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Thanks for the link.
16 tracks.
36 minutes 50 seconds.
Richard? My name is Dominic!
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You won't be disappointed.
The House That Dripped Blood consists of five stories or episodes.
Each episode has its own musical approach, yet is consistent with
the whole. Dress pulls out all the stops for the final episode.
What a pleasant surprise from Kritzerland.
I wish it were known what Dress and the director Duffel discussed
about the score or if there were some kind of archival interview
with Dress.
Of course, the liner notes could be better.
While you thinking the liner notes could be better is fine, I would have to add: What, you don't think we research these things? You don't think if there was an archival interview with Dress that we wouldn't have included portions of it in the notes? Is that what you think? Because let me tell you, as I say clearly in the notes you don't like, there is virtually almost NOTHING about Dress anywhere. I went directly to Jon Burlingame about it, and he concurred - he found a couple of reviews of Dress's theater music and that was IT. So, if by better you mean we could have included lots more stuff about Dress, you would be very incorrect.
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No, your comment was tied to the comment prior: "I wish it were known what Dress and the director Duffel discussed
about the score or if there were some kind of archival interview
with Dress."
It's all fine. I do the kinds of notes I enjoy reading - which are short and sweet.
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The duration of this CD may be short but the music is a satisfying
listening experience. Dress wasn't kidding when he created this
dissonant fantasia. He obviously knew the sounds that come
out of pre-19th century tunings. The music has a strange color;
it hears olde but it's played new. It has the spontaneity of
improvisation but the instruments are carefully layered and the
phrasings deliberately placed. Dress conjures up the feelings he
wanted in a listener. I would say he takes you there.
Creatively this score is 100% successful.
Kritzerland is to be commended for being receptive to The
House That Dripped Blood. What other label would consider it?
No doubt the refusal to list duration and to commission
knowledgeable liner notes comes out of the same eccentricity
that led to the decision to take a chance on the CD in the first
place.
Spend the twenty bucks. Buy It Now.
Again with the digs. Just stop already. The notes are as knowledgeable as I cared to make them. For some they're fine, for you they're not. How many times do you want to say it? Maybe you could start a new thread about it. As to "commissioning" linter notes, we've certainly done that, but they're written in a style we like and so it would have made no difference. What you're never getting from us is those track-by-track things - I want and expect people to listen to the music and enjoy the music rather than read words about what they're hearing. Some like that sort of thing, but I have never read a track by track breakdown or long liner notes of ANY release EVER.
Not all CDs list running times. We never have, and it simply doesn't interest me. I suppose we could put that info in the release announcements, and sometimes we have in terms of saying, for example, there's forty extra minutes of music or something. We were very specific how much extra was on Poltergeist 2, for example.
So, this CD runs around thirty-six minutes. Now, knowing that every note of music that was in the film and on the 35mm reels is included, what difference does that make? One is getting all there is.
There's no eccentricity in my acquiring this. I liked it, it was offered to me, I did it. It's that simple. And no other label would have done it because the reels were five minutes away from being deposited in a dumpster.
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So, this CD runs around thirty-six minutes. Now, knowing that every note of music that was in the film and on the 35mm reels is included, what difference does that make? One is getting all there is.
I guess it's sort of like ordering food at a restaurant. You want to know how big the filet mignon is that you're getting. And does it come with soup or salad.
Okay, this runs thirty-six minutes a la carte, with no soup or salad.
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The music is very dissonant and very eerie. Enjoying this one immensely. Thanks so much Bruce!!! The sound quality is excellent. I always loved the music in the Sweets to the Sweet story . . .you gotta love that soprano.
Normally, this kind of thing isn't for me, but I really like this for whatever reason.
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