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$772 over goal and towards the stretch goal now, and we’ve got 8 more hours before the second to last day even starts… Yavar

There's tons of great unreleased music from his two Narnia scores! Yavar

Ordered from LLL

#1.1.5 - SW (1977) - 1m2 Star Wars addendum:

Yeah Harry doesn't care much about expansions. But ironically he's been very helpful when I asked him about the things he did for Hans. He wasn't bothered by The Rock getting released (given he considers it being Nick & Hans' show anyway). About Armageddon he said that it really is Trevor's score & decision, and that he would follow whatever Trevor decides. And since Trevor said no... But, we keep inceptioning Harry, I'm sure one day he'll go "sure"... People change their mind. Hans wasn't interested for a while. Many many years ago he actually blocked a label from doing Thelma & Louise. And look now. I think his touring help. Forcing him to go through his career & compile tour suites made him realize "err, maybe it's not that bad...." And I'll try to inception Trevor Rabin as well...

A cloned version of JW would probably come out wrong and evil, and compose RCP. His name would be Jhinzon.

Finally listened to this after picking it up a few months ago What a fantastic score! Doesn't get talked about nearly enough, I hardly knew anything about it going in. For being such an early Williams score many of his hallmarks are there. The main title theme sort of reminded me of the first 5 notes of the opening to The Orville

Lair. A very strong video game score by John Debney and Kevin Kaska. Yeah, it is a bit of a stew including influences like Poledouris, Williams, Rozsa or even Zimmer, but it has some really strong themes that help to establish its own identity. Next to The Passion of the Christ and Cutthroat Island, it's Debney's best. Karol

What I appreciate about this release is, that it appears really fair. It does not contain some little super exclusive thing to force longtime collectors to buy a $250 boxset just for one exclusive disc or even just one exclusive track. As it just contains regular albums it is easy to ommit for those who own the albums already. And those who want to buy it for completeness, their love of boxsets or for the new liner notes, so be it. But the collectors are free to chose. That is not a given.

I think infra dig is pretty much the official JWFan motto.

Here's hoping:

Indeed, "legacy" seems most likely. If the project has indeed been in the works for a year-and-a-half, as Matessino wrote, Williams might have initiated these comprehensive boxsets at a time when he didn't know how successful his recovery was going to go and thus at least have a hand in shaping his legacy. Honestly, I don't like speculating about these things either way, but I feel confident money isn't a driving factor in this at all. I just feel fortunate to know there's still several wonderful Williams compositions out there waiting for a release and even quite a few waiting for a premiere. So much more music to discover and to look forward to - its's great to be a Williams fan!

The metaphor Harry used was hilarious. "An album is like the football highlights on TV. You'll see 10 minutes of great stuff, but no one wants to check the 80 min of boring stuff that happened..." He doesn't quite get why people would bother with all the boring little cues here & there. But again, the whole debate is, "the highlights according to who ?" Composers are usually terrible judges of their own work and what people want. The worldwide backlash about No Time For Caution missing from the Interstellar album is one of the best examples...

Tim Grieving: A Composer's Biographer's Life

Blog for Episode 6: Where Is He? https://bearmccreary.com/the-lord-of-the-rings-episode-206/

Cloning him would be fine. It's taking the strand of hair to a framer and putting it up on your wall that concerns me.

That was so harrowing. I cried at one point due to the dread. I cried when they sang. I cried a lot, actually. Syril's face when Andor didn't know who he was was fantastic. Perfect ending for him. Mothma saying genocide and us immediately cutting to Bail. Excellent. I do agree that this all felt like a (really great) ending. Curious where this goes next week, but I'm a bit wary because some clunky prequelitis was starting to rear its head a bit.

Life finds a way.

Ep8... man. I knew I liked Ghorman but I didn't quite realise how much, in just a couple episodes. Add to that the previously discussed "people/culture coming together" aspect, the music (that anthem!!), the fact that this might have been the first arc I watched properly on the TV while alone at home, plus some pent up real world emotions/frustrations, some related to themes discussed in this arc, and... yeah. By the middle of the episode I was tearing up a bit like at Maarva's funeral march, but by the end I was properly ugly crying and shaking a bit, especially as the song came back for the credits, then transitioned into a subdued main theme. I knew Syril wouldn't be OK with this with his sense of justice but it was surprising how much even Dedra was hating it, dissociating and focusing on what comes after, having to collect herself before the calls, and of course the ending. I wonder where she'll end up in the final arc.

Yes, though not with complete consistency, now I come to check on it. For example, in Star Wars Suite for Orchestra: Main Title: Italian tempo markings throughout, plus several metronome markings. However, ‘With great force’ in English at b86. but Princess Leia’s Theme: more Italian tempo descriptions, but no metronome markings and all percussion indications are in English (e.g. ‘Vibraphone with soft mallets’ at b29). At b34 A Little Broader is in English rather than the Italian equivalent. Similarly, in Throne Room, almost all tempo descriptions are Italian, but for A Little More Deliberate at b116. *Shrug* Not sure there’s much significance in this. Mark

There's some excellent tv shows post Endgame. WandaVision (mostly). Moon Knight, Loki, She-Hulk, Hawkeye. Agatha All Along, Daredevil.

Until Phase 3 it was easy. Each phase closed with an Avengers movie: Phase 1: The Avengers; Phase 2: Age of Ultron; Phase 3: Endgame; (even though technically Ant-Man and Spiderman: Far from Home are the actual endings to Phases 2 and 3). From Phase 4 onwards separating between each Phase has become difficult. Especially if you count the many D+ shows. The narrative mess they made has been so confusing that, for me, it has all been one long continuous thing since Black Widow.

Or "Sky Battle" from Deathly Hallows Part 1. The mixture of new material and Williams' themes is genuinely pretty clever and subtle, while still being an exciting action piece on its own.

No. But the prequels were infra dig.

Of my earthly possessions, I give my personal copy of Sony's overpriced anthology to BB-8 of JWFan, but only the first volume.

She didn't say that!

He probably doesn't know what eBay is...

Ohhhhhh... Reading this made me realize I had just one last edit in the wrong place in my version of the Main Title: I had the last edit at 1:43 instead of 1:41. The 1:41 edit sounds so much better, actually! Will make this edit public (alongside an improved version of the "Original" alternate track) over the next few days.

Once again, a hatred of a composer clouding the straightforward fact that he's a busy composer and can easily choose not to work on a third M:I movie if he wants a break. That's a career stage - you may not like said career. I found DR pt. 1 boring as heck, and his material for the new W&G film was completely forgettable - I don't like his music much (Fallout may be the only Balfe score I have, and only about an hour of it). I'm not defending Balfe as a composer in any way. But this isn't about that - it's whether there is any evidence at all that he was actively replaced, and a recognition that he doesn't need to do these big films any more.

Sneak peek of the new movie arrangement for "Astrid Goes For A Spin" track, hear it below: I like this new rendition. It's still the same of course, but I love the extra trumpets line and that extra "umphh" at the end. Compared that with the original:

I've never heard of this guy. Is he any good?

Honestly a nice arrangement. I still don’t understand how a live orchestral recording (multi-tracked, yes) results in such a nasty, fake-sounding mix. All of Zimmer’s scores are recorded in a multi-tracked format, and they never sound this lifeless and artificial. Same issue with Dead Reckoning. It’s a shame, because whenever Lorne posts a video from the recording sessions, and you hear the musicians playing live and unfiltered, things sound incredible. But as soon as they get out through all that heavy processing they sound like Spitfire Libraries from 2013!

While many longtime Williams fans will have all or most of these releases, I like the idea that new Williams fans who are buying this for the opportunity to get his greatest hits in one convenient package will also be exposed to many obscure gems that they otherwise might never have heard. FWIW the Target preorder price is currently $297.99 (or $283.09 with a Target Circle Card).

The first 39 seconds of this or so is just sublime. Love that lush string writing. It's so simple, tender and beautifully conveys the emotion of the scene.

Give my regards to King Tut, asshole

Yeah it's just the different mix (and also the more obvious analog edits) Otherwise, the spectrograms are identical

He's John Williams and if he wants to release one more box set, that's what we're going to do.

I hope this score gets a nice physical release. Surely Universal/Desplat have the money for that.

I would happily rebuy Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III on CD *again*... if Neil Bulk is doing his painstaking work, and either Mike Matessino or Chris Malone is working on the sound. Yavar

I'm bisoundtracktual. I listen to both the OST and the expanded depending on my mood.

Now that I think of it, it reads exactly like the fanfic Wagner wrote about meeting Beethoven.... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/A_pilgrimage_to_Beethoven%3B_a_novel_(IA_cu31924022158822).pdf

Fingers crossed... my understanding is that a Kickstarter is only successful if it reaches its target* but the stretch goals can kinda just run on a bit and the originator can decide how much of the stretch goals they want to do or what to do with any surplus. Any idea how much flexibility Intrada might have to fund the rest if they were still a couple of $k short? * This always feels like it could be quite frustrating if you missed your target by a trivial amount but I do recall someone explaining why this was the case.

Come on stretch goal!

... is the correct answer

Yes, HW was beautifully recorded - if they can apply the same sonics to the original, there is likely to be some worthwhile material here. I wasn't overly taken by the other sample track we got though - a re-recording is still a re-recording. I can see the hell that Powell found himself in, but I still can't find the anger at its mere existence that others seem to want to draw.

Sounds like 2010 HTTYD passed through the Solo/Hidden World filter. Great!

Two edits made using MVSep's MelBand Roformer. The first using becruily's model, from Shin Godzilla. The second is Return of the Jedi's Victory Celebration (film version) and End Credits, properly segued together with the End Credits (which now also contains the correct intro). I used the newer unwa Instrumental v1e plus model for this one. I'm aware it lacks the 'Stormtrooper steel drum' the film has, but I'm not convinced that wasn't just something Ben Burtt threw in on his end. I also have a near-perfect Duel of the Fates instrumental version using this same model (I had an experiment using the becruily model but the newer one I did a short while ago sounds nicer IMO). These models are getting really good.

Yeah, in the film I always thought that he wrote a NEW droid theme that sound a lot like the OLD droid theme. It wasn't until I got the 1997 set that I realized that it was Jabba's theme!