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I have now finally had a chance to listen to this score and I have to say that I find it fantastic. It's bold, strong, distinctive, pulsating, driving music. An absolute delight to find such composition in today's sea of all too bland scores. This one punches above it's weight and screams 'I'M HERE!'
Great stuff.
I conducted a lengthy interview with James in November and he's a real nice guy and has serious compositional chops. He also loves the classic scores most of us do so I'm hoping his next project will allow him to continue this path he started with Red Canvas.
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Yes, we had serious issues with the quality of the sound in the original recording and was actually able to vastly improve the sound in mastering, but it is still not unproblematic. We decided to release the score anyway as the writing is so exciting and impressive.
The sound quality should not put people off buying this CD. The music is very good indeed.
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I still listen to it quite a bit and enjoy it immensely. I never really noticed the sound quality to be honest. I was just so thrilled someone was writing real themes and some heavy brass lines.
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I think most of us here would like to hear more from James.
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Did you follow my suggestion, Basil?
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Just re-listened to this CD a week or two ago -- the first time in a long time.
Just marveling at what a fantastic score this is. It's baffling why this isn't more well known among members here, and why James hasn't gotten more work for scoring chances like this again.
While listening to it, I noted some scoring I thought -- in edited form -- would be great for a couple scenes from "The Orville". If I had a way to get permission not use clips, I'd totally do it just to promote him for get an episode (should the series get a fourth season).
And the separate cues afterwards were good, too.
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