INTRADA Announces:
MANHUNTER
Music by THE REDS, MICHEL RUBINI
INTRADA MAF 7108
When it comes to the crime action genre, few directors have had their finger on the pulse of alternative music or scoring like Michael Mann. Mann’s love for moody progressive electronic music took its darkest turn in Manhunter (1986), a film focused on the most horrifying class of criminal and resulting in a soundtrack featuring a mixture of songs and score. The filmmaker was captivated by the haunting, keyboard-driven sound of Shriekback and Mann would use several of their songs to memorable effect. Manhunter’s song highlight is Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Music editor George A. Martin created a “special edit” of the hit, cutting the song’s building guitar and percussion to meticulously reflect the film's climactic ritual and shoot-out. Red 7, formed by Genesis’s Mike Rutherford, provides “Heartbeat” as support for Manhunter’s upbeat conclusion, the song’s buoyant tempo backing the return to the sanctity. Michel Rubini, a Motown producer who’d found success composing on The Hunger and HBO’s Hitchhiker series, used a Synclavier to realize “Graham’s Theme.” Of the three score tracks on Manhunter’s original LP issue, two would be performed by keyboardist Bruce Cohen and guitarist Rich Shaffer as The Reds. A new addition to this CD reissue is the oft-requested “Jogger’s Stakeout,” where an escalating wash of dangerous guitar and synth play to the tension.
As the particular rock-synth sound of the 1980s drew to a close, Manhunter served as a notable climax to Mann’s initial style of underworld music. The undeniable and growing cult appeal of Manhunter and its music has finally warranted the first CD release of this long-collectible album. Intrada presents the original MCA LP program, with the addition of the new track, delivering this long overdue CD premiere of Manhunter.
Based on author Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon, Manhunter featured the first appearance of psychiatrist-turned-cannibal Hannibal Lecktor and William Peterson plays protagonist FBI agent Will Graham. With the nefarious assistance of Lecktor, Graham desperately tries to stop the lunar-driven slayings of Francis Dollarhyde (Tom Noonan). Nicknamed “The Tooth Fairy” for his awful post-mortem activities, Dollarhyde will strike at another family if Graham can’t track him before the next full moon.
INTRADA MAF 7108
Retail Price: $19.99
AVAILABLE 3/2/2010
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6505/.f
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