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I'm not seeing any info about this being available on CD and/or through Varese. Is that actually confirmed, or is this just a digital download from Concord via Apple Music?
It'll be on their site tomorrow. It hasn't been officially announced by Varese. However, when they have a concurrent digital release that is available on streaming services, sometimes those services (in this case, Apple Music) will let the cat out of the bag because they show it in their "Coming Soon" category.
Got it, I didn't know that. Thank you!
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Michael Kamen
Iron Giant, The: The Deluxe Edition (CD)
UPC: 888072415645
Release Date: 3/11/2022
Regular price: $19.98
The Iron Giant (1999) is a modern classic, an animated film directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol) about a young boy who befriends a giant alien robot during the Sputnik era of the Cold War. Based on the 1968 book The Iron Man by poet Ted Hughes, the film is a marvel of heartfelt storytelling, with timeless themes of friendship, caring and self-determination.
Creating the Iron Giant’s beautiful, sympathetic score was Michael Kamen—one of his last major scores and his first animated film, miles away from the action blockbusters for which he had become known, but much closer to his heart. Kamen’s gorgeous score is full of melody, humor and sensitivity, grandly performed by the Czech Philharmonic. It scales as big as the threat of nuclear annihilation, and as intimate as the goodness that connects nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes to the alien machine—who decides he would rather be “Superman” than a weapon.
Varèse Sarabande released Kamen’s The Iron Giant score as a 49-minute program in 1999. This Deluxe Edition fills an entire CD, with a 64-minute score program plus 13 minutes of alternates, outtakes and rare demos—including a piano-and-guitar attempt at an unrealized song, “Souls Don’t Die,” based on Kamen’s theme, performed by Kamen and Eric Clapton. Tim Greiving’s new liner notes feature new interview material with director Brad Bird, music editor Christopher Brooks and orchestrator Blake Neely, going deep into Kamen’s working process and their adoration for the gifted, late composer.
Limited to 2000 copies
Tracklist
1. The Eye Of The Storm
2. Hogarth Hughes
3. Creepy Music / Hogarth Investigates
4. Into The Forest
5. The Giant Wakes
6. Hogarth In Car / Sting For FBI Man
7. Come And Get It
8. Shut Off Switch / Rock Tree
9. Cat And Mouse
10. Train Wreck
11. Magic Rebuild / Hand Underfoot
12. Chew Your Food
13. Amerika
14. Great Ride
15. We Gotta Hide
16. His Name Is Dean
17. He Can Stay
18. Eating Art
19. Space Car
20. Souls Don't Die
21. Contest Of Wills
22. The Army Arrives
23. Annie And Dean
24. I'm Superman
25. He's A Weapon
26. Giant Discovered
27. Trance Former
28. No Following
29. The Last Giant Piece
30. End Credits
31. Bedtime Stories
32. Wild Tam-Tam
33. Chew Your Food Pickup
34. Duck And Cover
35. Early Demo #1
36. Early Demo #2
37. Souls Don’t Die
https://www.varesesarabande.com/products/michael-kamen-the-iron-giant-the-deluxe-edition-cd
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The Iron Giant is a nice score, but it's already been released (and very-well presented) on CD.
Personally I'd rather have The Next Man (which has only been released on vinyl) or better-yet Frequency (which has never been released at all).
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The Iron Giant is a nice score, but it's already been released (and very-well presented) on CD.
Personally I'd rather have The Next Man (which has only been released on vinyl) or better-yet Frequency (which has never been released at all).
But those can presumably come from any label. Varese held rights to Iron Giant in perpetuity and therefore only they had the rights to expand it (same goes with Kamen's Hudson Hawk). I'm very grateful to have this Kamen masterpiece in complete form at last.
Yavar
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The Iron Giant is a nice score, but it's already been released (and very-well presented) on CD.
Personally I'd rather have The Next Man (which has only been released on vinyl) or better-yet Frequency (which has never been released at all).
Or freakin’ HIGHLANDER!!!!
..but I do love this and am happy any Michael Kamen gets released. Instant buy!
I was a fan of the original soundtrack but I much prefer the new one for the listening experience. It seems more fleshed out and developed.
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Oh my goodness. See The Iron Giant. One of the greatest animated films of all time. And though Brad Bird has done great work since, IMO it's still his best. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get chills up your spine. See it and don't delay.
And the music fits the film perfectly.
Yavar
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I seem to recall there's one or two new animated sequences in the Directors Cut. Were those scenes scored with new music and if so are they present on the expanded edition?
Nope. One of the added scenes uses source music from the period (I can only assume those songs were too much of a hassle to license) while the other added scene has music which is primarily tracked-in from the piece “Trance-Former” and considering Kamen had been dead for about a decade when the extended version was released, I doubt he had any involvement.
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No track durations?
See the opening post.
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