Film Music

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:47:19
Personnel: Mark Isham (pennywhistle, trumpet, piano, synthesizer); Annie Stocking, Stephanie Douglass (vocals); Natalie Cox (harp); Peter Maunu (violin); Bill Douglas (flute, bansuri); Lyle Mays (piano); Tucki Bailey (glass); George Marsh (percussion). Recording information: Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA; OTR Studios, Belmont, CA; Russiam Hill Recording, San Francisco, CA; Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco, CA. Unknown Contributor Role: Tucki Bailey. Arranger: Mark Adler . Isham in the 21st century is one hotshot soundtrack composer, having scored well over a dozen films in half as many years. FILM MUSIC collects some of his earliest and, as it turns out, best soundtracks. In many ways, this music beneficially augmented the often-flaccid celluloid it was designed to accompany. That Windham Hill saw to release these three collected works immediately telegraphs where Isham was coming from in the mid-'80s: compositions couched in sublime beauty, gentle ambience, and a most un-Hollywood composing method that would gradually wane in his later Tinseltown work. "Mrs. Soffel" drinks deep of Isham's undulating synth chords and Harold Budd-like piano motifs, enticing without being cloying. "The Times of Harvey Milk" conversely explores a more upbeat terrain, as piping electronics and probing strings suggest vibrancy, confidence, and hope. It is, however, Isham's epic suite for Carol Ballard's "Never Cry Wolf" that is this disc's epicenter. Though at times recalling some of Vangelis' film-work with its cooing electronics and triumphant phrasings, Isham manages to concoct one of cinema's first "ambient" scores-replete with flutes, synths, and sundry sounds whose tones are stretched out seemingly to infinity.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)