I haven't seen the movie, but any Les Baxter horror score is an instant purchase for me. Thanks, guys, for this most welcome Halloween treat!
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| Author: | Roger Feigelson [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
INTRADA Presents: BLACK SABBATH Composed and Conducted by Les Baxter INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 215 A.I.P.’s top composer came on board to score the American edition of Black Sabbath, giving the greatly altered Italian film his traditionally bold and brassy sound and a more in-your-face approach. Les Baxter’s music for Black Sabbath follows his customarily excellent norm established with numerous iconic American International Pictures. His scores always boast exciting,colorfully orchestrated ideas, often involving brittle harmony and sophisticated structure—textbook examples of craftsmanship. This time, within the confines of traditional horror, Baxter had the unique opportunity to expand things further with music underlining each of the film's three diverse tales and each requiring its own unique musical vernacular. The Drop of Water is buoyed with mysterious ghostly material, The Telephone offers nervous, accented jazz, and The Wurdalak sends viewers back to nineteenth-century Russia with a tale about vampires and rich, period music full of requisite frights. To present the complete score, Intrada worked with the surviving 1/4˝ 7 1/2 ips full track (mono) elements remaining in the MGM vaults. While these tapes were in reasonably good condition and contained most of the score, sadly nothing survived of the final few minutes for The Wudalak, the longest of the three scores. However, Intrada was able to work with the music-and-effects tracks for these final minutes, meaning the last portion of our CD does have sound effects but, happily, no dialogue. While an imperfect solution to the situation, it was a more satisfying one than simply discarding the finale. Black Sabbath was a trilogy of stories - the first was The Telephone, with Michele Mercier as a young woman who begins receiving mysterious and terrifying calls from a dangerous man whom she thought was safely out of her life. The Drop of Water features Jacqueline Pierreux as a woman who unwisely steals a valuable ring from a dead medium, only to find herself tormented by such seemingly innocent sounds as a dripping faucet, a buzzing fly and, ultimately, the risen corpse of the medium herself. The final story, The Wurdalak, is a period shocker in which a traveler comes across a family awaiting the return of their patriarch (Boris Karloff), terrified that he may have become a “wurdalak,” a vampire who preys upon those he loves most. INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 215 Retail Price: $19.99 Available Now For track listing and sound samples, please visit http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.7829/.f |
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| Author: | Creepshow2 [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:03 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
What a great spooky movie this is. I have seen the European version of this film with Roberto Nicolosi's score, but never the U.S. version. Needless to say I never heard Les Baxter's version of the score. I'm a huge Les Baxter fan so it's a no brainier that I ordered this instantly. I thank you guys for all the music you release, but I REALLY love it when you mix in those horror scores. |
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| Author: | American Nightmare [ Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
I haven't seen the movie, but any Les Baxter horror score is an instant purchase for me. Thanks, guys, for this most welcome Halloween treat!
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| Author: | T. Newman Fan [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
| Author: | H TRAIN [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
Happy Halloween indeed. what a great treat from INTRADA & this one's sweeter than a toffee apple.  Fab artworks too. |
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| Author: | Gary S. [ Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
Ordered as soon as it went up. AIP and Baxter, as someone else said this was a no brainer. |
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| Author: | Creepshow2 [ Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: INTRADA Announces Les Baxter's BLACK SABBATH |
I just received my copy in the mail this morning, and I just finished listening to it. What a perfect way to spend a mid-October afternoon. The sound on this CD is great. Even the last 4 minutes or so of "The Wurdalak" with sound effects sounded good. It's a creepy horror score, the sound effect give it that little extra "spooky ambiance". I'll be looking up the US version on Netflix this weekend. Hopefully we can one day have a blu ray with both versions. Thanks again for this awesome Les Baxter treat. |
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