Not really feeling this one it has a certain 80s vibe about it that does nothing for me.
I died a little inside reading that comment. Must admit I don't detect an 80s vibe at all. Only vibe I pick up is of sheer awesomeness.
Peter
John Bender says that sometimes it is often the listener who is at fault and not the score when a listener fails to connect with a score,it must just be me who is at fault this time. Think if I had owned this score when it came out I may have connected with it and loved it to,it seems more in a style I was into a number of years ago,my taste has shifted so much there is a whole pile of stuff I loved that I no longer listen to now.
This is one EM score which has, to date, eluded me
Tr. 4 Hunters on the Forecastle does re-appear on the score to Il Barone but ... according to www.chimai.com the track is sourced from his non-film work collection of the early 1970's (Sound Dimensions).
I shall keep a look out () for this score!
I did have the CD of this once, but I appear to have ebayed it in a weak moment. I'd have it back in a heartbeat.
Heh heh - keep a look out... he who would pun would pick a pocket...
I was fortunate enough to to frequent a CD/Record store in the early 90s in West L.A. called Disc Connection. The owner, Bernie, was the nicest man and always friendly and easy to chat with. I used to run into Nick Redman there all the time. (Sometimes I'd also go to Rhino Records, which was nearby, and run into Jon Burlingame.)
One time when I was in the store, Bernie had this Morricone CD playing and it caught my ear. I immediately asked what CD it was and bought it on the spot. It's one of my favorite Morricone themes and I'll never forget the first time I heard it.
I always think of Bernie and Disc Connection and will be forever grateful for those days when you could walk into a store and discover a score or have a friendly chat with an owner/employee or another customer.
Wherever Bernie is these days, I hope he is doing well and know that he really touched a lot of people and gave them some great music and memories.
I followed Bernie from Westwood to West Los Angeles to Sunset Blvd. near the DGA. He was a wonderful mainstay for soundtrack collectors. I miss him a lot.
I don't own this CD but I have the theme on a Morricone compilation and find it quite good. Actually, the compilation is somewhat strange: it's not the usual grab bag of original Morricone main titles or love themes, but an actual re-recording conducted by the composer featuring pan pipes on every track, called "Morricone 93 - Movie Sounds". Don't get me wrong, I'm not a grumpy guy and I love the color that pan pipes can bring to a theme, e.g. "Once Upon a Time in America" or "Casualties of War". A whole CD of pan pipes, though, starts to get on my nerves and sound like easy listening. I tend to revisit that CD a couple of tracks at a time.
Hey, this may not be related to Morricone, but I just remembered a favorite pan pipe track: Cosma's main theme from "Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire". That one's a blast!
I don't own this CD but I have the theme on a Morricone compilation and find it quite good. Actually, the compilation is somewhat strange: it's not the usual grab bag of original Morricone main titles or love themes, but an actual re-recording conducted by the composer featuring pan pipes on every track, called "Morricone 93 - Movie Sounds". Don't get me wrong, I'm not a grumpy guy and I love the color that pan pipes can bring to a theme, e.g. "Once Upon a Time in America" or "Casualties of War". A whole CD of pan pipes, though, starts to get on my nerves and sound like easy listening. I tend to revisit that CD a couple of tracks at a time.
I had that compilation too before I encoured the real main theme on the album "Time of adventure". It blew me away when I first heard it, as it's way better than the piece on the pan flute album.
Must admit I don't detect an 80s vibe at all. Only vibe I pick up is of sheer awesomeness.
