John Scott: Black Rainbow (1989) / Munich Symphony Orchestra
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- ABOUT THE SCORE: Mike Hodges' 1989 supernatural crime thriller "Black Rainbow", with its solid cast and unusual premise about a medium (Rosanna Arquette) who finds herself in the crosshairs of a hired-gun killer, allowed composer John Scott to pen one of his most angry and complex scores. Scott turned for inspiration to the concert music of composer Edgard Varèse's for the dense, colorful orchestrational language found herein, and even borrowed a motif from Strauss' "Salome", which fans of James Horner might recognize also (see "Humanoids from the Deep", another score that inexplicably recontextualizes the same motif from that masterful opera into a horror-score fabric). The resultant work is one that was particularly taxing on Scott due to its composition falling concurrent with the care of his mother, who was dying of Alzheimer's at the time. As such the score teems with darkness, paranoia, anger and loneliness - emotions the man himself was redolent with at the time. This is highly accomplished and rigorous music; while a recurring oboe motif provides a few respites of tonality, there are certainly no "rainbows" to be found here.
This recording derives from two sources: The composer's own first-generation album master of select highlights that never got released (0:00 - 15:15) and then a somewhat compressed-sounding backup copy of the complete score with somewhat limited dynamics (15:15 to end). The score was recorded by Peter Kramper with the Munich Symphony, and has to date never been released in any capacity.
Another lost gem unearthed for all of us fans to enjoy.There has to be a way to release all of these recordings in an inexpensive box set format.
thank you for this lovely movie soundtrack music!
Great score
Thank you ever so for putting up all this John Scott music! UA-cam had been criminally lacking in such! My all-time favorite of his is Far From Home, so I await your suite of that one particularly.
I uploaded a 40-minute suite years ago - sadly, it was immediately flagged and pulled by Fox!
Thanks!!
Encore une partition de John Scott qui mériterait une sortie CD.
Vu que vous avez accés aux enregistrements du compositeur, serait il possible de mettre sur You Tube une suite de la musique de Deadly Voyage un film de 1996 complètement inédit en CD?
Apologies for the English reply. John does have a DAT tape of "Deadly Voyage" at his Los Angeles home but I am not clear on where the masters may reside. I presume they are in his London home. If I learn more I will update this.
This first part of this soundtrack is my favorite. Sounds very sad but beatiful. I would like it to be play in my funeral. I have Sarcoma of Ewing ( cáncer) I think it was the COVID vaccine what started it. 😔
**ITS..."ROSANNA ARQUETTE"