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I got a great review copy in the mail from Australian label Votary (www.votarydisk.com): INNER SPACE by Sven Libaek (not the Joe Dante film here!). This is the vintage jazz used as the score-within-the-score in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. It's an undersea documentary score from 1973 and reminds me, of all things, of '60s and '70s action-adventure jazz from Hanna Barbera, with that moody, traveling flavor. CD is mastered from vinyl but sounds very good. Thought I'd mention it. John Bender, are you listening? Lukas
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An even better CD is coming soon from Libaek: SOLAR FLARES, which is a jazzy and fairly funky re-issue of a library LP that he did in 1974.
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How bizarre! Trunk Records released a version of this only recently too: http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/inner_space.shtml The Trunk issue is more of a compilation of Libaek tracks from four separate soundtracks, 'Inner Space' being just one (and consists of four tracks). The new CD is the *full* soundtrack to 'Inner Space'.
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Sven Libæk. Sounds Danish or something. Where's he from? Norway lk
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Ah, you Sven Libeak purist, you. You know what they say: you wait for ages for a Sven Libaek CD and then... and they're both called "Inner Space". Spooky. ' Tis a bit confusing, I grant you!! Actually, I'm fairly new to Libaek. I have become aware of his library work in recent times. Also, he scored an Australian police series back around 1971 called BONEY (about a half caste Aboriginal detective) - it got shown here in the UK several times. There's an interview with Libaek here: http://www.vinylvulture.co.uk/interviews/sven_libaek.php
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I don't know if it's still available, but Libaek's album Solar Flares - library music that he recorded years ago, and which I mentioned earlier in the thread (yikes - seven years ago!) - is well worth a listen. There are a few tracks on YouTube, eg 'Lift Off': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7zo2Za2Bs Some of the music he did for the Australian TV series Boney was released on an LP; I keep hoping that someone might have a go at putting that on CD, if any tapes still exist.
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I looked his name up on IMDb. It shows he's scoring a new film called "The Nymph". He also scored something last year.
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