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Jun 13, 2011 - 5:31 PM
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BasilFSM
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INTRADA
Announces:
PRISON
Composed by RICHARD BAND and CHRISTOPHER L. STONE
INTRADA Signature Edition ISE 1045
For the score to the 1987 film Prison, composer Richard Band wanted a score that was unique, cold, desperate and scary. Enter composer Christopher L. Stone, who had an electronic device known as the WaveFrame, which was able to perfectly deliver the combination Band wanted for his score. The WaveFrame provided sounds and textures that had never before been heard, and in the absence of an orchestral budget, was used for the entire score. In fact, the two composers used it for the entire score, a rather unconventional approach. While both composers were formally trained and thus routinely took a more traditional approach to scoring, using the WaveFrame forced them to approach the score in a more improvisational fashion. While they had composed certain themes and motifs, they let the sonic textures of the WaveFrame take a more dominant role in the creative process, delivering a one-of-a-kind score.
In 1956, inmate Charlie Forsythe was electrocuted with 60,000 volts—for a murder that he didn’t commit. Shortly thereafter, Creedmore Prison was closed and abandoned. Thirty years later, the wretched prison is reopened, and warden Eaton Sharpe (Lane Smith) has been given the job of running it. But Sharpe is also the former corrections officer who framed Charlie Forsythe, and he soon finds he has more trouble than he’d bargained for. A new convict named Burke (Viggo Mortensen) bears an uncanny resemblance to the wrongly executed Forsythe. After reopening the sealed execution chamber and releasing a burst of incredible energy, a string of increasingly grisly murders sweeps the prison, and it soon becomes apparent that supernatural forces are at work.
This Intrada Signature Edition is limited to 1000 units.
INTRADA Signature Editions ISE 1045
Retail Price: $19.99
NOW SHIPPING
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7129/.f
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CD world premiere for intense Richard Band/Christopher L. Stone soundtrack to early Renny Harlin horror movie with Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field. Band & Stone pushed WaveFrame synthesizer technology to limits, created music with symphonic composition in feel yet electronic in execution. Score was originally released on LP in 1987. Actual album masters have vanished, but interestingly, composers kept portions of their original 1/2" multi-track session elements intact. With aid of LP itself, Intrada was able to build composite newly-mastered CD from both tape & LP elements. Happily, portions of remaining 1/2" session masters revealed a few minutes of previously unreleased music, which we have also included here. Score certainly puts scare in the word scary! Richard Band & Christopher L. Stone perform. Intrada Signature Edition release limited to 1000 copies!
01. Main Title/Catherine/Execution 4:12
02. The Prison Cellar 0:56
03. The Entity Is Released 3:31
04. Death In Solitary 8:25
05. Barbed Wire Unleashed 0:42
06. Stripdown 5:06
07. Rabbit’s Escape And Death 5:27
08. The Inmates Sense The Entity 2:16
09. The Warden’s Recurring Nightmare 5:02
10. Sandor Calls Up The Spirit 1:51
11. The Prison Break/Finale 4:54
TOTAL TIME: 42:44
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Basil, any reason you never include the additional information and the track list from the order page when you start your posts?
Pretty interesting that they had to use the LP itself to make this release happen!
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What a pleasent surprise this is - ORDERED!
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It hasn't been uploaded yet; The 600x600 art isn't always available right away.
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Anyone else get this CD? I'd love to hear thoughts and opinions.
Well, it's a disaster. Doug Fake of Intrada has erroneously flipped the sides of the old Varèse-LP which he took for reference, but didn't notice it. Everything from side 1 of the LP can be found in the second half of the CD, with wrong track titles and so on. The first half of the CD is side 2 of the LP. 
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Yes, it's true. The Varèse-LP was perfectly right, the Intrada-CD is not. The complete film is on You Tube (in very poor quality and off sync sound):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzLzCJk7f0Y
The "Main Title" and execution music from the beginning, which opened the LP, can be found on the CD as track 7 called 'Rabbit's Escape And Death' (which was the title of LP side 2 track 1). There are liner notes by Joe Sikoryak, but he certainly has only seen the film and never heard the master.
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Jun 28, 2011 - 1:37 PM
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Maleficio
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Anyone else get this CD? I'd love to hear thoughts and opinions.
Well, it's a disaster. Doug Fake of Intrada has erroneously flipped the sides of the old Varèse-LP which he took for reference, but didn't notice it. Everything from side 1 of the LP can be found in the second half of the CD, with wrong track titles and so on. The first half of the CD is side 2 of the LP.
Hmmm, lets see. I guess someone didn't read the announcement thread where Doug Fake discusses this:
http://www.intrada.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4212
"It was confusing to us as well. The Varese LP didn't separate any of the bands nor did it have timings to help sort things out. Just titles to sort of "identify" what you were hearing. There were pauses during the LP, sometimes even within a cue, so they didn't necessarily indicate separate bands.
The surviving session masters had partial slates and totally different sequencing that shed light on nothing. After mixing the multi-tracks, adding in the new music and editing in a portion from the LP... plus going through all of Richard Band's paperwork, we opted to actually "create" a brand new master that - for the first time - had separate tracks that one could index. Working with Band, we came up with new individual tracks that might not correspond exactly to what the LP titles were attempting to suggest, but are now easy to locate."
--Doug
Please note: "WORKING WITH BAND"
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Oh, come on. "Working with Band". Richard Band is a nice guy, but when its coming to releases of his own music, he looks more on money than on quality. Ever heard the poor sounding CDs of Re-Animator (the La-La Land version) or Mutant (the Perseverance version), which both were approved (and autographed!) by Band?
The sequence of the music on the CD is identical to the LP (with perhaps two minutes of new music in track 1) when you play it starting with track 7. Then it matches also the sequence of the music in the film - and even the tracklisting on the CD! Don't tell me this was done on purpose. This is an error!
There is a post by Herbert in the Intrada board from 10 days ago. Still no answer from Fake or Feigelson. Guess why? 
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