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(Also posted at FSM)
I have to call you out, Mr. Bond, very specifically and categorically, for your notes to Intrada's Trek IV. To you I say this: you are a true artist and a gifted writer. While all of your work glimmers, it was while I was reading your Trek IV notes that the quality and skill you apply made my head explode (for a moment I thought I might have been having an LDS flashback). You articulate and describe the music, both technically and emotionally, from angles that open my eyes and brain. For example...
Reading your references to the 4-note Spock theme made me think of those notes from an entirely different and enlightened perspective. While I knew, recognized and appreciated those notes throughout the film, and while I've seen the film more times than I've seen my grandmother in the last 20 years, I had never put the chronology and connection of that theme together. I didn't even think of it as a theme! But now after listening to the album a few times and reading your notes, the score is put into a more complete picture for me, and I see/hear all of these intersections that have not only a musical impact but a narrative impact. My god, man, that's because of your words and your ability to depict with such precision.
This is a total coincidence as far as the last name goes, but your analytical and expositional word skills remind me of the creator of that other Bond. Fleming had a gift of literary articulation that could invoke exotic imagery right there in the reader's brain with such vivid detail that it was like teleportation. You have the ability to do so with music, the meaning of its sound and its design, and how it all flows together. (Was that over the top with the praise? Eh so what. 'Tis true from where I fly.)
So, y'all will have to pardon my gushing, but film music has such a strong emotional hold on me, and there are times when I get these newly expanded/remastered scores that I am overwhelmed with gratitude.
Thank you, Mr. Bond.
And on another note to all the talented artists, engineers, producers, designers and wizards who made the new Trek IV album: you have breathed new and infinite life into what is surely the most misunderstood and underappreciated Trek score. Hearing the music pop like it does now, in complete form for full contextual effect, it's just amazing. And I've got something to say to people who think brief little cues as short as 20 seconds aren't needed. This album is a prime example of how a series of short cues can be seamlessly blended together for a satisfying listening experience. Rosenman created some stunningly beautiful tunes that fleet by, but are no less precious than lengthier cues. Spock on the mountain? Some of the most gorgeous 15 seconds of music any of us have ever heard. To consider music like that insignificant and unworthy of release can only be the thought of a double dumbass.
Again, many thanks.
DSS
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Thanks DSS for a great post!