 1<\/strong>, I can say at this point jazz fans should snap this one up. The dominant composer in this beautifully mastered set is Dave Grusin, featuring score and lengthy theme versions of the 1972 series Assignment: Vienna<\/strong>. There\u2019s also Don Ellis\u2019 dissonant & unsettling score for the serial killer TV movie The Deadly Tower<\/strong>, a 1975 production that Kurt Russell used to quash his image as a lovable Disney teen actor.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Brief soundtrack news, plus reviews of Christophe Beck’s Waiting for Superman and Peter Golub’s Countdown to Zero (Lakeshore Records), Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (Silva Screen), and Mark Snow’s The Lone Gunman \/ Harsh Realm (La-La Land Records)…<\/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":[4,20],"tags":[14],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90"}],"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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}