INTRADA Announces:
THE DELTA FORCE
Composed by Alan Silvestri
INTRADA Signature Edition ISE 1022
Cannon Films was one of the leading producers of action films in the 1980s; in 1986, they produced and/or distributed some 40 films, from edgy adult fare to out-and-out exploitation, but one of their prestige pictures of the year was The Delta Force. Produced by the heads of The Cannon Film Group themselves, Yorum Globus and Menahem Golan, and cowritten and directed by Golan, it represented a substantial investment in manufacturing popular entertainment. In the film, political extremists led by the implacable Abdul (Robert Forster) hijack an airliner in the Middle East, and the President calls in super-soldiers Major Scott McCoy (Norris) and Colonel Nick Alexander (Marvin) to rescue them. The two men lead their crack team of commandos to Beirut where they blast into the compound to rescue thepassengers—and take no prisoners.
One notable standout in The Delta Force is the heroic, energetic Alan Silvestri score Although Silvestri already had over a dozen film and TV credits to his name, including the wonderfully bombastic, symphonic score to Back to the Future, the music for The Delta Force was conceived and performed electronically. Rather than being a budgetary choice, the percolating and energetic sounds of the Synclavier were a popular stylistic choice for film scores at the time, especially for genre projects. Silvestri, with his programming partner David Bifano, has used electronics as adeptly as an orchestra for many of his scores before and after. While excerpts of The Delta Force soundtrack have been available previously on LP, with a subsequent CD release featuring LESS music than the LP, this CD represents the first complete release of the score as written, greatly expanding upon the original LP presentation taken from the original multi-track masters. The Delta Force has never sounded better.
This release is limited to 1000 copies in the Intrada Signature Series.
INTRADA Signature Editions ISE 1022
Retail Price: $19.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit
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