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BUYSOUNDTRAX Records is proud to announce the release of a new recording for the 1982 horror classic, THE THING – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE, featuring music composed by Ennio Morricone for the film directed by John Carpenter (HALLOWEEN, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK), written by Bill Lancaster, starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Donald Moffat, Wilford Brimley, Richard Masur, Charles Hallahan, Peter Maloney, Richard Dysart, David Clennon, Thomas G. Waites, Joel Polis and T.K. Carter. For this new recording, the music has been produced and arranged by Alan Howarth and Larry Hopkins. The music for THE THING was composed by the great Ennio Morricone. Prior to THE THING, director John Carpenter had gained a reputation as a director who also composed the music for his own films and had begun collaborating with sound designer and fellow composer Alan Howarth on the music for his films. With the enormous success of HALLOWEEN and ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, he found himself working for Universal on his first big studio film. Working with a larger budget at his disposal, Carpenter was able to hire one of his musical idols to score the film. The movie’s final soundtrack, though, would be a combination of both Morricone and Carpenter’s sensibilities. Characteristically, Morricone did not compose his score to picture. He composed many pieces of music inspired by the film he’d watched and by the directions he’d received from Carpenter. The music would be edited to fit the film as Carpenter wanted. During the post-production process, Carpenter decided he needed more music for the film and worked with collaborator Alan Howarth to produce some additional electronic music.
The original 1982 soundtrack release for THE THING featured Ennio Morricone’s score for the film, including a wealth of music that ultimately did not get used in the film. For this new release of music from THE THING, the music has been produced and arranged by Alan Howarth and Larry Hopkins, to include newly recorded renderings of the Morricone music (including recreations of the tracks not used in the film) and Howarth has also provided new performances of the music he produced for the film with John Carpenter, making their premiere appearance on this album. The music is presented in a sequence closer to film order. THE THING – MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE is a limited edition release of 1500 units.
BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents the original soundtrack to THE GREATEST MIRACLE, also known as EL GRAN MILAGRO, featuring music composed by Mark McKenzie (THE ULTIMATE GIFT, BLIZZARD, DRAGONHEART: A NEW BEGINNING) for the 2011 3D animated film produced by Dos Corazones Films, directed by Bruce Morris (HERCULES, POCAHONTAS, FINDING NEMO) and written by Luis De Velasco.
THE GREATEST MIRACLE is an animated film that tells the story of three characters who are facing different struggles in their life and how they find solace, love, hope and redemption through a series of mysterious encounters that take place during a beautiful Cathedral morning Mass.
The music for THE GREATEST MIRACLE was composed for large symphony orchestra and choir and mixed on the famed 20th Century Fox Newman Scoring Stage in Hollywood. The orchestra and choir material is supplemented by pre-recorded piano, pipe organ, celesta and various percussion tracks. All of this is augmented with a large choral contingent, including a 32-voice mixed choir, 24-voice women’s choir and the acclaimed 17-boy soprano ensemble Libera. The final result is a rich, harmonically colorful composition that radiates a palpable emotional depth.
The positive elements expressed within the film immediately appealed to composer Mark McKenzie and his own personal religious faith, which resulted in composing heartfelt music of sublime passion and beauty that is captivating regardless of the listener’s persuasion. Like the finest film scores, his music for THE GREATEST MIRACLE transcends its visual counterpart to exemplify the shared need for meaning and acceptance that lies within each of us. Mark McKenzie’s gift for melody, color and harmonic sensitivity as well as the profound emotional and spiritual elements in his writing made him the perfect choice to compose the music for THE GREATEST MIRACLE.
BUYSOUNDTRAX Records presents the original soundtrack to DUMBSTRUCK, featuring music composed by Daniel Licht (DEXTER, BODY OF PROOF, HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE, BAD MOON) for the 2010 documentary about ventriloquists directed by Mark Goffman (WHITE COLLAR, THE BEAST, STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP).
DUMBSTRUCK takes viewers to Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, the ventriloquism capital of the world, to attend the annual Vent Haven Convention, the world’s oldest and largest gathering ventriloquism gathering. For over thirty years, the art of ventriloquism has been celebrated at this festival, where professional ventriloquists from all over the world come to expand the art and keep it alive and well by teaching it to those who are interested in learning about it or looking for ways to improve their skills. DUMBSTRUCK focuses on five different performers who attend the convention and follows them as they pursue their ultimate goal of becoming a professional ventriloquist. DUMBSTRUCK is a limited edition of 1000 units.
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BuySoundtrax Records is proud to announce the release of The Music of Battlestar Galactica For Solo Piano, a two-disc set featuring piano performances by Joohyun Park of Bear McCreary’s groundbreaking score. All of the arrangements were done by McCreary and were featured in the Battlestar Galactica Songbook, released by Hal Leonard in 2011. The album features appearances by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and McCreary himself, who performs “Kara Remembers” which was conceived as a track to be played by four hands, with Park. The package features liner notes by Randall Larson and unique artwork by frequent Battlestar Galactica vocalist Raya Yarbrough.
Pianist Joohyun Park was born in Kwang-Ju, South Korea. She began studying music at age 6. Park received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees of Piano from Yon Sei Univeristy (Seoul, Korea) and a Bachelor’s Degree of Contemporary Writing and Production from Boston’s famed Berklee College of Music. She has worked as a score coordinator, pianist, orchestrator and assistant composer for movies including Priest, The Informers, Drag Me To Hell, Creation, When in Rome, The Black Tulip, and Love Happens.
Variety called composer Bear McCreary’s score for Battlestar Galactica – the award-winning series on the SyFy channel from 2004-2009 – “the most innovative music on TV today,” and NPR said it “fits the action so perfectly, it’s almost devastating: (it’s) a sci-fi score like no other.”
BuySoundtrax records blasts off this fall with a collection of the most beloved science fiction themes with SCIENCE FICTION’S FINEST, VOLUME 1. The 36-song collection features newly recorded music from film and TV series including STAR TREK, STARGATE, DOCTOR WHO, DUNE, and even the recently released BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.
SCIENCE FICTION’S FINEST, VOLUME 1 includes new recordings of music composed by David Arnold, Edwin Astley, Wendy Carlos, Eric Clapton, Brad Fiedel, Murray Gold, Jerry Goldsmith, Joel Goldsmith, Barry Gray, James Horner, Dennis McCarthy, Bear McCreary, Ennio Morricone, Toto, Brian Tyler, John Williams and many others from films such as AVATAR, DUNE, THE TERMINATOR, TRON, John Carpenter's THE THING and popular television series such as CAPRICA, DOCTOR WHO, EUREKA, FRINGE, FUTURAMA, KNIGHT RIDER, TORCHWOOD, ROBOTECH, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, STARGATE: SG-1, STARGATE: ATLANTIS, THUNDERBIRDS, UFO and more. Also included are new recordings of previously unavailable music from COMMUNION, DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS, MAN FROM ATLANTIS, PRIMEVAL, STARGATE: UNIVERSE, THE STARLOST and STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES. SCIENCE FICTION’S FINEST, VOLUME 1 contains over 78 minutes of music! Cover art is by Tobias Richter of The Light Works (www.thelightworks.com).
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