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Dragon's Domain Records just released two stylistically quite diverse compilation albums:
The Joel Goldsmith Collection Vol. 2 focuses on three lesser known B-productions from the mid/later 90s. Stealth Fighter (unfortunately only the Main Theme here, as the rest of the score was written by Alex Wilkinson) and Rattled are fully synthetic. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but since I know from my own experience how much heart and soul a composer has to put into the sample-based realization of his music in order to get such a convincing result, I like to listen to pure synth scores from time to time. But the highlight of the album are definitely the excerpts from Joel's music for the short-lived TV series Hawkeye. Here he had a medium-sized session orchestra at his disposal with many ethno additions typical for the native-american setting. The playful syncopated main theme shimmers through in most cues in interesting new instrumentations and ties the whole thing together. TV music at the highest level! It's a pity that the producers for this release didn't just focus on Hawkeye and instead only pressed about 17 minutes onto the CD. I would have liked to hear more here.
Bruce Broughton's The Boy Who Could Fly mainly features the re-recording of his well-known score from the same year of the film's release (1986) with the Sinfonia of London. Great, heartwarming music with a touch of Broughton's typical playful Hollywood heroism (look for it in "In the Air"). As a gimmick - and to fill up the album - some more new recordings of famous Broughton themes have been added. These are not new recordings made for this album, but arbitrarily compiled by Dragon's Domain from the last 10-20 years. Except for the trumpets of the Midland Odessa Symphony Orchestra stumbling a bit in "We'll Be Back" (Silverado) (incredibly hard figures in this pitch, especially live) great arrangements and interpretations; in track 11 even with Bruce himself on the piano.
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