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INTRADA Announces:



ROCKET GIBRALTAR
Music Composed and Conducted by ANDREW POWELL

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For the 1988 Columbia Pictures' film Rocket Gibraltar, English composer, arranger, and performer Andrew Powell composed the heartfelt score. Powell chose parts specific to the story’s dramatic weave: Levi, the grandchildren, Cy Blue, and the titular skiff, Rocket Gibraltar. The music takes the listener through a sonic journey—with elements of classicism, pop, a little blues, and a bit of sturdy orchestral dissonance. These diverse musical styles help to characterize Levi’s various family members and give the film a unique mélange of sonic flavorings. Powell ’s score avoids sentimentality by conveying the earnestness that allows what is in fact a pretty ghastly denouement to succeed as a loving gift in honor of the family patriarch.

Produced by Andrew Powell, Intrada is proud to release this score on its 30th anniversary. The project was spearheaded by Peter Hackman, who's passion for this score started when he first saw the film as a child, driving him for 30 years to make sure this score was released on its own for all to hear.

In the film, Levi Rockwell (Burt Lancaster) is a retired, widowed Hollywood screenwriter whose successful, grown children and their kids arrive to celebrate his 77th birthday in the family home on New York’s Long Island. While the whole family is quite amiable, his daughters and son come with various personal and social conflicts which distract them, leaving Levi to spend most of his time, when not napping, engaging with his eight grandchildren. The film’s sunny storyline shines as it unspools with delightful engagements between affable family folk in which the middle generation, the one that behaves most thoughtlessly, leaves it to the members of the youngest generation to see straight through to the heart of the matter and understand Grandpa Levi’s deepest wish.

This release is limited to 500 units.

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Retail Price: $19.99
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500 units? Is that what demand for a premiere of gorgeous thematic music amounts to these days? I suppose it is better than one copy made just for Peter.

So happy to see this released and hopefully others will hear just how beautiful this whole album is! Thank you Intrada and Andrew Powell!

Yikes! 500 copies? I suggest if you like this soundtrack, you pick it up quick!

Never heard of the film or this score before, with that said those samples sound beautiful in everyway.
Kudos to Peter, Edwin & Intrada and of course Andrew for opening my eyes & ears.
Copy 400 & something ORDERED !

It’s great to see Peter’s passion project come to fruition, and the samples sound great!

(Friendly editorial tip: “... whose passion...” )

I'm surprised only 500 people in the world would be interested in buying such a delicate symphonic work from Alan Parson's Project arranger/composer Andrew Powell. I'm a big fan of Ladyhawke's music, so count me in !

Another Great release by Intrada, Thanks for this instant purchase. I really like the film as well, The only thing left to do now is add a few Billie Holiday songs to get the full effect.

Why only 500? Is this a sign of the old days coming back with very small issues and mass frenzy on release nights?

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Steve in the UK

Maybe it was financed by Peter Hackman and a 500 unit run was licensed. If so, maybe I can swing a 100 unit run of Meyer Kupferman's, Black Like Me.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

Glad to have this. It may be no Colossus or One Red Shoe in my view, but it is very lovely music that most of the '80s enthusiasts would rush to buy if they had grown up seeing the movie.

Funny how even a title such as this likely could have moved a couple thousand units during the most recent recession, but not the case now with extremely low unemployment. I guess that is the problem right there: for many people, these albums were nothing more than speculative "investments" when other income was limited. That, and a lot of us probably died over the years.

I have never seen the movie and am not too keen on composer Andrew Powell's score for LADYHAWKE. The only reason I bought this now is because I know how enthusiastic Peter Hackman ist about this score, othertwise, I most likely would have missed this completely. Now I just ordered it on a whim. (Did not even check the clips.)