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Dec 13, 2010 - 4:59 PM
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BasilFSM
(Member)
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INTRADA Announces:
 
FLESH + BLOOD
Composed and Conducted by BASIL POLEDOURIS
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 153
The 1985 film Flesh + Blood began Paul Verhoeven’s working relationship with composer Basil Poledouris, who would later collaborate on Robocop and Starship Troopers. Verhoeven had been impressed by Poledouris’s muscular, yet highly romantic, music for John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian, sensing a corollary between Conan’s quasi-medieval comic book style and the blend of medieval action, romance and mysticism in Flesh + Blood. Verhoeven asked for a score that was medieval in character but large-scale and orchestral to reinforce the film’s spirit of adventure—and he needed Poledouris to suggest Catholic mysticism. Poledouris saw the main characters as “land pirates” and brought a swashbuckling feeling to his music from the film’s opening credits, introducing a bold and adventurous theme, alternating from the piratical vibe Poledouris sought to the heavy, no-nonsense rhythms of war. To underscore the film’s love triangle, Poledouris wrote two extremely rich romantic melodies. The result is a score that is simply a treasure trove of orchestral color, period splendor and—ultimately—power.
While this is the third CD release of the score to Flesh + Blood, it is the first release to revisit the 24-track masters stored at MGM and create a brand new, crisp and clear mix. Previous releases were created from 1/4" masters featuring a mix with which the composer was never entirely satisfied and supplemented with additional music from suboptimal sources. Additionally, this is the first release to present the entire score in film order, revealing the rich and intricate masterpiece Poledouris provided.
Set at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century in Western Europe, Flesh + Blood chronicles the story a band of mercenaries led by Martin (Rutger Hauer) and his compatriot-in-arms Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), who are in the employ of a nobleman named Arnolfini (Fernando
Hilbeck). After employing them to rout the citizens of a besieged city, Arnolfini betrays the hired soldiers and abandons them without pay. Disbanded to the countryside, Martin and his band of men and women find vengeance by kidnapping the princess Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who is betrothed to Arnolfini’s son Steven (Tom Burlinson).
This release is limited to 2000 units.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 153
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6864/.f
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Buying this one!
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I'm wondering if I should order now: I love every Poledouris I've heard, but funds aren't the best. Then again, how fast will a 2000-copy Flesh+Blood move? If folks seem to think this is a fast sell-out, I'll go ahead and grab one.
Yeah I have no money either to spend, but I ordered it anyway. I'll just eat a few more peanut butter sandwiches.
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Ditto
Oh dear, sigh!
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Since I never had a chance at the Varese Club, and didn't get round to picking up the Prometheus disc (probably because of the reportedly bad sound on half the tracks), I'm definitely interested in this one, more than any of the other discs in this batch.
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