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Fantastic score!!!
Please, Intrada or JOS, could you release the score?
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Just listened to some of this. Like much of John Scott's output, it's wonderful! Thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention and I hope Intrada notices and puts it out!
Yavar
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Feb 3, 2016 - 10:33 PM
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bobbengan
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This will depend on if the tapes are available and are in good shape, and also if rights from the production/distribution company can be secured.
I've known John Scott since 1987 and I don't recall him ever mentioning having the music from this score.
James
I asked John about this score specifically on the phone the other day and he mentioned that he's wary of releasing scores nowadays because of the bootlegging and online pirating situation - Can't say I blame him, though if perhaps Intrada or the like were to handle it rather than he himself (JOS Records hasn't released a new album in what, a decade almost?) maybe that would make it a more attractive commodity.
I'm amazed that until this thread was created, I couldn't find a *single* reference to this score online. Anywhere. And yet it's one of the most sublime creations I've heard in a while.
I know the mini-series itself is obscure, but so is the vast majority of films on Scott's filmography.
Musically, I really do believe this is one of Scott's true masterpieces - Almost on par with Antony and Cleopatra, and arguably more thematically diverse than that score.
The main theme is just such a gem, immediately memorable and long-lined and of truly high romance and longing. It's just stunning, evocative, sublime, decadent... From the incredibly beautiful pastoral rendition of the main theme over the opening (strains of Beethoven and Walton and Rimsky-Korsakov) to the Jarre-like, exhilarating and accelerated version of the theme over the end title, it's just a masterful score - and despite those comparisons, it's truly and 100% John Scott music from opening to closing note. And there's so much amazing music in between!
Someone, please, anyone, if you have ANY clout help make this release possible. Were I a wealthy man I'd fund it myself right now!
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I don't get this notion that because something might be bootlegged, there's no need to even do it. Things are bootlegged all the time: CD's, DVD's, clothing, shoes, purses, books, medicines, films (sometiems before they even reach the theater), etc., and that doesn't stop people from making them.
We have plenty of bootlegging of scores from the limited edition labels and standard labels, every year, even youtube videos of full CD's, yet what do we have? Labels moving ahead full steam, more labels popping up, and I think it was last year MV said they had the biggest sales year ever and that it was hard to keep up.
Scott should just moive forward and promote it properly and send out copies for review, to make certain many people hear about it, not use an empty argument becuase this or that might happen.
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Pretty excellent. I love most middle eastern-flavored scores. Somebody please put this out.
Yavar
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