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Would people buy a score to a film that the VAST majority of people have not seen?
Absolutely! Especially a score sounding like this and from that period. Bring it on!
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Would people buy a score to a film that the VAST majority of people have not seen?
Thor? No. The rest of us, undoubtedly overwhelmingly "Yes".
Most of my personal favorite scores are to films I've never seen. and some I've only skimmed for the music.
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I was just about to mention CAREFUL, HE MIGHT HEAR YOU, but humster beat me to it.
That's a score many people hail and anyone who's heard it or bought it, usually love it, but it just never shifted the units cos the composer and film were quite obscure.
Never shifted the units? Wasn't that a fast 1000 copy Club title sell-out (due to the great sound clips I suspect)? I don't remember it hanging around.
Yavar
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I believe that pre-funding from Perseverance Records on "Chinatown" was for a re-recording that was first proposed.
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So we're teased for seven months, then bragging about having the entire score in hands, then after someone guested the title no firm commitment of a release? WOW!
Peter said that "the wheels are still turning." Nothing has changed since the title was guessed - the project is moving at the same pace it has been since this thread originated (which was actually 17 months ago, not 7 - this mystery had an amazing run).
Also, Peter never promised anything. He made it clear from the beginning that it was a passion project that he was looking into & was working hard to try to make happen.
Couldn't have said it better myself. This is my ONE holy grail that if I can see this get released, I can die a happy man. I have spent so many hours on this and quite a bit of money so far OUT OF MY OWN POCKET in hopes to see this released by someone. I feel like so many of you that yet few have seen the film the music is just so damn gorgeous and that theme is brings tears to my eyes almost so pretty. Things are moving. I'll say this, things are looking GOOD! It would be different if I owned my own label I could make my own decisions, but I do not own a label and at the one I do work at I work on some projects. Thanks Dylan, wheels are turning. IF we can get this project out and it's looking good, I'll write a longer note about some of the interesting things that happened along the way. This project I've been working on years. Things are moving, slowly, but moving. ALL this positive energy and great responses, I can not tell you HOW important they are right now, TRULY important in a lot of ways. Thank you all so much. Warms my heart!
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Anyone needing a Andrew Powell fix, while waiting for this to be released(?) and playing LADYHAWKE over and over, might like this pleasant, if undemanding, collection of music by Powell and an old friend.
http://www.allmusic.com/album/full-circle-mw0002475894
You can certainly hear trace elements of the 'lovely stuff' from LADYHAWKE* (and perhaps ROCKET GIBRALTAR too?).
*track 1 and 7 especially.
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Bumpitty bump...
Yavar
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Thank you everyone for contributing to this thread! At long last Rocket Gibraltar in all it's glory is available!
This release was years in the making, we give to you..
ROCKET GIBRALTAR
Music Composed and Conducted by ANDREW POWELL
INTRADA ISC 411
For the 1988 Columbia Pictures Rocket Gibraltar, English composer, arranger, and performer Andrew Powell composed the heartfelt score for Rocket Gibraltar. Powell chose parts specific to the story’s dramatic weave: Levi, the grandchildren, Cy Blue, and the titular skiff, Rocket Gibraltar. The music takes the listener through a sonic journey—with elements of classicism, pop, a little blues, and a bit of sturdy orchestral dissonance. These diverse musical styles help to characterize Levi’s various family members and give the film a unique mélange of sonic flavorings. Powell ’s score avoids sentimentality by conveying the earnestness that allows what is in fact a pretty ghastly denouement to succeed as a loving gift in honor of the family patriarch.
Produced by Andrew Powell, Intrada is proud to release this score on its 30th anniversary. The project was spearheaded by Peter Hackman, who's passion for this score started when he first saw the film as a child, driving him for 30 years to make sure this score was released on its own for all to hear.
In the film, Levi Rockwell (Burt Lancaster) is a retired, widowed Hollywood screenwriter whose successful, grown children and their kids arrive to celebrate his 77th birthday in the family home on New York’s Long Island. While the whole family is quite amiable, his daughters and son come with various personal and social conflicts which distract them, leaving Levi to spend most of his time, when not napping, engaging with his eight grandchildren. The film’s sunny storyline shines as it unspools with delightful engagements between affable family folk in which the middle generation, the one that behaves most thoughtlessly, leaves it to the member of the youngest generation to see straight through to the heart of the matter and understand Grandpa Levi’s deepest wish.
INTRADA ISC 411
Retail Price: $19.99
This release is limited to 500 units.
SHIPPING NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit: http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.11602/.f
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