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Oct 8, 2018 - 5:33 AM
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Amer Zahid
(Member)
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Quartet Newsletter flash:
MASQUERADE
Music by JOHN BARRY
Limited Collector's Edition of 1000 units.
Retail Price: 16.95€
AVAILABLE ON PRE-ORDER
Availability date: 10/15/2018
Track List:
01. Main Title (3:21)
02. Graduation (3:21)
03. Masks (1:36)
04. Compulsive Promptness (1:51)
05. Masquerade (1:19)
06. Daddy Would Have Liked You (1:59)
07. Face Slap (1:11)
08. Virgin Sacrifice (3:10)
09. The Fight-Tony Dies / Call The Police (4:19)
10. Two Glasses / Violence, Not Affection / You Couldn’t Kill Anyone (4:24)
11. Tim & Brooke Break Up (1:42)
12. Married (1:18)
13. Ann Is Dead / I Sleep Like A Baby With You (1:59)
14. Obsession is Ready / Pregnant (3:05)
15. Tim & Brooke Cool It For A While (1:30)
16. No Crash (0:36)
17. Your Move, Romeo (2:36)
18. Sabotage (1:42)
19. Explosion (4:49)
20. She’s Alive (1:02)
21. End Credits (3:17)
Additional Material
22. Tim & Brooke Cool It For A While (Alternate) (0:30)
23. Made For Each Other (Source) (1:33)
24. Pity the Poor (Source) (1:55)
25. Made For Each Other – Version 2 (Source) (1:08)
26. It Was You (Source) (1:37)
27. The Last Dance (Source) (2:11)
28. Lobster-House Rock (Source) (1:10)
29. Lobster-House Blues (Source) (2:01)
Total Disc Time: 60:17
Limited Collector’s Edition of 1000 units.
Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, remixed, slightly expanded edition of this masterful John Barry noir score for the thriller Masquerade. The 1988 film was directed by Bob Swaim and starred Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall and Doug Davant.
The story is about a recently orphaned and wealthy heiress, Olivia, who really hates her scheming stepfather. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem, the local cop, who happens to be an old friend of Olivia's, seems to be turning a blind eye to incriminating evidence.
John Barry returned to the genre of the passionate thriller that he had already explored in Body Heat, offering an intense, bittersweet tour de force in his signature melodic style, with a memorable love theme and long suspense passages.
Previously released by Prometheus Records in a limited edition in 2002 and long out of print, this new release includes around five minutes of previously unreleased material. Produced by Neil S. Bulk, remixed and mastered by Mike Matessino from the ½" 3-track original masters courtesy of MGM, the CD includes a 12-page full-color booklet with informative liner notes by John Takis.
http://www.quartetrecords.com/masquerade.html
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It's an exaggeration to say there's five minutes of extra music, it's about two-and-a-half.
But that's not the reason to buy this edition—and that's not the sales headline.
The primary reason is that the Prometheus is out of print.
The secondary reason is that the Prometheus disc didn't sound that good. The new master, prepared by Mike Matessino, promises to sound better and that's my reason for double dipping.
The quality of the horn line is the make or break factor in this film's main theme and for some reason it sounded fragile at times on the Prometheus disc. I keep willing it to sound better. I hope it does this time.
As an aside I'm sure most of you know that at least two themes in this score are recycled from the ill-fated musical The Little Prince.
Cheers
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Well, I'm really enjoying this album. Always liked the score.
I think it does sound better. Not by miles, but I think there is improvement.
The second track is not 3:21 as it says on the booklet and site, so people (like me) who got it into their head that some of the extra music is in this track were chasing a red herring. It's just over a minute, same as the Prometheus release.
The new music on the disc is track 3, 22 and it looks like the second half of track 11 is extra too when you do a sequential time comparison, but I definitely recognise that music from the Prometheus release.
Anyway, the new track 3, Masks, is interesting. I put the film on (just the first half) and didn't find that cue in the film, at least not in the sequence it's on the disc, so I assume it's an unused cue. I imagine it may have been intended for the Lobster House scene where we realise there's a plot to kill Olivia. Or a deleted scene.
The music in that track kind of reminds me of the Barry scored THE BUNKER but I have no idea why because it's completely different music. Maybe there's something in the style and arrangement that makes me think of it.
Anyway.
Cheers
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- so perhaps, on this occasion, I shall stay with my Prometheus copy.