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For those of you who are members of the private Vangelis Facebook group, here's a pleasant surprise that I stumbled upon: conductor Guy Protheroe originally recorded 20 minutes of choral material to accompany the Blade Runner score (https://www.facebook.com/guy.protheroe/videos/10156595984416053?idorvanity=230927250251897)
For those who aren't members, here is what he wrote:
Bladerunner: here’s rather a long note from me. I arranged and recorded about 20 minutes of music for chorus for the sound track. I have always been frustrated that there is very little chorus actually on the final film sound track. Sorting through my archives, I have just found a box full of chorus scores I wrote for many Vangelis tracks – the whole of Heaven And Hell and several other albums, and including the chorus score I wrote for Bladerunner. (There are more boxes of scores somewhere – 1492 etc.) I had a 40-piece professional chorus for the sessions, and I had said we would need (as normal for such sessions) single-sided headphones for each singer. There was no click (I conducted the beats) but they needed them to keep the pitch – it was all long notes and chords in all four pieces. Any singer needs a “reference pitch” to stay in tune in long pieces like that – in this case it was singing to Vangelis’ pre-recorded track. But it was decided instead, for convenience, just to have monitor speakers playing Vangelis’ tracks in front of the singers. Of course, as I had predicted, for the singers to hear the monitors while they were singing, the track had to be turned up loud, so was picked up on the choir microphones. So they were turned down again, and the choir could not hear them. Hence all the recordings lost pitch, and very little was usable – just a short passage at the end of Tyrell’s death scene – in the video here from 2:42 to the end. Such a shame!
What I would give to hear those 20 minutes of unused choir...perhaps it can be eventually released as part of the complete score...and we know that there is at least one alternate version of "Dr. Tyrell's Death", heard in the deleted scene of Roy in the elevator after killing Tyrell
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This....is amazing, thank you for sharing MR...but angering too.
Will I live to see a proper BR recording? Or The Keep, while we're talking finest electronic scores???
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My theory is that synth choir might have been used in places where real choir was intended. Ex. the synth choir in "Deckard and Roy's Duel" or in the unreleased "unicorn dream" cue (which was reused in Antarctica)
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