Veröffentlichung Invada: Warning Sign (Craig Safan)

[Gast Stefan Jania]

 

Das britische Label Invada hat vor ein paar Tagen Craig Safans elektronischen Score zu Warning Sign aus dem Jahre 1985 wiederveröffentlicht. Als Doppel-LP (20.99 Pfund) sowie als CD im Digipack (9.99 Pfund). Das alte Album lief knapp 32 Minuten. Die neue CD von Invada hat ca. 56 Minuten Musik - aufgeteilt in einen Albumteil (die erste LP) und "Bonus Tracks" (die zweite LP). Dabei entspricht der Albumteil nicht völlig dem der alten 85'er Fassung. Damals nicht enthaltene Musik ist nun im Albumteil gelandet, während vormals im Albumteil zu hörende Musik nun als "Bonus Tracks" tituliert sind. Ich mag die Musik, aber mit 56 Minuten ist es doch arg lang. Das alte Album Southern Cross-Album war lang genug, aber ist ja nun schon etliche Jahre out-of-print. Hier Infos vom Label.

 

CD

 

 

Warning Sign Original Soundtrack by Craig Safan on CD
29 tracks of synth heaviness
Includes 15 exclusive bonus tracks of cues
Remastered at Optimum Mastering
Liner notes by Craig Safan

Track Listing

Warning Sign Main Title
The Army Arrives
Joanie Electrocuted
Joanie Thoughts
First Massacre
Joanie Fights For Schmidt
Entering Biotek
Joanie & The Zombies
Run, Joanie, Run
Blood Serum
Joanie Is Pregnant
The Final Battle
All Is Well
Warning Sign End Title
Bug Accident (bonus)
Full Alert (bonus)
This Is Not A Drill (bonus)
The Video Dead (bonus)
The Sheriff Drives (bonus)
Fairchild Comes (bonus)
Bob Moves Into Action (bonus)
Bob Revives, Fights Joanie (bonus)
The Sickies (bonus)
Sneak Through The Fence (bonus)
Quiet Escape (bonus)
Making The Antidote (bonus)
You're Turning Into One (bonus)
The Serum Gun (bonus)
Transition (bonus)

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Invada Records Proudly presents the release of a Synth-Heavy Score from one of the Industry's most Creative Composers; Craig Safan's music to the 1985 20th Century Fox Science Fiction Thriller.

Famous for his score to the timeless classic The Last Star Fighter, as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IV and (amazingly) the hit series Cheers!
Safan's film music is notable for its clever use of electronics, and Warning Sign is no different. Recorded using a Synclavier Synthesizer - an incredibly expensive piece of kit at the time - the score is fully electronic but no less effective than his orchestral work, and provides an entertaining and futuristic soundscape for the story of a man-made virus that is accidentally released into its laboratory, turning its workers into zombies.

Due to the science fiction and horror overtones, the Synclavier creates an appropriate atmosphere which Safan layers with different effects, from an electric piano that illustrates a desolate location in the film's early stages to the use of metallic effects as percussion for the chemically-affected staff. Safan weaves dissonant sounds to suggest chaos and paranoia, and innovatively synthesises human voices to convey a sense of tortured souls to those infected. What follows is an intense score where the foreboding turns to reality with an eerie and uncomfortable texture, broken only by a beautiful and warm melody for the resolution and end credits, where all is well.

Following on from dark and intense soundtracks such as Cliff Martinez's Drive, and Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury's DROKK, Invada Records presents Warning Sign in a new special edition that features an expanded version of Craig Safan's original 1985 LP program, along with 15 unreleased cues presented as bonus tracks.

The release features new artwork by Marc Bessant (Portishead / DROKK etc), liner notes by Craig Safan himself, presenting a comprehensive package befitting one of the scores that was an important part of the 80s craze of electronic film music.

 

 

 

LP

 

 

Warning Sign Original Soundtrack by Craig Safan on limited edition red and white splatter vinyl
750 copies made

LP 1 - Main Album

Warning Sign Main Title
The Army Arrives
Joanie Electrocuted
Joanie Thoughts
First Massacre
Joanie Fights For Schmidt
Entering Biotek
Joanie & The Zombies
Run, Joanie, Run
Blood Serum
Joanie Is Pregnant
The Final Battle
All Is Well
Warning Sign End Title

LP 2 - Bonus tracks/ cues

Bug Accident
Full Alert
This Is Not A Drill
The Video Dead
The Sheriff Drives
Fairchild Comes
Bob Moves Into Action
Bob Revives, Fights Joanie
The Sickies
Sneak Through The Fence
Quiet Escape
Making The Antidote
You're Turning Into One
The Serum Gun
Transition

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29 tracks of Synth heavyness over 2 pieces of vinyl
Includes 15 unreleased cues presented as bonus tracks
Liner notes by Craig Safan / George Ginn from Record Album (specialist soundtrack store)
Comes with download card
Remastered at Optimum Mastering

Invada Records Proudly presents the release of a Synth-Heavy Score from one of the Industry's most Creative Composers; Craig Safan's music to the 1985 20th Century Fox Science Fiction Thriller.

Famous for his score to the timeless classic The Last Star Fighter, as well as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part IV and (amazingly) the hit series Cheers!
Safan's film music is notable for its clever use of electronics, and Warning Sign is no different. Recorded using a Synclavier Synthesizer - an incredibly expensive piece of kit at the time - the score is fully electronic but no less effective than his orchestral work, and provides an entertaining and futuristic soundscape for the story of a man-made virus that is accidentally released into its laboratory, turning its workers into zombies.

Due to the science fiction and horror overtones, the Synclavier creates an appropriate atmosphere which Safan layers with different effects, from an electric piano that illustrates a desolate location in the film's early stages to the use of metallic effects as percussion for the chemically-affected staff. Safan weaves dissonant sounds to suggest chaos and paranoia, and innovatively synthesises human voices to convey a sense of tortured souls to those infected. What follows is an intense score where the foreboding turns to reality with an eerie and uncomfortable texture, broken only by a beautiful and warm melody for the resolution and end credits, where all is well.

Following on from dark and intense soundtracks such as Cliff Martinez's Drive, and Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury's DROKK, Invada Records presents Warning Sign in a new special edition that features an expanded version of Craig Safan's original 1985 LP program, along with 15 unreleased cues presented as bonus tracks.

The release features new artwork by Marc Bessant (Portishead / DROKK etc), liner notes by Craig Safan himself plus George Ginn (Legendary 84 year old owner of the UKs oldest soundtrack store ‘The Record Album’ ) presenting a comprehensive package befitting one of the scores that was an important part of the 80s craze of electronic film music.

 

[peter-anselm]

Stefan alte Keule,

 

noch besser als die Nachricht vom Re-Iussue ist die Tatsache, daß du mal wieder von dir hören lässt . Hoffe das bleibt so.

 

Bon weekend

Pierre

[scorefun]

Das britische Label Invada

 

HiHi...wieso habe ich da zunächst "Intrada" gelesen...(ich werde alt)

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Verglichen zur rot-weißen "blood-splatter" LP ist die CD übrigens relativ schmucklos.

 

Hoffe das bleibt so.

 

Werden wir sehen.

[Stempel]

HiHi...wieso habe ich da zunächst "Intrada" gelesen...(ich werde alt)

Keine Sorge. Damit bist du nicht alleine. Habe auch Intrada gelesen. :-)

[Gast Stefan Jania]

Tipp: die CD ist aktuell bei Invada im Angebot für 5.99 Pfund (plus 3.50 Pfund Porto).