Mike Matessino: "At least 5" new Williams releases due this year

[1977 1,743]

1 hour ago, Steve said:

Didn't Intrada say they had a "couple" JW releases in the pipeline? I wonder if one will be released this year. It's about time. 

 

I hope that they will be The Patriot and Nixon as Intrada has access to Disney, whereas other labels like LLL can work on the Universal stuff like BOTFOJ and the Sony stuff like Hook.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,551]

Unless you want to scour the internet for boots, there'll never be a complete HOOK.

[Brónach 1,302]

i've said for years that the stuff needs to be rerecorded

[1977 1,743]

9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Unless you want to scour the internet for boots, there'll never be a complete HOOK.

 

Star Wars Prequels

Indiana Jones 

 

[mstrox 6,651]

I don’t ask for much by the end of the year - only comprehensive releases of every Star Wars score.

[Faleel 5,359]

8 hours ago, Brónach said:

i've said for years that the stuff needs to be rerecorded

But they're all dead.

[Brónach 1,302]

54 minutes ago, mstrox said:

I don’t ask for much by the end of the year - only comprehensive releases of every Star Wars score.

 plus all of the concert pieces, of course

[mstrox 6,651]

Any truly comprehensive release will of course also include the OST, the 2018 remaster of the OST, the Anthology box set version, the special edition version, and a bonus album of every related concert recording including all of those dreadful synth monstrosities they tried to snow you with in the CD stores in the mid 1990s.  

[Brónach 1,302]

yes, if the OST is a must have, then all previous releases count too. we must have the same music ten times, in a loop where the score grows longer and sounds better each time.

[Manakin Skywalker 4,897]

11 minutes ago, Brónach said:

and sounds better each time.

 

Except for that one weird spot where it suddenly sounds worse...

[Brónach 1,302]

that's remastered for people who want the OST again

[GerateWohl 4,371]

1 hour ago, Brónach said:

 plus all of the concert pieces, of course

Here I again must point out the LLL Harry Potter Box, which contains the concert suite.  I wished this would happen more often. 

[Manakin Skywalker 4,897]

41 minutes ago, Brónach said:

that's remastered for people who want the OST again

 

I was actually thinking of the ROTJ SE, I completely forgot about the demasters! 

[mstrox 6,651]

Do we need both the regular ESB OST program and the fucked up one that starts with Imperial March?

[Holko 9,529]

53 minutes ago, GerateWohl said:

Here I again must point out the LLL Harry Potter Box, which contains the concert suite.  I wished this would happen more often. 

It contains it because JW recorded it all at the film sessions.

[Brónach 1,302]

10 hours ago, mstrox said:

Do we need both the regular ESB OST program and the fucked up one that starts with Imperial March?

 

yes, it's the editing-after-composing that counts, not the composing

[crumbs 14,318]

Someone's probably already asked this but ... did we ever get that 5th release after Mike's original comment?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Well we had

• reissue for: E.T., CE3K, Jurassic Park, The Lost World
• new releases: Amistad, Presumed Innocent, SpaceCamp, Sabrina

 

I assume SpaceCamp, Sabrina, JP, Presumed Innocent and Amistad were the five titles even though JP was a reissue as it features new materials

[crumbs 14,318]

2 minutes ago, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

• new releases: Amistad, Presumed Innocent

 

Plus SpaceCamp and Sabrina?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Damn I forgot about those two, I fixed it

[bollemanneke 3,349]

Hook in September, obviously.

[crumbs 14,318]

It just hit September 1st a few minutes ago!

 

Where's the LLL flyer?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?

 

[Edmilson 7,466]

11 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

Hook in September, obviously.

Yeah, it will come out in September... of 2056.

[Faleel 5,359]

2 hours ago, crumbs said:

It just hit September 1st a few minutes ago!

 

Where's the LLL flyer?!?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!??!!??!?!?!?!?!?

 

Friday Cali time!

[ciarlese 251]

On 31/08/2023 at 2:43 PM, Raiders of the SoundtrArk said:

Well we had

• reissue for: E.T., CE3K, Jurassic Park, The Lost World
• new releases: Amistad, Presumed Innocent, SpaceCamp, Sabrina

 

I assume SpaceCamp, Sabrina, JP, Presumed Innocent and Amistad were the five titles even though JP was a reissue as it features new materials

 

It has been clarified months ago that JP wasn't to be considered as one of the five.

[1977 1,743]

So would title number 5 be one of the two Intrada releases teased or did those emerge after (rhetorical question)

[Richard Penna 3,694]

Sounds like not taking MM's words too literally might help. Things come out when they come out. If he thought that 5 new releases might out out this year, it's probably a best guess based on what he knows about their production.

 

Intrada having a few in the works is a good thing to look forward to, although I'm more excited about their JNH/Zimmer expansions personally. I don't think you're making the wait easier by only counting the minutes until the next Williams release.

[1977 1,743]

I'm not too bothered, funds are limited anyway so the longer they take the better for me.

[QuartalHarmony 543]

13 hours ago, JTWfan77 said:

the longer they take the better for me

Don’t say that, they can hear you!

 

Honestly, have we not waited long enough for the definitive Star Wars, Indy and Hook?

[Tom 4,666]

4 hours ago, QuartalHarmony said:

Honestly, have we not waited long enough for the definitive Star Wars?

Where have you been?  

[A. A. Ron 1,742]

I played that in the car just the other day!

[ciarlese 251]

However I am having the feeling that we are not getting enough JW expansions. We are on an average of 3 or 4 per year, which surely is better than nothing but given how many titles are left to be worked it well be virtually impossible to have them all released, even not taking into account the most recent titles which are affected by the high reuse fees. And most of all, that is even more true if every new release is going to need Williams' approval, given the age of the Maestro 😕.

Thoughts?

[1977 1,743]

My thoughts exactly. Truth is if I were to listen to one score album that I own per day (which I don't at present) it would take me more than six years to get through them all. That's over and above all the non-score music I own, so add another two years for that. Yet I continue to purchase stuff (albeit at a slower rate due to the cost of living increasing monthly) in the hope that some day I'll get to enjoy it. I have actual John Williams scores (not only expansions mind you, actual OSTs) that I have never listened to.

[Ollie 1,059]

On 1/9/2023 at 8:58 PM, Tom said:

Where have you been?  

 

I may have played that album as much as the ordinal LP for star wars when I was a child. 

[Richard Penna 3,694]

On 02/09/2023 at 11:07 AM, ciarlese said:

However I am having the feeling that we are not getting enough JW expansions. We are on an average of 3 or 4 per year, which surely is better than nothing but given how many titles are left to be worked it well be virtually impossible to have them all released

 

Considering how many expansions some composers have and how difficult some of them are, I'd say 4 expansions for one composer in a year is a freakin' miracle. Most other composers (except JG perhaps) get a look in the expansion market maybe once every few years. It's why it irks me a tad when someone complains it's been 'x months' since the last Williams expansion when fans of some other composers wait many years for just a few.

[Jay 37,371]

Mike was clear on the air that he wasn't including reissues when he said that he had 5 titles where the audio was already done.  So Jurassic Park, Close Encounters, ET, and The Lost World are none of the 5.

 

The first 4 of the 5 are out.   SpaceCamp (May 13, 2022), Presumed Innocent (May 20, 2022), Amistad (November 29, 2022), Sabrina (May 2, 2023).

 

The 5th isn't out yet.

[Brando 1,864]

He also said that big non-Williams project will most likely get released at the end of the year. I've been waiting to see what that ends up being.

[Bounty95 558]

Hasn't this one been released? I thought it was this title:

 

https://lalalandrecords.com/the-munsters-television-music-of-jack-marshall-with-the-deputy-wagon-train-the-virginian-limited-edition-2-cd-set/

[Jay 37,371]

That was not the big non-Williams title he's mentioned twice on Maurizio's podcast.

[Brando 1,864]

23 minutes ago, Jay said:

That was not the big non-Williams title he's mentioned twice on Maurizio's podcast.

Ohhhh. So there's 2 separate non Williams titles that are big that he's working on?

[Jay 37,371]

Mike never used "big" to describe the Munsters release.

He said:

 

More immediately there is a release that will be announced very soon that has been in the cooker for a long time, and I hope it will be well received for both what it is as well as for where it might potentially lead.

 

And then

 

I hope I’m still half cool when it’s revealed that we are knocking on a different door in the hallway than the usual ones. Nothing to do with John Williams, although there is a quote from him in the booklet.

 

Source.

[Brando 1,864]

39 minutes ago, Jay said:

 Mike never used "big" to describe the Munsters release.

I didn't realize that was what he referred to, I was referring to what he said in the last podcast. Maybe I misheard what he said.

[Jay 37,371]

In the latest podcast episode, he brings up the big non-Williams title that he had mentioned previously on the podcast, with the update that it seems like it will out by the end of this year.

 

He never said anything about The Munsters on the podcast at all. 

[KittBash 282]

Though he did say that there are several releases coming that we will find... "Special" I believe was the word he used 

[Amer 2,110]

"Hold on to your potatoes"  

[ciarlese 251]

So are we expecting anything to be announced shortly? A Black Friday title maybe?

[Tom 4,666]

I expect this thread to be actively updated for the next ten years. 

[Steve 593]

On 30/08/2023 at 8:21 AM, Steve said:

Didn't Intrada say they had a "couple" JW releases in the pipeline? I wonder if one will be released this year. It's about time. 

Still wondering 🤔

[ciarlese 251]

So can we come to the conclusion that Hook is the fifth title of this list?

[Jay 37,371]