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I just know about two pieces ! One of them hearkens in style back to Episode IV! (in tribute) No! ...not Leia...but Im sure that will receive some more regal presentation and I have asked about it.

@azahid, we owe you a big thank you for this info! It may not not be much but in the desert any water is precious.

I read that Luke takes over a ship full of colonists to continue his ungodly experiments after creating his own grotesque lifeform on a planet previously occupied by 'creators'.

is the rumor true that JW accepted the challenge from these parts and wrote an all-synth score and performed it himself on an 80's Casio keyboard like this guy:

Collin Treverrow?

What if he's just preparing to play a character who retires from acting?

I find it really disheartening when I see Sleepers being mentioned in a thread of this sort. I really do

William Ross is conducting the final recording session, 100% confirmed! He even took one of Johnny's black turtlenecks and removed the neck! This might be a silly question but can we deduce anything from the placement of those microphones? Is that a different setup to what Murphy did with TFA (which resulted in that very dry, close brassy sound) or pretty standard for orchestral recordings? Also Hamill knows where it's at! Visiting 2 recording sessions in a row, seems to be a big fan of whatever JW's cooking with TLJ.

Does it contain any of the 8 musical notes.

Yes. Its something new!

Sleepy Hollow by Danny Elfman: Definitely in my Elfman top 5. Like The Wolfman this music feels strongly like the composer's love letter to the horror genre and he seems to be having a lot of fun with those dark musical devices he so loves. It is deliciously Gothic, thunderous, charming, sinister and frightening in turn and eminently listenable as Elfman anchors the score in melody. His main theme forms the basis for the drama and suspense, action and the love material but the composer bolsters this with smaller ancillary ideas such as the exclamatory motif for the headless horseman and his chase music. The album is also a nigh perfect in length and content with very well conceived narrative and includes all the major setpieces from the score but never overstays its welcome. It is dark, it is big and bold and quite frankly pure Elfman gold!

Williams doesnt write in that brassy broad sense anymore. He is battling multi channels sound effects and dialogue so he has to find breathing spaces to write to. TFA had some great brass flourishes that did remind me of is 80s style of scoring but most of it was in the same prequel idiom of orchestrations. Although there was less winds and chirping piccolos this time.!

They weren't realistic or relatable enough. List: 1. Batman 2. Batman Returns 3. Irrelevant 4. Irrelevant 5. Irrelevant 6. Irrelevant 7. Irrelevant 8. Irrelevant 9. Irrelevant 10. Irrelevant 11. Irrelevant 12. Irrelevant 13. Irrelevant 14. Irrelevant 15. Irrelevant

$35 for a sound upgrade? No thanks.

Ah, yes, good ol' Ebert still reviewing movies from beyond the grave....

Quartet Records releases:

I actually enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Sure, it's rather overlong and bloated at times, like the rest of the POTC movies, but it was funny and had quite a few clever action scenes. Even in the scenes where the film lagged a bit, it was still bearable, as it gives you more time to notice all the intricate details and such that make these films some of the most visually elaborate and ornate adventure films ever. Javier Bardem was superb as Salazar, and made for a compelling and interesting villain. Depp's acting felt somewhat tired, but pulled off the character of Jack Sparrow quite well. Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa was fantastic as usual, and the last few scenes with his character were surprisingly emotional. Visual effects were top notch, if somewhat in the uncanny valley. Overall, I left the theater satisfied, and the film makes for a fun, swashbuckling diversion at the cinema. I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars.

I find it unlikely that the recording setup would wildly differ between different recordings of the same ensemble size in the same studio. Even given different engineers. The difference will be in the mix, made afterwards. Mix in more of the close mics and apply less reverb and you'll get close to that dry sound on TFA; whereas turn those close mics down and go mainly with the stage and Decca tree mics, run it through a Lexicon PCM 90 and you'll be back to the glossy, lush sound from the 90's.

It loses some steam in the second half, but tracks like Masbath's Terrible Death and specially The Story just ooze atmosphere. Definitely also in my Elfman's top 5

We should just change the site to WilliamFan.

This is the real deal, folks! If I hadn't worked on it, I'd have ordered it instantly. The definitive presentation of a Goldsmith masterpiece. Don't miss it!

I'll let Giacchino know when I see him that a handful of JWFanners are displeased by his current output and that he should try other things... Bzzt! No! I think Giacchino is comfortable where he is right now: scoring every major franchise, getting a boatload of money and recognition along the way.

Davidson came across as a crashing bore, and something of a pompous twat. Tristan Farnon rather than The Doctor. I'm sorry. Atmosphere sure...but an actual story that has the lead characters invested in the going's on rather than just running away? Classic Who has a hell of a lot of this. It's poor writing. If the main characters are just trying to escape, why should we care about the environment they find themselves in? The history of Who is actually filled with shoddy writing, slow, ponderous stories, revisiting old tropes for the sake of audience satisfaction etc etc... I wager even at his worst Moffat still rates well above average.

One I've been lamenting recently is the 1988 BBC The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I'd love true releases for Burgon's Narnia scores. But sadly will probably never happen?

I've been listening to Star Trek Voyager's Year Of Hell score quite a bit lately. It's my third favorite Voyager episode score and Dennis McCarthy did a great job for it.

We know how Billie Lourd feels about it - she is for it being public due to the social stigma: "My mom battled drug addiction and mental illness her entire life,'' Lourd said. "She ultimately died of it. She was purposefully open in all of her work about the social stigmas surrounding these diseases. "She talked about the shame that torments people and their families confronted by these diseases. I know my Mom, she’d want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles. Seek help, fight for government funding for mental health programs. Shame and those social stigmas are the enemies of progress to solutions and ultimately a cure. Love you Momby."

First of all, don't tell people to stop talking about anything. You of all people don't have that right. Secondly, are you saying TFA is as messy as Rogue One? Actually...what are you saying? Are you one of those who's childhood memories got raped by Williams' TFA score? I seem to recall...

Wow i'm pleasantly surprised how well SpiderMan's theme works on those footage. It might very well be nice in the upcoming film. But it'll stay lackluster to listen to as a standalone track.

Well the sets are out of print, popular and sought after = people trying to fleece ridiculous sums for copies of them. Which is highway robbery. Thank heavens I bought mine when they were "only" 55 €/box. I remember that Doug Adams has been mentioning how the CRs might come into print some time in the future but it has been quite a while since he made statement. Obviously the wheels of the industry roll at quite a different speed than the otherwise hectic world when it comes to these projects.

It should work. https://1drv.ms/v/s!Akz-9hNbLAnnhiW4yB1TkU6dvoDd I'l look later when I'm home. And if not then I'll upload it to youtube and post the link.

COS all over again confirmed!! IT BROKE NEW GROUND

And replacing Williams with tribal drumming!

Wonder if it's Cantina Band V2 source music for that casino planet? I hope the recording style returns to ROTJ/TPM/ROTS territory though, less dry than TFA.

Batman & Robin is the best one.

TGP can become very... precious...when someone holds an opinion contrary to his. Probably because of insecurity. His behavior when Interstellar came out was shocking. But most of the time. Fine bloke.

Out of body experience.

Will Williams reference the classic themes?

The format of the original series doesn't lend itself to excitement. "Let's take a cool story and drag it out over many unnecessary episodes with forced cliffhangers at the end of each!" nu-Who is a definite improvement, format-wise.

Yes. Give us your demands.

If a choir features heavily at some point during the score, don't say anything.

Hm what are you afraid of, az? Do you know plot details or something? What about a yes/no on TFA themes that you know are in (or out), or any new instrumentation/style you know of without talking about who or what it's for? Something to let us speculate?

Yes, The source music has been recorded but cant say more just yet. I guess I will be at a liberty to discuss more as the timeline approaches.

John Williams and James Horner only appear in archival form. Horner is only over the end titles, and it's basically just James Cameron talking about the TITANIC score (specifically the portrait scene). The film was screened at the Oslo Pix festival a couple of weeks ago, where I introduced it and hosted a panel with composers Gaute Storaas and Henrik Skram. Here are a couple of photos of the session: It's a decent documentary, but a bit scatterbrained and mostly for the non-inititated, as a kind of introductory, missionary document. Still, the amount of high profile composers they managed to assemble is impressive. I'd love to see outtakes from the interview material.

Mission to Mars is among my favorite Morricone scores

I can think 34678 other live performances than Hansu to attend. I love some of his scores but playing his music live doesn´t bring any extra to his music. His orchestral music is so bland that it can be sampled, and I also hate electric guitar. And I also hate everything this man represent, I hate his way to talk((cheesy) and he has ruined the film music. Period.