It's a Western but doesn't scream Americana to me (nor Italiana). It's my favorite score, mainly for this terrific opening.
Lawman main title
Thanks. Not really the type of thing I go for. If I found the LP for a dollar, I would bring it home, but I wouldn't spring for it. Is the rest of the score in a similar mode?
I tend to say that, other than THE WILD BUNCH, one's first Fielding purchase should be the 3 volumes of film music that Bay Cities put out years ago. That's a great way in. However, they're probably very hard to find these days. But it contains a considerable portion from one of my favourite Fieldings, THE NIGHTCOMERS.
Why someone hasn't released a compilation yet, called The Fielding Feeling, is beyond me.
Advise and Consent, the title of which has forever been ruined for me.
LOL! I know the (Fielding?) feeling. Same with Totoro. Such a great character from the Miyazaki film, now forever tainted by terrible associations.
Looks like I've got some Fielding on the Mission: Impossible box also, although I have not spun that one in a while.
Fielding's music is great on that set!
Although I wouldn't necessarily say that it was better than everything else on that set. It's just that his style seems to suit that series down to the ground - you know it's Fielding from the opening seconds of each set of his cues; lots of snare drums and clusters of woodwinds etc. To be honest there is nothing new at all in what he does - it just all works very well, especially in terms of suspense.
Looks like I've got some Fielding on the Mission: Impossible box also, although I have not spun that one in a while.
Fielding's music is great on that set!
Although I wouldn't necessarily say that it was better than everything else on that set. It's just that his style seems to suit that series down to the ground - you know it's Fielding from the opening seconds of each set of his cues; lots of snare drums and clusters of woodwinds etc. To be honest there is nothing new at all in what he does - it just all works very well, especially in terms of suspense.
I have long been in love with Schifrin's two "Mission: Impossible" albums. When I got the box set, the recurring militaristic drums were a stumbling block for me. I need to listen with fresh ears.
I have long been in love with Schifrin's two "Mission: Impossible" albums. When I got the box set, the recurring militaristic drums were a stumbling block for me. I need to listen with fresh ears.
Oh dear. There are lots of snare drums in the set, and not just from Fielding. But lots of other good music besides.
I would recommend The Gauntlet, a deliberately jazzy score that borrows heavily from the rhythmic "Solea" from the Miles Davis/Gil Evans collaboration, Sketches of Spain. Jon Faddis plays the trumpet solos in a decidingly more flashy style than Miles.
In 1978, Citadel records released a 2-disc gatefold album containing much of the early '70s masterpieces which were recorded in England at C.T.S. Studio by Richard Lewzy. I recommend this 2-LP set overall, but this might be very hard to locate. Although Fielding's highly-touted score for Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS is the main attraction in this set, I personally prefer Fielding's music for the films of Michael Winner. THE MECHANIC is the absolute pinnacle of Fielding's modern atonality, sounding at times like a concert work for piano and orchestra by a Witold Lutoslawski or a Toru Takemitsu. The Winner/Fielding Western - LAWMAN - is also a breathtakingly great score. The other title here is CHATO'S LAND, which is par for the course to me.
The LP version of this set should be avoided. I have owned two of them, the surfaces were terrible. It was later reissued on Bay Cities BCD-LE 4001/02 in 1990. The cost of either the LP or CD version are not particularly cheap, though some person is selling the CD version on Amazon.com at the moment for $29.00 US.
I'm nervous that "The Lawman" looks like a Western. I avoid westerns, unless served with marinara sauce. Or gravy, as some would say.
LAWMAN is 100% pure western. I think it's one of the great film scores and great western scores, the "Main Title", with its brooding, deterministic relentlessness alone was a cue that made me investigate film music. But yeah, it is a western. If you have an aversion to westerns, no reason to pick up LAWMAN.
It's a Western but doesn't scream Americana to me (nor Italiana). It's my favorite score, mainly for this terrific opening.
Lawman main title
Thanks. Not really the type of thing I go for. If I found the LP for a dollar, I would bring it home, but I wouldn't spring for it. Is the rest of the score in a similar mode?
Yes. There are some other themes and motifs of course, but yeah. It may not be for you.
In 1978, Citadel records released a 2-disc gatefold album containing much of the early '70s masterpieces which were recorded in England at C.T.S. Studio by Richard Lewzy. I recommend this 2-LP set overall, but this might be very hard to locate. Although Fielding's highly-touted score for Peckinpah's STRAW DOGS is the main attraction in this set, I personally prefer Fielding's music for the films of Michael Winner. THE MECHANIC is the absolute pinnacle of Fielding's modern atonality, sounding at times like a concert work for piano and orchestra by a Witold Lutoslawski or a Toru Takemitsu. The Winner/Fielding Western - LAWMAN - is also a breathtakingly great score. The other title here is CHATO'S LAND, which is par for the course to me.
The LP version of this set should be avoided. I have owned two of them, the surfaces were terrible. It was later reissued on Bay Cities BCD-LE 4001/02 in 1990. The cost of either the LP or CD version are not particularly cheap, though some person is selling the CD version on Amazon.com at the moment for $29.00 US.
I've got a couple of hundred LPs, but today I only use them as deco objects. Once in a while I play one for fun (turntables are fun), but I am always immediately reminded why I was so happy to leave the poor vinyl acoustics behind.
