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I scooped this up as quickly as my fingers could click. Two scores I've never heard by an authentic American genius. Thanks for a brilliant job, Intrada. A tremendous release in every way.
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I produced this CD for Intrada and the North estate. I am pleased to see the positive response; we were afraid this one would be totally ignored.
I was disappointed to see complaints about the artwork—then realized it's not six people complaining, but one person complaining six times...which always seems to be the case. You can complain if you want, but as a rejected score and an obscure documentary score made for a chemical company, please understand original motion picture imagery was not contractually available. In fact, just try to WATCH Decision for Chemistry—good luck! We actually went to a bit of trouble to get a reference copy of Decision for Chemistry on DVDR from the Monsanto collection at a University library so we could make sure we were doing the music editing properly. So it kind of sucks to go to all this trouble for something so obscure, and have one person be stridently negative about something over which we had no control. I truly have no objection to people expressing their opinion and maybe being disappointed by something like the lack of motion picture artwork, but at a certain point it's just obnoxious. Sorry that I had no interest in spending a year trying to negotiate motion picture artwork rights to something nobody has ever seen that nobody has any paperwork for, just to please one person who would then be cranky about something else.
Anyway, this was a fun project that Intrada bankrolled and the North estate approved. I hope people enjoy the music as much as I have!
Lukas
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Sorry, I want to see stunning period graphics and images, not photos of aging goofy looking guys who wrote the music.
Assuming your post is not tongue in cheek, then it's not all about the music, it's about the pretty pictures? Personally if I could get some of my favorite scores on CD like Barry's Tamarind Seed or Tiomkin's The High And The Mighty, I couldn't care if they came in a plain brown wrapper!
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Jul 8, 2014 - 5:30 AM
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OnyaBirri
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I produced this CD for Intrada and the North estate. I am pleased to see the positive response; we were afraid this one would be totally ignored.
I was disappointed to see complaints about the artwork—then realized it's not six people complaining, but one person complaining six times...which always seems to be the case. You can complain if you want, but as a rejected score and an obscure documentary score made for a chemical company, please understand original motion picture imagery was not contractually available. In fact, just try to WATCH Decision for Chemistry—good luck! We actually went to a bit of trouble to get a reference copy of Decision for Chemistry on DVDR from the Monsanto collection at a University library so we could make sure we were doing the music editing properly. So it kind of sucks to go to all this trouble for something so obscure, and have one person be stridently negative about something over which we had no control. I truly have no objection to people expressing their opinion and maybe being disappointed by something like the lack of motion picture artwork, but at a certain point it's just obnoxious. Sorry that I had no interest in spending a year trying to negotiate motion picture artwork rights to something nobody has ever seen that nobody has any paperwork for, just to please one person who would then be cranky about something else.
Anyway, this was a fun project that Intrada bankrolled and the North estate approved. I hope people enjoy the music as much as I have!
Lukas
I appreciate your detailed response, but the lack of availability of original artwork is no excuse not to come up with appropriate original artwork. 1950s atomic imagery is everywhere. Packaging and aesthetics are important to some of us.
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This is a real thrill. Always great to hear a familiar master tackle an unexpected genre. Documentary scores need our love, too!
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Packaging matters. Of course it does, especially at a time when buying physical music formats is in such decline. And it matters to collectors how their collections look on the shelf. No shame in that. Was licensing images from Sounder a problem? I mean, God bless Alex, but he was no Cary Grant in the mug shot department.
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Very interesting release. I'll be ordering this one, for sure!
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What has "1950s atomic imagery" to do with "Sounder"? Bottom line: I don't think it's that simple.
You do a fold-out and place key panels in such a way that more than one can serve as the cover art. If the original art is not available, you do something in an appropriate style. With a fold-out, they could have done 3 covers and let the buyer decide. I have worked on reissues that have used this approach.
Bottom line: I don't think it's that difficult.
Bored now.
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What has "1950s atomic imagery" to do with "Sounder"? Bottom line: I don't think it's that simple.
You do a fold-out and place key panels in such a way that more than one can serve as the cover art. If the original art is not available, you do something in an appropriate style. With a fold-out, they could have done 3 covers and let the buyer decide. I have worked on reissues that have used this approach.
Bottom line: I don't think it's that difficult.
Bored now.
Great release Roger, thanks to you all at Intrada and to Lukas Kendall. I love the photo of the great Alex North on this cover. Releases like this one bring so much pleasure and joy to so many of us, your efforts are very much appreciated.
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