Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Since I've seen these movies I've been in love with his music, to me they are works of art that did not get the hearing they deserve.

The Grass Harp - Patrick Williams
The Whales of August - Alan Price
La Grande Seduction - Jean Marie Benoit
Bottle Shock - Mark Adler
Le Dernier Trappeur - Krishna Levy

Just about everything was buried treasure back in the day of poking through boxes of junk store vinyl from here to Timbuktu. I've always found a sort of genie in the bottle magic in the act of cleaning an old LP and dropping the stylus down on the grooves in order to find out what it's all about. Unearthed a treasure trove of scarce soundtrack recordings in the basement of an ex-theatre projectionist with a brain the size of a pea. He was a strange goose who horded anything media in his basement. This guy had thousands of LPs, miles of 16mm film, piles of old magazines and was missing a third of an index finger. He lost it on a fast rewinding 35mm spoll while projecting the old Audie Murphy flick "To Hell And Back", at some drive-in back in the 50's. He had 19 cats and called them his babies. "Anybody fuck with my babies and I'll kill the motherfuckers", he'd say. Occasionally he'd ask me if I'd kill someone if they fucked with my baby, a 10 pound little rascal mongrel I called Puppo, (may she rest in peace). "I probably would kill them...", I'd say "or at least break their fucking legs", and he'd say, "Damn right!"

Of the tons of wonderful and crazy stuff I bought from that guy over the course of a couple of years, I'd call a mint 16mm print of the 1972 film "Steelyard Blues" starring Peter Boyle and Donald Sutherland a highpoint as well as a box full of obscure soundtrack recordings, "Roots Of Heaven" (Malcolm Arnold), "7th Voyage Of Sinbad"(Bernard Herrmann), "A Time To Love And A Time To Die" (Miklos Rozsa) and so many others.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

My Maurice Jarre comfort food soundtrack is JACOB'S LADDER, my personal favorite of his synth scores. Great balance between the melodic and atmospheric, but never (to my ears) just wallpaper sound.

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Randy Wilson
Dallas, TX

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the forthcoming Williams score for Jackson/Spielberg's interpretation of Tintin will no doubt be of interest to many (and why not, I'm really hoping for something great too) but truly special to me is the animated series OST, by Ray Parker and co. Shame it's not more widely available.

I went to Patrick Williams' site a couple days ago after the poster a few posts above me brought him up, to see if he had any score cues for sampling. There were two or three film score cues and that was it (the rest of the selection was album work, song arranging, so forth).

The score mentioned by the poster, and "Jesus" were the two I listened to. I had no idea of this man's range; when I thought "Patrick Williams", I always thought of his TV efforts like "The Streets of San Francisco". It's baffling this man does get more bigger and emotionally charged film work than the occassional TV movies.

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I wonder if anyone else has encountered the film music of Eleni Karaindrou. I had the chance to pick up a number of her film score titles on the ECM label last year (many of them for the films of Theo Angelopoulos) and I absolutely love her sense of musical texture. Her style tends to lean towards minimalism, so it may not be to everyone's tastes... but I'm just a bit surprised she's remained as obscure as she has been all this time.