Veröffentlichung BSX Records: TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME - Craig Safan und STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN - Andrew Belling

[Marcus Stöhr]

Die beiden für heute angekündigten Titel von BSX Records wurden bekannt gegeben:

TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK - FEATURING MUSIC COMPOSED BY CRAIG SAFAN - TO BE RELEASED ON BSX RECORDS

This time, the butler didn’t do it!

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SRP: $15.95

LISTEN TO A SOUNDCLIP FROM the score for TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME

http://www.buysoundtrax.com/Audio/TAG_Audio/01%20-%20Main%20Title.mp3

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records will be releasing TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME, featuring music composed by Craig Safan (THE LAST STARFIGHTER, SON OF THE MORNING STAR) for the 1982 action thriller directed by Nick Castle (THE LAST STARFIGHTER, THE BOY WHO COULD FLY, starring Robert Carradine (REVENGE OF THE NERDS, WAVELENGTH), Linda Hamilton (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE TERMINATOR), Kristine DeBell, Perry Lang, John Mengatti, Michael Winslow, Frazer Smith, Xander Berkeley and Bruce Abbott (RE-ANIMATOR).

TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME tells the story of a group of college students involved in a game where players try to eliminate each other using mock weapons in until there is only one player left. In the latest round of TAG, one player becomes so fixated on winning that he swaps his suction dart gun for the real thing and begins killing off the competition. Robert Carradine plays Alex, a college student who doesn’t play TAG but enamored with Susan, a beautiful student who finds herself becoming a TAG finalist. Susan is played by Linda Hamilton, in her first feature film starring role. Bruce Abbott plays Gersh, the master TAG player who goes off the rails and begins killing the other players.

TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME was the directorial debut of Nick Castle, an associate of John Carpenter and who played the role of Michael Meyers in the original HALLOWEEN and who co-wrote the script for ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK with Carpenter. Castle’s script for TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME, originally called ‘Everybody Gets It In The End’, was based on a popular college campus game of the day called Assassin. Castle envisioned the film as a modernistic film noir, with Alex and Susan as a modern day Bogart and Bacall and the film evolved into an engaging hybrid of film noir, old-school romance and slasher-movie suspense elements. Castle’s vision for the film carried over in the film’s major aural component, it’s musical score. Recommended by fellow composer Elmer Bernstein, Craig Safan was hired to score the film and thus began a fruitful director/composer collaboration that continued on subsequent projects.

Craig Safan’s score for TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME was built around three primary ideas that matched the main stylistic elements of Castle’s visual architecture for the film. The film’s opening sequence was designed as an homage to the James Bond films of the day and Safan’s music has a jazz/boogie element to it. For Alex and Susan, Safan chose to write music in a kind of 1940’s jazz style, complete with writing for solo trumpet. For the film’s stalk-and-shoot sequences, Safan chose to write music in an orchestral style similar to the approach used in the the slasher movies of the day. TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME’s score was recorded with a moderately-sized orchestra of about 45-50 players. The score is primarily orchestral, with a few subtle electronic embellishments from synthesizer, performed by Safan’s frequent programmer, Michael Boddicker. In addition to the film’s underscore, Safan was responsible for composing and recording the source music heard from radios, parties, and the like. Most unique among Safan’s source music for TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME is the song “Easy With You,” which Safan wrote with multiple Academy Award-winning and Broadway lyricist Sammy Cahn.

Craig Safan has composed music for numerous feature films, television shows, theatrical musicals, and circuses. He is the winner of eight ASCAP Top Show Awards as well as an Emmy nominee. Craig is also a recepient of a Watson Foundation Fellowship and is a member of the Executive Music Committee at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Currently Craig divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City where he is developing several new musicals.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents the world premiere soundtrack release of TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME, featuring music composed and conducted by Craig Safan, mastered by James Nelson of Digital Outland. The booklet contains liner notes written by noted author Randall D. Larson and includes comments from the composer.

TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME is a limited edition release of 1000 units. Suggested Retail Price is $15.95. The first 100 copies sold through our website will include a booklet autographed by composer Craig Safan.

TAG: THE ASSASSINATION GAME is available for pre-orders at www.buysoundtrax.com and orders will begin shipping on May 3,2012.

1. Tag: The Assassination Game Main Title

2. Opening Set Up/ First Meeting

3. Campus Information (Solo Piano)

4. Gersh's Theme

5. Pool Kill

6. Gersh's Room/The Gun/ Shower Kill

7. Rug Pull/What Do You Want? (Love theme)

8. A Killer Kiss

9. Gersh Stalkng / Kill In Bleachers

10. Americanization March

11. She's a Psychology Major!

12. Romantic Montage

13. Don't you want to be in the Finals?/ Gersh Kills Wallace/ Mouse in the Closet

14. Can I Borrow Your Gun?

15. The Final Players

16. We Could Sleep in All Day

17. Flowers for Swayze

18. Putting the Pieces Together

19. Gersh's 2nd Place Piece

20. Gersh is the Killer/ Susan in Gersh's Room/ The Bodies / Calling for Help

21. Deadly Pursuit

22. Death of Gersh & Finale/Tag: The Assassination Game-End Credits

BONUS TRACKS

23. Easy With You

24. Rock Concert Source

25. TV Source

26. Rehearsal music

27. Alternate End Title (Not Used)

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK - FEATURING MUSIC COMPOSED BY ANDREW BELLING - TO BE RELEASED ON BSX RECORDS

The Search for the Force is over… The Adventure is about to begin!

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LISTEN TO A SOUNDCLIP FROM the score for STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN IN 3-D

http://www.buysoundtrax.com/Audio/Starchaser_Audio/27%20-%20End%20Credits%20from%20Starchaser.mp3

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records will be releasing STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN, featuring music composed by Andrew Belling for the 1985 3D animated science fiction film directed by Steven Hahn, written by Jeffrey Scott, featuring the voices of Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Noelle North, Anthony De Longis, Tyke Caravelli and Les Tremayne.

STARCHASER tells the story of Orin (Colligan), part of a tribe of humans who are forced to excavate the rare crystals of Mineworld by the evil Zygon (De Longis) and his technologically superior army. Similar to Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS, Orin and his people are kept in line with the belief that the world above them has been destroyed and if they continue to work hard and reach their crystal quota, their God will reward them. One day while he is digging, Orin finds a mysterious sword-hilt with a magical energy blade that only responds to his command. Holding the sword-hilt for the first time releases a hologram of a bearded man who encourages him to defy his captors and seek the freedom of the world above. Spurred on by the death of his loved ones, Orin makes his escape, digging his way up to the planet’s surface to discover a sky full of stars and fresh air to breathe. Exploring the surface, Orin meets Dagg (Argenziano), a gruff smuggler known for his predilection for fembots and merciless treatment of mandroids. Orin joins Dagg on board his spaceship, the Starchaser, computer controlled by Arthur (Tremayne), who sounds more like an English butler than a pilot. Orin journeys from one end of the galaxy and back, trying to discover the origins of his mysterious weapon and how he can destroy Zygon and free the people of Mineworld.

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN was produced in Hollywood and animated in South Korea. For the first time, the film’s 3D animation would be computer controlled,iIncorporating a unique process that would involve the use of a pair of large plotters, resulting in a three-dimensional effect even among characters that are two-dimensional drawings. The final touch in bringing to life the film’s exciting adventure story is the lavish orchestral score composed by Andrew Belling. Meeting with first time director Steven Hahn, Belling was encouraged to write a large scale orchestral score, evocative of John Williams’ work on the STAR WARS films. The film’s producers informed him they had enough in the budget for a large orchestra, which would give Belling the opportunity to have his first major orchestral score performed by the same 90-piece orchestra that had performed on the scores for the STAR WARS films, the London Symphony Orchestra. His score for STARCHASER is a mix of orchestra, electronics, and drum-loops, the latter giving the film’s memorable main theme its constant, purposeful drive.

In addition to its unique 3-D visualization, STARCHASER was also mixed in surround sound, a 5-channel stereophonic process, with 3 channels in the front and 2 in the rear, which had been growing in popularity as cinemas moved from the traditional monophonic sound process of previous decades into a more immersive aural experience, which allowed Belling to mix the score’s electronic elements in a way that would take advantage of the sonic dimensionality inherent within the process.

Andrew Belling began his career as studio musician/arranger, working with a number of popular artists. He later became involved with feature films as an orchestrator and composer in the early 1970s. After scoring a handful of television movies and independent films, Belling was hired by Ralph Bakshi to score his animated fantasy film WIZARDS in 1976.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents the world premiere soundtrack release of STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN, featuring music composed and conducted by Andrew Belling, performed by the London Studio Symphony Orchestra, mastered by James Nelson of Digital Outland. The booklet contains liner notes written by noted author Randall D. Larson and includes comments from the composer.

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN is a limited edition release of 1000 units. Suggested Retail Price is $15.95. The first 100 copies sold through our website will include a booklet autographed by composer Andrew Belling.

STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN is available for pre-orders at www.buysoundtrax.com and orders will begin shipping on May 3,2012.

1. Main Title (2:58)

2. Dig Harder or Die (1:09)

3. Grandfather’s Sacrifice (0:51)

4. A World Above? (0:42)

5. Behold The Great God (1:03)

6. Orin Digs Up/

Orin Reaches The Surface/Orin Explores (2:06)

7. Greedy Swamp Scum (0:38)

8. Welcome Aboard (0:37)

9. Zygon’s Command (0:53)

10. Sky Chase (1:54)

11. Hard Times (1:16)

12. Back To The Palace (0:49)

13. Meet Aviana (0:35)

14. Orin’s Regret (1:22)

15. Orin Makes and Entrance (3:00)

16. Orin and Dagg Sneak Around (1:00)

17. Prepare to Launch (0:57)

18. Attack Force Deploys/Dagg Has A Plan (1:22)

19. Love Theme from STARCHASER (1:21)

20. Dagg Gives In (0:32)

21. A Date With Destiny (0:57)

22. There is No Blade (1:38)

23. The End of Mineworld

We Are Free (2:53)

24. Orin’s Victory (1:20)

25. Reunited/Orin Heals Digger (2:02)

26. The Choice Is Yours/Finale (1:15)

27. End Credits (2:33)

[Souchak]

Re: TAG - Ich habe ja, je nach Auslegung, schlimmen Nachholbedarf oder gesunden Sicherheitsabstand von Safan (bei dessen abgelehnten WOLFEN hab ich oft überlegt, aber REMO ist der einzige in meinen Beständen). Insofern: Der obige Soundclip klingt wie schauderhafteste 80er-Jahre-TV-Mucke, aber gibt der Soundtrack mehr her? (P.S.: Nehme auch - hier oder anderswo - gerne Safan-Einschätzungen und -Empfehlungen entgegen)

[Aldridge]

Hat der Safan nicht auch den "Last Starfighter" gemacht? Ist doch ganz hübsch geworden. Der hier sagt mir aber gar nichts...

[Dino]

Mir taugt nach wie vor sein "The Last Starfighter" - tolle SF-Action-Musik mit eingängigem Mitpfeifthema, die mir als altem 80er-Kinofreak einfach nur gute Laune bereitet!

Die Soundclips zu TAG find ich jetzt nicht so berauschend...

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Nehme auch - hier oder anderswo - gerne Safan-Einschätzungen und -Empfehlungen entgegen

• Remo Williams, hast du ja.
  
• The Last Starfighter, obwohl ziemlich Star Wars-inspiriert (man vergleiche z.B. "(The Planet Of) Rylos" und Williams' Jawa-Musik )
  
• Son Of The Morning Star, wunderbar elegische, breite Musik zu einem Indianer-Western, von Intrada vor langer Zeit veröffentlicht. Auch sehr Pathos-Williams-like. Tolles Album!
  
• Wolfen, kalter, atonaler Horror, sehr interessant (auch im Vergleich zum Horner).
  
• Stand And Deliver, Drama-Score mit viel lateinamerikanischem Kolorit.
  

Ich habe glaube ich 95% aller Safan-CDs in meiner Sammlung. Da ist auch sehr viel Leerlauf bei. Bei dem Clip von BSX bekomme ich auch das Grausen. Seine "leichteren" und "jazzigeren" Scores (Money For Nothing, Mr. Wrong, Major Payne) finde ich durchweg wenig prickelnd und schnell nervend.

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Zum Reinhören (eben bei You Tube gefunden). Für mich Safans ernsthaftester Score. Highly recommended!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByfNbPtipJM

Leider ist die CD schon so lange OOP und die Preise dafür wahnwitzig.

Und von Stand And Deliver ist sogar das ganze Album online.

[Boneking]

Der Starchaser Soundtrack klingt auch sehr nett. Die Synthi-Parts sind zwar sehr dated und klingen verdammt nach eighties(der Film ist ja auch von 1985) aber habe gerade auf Youtube den Film gesehen und die orchestralen Parts sind sehr gut gelungen....

[Kusanagi]

Mit Craig Safan bin ich irgendwie nie warm geworden, hab selbst seine beiden wohl besten Scores, The Last Starfighter und Son Of The Morning Star wieder abgegeben.

Der Soundclip zu STARCHASER: THE LEGEND OF ORIN IN 3-D klingt jedenfalls nach 'ner 1A Trash-Granate.