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Sep 30, 2009 - 11:45 AM
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Martial
(Member)
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John Barry / Americans
Universal Music Jazz France
CD release on November the 9th
Walking a tightrope between the wide-screen spectacular and the film d'auteur, John Barry is a sensitive and sophisticated composer whose most famous scores (say, action movies, the Bond films and The Persuaders), were poor camouflage for a more secret form of inspiration whose character was introspective. In Barry's career, Americans stands out clearly. In 1975, Polydor Records gave John Barry the opportunity to freely record a quite personal 12" LP that was his first album outside films, and Barry structured his Americans concept: a vast album that reflected his visual and sound-impressions of The United States in six original compositions, including a sumptuous Yesternight suite some eighteen minutes long. "It's like an imaginary soundtrack," says the composer. "Instead of appearing on a screen, the images come up from inside me." Combining some of the best soloists in jazz (Dick Nash, Ronnie Lang, Tony Terran) with a symphony orchestra, Americans is a permanent firework display that constitutes a peak in the composer's opus, a work whose swing allows glimpses of an overhanging melancholy tinged with lyrical tristesse and disillusionment. With this first issue of Americans on CD, John Barry makes his entrance in the Ecoutez le cinéma! series. More than a simple reissue, it's an event.
Artwork here :
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=4&u=13031875
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That cover looks homemade, in about 1994. The original was so cool.
The photo on the cover is 20 years off from the album, that tall building in the middle, to the left of the World Trade Center, wasn't built until the early 90s. It also looks like a random framegrab from a DVD.
I guess I should be grateful enough that the album is being released and not look the proverbial gift horse in the mouth.
Looks like we'll even get some bonus tracks.
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