James Horner's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (1983) - NEW! 2024 Intrada Expanded Edition

[JTN 2,030]

Great work, @crumbs.

 

I will definitely imagine your version every time I’m looking at the CD.

[Demondm810 399]

On 03/01/2024 at 2:40 AM, crumbs said:

Threw this together in less than an hour, thought you folks might enjoy it.

 

Click for a high-res 2K version.

 

@crumbs, this is gorgeous thank you!   You cover art guys never cease to amaze me with your skills.  Always making my apple music library look incredible. 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

12 hours ago, Tallguy said:

I have waited for over 40 years for Jonathan Pryce to be as good again as he was in this.

Brazil was released in 1985 and is Pryce best interpretation

[Steffromuk 386]

Here are my two options.
I actually updated the cover I did a while back.

I also posted them in the custom covers thread.

 

[crumbs 14,317]

Nice one @Steffromuk!

 

People are spoiled for choice with covers for this score

 

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

That first one is absolutely magnificent

[Jay 37,369]

This'll be going live any minute

 

https://store.intrada.com/

[Andy 4,138]

Ordered because I adore this score. Hoping Chris Malone could squeeze a little more clarity out of an already great sounding recording. 

[OneBuckFilms 323]

That was an easy order for me. Samples sound fantastic to me.

[CatastrophicJones 18]

Ordered myself a copy. This will be a fun one to listen to in the car

[Jay 37,369]

Roger says:

 

INTRADA Announces:

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Composed and Conducted by JAMES HORNER
INTRADA ISC 494

Intrada presents an updated and expanded edition of James Horner's score to the 1983 Walt Disney film Something Wicked This Way Comes. Until Intrada's initial release back in 2009, the score was a holy grail among collectors.That presentation was based on an earlier (yet unreleased) album program Horner had prepared back at the time of the film's release. Now some 15 years later, Intrada has revisited the score, placing it largely in film order and adding a few previously unreleased score tracks in addition to a suite of source music heard throughout the film.

 

The score opens on a malevolent note as images of a jet-black train traveling in deep night traverse the screen. As the credits conclude, the blackness and menacing atmosphere dissolve into an autumn pastoral -- a lengthy sequence featuring a gorgeous theme colored in youth, innocence and fall hues, yet tinged with melancholy as the adult narrator reflects on his small town and a long-ago experience. It's nostalgia captured in music and is one of the many highlights of this powerful work.The score gets darker as the evil doings of the carnival unfold, and Horner's use of wordless female choir throughout gives an ethereal, supernatural, and downright sinister atmosphere to the events.

 

The film is a dark journey into evil. Darkness descends as flyers promoting the carnival are tossed about in the small town, then amps up with the arrival of the carnival itself: Mr. Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival – a singular dark carnival that hears the pain within the townsfolk’s hearts. The carnival grants wishes and rectifies disappointment, but not without extracting a steep price. Teens Will Halloway and his kindred spirit Jim Nightshade hear the arriving train in the middle of the night, and their natural curiosity leads them to discover the dark secrets within. Shortly thereafter, townsfolk begin to disappear. When Dark realizes the boys have learned too much and threaten his agenda, he begins a terrifying boyhunt that leads to a tense confrontation between Dark and Will's father, Charles, and a final yet poetic, showdown in the carnival itself.

Intrada ISC 494
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For track listing and sound samples https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12899/.f

 

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Doug says:

 

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (EXPANDED)
James Horner
Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 494
Film Date: 1983
Album Date: 2024
Time: 59:40
Tracks: 19
Price: $22.99

 

Classic early James Horner score makes a new appearance! With the kind assistance of Simon Rhodes, the composer’s long time scoring mixer of choice, and the generous help of our dear friends at Walt Disney Records, we are happy to bring back this sensational and frightening 1983 score that James Horner composed for Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, released through Walt Disney Productions, and just one of no less than eight films scored by Horner that year. Jack Clayton directs, Ray Bradbury scripts from his own novel, Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier star.

 

Modestly expanded from our earlier release, this newly remastered release includes the music that Horner and Rhodes opted to delete from that release. This new look at the score includes everything that survives from the now-obsolete 3M digital format masters, made for us by the team at Disney Imagineering, who had preserved a rare working machine for playbacks. While Rhodes was now able to provide just a few more minutes of music, the new material included, a last, the subtle and chilling wordless choral cues associated with “The Dust Witch” and the spooky “Holloway Talks To Dark” as well as the source music recorded at the sessions, composed and arranged by Horner’s orchestrator, Greig McRicthie.

 

Horner had only been scoring films for four years when he tackled this famous horror tale, but his dramatic instincts and emotional approach to composing was already in evidence. This is displayed vividly from the outset with the “Main Title And Prologue”, where the intense, imposing theme for the train with its approaching evil carnival rises in powerful manner for the titles, develops in surging fashion then segues into a warm triple-meter theme that literally soars with rich major chords as the previous scary images now become orange autumnal leaves falling in small town America during October, with two young boys romping with nary a care in the world… until Mr. Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival changes everything. Both themes recur, with Mr. Dark dominating much of the activity, including hypnotic forays into new ideas, terrifying motifs for the tarantula “Spiders”, rising and falling figures throughout the orchestra, demented calliope interjections and numerous other highlights before finally wrapping in sunny warmth with the nostalgic waltz-theme, right down to the wistful appearance of harmonica, as the tale concludes.

 

The entire score is presented in crisp, detailed stereo. Executive producer Roger Feigelson offers detailed descriptions of the film and music cues in his informative notes and provides the original cue titles as indicated on Disney’s scoring session paperwork. James Horner and Simon Rhodes are producers of the original Intrada album with Rhodes remastering, Chris Malone newly assembling for this 2024 edition. Grieg McRitchie orchestrates, James Horner composes, conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!

 

Track List

01. Main Title And Prologue (6:48)
02. The Dust Witch (2:03)
03. Jim Buys A Lightning Rod (3:28)
04. Fury And The Dust Witch (2:16)
05. Formation Of The Carnival (4:30)
06. The Peep Show (2:01)
07. On The Merry-Go-Round (4:35)
08. The Chase (3:47)
09. Spiders (3:25)
10. Holloway Talks To Dark (1:38)
11. The Library Pt. 1 (6:52)
12. The Library Pt. 2 (4:49)
13. End Title (2:48)
Total Score Time: 48:59
    

THE EXTRAS
14. Lottery Look (2:06)
15. Night Dance (1:52)
16. Tetley’s Calliope Waltz (1:07)
17. Clown March No. 1 (2:05)
18. Clown March No. 2 (1:42)
19. Beethoven Dirge (1:48)
Total Extras Time 9:27
Total CD Time: 59:31

 

https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12899/.f

 

 

 

 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,534]

"... 48, 49, 50! You're lost!".

 

I'm a little late to the party, but... this is an absolutely beautiful score, from an absolutely beautiful film, and a top-5 Horner score, for me.

I've heard what Delerue did, and, frankly -  not to denigrate Delerue in any way - I'm glad the film was rescored.

Instant buy.

[HanFiredFirst 37]

On 03/01/2024 at 7:40 AM, crumbs said:

Threw this together in less than an hour, thought you folks might enjoy it.

 

Click for a high-res 2K version.

 

That's brilliant - soooo much better than the woeful cover on the Intrada site. Thanks!

[Naïve Old Fart 9,534]

I always thought that was by Tom Jung. Turns out it isn't. It looks a lot like Tom Jung.

[HanFiredFirst 37]

On 03/01/2024 at 12:57 AM, Jim Ware said:

Incidentally, Something Wicked This Way Comes was an early digital recording, using the same technology as The Black Hole and Star Trek II - there’s only one machine left capable of playing it!

I wonder if the machine used by Deutsche Grammophon/Emil Berliner studios would also be able to play it? I'm not technical enough to understand the nuanced detail, but for their new issue of the Karajan/Richard Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder/Tod und Verklärung they use a machine specially constructed to play 1/2 inch 4-track tapes...

[Jay 37,369]

I've ordered this release and look forward to checking it out; I remember liking the previous edition.  I guess I should see the movie at some point.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,534]

11 minutes ago, Jay said:

I've ordered this release and look forward to checking it out; I remember liking the previous edition.  I guess I should see the movie at some point.

 

The film is beautiful.

[crocodile 8,017]

I created a double playlist with both Delerue and Horner scores back to back. I called it Some Things Wicked This Way Come. 😂

 

Karol