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The 'Burbs On Vinyl

Waxworks Records has released a 2 LP set of Jerry Goldsmith popular comedy score to Joe Dante's 1989 film The 'Burbs. The set come in 180 Gram vinyl with unusual limited edition artwork and a gatefold cover. The tracks appear to be the same content as the early Varese Deluxe Edition CD. Sadly no CD re-issue for fans of this score. The album also comes with exclusive notes from director Joe Dante.

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The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud CD!

Intrada announce the premiere soundtrack release of Jerry Goldsmith’s very rare 1975 score to The Reincarnation of Peter Proud! The supernatural thriller was admittedly a minor assignment for the composer at the time and no official soundtrack was issued. But the score has quite a following amongst his die hard fans who have always hoped it might be released one day. The music features one of the composer’s sweetest love themes as well as unsettling synth work for the eerie flashbacks to a past life and murder. For the most part the drama centres on discovering the main character’s past life and encountering a new love along the way before the inevitable finale raps up the mystery in a disturbing murder.

The original elements appear to be lost and a complicated rights issue also did not help this rare Goldsmith title from remaining unreleased for so long. But the incredible Intrada Records have pulled off another miracle for Goldsmith fans. Discovering part of the soundtrack in stereo and the rest in good clean mono and managing to agree a license.

Another previously unreleased Goldsmith title finally makes it to an official CD release. Order today from Intrada!
 

Intrada Kickstarter - Vote Goldsmith!

As reported Intrada have initiated a Kickstarter campaign to re-record a series of older film scores using the crowd funding platform. The first release will be Dimitri Tiomkin's Dial M For Murder - which managed to just reach its funding goal in September. Intrada are already canvassing fans with what score or scores to work on next. For Goldsmith fans they list both Black Patch and Face Of A Fugitive! So if you haven't done so already head over to Intrada's Soundtrack Forum and vote Goldsmith! You will need to register for a forum account to vote but the process is quite simple.

Intrada Poll


Rudy In Concert!

Rudy will be shown with Jerry Goldsmith's popular score performed live by orchestra in L.A. An 80 piece chamber orchestra conducted by Justin Freer will perform the score to a massive 40 FT HD screen showing the movie. For more details and to order tickets visit CineConcerts!

 

 

Star Trek Nemesis Vinyl Release

Varese Sarabande announce 2 LP set on striking 180 gram green vinyl of Jerry Goldsmith's last Star Trek soundtrack - Nemesis. Note although expanded it is not the complete presentation as per the deluxe edition CD release set the label issued as part of its CD Club. Limited to just 750 copies. Oder from Varese Sarabande.

 


 

 

 

The Lonely Guy CD From Intrada!

Intrada announce the complete score presentation of Jerry Goldsmith’s score to the 1984 Steve Martin comedy The Lonely Guy. The original MCA LP featured only two cuts from Goldsmith’s relatively short score, plus a song featuring Goldsmith’s theme and that album never got re-issued on the CD format. So although a minor work in the composer’s canon it remains an exciting CD premiere of the complete soundtrack, album songs and a plethora of alternates. It is in fact the last of the Goldsmith LP soundtracks to come to CD! The music is a light pop themed score for orchestra and electronics featuring a warm main theme.

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Intrada Kickstarter Campaign!

Intrada has announced a kickstarter campaign to fund an ambitious project of older film score reconstructions and re-recordings over the coming years. It is down to fans to support the project from the very beginning with a cash donation. The level of donation will garner rewards from a copy of the CD to project souvenirs, associate credit on the CD and visiting the recording sessions. The recordings will be made in Bratislava with Slovak National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of William Stromberg. Both orchestra and conductor should be well known to film music fans and have a very high pedigree when it comes to recording film music. The initial recording planned is the Dimitri Tiomkin score to the Hitchcock classic Dial M For Murder.

However, Goldsmith fans should be very excited to hear that Intrada have two early Goldsmith scores planned for a future campaign – Black Patch and Face Of A Fugitive! I urge all fans to support this incredible undertaking and support Intrada in bringing fans many scores that will never see the light of day in their original form and of course would not sound particularly very good either due to the age of any recording, if it had survived.

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The Mummy - 2 CD Set From Intrada!

Jerry Goldsmith's last great action and adventure score is released by Intrada in expanded form over two CDs! Goldsmith's mammoth work is a joy from beginning to end; from his powerful horn lead main theme, by way of a gorgeous love theme, music for the exotic locale, an ominous Mummy theme - supported by powerful choir and of course a mass of action and suspense music with Goldsmith's customary rhythmic intensity.

The original album featured the majority of the score's highlights and played extremely well. But fans spotted a mass of extra music and an isolated score track on the original DVD playing on the language menu gave fans a taste of the full score. But now we have the score sounding the way it should in a jaw dropping new remix and re-master from the original digital recordings. The difference is night and day and finally we get to hear Jerry Goldsmith's incredible score in all its glory.

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Logan's Run is Renewed on Vinyl

More vinyl! This time The Waxworks label, which follows Mondo in presenting an early film score with new limited edition artwork. Logan's Run from 1976 features a mix of unsettling electronic soundscapes and large orchestra. The score was expanded by FSM in 2002 for CD, this vinyl release features the same score presentation. For vinyl fans you get a re-mastering, 180 Gram double coloured LPs and a dramatic gatefold presentation of the new artwork.

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The Omen - Limited Edition White Vinyl Version!

Jerry Goldsmith's classic 1976 horror score returns to the vinyl format in a special presentation limited to just 666 copies! Varese have released The Omen soundtrack a number of times on CD, most recently in a 40th Anniversary edition last year, which featured near on the complete score. This new vinyl presentation sports a dramatic white disc with blood red and black centre.

Note it does not feature the additional music heard on the recent CD and is only the original album selections produced by the composer at the time of the film's release.

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Small Soldiers Deluxe Edition From Varese

Varese Sarabande announce a fully expanded release of Jerry Goldsmith's urban adventure comedy score for Joe Dante's movie Small Soldiers. Back in 1998 Varese could only release a 30 minute album due to the high re-use fees charged by music unions. 20 years later Varese, celebrating their 40th Anniversary this year, present a newly remixed and remastered version now over twice as long! Also included is the film's finale, missing from the first release, as well as a handful of extras and alternates.

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Check out Karl Scott's article and photos on his visit to the recording sessions here.

 

The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud Blu-ray & DVD

First time on Blu-ray and DVD for this relatively obscure supernatural drama from 1975. One of those Jerry Goldsmith scores that still has not made it to album! So this is a good way of experiencing the composer’s mix of unsettling electronic music and haunting orchestral scoring; after all the movie is part love story, part supernatural mystery as Michael Sarrazin starts to believe he is a reincarnated victim of a brutal murder. Kino Lorber’s disc features a new HD master for viewers who have probably only seen this on grainy VHS or TV. Sadly no isolated score but extras include a Commentary Track, Trailers, TV/Radio Spots, Galleries plus an alternate edit of the bathtub scene from Spain with comparison to US cut.


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100 Rifles (Remastered) Plus Rio Conchos (Re-issue)

La-La Land Records announce a 2 CD set featuring an improved version of 100 Rifles (Restored, Remixed & Remastered). La-La Land have mentioned this is about as good as this score will ever sound. And will still contain some mono tracks as per the original FSM release. As a bonus you get the Rio Conchos original soundtrack, which is the same master as the Kritzerland from 2014.

The set sports new and improved artwork over both the original FSM and Kritzerland CDs and no doubt a booklet of notes. Due for release June 19th.

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Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend - Remastered

Intrada Records announce a remastered edition of Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend. The previous release sold out relatively quickly with many Goldsmith fans missing out on some of Jerry Goldsmith's powerhouse action and adventure scoring. It was sourced from two track mixes, dubbed down to analogue for Goldsmith, who later transferred it to DAT for his personal collection. A copy of this was then used for the original Intrada release. This process caused pitch anomalies in the end credit. This new release comes directly from the original elements in the Disney vaults.

Along with new artwork (to match the recent Blu-ray release) this version features some alternate cue titles and some have been separated to create new ones. This version's other bonus is some fun extras in the form of period source pop from Goldsmith's son Joel and two percussion tracks heard briefly in the film.

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Thriller - Volume 2 CD From Tadlow!

The second volume of music composed by Jerry Goldsmith for the popular American Anthology series Thriller from Boris Karloff is available to order from Tadlow. The first volume, featuring key selected scores re-recorded by the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and re-constructed by Leigh Phillips, proved very popular amongst Goldsmith fans. Under the baton of Nick Raine Tadlow have allowed Goldsmith fans to experience and enjoy modern detailed stereo recordings of these early acclaimed Goldsmith television scores for the first time.

Volume 2 features over 70 minutes of music. The episode scores come from Terror In Teakwood, God Grante That She Lye Stille, The Bride Who Died Twice, The Weird Tailor, Late Date and Masquerade.

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New Jerry Goldsmith Podcast Series

Three passionate and very knowledgeable Jerry Goldsmith fans have come together to produce an excellent Podcast series called The Goldsmith Odyssey. The series plans to cover the composer's whole career. Episode 0 covers Goldsmith's humble beginnings as he embarked on a career in Radio and Television. Episode 1 looks at the composer's first film score - Black Patch. The series is produced by Yavar Moradi, Jens Dietrich and Clark Provence who plan to add a new show every two weeks! The episodes are available from their own website and via Apple Itunes.



 http://www.goldsmithodyssey.com

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-goldsmith-odyssey/id...

 

Rambo III - Remastered From Intrada

Intrada announce their third incarnation of the full score presentation to Jerry Goldsmith’s Rambo III. This new version is not the originally planned two CD set that would have included a slightly different but shorter version of ‘Another Time’ and the shorter film edit of ‘Preparations’, with possibly the percussion overlay of this cue a further bonus. But for this to happen the 2nd CD would have needed padding out and that was probably going to be the Scott Bros song and score album. Unfortunately this did not happen but in the scheme of things it is not really a deal breaker. What we get is the score re-mastered from the original first generation three track masters for the first time, plus improved art and booklet. And some of the latter cues have been either split or combined to match the film soundtrack order. In theory this closes the book on this score for Intrada and the Goldsmith scored Rambo trilogy as they have all the scores on their label now.

Back in 1989 after the disappointment of the song and score album from Scotti Bros it was quite incredible to get the news Intrada were releasing the complete score. I remember the news broke via the Goldsmith Society via a green flyer, included in their latest magazine, and it all happened around the magical period when Goldsmith was in London for two concerts and the convention. Goldsmith’s Rambo III score was a major departure from the first two scores and featured new themes for the Afghan locale and its people. The Rambo theme got a beautiful and moving adaption in ‘Another Time’ and Goldsmith’s action had a much harder edge with electronics providing extra grit. Orchestra still powered through and Goldsmith delivered some exciting set pieces with ‘The Game’, ‘Flaming Village’, ‘Night Fight’ and ‘Final Battle’. And the score closed with another unused end title - the best of the three; with Goldsmith bidding farewell to Rambo as he drives off with his only true friend Col Trautman.