INTRADA Announces SHOCKTREATMENT/FATE IS THE HUNGER

Roger Feigelson · **Joined:** Sat Nov 19, 2005 3:47 pm **Posts:** 3415

INTRADA
Announces:

SHOCK TREATMENT/FATE IS THE HUNTER
Composed and Conducted by JERRY GOLDSMITH
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 237

For Shock Treatment, where an actor is hired to commit himself to a gruesome insane asylum in an attempt to discover where another inmate secreted a fortune, producer Aaron Rosenberg encouraged Jerry Goldsmith to go wild. And wild he went, using techniques that would later be drawn on for his groundbreaking score for Planet of the Apes. In Shock Treatment Goldsmith used the esoteric instrumentation that would mark so many of his later scores, but he also experimented with recording effects of a kind that few other composers of this era would have dared to attempt, including the speeding up and/or reversing piano phrases.

Fate Is the Hunter, on the other hand, provides another musical terrain entirely. This is Jerry Goldsmith in classic symphonic mode, supporting a far more traditional film. The composer’s contribution here is spare: less than 30 minutes of music, mostly consisting of variations the main title. This is one of Goldsmith’s loveliest themes: searching and magical. “Moon Fish” and “Forest Scene” are two cues that move the audience from the difficult present to the idealized past via a single character. Such is the genius of Jerry Goldsmith on display, early in his career. Brief, but impactful.

This release offers music that, a mere decade ago, would have been impossible to present on CD. Thanks to new technology, restoration specialist Mike Matessino, producer Nick Redman, and executive producer Douglass Fake have been able to offer this extraordinary disc in stereo for the first time, re-syncing and conforming each individual track to bring us the premiere release of these scores in expanded format.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 237
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8024/.f

STEVENJ · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:16 pm

I ordered this so God damned fast I was palpitatin'.

RM Eastman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:51 pm **Posts:** 361

Fantastic release, just love FATE IS A HUNTER, gorgeous melody and in Stereo :shock:

. Thanks again, INTRADA!!! Ordered!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Azella · **Posted:** Mon Mar 18, 2013 6:50 pm

This is terrific! Thank you, guys--everyone--for restoring these and making a miracle happen. A big thanks to the studio, too. Have certainly added these to my collection.

RM Eastman · **Joined:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:51 pm **Posts:** 361

In the GOLDSMITH AT FOX box it was indicated that the stereo Masters for these two films were beyond repair, where did these stereo versions come from?

SchiffyM · **Joined:** Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:35 pm **Posts:** 253

H TRAIN · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 12:25 am **Posts:** 539

WoW what a great project to work on.
Thank you Doug, Mike, Nick & to all that wonderful new technology for providing us with a Goldsmith double whammy.

A truly worthy restoration.

lima · **Posted:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 5:54 am

What “ New Technology”?

JGOnline · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 12:05 am

Well done and thank you to all for bringing these rare and vintage Goldsmith scores to us. Incredible achievement.

T. Newman Fan · **Posted:** Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:52 am

I'm not sure about this one. I would get the album for Shock Treatment, but I already have a good range of Goldsmith's terrific brooding experimentalism with other albums like The Mephisto Waltz, Seconds, Planet of the Apes and The Illustrated Man.

Who am I kidding? I'll probably buy it eventually.

Yavar Moradi · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:48 am

Azella · **Posted:** Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:15 am

I am really anticipating hearing Shock Treatment. It's such an intriguing, unique piece of work. The samples alone have me checking my mailbox twice a day.

vinylscrubber · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:31 am

This is a marvellous example of victory being snatched from the jaws of defeat. I'm glad these two Goldsmith scores were not written off as being covered by the Varese box set, as they shine in their new iterations, especially the lovely FATE IS THE HUNTER. In a film where the aviation aspects are treated in such a lacklustre fashion, Goldsmith's spare score lends a tremendous boost to the film's more successful emotional component, lifting the film well above it's actual achievements. ( Of course, Goldsmith made a career out of doing that.)

Thanks to Doug, Nick, and Mike, et al for their hard work in bringing these lost gems up to a high polish.

bruce marshall · **Joined:** Wed Mar 15, 2006 8:16 pm **Posts:** 775

I 'discovered' ST on the Fox Box and was greatly impressed.
Unfortunately it was pinched mono.

Now it's complete and in STEREO and i can't afford it

Jay · **Joined:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:10 am **Posts:** 331

No one but me noticed Roger typed Hunger instead of Hunter in the subject header? :lol:

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