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INTRADA Announces:




LIFEFORCE
Composed and Conducted by HENRY MANCINI
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
INTRADA ISC 481

In 1985, composer Henry Mancini was able to return to his roots. The composer, most famous for his light, pop melodies like "The Pink Panther" and "Breakfast at Tiffanys," got his start scoring Universal B sci-fi and horror films in the '50s. And while Mancini was a star in pop circles, he always yearned to take on more dramatic projects. Lifeforce, the 1985 Cannon-produced film about space vampires with a unique taste for human souls, afforded him just such an opportunity – one which he embraced wholeheartedly with the power of the London Symphony Orchestra. It's driving, propulsive main theme (excised from the US print) kicks off what can be best described as a serious, symphonic work that provides a magnificent scope of mystery, terror and thrills, concluding with one of Mancini's most powerful endings. Mancini was so proud of his theme that he included it in his concert repertoire, feeling compelled to explain what Lifeforce was while looking at the audience and stating, "You didn't see Lifeforce."

For this new release, Intrada struck new transfers of the 1/4" Eric Tomlinson film mixes made at Abbey Road Studios and subsequently stored at MGM. Intrada created an all new complete program, retaining some of Mancini's envisioned assemblies. Two of Mancini’s session rolls included a variety of individual instrumental effects created between the player and engineer. Some of these sounds are signatures that Mancini aficionados will recognize from his earlier classic suspense work such as Charade, Experiment in Terror, Arabesque and Wait Until Dark. These premiere on this release in the extras section.

Visit our album trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6qfhN2JYg8

In the film, after a space shuttle goes dark while investigating a mysterious spaceship hiding in the tail of Halley's comet, an investigative unit discovers the sole survivor (Steve Railsback) has protected three human-looking occupants of the spaceship. Once brought down to earth, these seemingly human characters escape, wreaking havoc on London, stealing souls and threatening all of human kind. The hunt is on to stop them before it's too late.

Intrada Special Collection Vol. 481
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12633/.f

Just a heads up that due to a shipping delay from the plant these will not be shipping right away. An ETA will be forthcoming.

Got my copy and I've been enjoying it all evening!

My second CD seems to have an issue though where the first track, "Grandsom of Web of Destiny" bleeds slightly at the end into the next track, "The Lifeforce Theme (End Title). Sort of reminiscent of the hard track break problem on the Sleepy Hollow release. Anyone else notice this? Or could it just be my copy of the soundtrack?

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Most Wanted: Moonraker - complete; Inside Moves (John Barry), Volunteers; The Hand; Brainstorm - complete (James Horner); MacArthur; Supergirl -expanded (Jerry Goldsmith).

I received my copy today and I am also really enjoying this new album! For a number of years I rarely played this score, but now I am loving it - it's as though I'm hearing it with new ears. The sound quality is absolutely stunning - there is so much more detail and power.

Krankyboy, I listened to CD2 track 1 ("Grandson of Web of Destiny") and track 2 ("The Lifeforce Theme") and there is not any bleed from track 1 into track 2 on my copy.

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Most Wanted: Moonraker - complete; Inside Moves (John Barry), Volunteers; The Hand; Brainstorm - complete (James Horner); MacArthur; Supergirl -expanded (Jerry Goldsmith).

I grew up with the Varese cassette & vinyl....and just checked, since I remember it this way as well.

Evil Visitation closed Side One of both...after The Discovery.
I agree, it belongs there too!

A situation more bizarre than life itself. The next question is why did the subsequent Varese CD from 1991 change the configuration? Yet another Varese blunder? It makes no musical sense.

Essential differences between this and the BSX 2-disc release?

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