INTRADA Announces:
THE DEEPComposed and Conducted by JOHN BARRY
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 143
John Barry's score for
the 1977 Columbia Pictures' film
The Deep would immortalize him as a master of melancholy romance -- its somber, oceanic, majestically unfurling themes
the hallmark of
the mature Barry. This is on full display in “First Discovery (Main Title),” presenting
the full score in miniature:
the gentle water-drop plinking of piano backed by strings, swelling into long, undulating string-and-woodwind passages, alternately sweetly melodic and ominously discordant. Somehow, Barry gives us an aural equivalent of
the now descending, now rising movement of
deep-water dives. Barry goes further; he captures
the details --
the upward stream of silvery air bubbles;
the downward drift of shafts of light;
the languid, liquid motion of bodies in water—all are present in Barry’s score for
The Deep.
The score contains an unusual amount of underwater scoring. It is thick, dense, rippling and flowing, with an emphasis on one beautiful theme enrobed in dramatic, colorful orchestrations. Barry evokes
the sea… not one of sparkle and beauty, but rather one of mystery, danger and darkness that—as
the theme song by Donna Summer suggests—comes from “down,
deep inside”.
The Deep details
the adventures of Gail (Jacqueline Bisset) and David (Nick Nolte), vacationers who discover an odd couple of artifacts while exploring an undersea wreck off
the coast of Bermuda: a beautiful antique medallion and a far more modern ampoule filled morphine.
The artifacts come from both a 19th-century Spanish treasure ship and a World War II cargo vessel,
the wrecks of which are co-mingled by a recent storm. Gail and David are determined to lay hands on
the romantic Spanish treasure, but meanwhile, word of
the morphine reaches
the island’s drug kingpin, Henri Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), who sets about terrorizing
the young couple in hopes of finding
the whereabouts of
the putative multi-million-dollar haul.
For
The Deep's first soundtrack appearance on CD, Intrada presents two CDs.
The first disc presents
the complete score from
the original session masters housed at Columbia Pictures, in pristine mono.
The second disc is
the original LP presentation, mastered from
the stereo album masters stored in
the vaults at Universal Music Group.
This release is limited to 3000 units.
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 143
Retail Price: $29.99
AVAILABLE 8/31/2010
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.6707/.f
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