BSX Records: DRACULA, A.D. 1972 & THE MOLE: Music from Season 5

[Marcus Stöhr]

Gestern hat BSX Records die Veröffentlichung von 2 CDs bekannt gegeben:

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records, in association with GDI Records, will be releasing DRACULA, A.D. 1972. The soundtrack features music composed by Mike Vickers for the 1972 horror film directed by Alan Gibson, written by Don Houghton, with Christopher Lee returning as Count Dracula, Peter Cushing as Professor Van Helsing, Christopher Neame along with Stephanie Beacham and Caroline Munro as the Count’s lovely prey.

Attempting to modernize their popular Dracula franchise, Hammer produced DRACULA, A.D. 1972, which finds the Count revived in a modern day setting. The film begins in 18th Century England with the Count fighting his old nemesis, Professor Van Helsing. During the course of their fight, Dracula is killed by a wooden wagon wheel spoke but is revived 100 years later by an ambitious acolyte, to find himself in England of the 20th Century.

For DRACULA, A.D. 1972, Hammer’s music director, Philip Martell, chose to go in a different direction with the music, seeking a more modern sound to go along with the film’s modern approach and so Mike Vickers was brought in to compose the music for the film. Vickers had a strong background as an arranger and composer in the early 1960’s, and played guitar and saxophone for the Manfred Mann group during its early period. Vickers’ music for the film is a mixture of orchestral acoustics with electronic instruments, incorporating modernistic, pop-jazz styled rhythms, Gothic tonalities with snare drum, organ and cymbals, reworked with horns, saxophone, bongos and drumkit. In addition to the score, the film features two songs by the American pop band, Stoneground, and atonal electroacoustic music composed by electronic music pioneer David Vorhaus for the black mass sequence.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents the original motion picture soundtrack to DRACULA, A.D. 1972 in film order, along with the two songs by Stoneground as bonus tracks. The booklet contains exclusive liner notes written by noted author Randall D. Larson, featuring a new interview with the composer, along with contributions by Caroline Munro. DRACULA, A.D. 1972 is presented by BUYSOUNDTRAX Records and GDI Records, continuing in the fine tradition of GDI’s incredible series of soundtracks from the Hammer vaults.

This release is a limited edition of 1500 units.

The first 100 copies purchased through BUYSOUNDTRAX will be autographed by the composer and the First Lady Of Fantasy herself, Caroline Munro.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records will be releasing THE MOLE – MUSIC FROM SEASON FIVE. The album features music composed and conducted by David Michael Frank (ABOVE THE LAW) for the Fifth season of the popular reality show, THE MOLE, broadcast on ABC in 2008.

THE MOLE is based on the original series DE MOL, produced in Belgium. Regarded as “the smartest reality show ever”, the premise of the show is for at least ten players to gather and participate in various tests (games, physical challenges, puzzles, etc.) to try to earn money for a cash pot that can increase up to a maximum of $1,000,000. One of the contestants is a mole, out to sabotage the games and prevent money from being added to the pot while avoiding or deflecting suspicion. The game continues in each episode until only three players are left. Two contestants and the mole. The contestant who scores the highest on the final quiz wins the game and the entire cash pot.

For DE MOL, the show would frequently use musical excerpts from well known film scores by John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Hans Zimmer and others. To license the same music here in the United States would be cost prohibitive therefore the producers chose to engage the services of David Michael Frank to compose a musical library for the U.S. version of the show. A previous volume of music for THE MOLE was released by Varese Sarabande in 2000 and included music that was used in the first four seasons of THE MOLE and CELEBRITY MOLE.

The producers of the show hired Frank again in 2008 to record an entirely new orchestral score for the show and the music was recorded in March 2008, performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, with some additional electronic sweetening later in Los Angeles. Frank’s orchestral score for Season Five of THE MOLE is an excellent showcase for the composer’s many fine talents and listeners who may only be familiar with the scores for his earlier action films will be overwhelmed by his new work presented on this album.

David Michael Frank was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied piano and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and was a soloist with the Peabody Orchestra at age sixteen. Since moving to California in 1978, Frank has been a prolific composer in many different genres. He has worked for directors such as Andrew Davis, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Wes Craven, William Shatner and Robert Townsend. Frank has composed the music for over seventy five feature, cable and television films, including ABOVE THE LAW, HARD TO KILL, OUT FOR JUSTICE, I’M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA, POISON IVY, SHOWDOWN IN LITTLE TOKYO, THE STAIRCASE, A KID IN ALADDIN’S PALACE and the IMAX film, COSMIC VOYAGE, among others, as well as several hundred episodes of various primetime series. He has earned three national Primetime Emmy nominations in three different categories. Recent projects include the feature film, SHERMAN’S WAY, and the documentary, MARY PICKFORD: THE MUSE OF THE MOVIES.

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents THE MOLE – MUSIC FROM SEASON FIVE, featuring music composed by David Michael Frank.

THE MOLE – MUSIC FROM SEASON FIVE is a limited edition release of 1000 units.

The first 100 copies purchased through BUYSOUNDTRAX will be autographed by the composer.

THE MOLE – MUSIC FROM SEASON FIVE is available for pre-orders at www.buysoundtrax.com and will be available on May 4,2009.

Bearbeitet 22. April 2009 von Marcus Stöhr

[ronin1975]

na wers braucht... Caroline Munro... oh man... hahaha... und Sable Colby! Von der hätt ich lieber nen Autogramm... hahahaha...

[Leto]

Nee, das brauche ich auch nicht - aber sollte von Mike Vickers mal "At The Earth´s Core" (England 1976, deutscher Titel: "Der siebte Kontinent", mit Doug McClure und Peter Cushing) rauskommen, den würde ich mir schon wegen der herrlich spritzigen Main Titles besorgen. Als der Film so oft im TV lief, konnte ich diesen Vorspann schon mitsummen - einer seiner besten Tracks überhaupt (IMHO)