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Please keep the tracks totally separate.
The film is one thing, the album is another. In the film, the segues between these sequences/tracks are already a bit harsh, only the flow of the film helps. Music is a different experience : the listener must be alowed to breathe, especially after a piece as powerfull as "Riders of doom"... we need silence to recover, and be prepared for the next episode. The same after "The gift of fury" : the sadness must be followed by a moment of reverence - and ONLY after that, we are ready for the journey that beggins "Column of sadness".
In his glorious Fifth Symphony, Gustav Malher started the last movement (Rondo) in the same tonality and family of sound than the ending of the fourth movement, to establish a direct relation - in fact they may be played without interruption, but this is not what he wanted, because this fourth movement is the famous "Adagietto", and the listener needs some rest after that.
Conan (as presented in the Milan album) opens with four major pieces ; they form a whole but are quite different musically, in character and scale, as the movements of a symphony. They are great as they are, please don't try to trim them - lets the film edits in the film.
Don't change what is already great, your new edition don't need that. I think, if you have doubts about putting all these tracks in one, it's because of that : you are tenpted because of the movie but feel it's not the better as a music-only listening experience ; this treatment must be reserved to lesser pieces, tracks that don't stand by themselves. All film music composers write in a way such merges can be made for film editing purposes, but what Poledouris made in the album ? Insert silences. Because silence lets the imagination and emotions flows, it is part of the music.
Last edited by dadid on Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:54 am, edited 3 times in total.
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