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Thomas Newman's SPECTRE


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Was the Bond theme as arranged by Arnold and conducted by Dodd featured as well? I'm sure I saw it credited as such near the end of the end titles.

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Nicholas Dodd conducted all of Casino Royale's score, including "The Name's Bond... James Bond". I don't know if the Casino Royale recording was used in Skyfall/SPECTRE, or if Newman re-recorded it.

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Allow me to interrupt your regularly scheduled horse manure with....

THE SPECTRE GUNBARREL! Albeit it doesn't have the build up that we get over the studio logos but this is as good as it gets, and in 24-bit FLAC. Thank the folks at Sony for using it in the new short featurette that came out this morning.

FLAC/MP3 320 download:

https://mega.nz/#F!Y09CTZoI!gikRdXjVSl-byyJUMILCKg

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Does anyone know why none of the instrumental soloists in SPECTRE have been credited?

With Skyfall, we had the following bit of info.

Instrumental soloists : George Doering, guitar and hammered dulcimer ; John Beasley, synthesizers and drum programming ; Paul Clarvis & Frank Ricotti, percussion ; Sonia Slany, electric violin ; Phil Todd, flute and ethnic woodwind ; John Parricelli, guitar
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They were...

Karol

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In the CD booklet. Here, I typed it all for you:

INTRUMENTAL SOLOISTS:

George Doering: guitars, dulcimers

John Beasley: synthesizers, drum programming

Paul Clarvis: percussion

Sonia Slany: electric violin

Phil Todd: alto flute. bass flute

Thomas Newman: piano

TAMBUCO:

Ricardo Gallardo

Alfredo Bringas

Raul Tudon

Muguel Gonzalez

Percussion Co-arrangements by Tamil Recz

I have also created a gun barrel for SPECTRE based upon David Arnold's, Bond... James Bond from Casino Royale which includes a partial buildup as heard underneath the MGM/Sony Logos.

Nice. But Newman's string arrangement is slightly different from Arnold's though.

It's a Newmanised version of Arnold's arrangements of Barry's arrangement of Norman's theme. ;)

Karol

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I saw the film yesterday and i like this score much more than skyfall.

The 1st third of the film sounded like a real james bond score....but since then it dilutes and you can barely hear any james bond material...

But well it was not bad. sounded a little bit like and arnold score too...

I'm glad the gunbarrel sequence returned to the opening of the film.

The song was mediocre...the vocalist i didnt like. I didnt understood many of what he said...so much falsetto screaming.

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They were...

Karol

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In the CD booklet. Here, I typed it all for you:

INTRUMENTAL SOLOISTS:

George Doering: guitars, dulcimers

John Beasley: synthesizers, drum programming

Paul Clarvis: percussion

Sonia Slany: electric violin

Phil Todd: alto flute. bass flute

Thomas Newman: piano

TAMBUCO:

Ricardo Gallardo

Alfredo Bringas

Raul Tudon

Muguel Gonzalez

Percussion Co-arrangements by Tamil Recz

See? That wasn't hard, was it? ;)

I know, I don't own the CD.

The song was mediocre...the vocalist i didnt like. I didnt understood many of what he said...so much falsetto screaming.

He has poor diction. No consonants, just lots of vowels in series and sudden (and pointless) shifts from falsetto to head voice in every single phrase.

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Sam Smith's song is awful. Glad it's not on the album because skipping it every time would be a nuisance.

Actually the song isnt awful at all. It's the decision to sing it like that that mires is.

The melody is rather excellent.

I went to a rather excellent film music concert on Friday at Watford Colosseum with the Philharmonia Orchestra playing music from films with a superhero connection. One of the pieces they played was an instrumental version of the song from Spectre, with the principal cello (Timothy Walden, I think) substituting for Sam Smith's vocal. I thought it sounded really good and luckily someone has captured it for posterity on YouTube. Carl Davis conducts. Watford Colosseum's wonderful acoustics for film music are evident in this clip too.

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After seeing SPECTRE again today I was able to put together a partial cue of the copter sequence in the beginning of the film. It was culled together from Grand Bazaar from SKyfall and Tempus Fugit from SPECTRE. There are several bars missing from the track but I think this will give you a facsimilie of the cue as heard in the film.

Also the scene where Bond is chasing Sciara in the Day Of The Dead parade is tracked with the first 35 seconds of Backfire from SPECTRE.

04Copter Chaos.mp3

04Copter Chaos.mp3

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The album tracks should not be taken as a presentation of individual cues. I think the album track Backfire is a similar case to the combining of the cues Komodo Dragons and Escalator/Crash into one album piece, the track Granborough Road, on the Skyfall album.

Similarly, after doing a side-by-side with the Spectre music and the Skyfall score, I do not think the helicopter music is "culled together" from other cues; it reuses motifs and instrumentation from Bikes/Roof as heard in Skyfall but it's not an incidence of tracking.

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After seeing SPECTRE again today I was able to put together a partial cue of the copter sequence in the beginning of the film. It was culled together from Grand Bazaar from SKyfall and Tempus Fugit from SPECTRE. There are several bars missing from the track but I think this will give you a facsimilie of the cue as heard in the film.

Also the scene where Bond is chasing Sciara in the Day Of The Dead parade is tracked with the first 35 seconds of Backfire from SPECTRE.

Bond escaping the toppling wall is adapted from Quartermaster (2:47-3:25). The downbeat at 3:12 accompanies Bond landing on the abandoned sofa.

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Noticed a very cool similarity between these cues yesterday:

 

 

 

(previous 30 seconds or so of the Star Wars track are also quite similar to Snow Plane)

 

When you listen to the whole middle section of "Anakin Defeats Sebulba" and then the beginning of "Snow Plane," it almost feels like "Sebulba" could have been the temp for the Bond scene, although probably it's just coincidental. 

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