Folk started with a 50 minute interview during the Movie, then there was a selection of Cues (16 minutes) so I do hope for a CD or LP release as this is an awesome score I will Watch the Movie tonight too
I hope that 16-minute suite ends up on Youtube, I'd love to hear how this sounds. Hopefully some enterprising label will step in and let this see the light of day soon - A score this good, this robust, and with a theme this strong just can't stay locked up in a vault forever.
I'm surprised nobody has uploaded the 16 minutes of tracks to YouTube yet, nor are there any tracks on Folk's soundcloud/website.
I wonder what label approached Folk with interest in this score? "Well-known" implies one of the 'heavy hitters' and Intrada might fit. In the past, Intrada have released Folk's "A Troll in Central Park," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Beastmaster II," "Toy Soldiers," and "In the Army Now," and they're also no stranger to early '80s horror ("Wolfen," "The Beast Within," "The House on Sorority Row," "The Alchemist," "The Entity," "Funeral Home," etc.).
My guess is that this would sell quite well if it were released. For one, horror soundtracks clean up at horror conventions (and with a title like "The Slayer"... Folk can also appear on a horror podcast like Shock Waves to promote it and his work, and that would likely get a lot of horror collectors interested), and for general film music fans this is a gorgeous, thematic, exciting, wonderfully orchestrated and performed score.
Unless some hero comes to our rescue and uploads that full suite from the blu ray, my guess is that for now these ten minutes are the best we'll get on the web for now: https://vimeo.com/245217091
At least it includes that glorious end title cue in full; shame the rest of the suite is fully-emphatic on the horror stingers and suspense stuff with none of the (very abundant) thematic material present.
Last year Roger Feigelson mentioned during one of our many (for now, fruitless) John Scott discussions that Robert Folk only has about twenty or so mins of the music himself - presumably whatever was included in said blu ray suite - the rest of the score, I believe, is presently unaccounted for.
Bobbengan, thank you for posting that Vimeo link. That End Title is so, so gorgeous - I encourage anybody here to listen to the Vimeo link, if only for the first 2:40. The suspense/stinger cues are IMO excellent, but like you I'm so much more taken with the lush, thematic material, which is really sublime and unforgettable & not represented at all in this suite aside from the End Title.
I never got around to checking out this blu-ray, does anybody know what the rest of the 6 minutes are? Hopefully some of the more sensitive, romantic material.
Thank you for relating what Roger Feigelson said. If Folk only has 20 or so minutes, perhaps what he has can be paired with "Savage Harvest," assuming that score survives? Or keeping with the "horror sells" model, it can be paired with an unreleased, non-Folk 1980s horror score - something like Dana Kaproff's "Death Valley," for instance (though being Universal, probably not that one, but something similar).
Somebody uploaded all of the Blu-ray isolated tracks onto YouTube:
Great to finally listen to this, but the selection does focus mostly on the (excellent) horror/suspense music. There are some glorious variations of "Cue #1" (I remember a gorgeous, fully-scored "love scene" cue in particular) and more lyrical material like "Cue #9" in the film. Hopefully one of the speciality labels will release this wonderful score in full.
Somebody uploaded all of the Blu-ray isolated tracks onto YouTube:
Great to finally listen to this, but the selection does focus mostly on the (excellent) horror/suspense music. There are some glorious variations of "Cue #1" (I remember a gorgeous, fully-scored "love scene" cue in particular) and more lyrical material like "Cue #9" in the film. Hopefully one of the speciality labels will release this wonderful score in full.
That challenge is the selections that are isolated are all that can be located, so that's been a challenge in releasing this.
