Raiders of the SoundtrArk

#maythe4thbewithyou 💫
 
We are excited to announce that John Williams, together with Thomas Adès, returns to our podium for two concerts on Saturday, December 7, 2024, and Sunday, December 8, 2024, at the Musikverein Wien!

https://bit.ly/johnwilliams2024
 
#savethedate
 
The start of the ticket sale as well as the exact program will be announced at a later date – stay tuned!
 
Happy International Star Wars Day!
 
📸: Dieter Nagl
 
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/PXcuCFP3mV8DbhDi/
 
 
 
https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/en/konzerte/the-music-of-john-williams/10598/

What bugs me more is the fact the new re-releases from Intrada use an almost identical art and design as their previous releases (Inchon, Species, Honey... etc..). Which makes it very hard to differenciate one version from the other. I'm sure a lot of people will end up buying the previous version of Honey or Inchon, thinking they're getting the remastered or expanded one.
 
here is my "remastered" cover
 
I shrunk the kids even more on this one to get closer to their actual scale in the movie. and I made Rick look down compared to the original poster.
You can see my alternate cover on the Custom Covers Thread

That's stupid. We live in a digital/streaming era. Why is Powell being constrained by arbitrary maximum runtimes that are relics of physical formats?!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eYsUUx0oR/
 

 
A bit disappointing, only 20 minutes of score being released (out of 50).
 
 

Merch from Universal Music Store (Japan) has just arrived!
 
1. The B2-sized calendar
2. The postcard 
3. The standard CD release 
 
Just waiting on Amazon to deliver my package with the “visual sheet”. Have no idea what to expect as I’ve never gotten one before, so we’ll see when it arrives!

It has arrived and it is gorgeous!
 
Haven’t watched the blu-ray yet as I have visitors over at the moment.
 
I made separate orders through Tower Records Japan, Amazon Japan and Universal Music Japan - each have different bonus merch! Will post when they all arrive - later today!
 
For now, I’ve uploaded pics of the bonus merch from Tower Records - an A4-sized clear file.
 
I’ve also added pics of the vinyl 😎

Really love that 2nd cover

Really love that 2nd cover

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2024/05/02/alan-silvestri-scoring-anthony-joe-russos-the-electric-state/
 
This is intriguing. I love Simon Stålenhag's work, but I never expected there to be a film adaptation of this (and certainly not from Hollywood A listers such as the Russos and Silvestri). But I guess TALES FROM THE LOOP opened some doors.
 
If you're not familiar with Stålenhag's work, I recommend taking a look at his gorgeous artworks, which insert sci fi elements into very mundane, Scandinavian surroundings. Stålenhag is also a good composer, and did this SUPERB concept album based on his own THE ELECTRIC STATE work. If you like moody Vangelis, this is right up your alley:
 

 
I doubt Silvestri will take a similar approach, but nothing would please me more than if he reawakened some of his 80s synth roots for this.

Seasons 3 & 4 OSTs available on May 3!!!!
 

https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/star-wars-rebels-season-three-deana-kiner-kevin-kiner-sean-kiner/tok328w8oid0b
 

https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/star-wars-rebels-season-four-deana-kiner-kevin-kiner-sean-kiner/lrjclslkspc5b

LLL Announces TORN CURTAIN

Music Composed and Conducted By John Addison

Unused score Composed and Conducted by Bernard Herrmann

Coming May 7th

Really love that 2nd cover

Cleaned up cover art:

 
For comparison's sake:

 

2 options on HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS
 

 


Thanks to Photoshop "Generative fill" tool for the 2nd cover

…and at least a dozen more that didn't come up in my Google search.

Coming digitally on April 26: https://www.qobuz.com/nz-en/album/how-to-train-your-dragon-the-hidden-world-the-deluxe-edition-john-powell/zazqt5tc4nckb

Roger says
 
Coming April 30th. Expanded edition.
 

 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/95015405220/posts/10168942967095221

It's here!
 
 

Arrived today:
 

 
Karol 

QUARTET RECORDS ANNOUNCES

UNCOMMON VALOR-EXPANDED
Music Composed and Conducted by JAMES HORNER

Quartet Records, in collaboration with Paramount Pictures, presents a remastered, slightly expanded reissue of James Horner’s classic war score for UNCOMMON VALOR (1983), directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Gene Hackman, Robert Stack and young up-and-comers Patrick Swayze and Fred Ward.

The film is a dramatic action picture centered on retired U.S. Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes, who recruits a motley crew of soldiers and leads them on a clandestine operation in Laos. Their mission is the rescue of unacknowledged U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) left behind after the withdrawal from Vietnam, including Rhodes’ son, officially declared missing in action (MIA). The possible existence of such POWs was a topic of considerable interest during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The messy conclusion of the Vietnam War, coupled with the scandals of the Nixon era, had left many Americans alienated from their government and deeply skeptical of official claims that there was no evidence of living POWs in the former war zone.

James Horner was only 30 years old when he was hired to compose UNCOMMON VALOR, but he was already a seasoned composer with such successful films in his career as STAR TREK II, KRULL, BRAINSTORM and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, and he was about to enter the A-list of composers in Hollywood with his upcoming hit scores for ALIENS, AN AMERICAN TAIL and COCOON. Horner provides an inventive and effective score, robustly orchestral while endowed with exciting electronic rhythms and Vietnamese textures.

Intrada Records issued the premiere release of UNCOMMON VALOR in 2014 and it quickly sold out. This new, remastered edition adds about 10 minutes of alternate takes. Produced by Dan Goldwasser and mastered by Chris Malone, it features in-depth liner notes by film music writer John Takis.


Tracklist:

1. Vietnamese Solo / Main Title (7:31)
2. Airport (2:21)
3. Tag (2:49)
4. A Lot of us Have Been Killed (1:26)
5. Steal the Sucker (1:44)
6. First trek / Yellow Rain (2:45)
7. Pan Over Hill / Wilkes in Tunnel (7:35)
8. Attack Airbase (3:14)
9. Escape Airbase (3:22)
10. Copters Over Hill (2:51)
11. Final Escape (2:21)
12. End Credits (3:42)
13. Brothers in the Night* (4:48)

Bonus Tracks

14. Main Title (Alternate Mix) (7:15)
15. Main Title Extension (Expanded) (3:08)
16. Parade Ground (3:58)
17. Main Title Extension Vietnamese Overlay (Alternate) (3:15)


Total Disc Time: 64:14

*Performed by Ray Kennedy • Written by Ray Kennedy, Kevin Dukes and David Ritz

https://quartetrecords.com/product/uncommon-valor/
 

Thanks a lot, glad you're enjoying these !
Next one will be 1M4a ("Get' em R2!") and I'll have covered the whole Battle Over Coruscant Sequence 

Simply the best war picture ever made. As for the score, it fits the film perfectly and Hymn to the Fallen is definitly among the top 10 best cues Williams ever wrote (if you excludes SW and Indy)

Simply the best war picture ever made. As for the score, it fits the film perfectly and Hymn to the Fallen is definitly among the top 10 best cues Williams ever wrote (if you excludes SW and Indy)