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I ordered it, along with the Early Goldsmith release. Last night when I put my credit card back in my wallet after ordering from Intrada, I said, "Well, that's it, no more cd's til 2008." Hah. Never say never.
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For some reason I'd rather see it mastered from one of the official Academy promo's them a bootleg of it.
But still....
ORDERED!
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I'm confounded by some of the tone in this thread. As stated, the release has been licensed from the rights holders. What else do you need to know? So, it's mastered from an original LP sent out to Academy members - why? Because the tapes are lost. No different than the FSM Bernstein box that mastered several of those CDs from LP or the other occasional FSM release mastered from LP.
Prometheus has put out many CDs, and as far as I know, all have been legit. So I'd say that a couple of people who are being so accusatory in this thread should relax and either order the CD or not.
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I hope no one is waitng for a proper announcement before ordering. It's likely to be gone by then.
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Dec 11, 2007 - 2:09 PM
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LeHah
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So looking forward to the audio clips on this, as I have zero knowledge of the score itself. Who is familiar with it can chip in?
Our local Swashbuckler sent me an email about this score years ago...
This is one of Williams' most experimental work, and certainly one of his most primal. It incorporates the odd sounds created by New York based artist Stomu Yamash'ta. Some of the tonalities created were done so by rubbing/banging/etc. with giant metal sculptures.
The film is about a woman succumbing to schizophrenia, and on a deeper level discarding the 'masks' forced upon her, with sometimes violent results, so the more dischordant music represents her slipping through various states of consciousness.
The main theme is called "In Search of Unicorns," the title of the children's book that actress Susannah York was writing during the shooting, which Altman incorporated into the film. There is also an an interesting quasi-baroque theme heard in several cues.
Its very much in the vein of Alien, Alien 3 or Altered States. Really thick, interesting music. About as far from John Williams as John Williams ever got.
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A while ago someone posted a link to a 6 part
BBC documentary that dealt with scoring the Empire Strikes Back.
Somewhere in this very interesting documentary is a filmclip
from "Images" as well as other Williams work.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5SonS8tQ2zA
The part about Images starts in part 2 of 6 (8:55), it continues in part 3
(and there is where the music comes in)
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