New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases

You'd think there would be a slowing down of soundtrack releases, now that were in the early weeks of summer.

Not so!

Below is the latest tally, featuring May + June and a bit of July, with links to distributors / labels that have a website.

I'm starting with home video releases, followed by MOD / on demand / digital only releases, and then labels offering CD/DVD/MP3 variations.

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FILM MUSIC ON VIDEO:

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for America (Arthaus Musik) --- DVD

Evening with Dave Grusin, An (Telarc) --- Blu-ray

Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz – Live from Salle Pleyel Paris (2009) (Arthaus Musik) --- DVD

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ISOLATED SCORES ON VIDEO:

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Fate is the Hunter / Jerry Goldsmith (Twilight Time) --- DVD

Kremlin Letter, The  / Robert Drasnin (Twilight Time) --- DVD

Violent Saturday / Hugo Friedhofer (Twilight Time) --- DVD

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ONLINE ONLY VIA Amazon.com (Soundtracks):

Green Lantern (James Newton Howard) --- June 16

Priest (Christopher Young)

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REGULAR RELEASES:

Alhambra (Germany)

L’ultimo Paradiso (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) --- June, ltd. 500

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Aleph (USA)

Invocation: Jazz meets the Symphony #7 (Lalo Schifrin)

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Beat Records (Italy)

Fire Star Dances (Luis Bacalov, Piero Piccioni) --- mid-June

Il Sesso Degli Angeli (Giovanni Fusco) --- ltd. 500

Prigione di Dionne / Riot in a Woman’s Prison (Albert Verrecchia) --- mid-June

Zombi 2 + un gatto nel cervello (Fabio Frizzi)

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BSX Records (USA)

Ken Wannberg Film Music Collection, The --- June, 2 CDs

Parasomina (Nicholas Pike) --- mid-Jine

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Capriccio (Naxos Germany)

Metropolis (Gottfried Huppertz) --- mid-June

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Chandos Records (UK)

Miklos Rozsa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 --- June 28

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Colosseum (Germany)

Family Way, The (Paul McCartney) --- July 26

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Cometa (Italy)

Il planeta d’acqua (Ennio Morricone --- ltd.

Invito allo sport (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd.

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Anche gli angeli mangiano faglioli (Guido and Maurizio De Angelis)

Anche nel west c’era una volta dio / Between God, the Devil, and a Winchester (Carlo Savina) --- mid-June

Bruciatelo vivi / Land Raiders (Bruno Nicolai) --- mid-June

Franco e Ciccio sentiero di Guerra (Roberto Pregadio)

La moglie di mio padre (Guido and Maurizio De Angelis) --- June

La notte degli dquali / Night of the Sharks (Stelvio Cipriani)

Oedipus Orca (James Dashow) + Una spirale di nebbia (Ivan Vandor) + la orca (Monti Arduini)

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Disney (USA)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Hans Zimmer, various) --- score + source + remixes

Thor (Patrick Doyle)

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Disques Cinemusique (Canada)

L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot / Inferno (Bruno Alexiu)

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

Belle of New York, The (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) --- ltd.

Comedians + Hotel Paradiso (Laurence Rosenthal) --- ltd.

Pretty Maids All in a Row (Lalo Schifrin) --- ltd.

Kenner + More Than a Miracle (Piero Piccioni) --- ltd. 1500, 3CDs

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Finders Keepers Records (UK)

Frisson des vampires, Les (Acanthus) --- CD + LP

Jeunes filles impudiques (Pierre Raph) --- LP

Mala Morska Vila (Zdenek Liska) --- CD + LP

Saxana – The Girl on a Broomstick (Angelo Michajlov) --- CD + LP

Solla Solla (various) --- CD + LPs

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GDM (Italy)

Curse, The /aka The Farm + Black Demons (Franco Micalizzi) --- early July, ltd. 500

Ballata per un pistolero (Marcello Giombini) --- ltd. 300 copies, reissue

Cattiva / The Wicked (Armando Trovaioli) --- ltd. 500

La cugina / The Cousin (Ennio Morricone)

Il diavolo nel cervello / The Devil in the Brain (Ennio Morricone) --- late June

Il deserto dei Tartari / The Desert of the Tartars (Ennio Morricone) --- expanded

I Quattro pistoleri di Santa Trinita / Four Pistols for Trinity (Roberto Pregadio) --- ltd. 500

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Howlin' Wolf Records (USA)

Bunker, The (Robert Feigenblatt) --- ltd. 1000

Cry, The (Dean Parker) --- ltd. 500

Cyborg: The Director’s Cut (Jim Saad, Tony Riparetti) --- ltd.

Mean Guns (Tony Ruparetti)

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Intrada (USA)

Battlestar Galactica (Stu Phillips) --- ltd. 3000 copies

City of Fear (Jerry Goldsmith) --- ltd. 2000

Destination Gobi (Sol Kaplan) --- ltd. 1000

House of Usher, aka Fall of the House of Usher (Les Baxter) --- ltd. 1200 copies

Masada (Jerry Goldsmith, Morton Stevens) --- 2 CDs

Observations (Arthur B. Rubinstein)

Sleuth (John Addison) --- ltd. 1500, same music & dial. contents as LP

Straw Dogs (Jerry Fielding) --- ltd. 2000

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Ron Goodwin) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 2000 copies

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Kind of Blue (Switzerland)

Ennio Morricone: Gangster Movies --- May

Ennio Morricone: Quentin Tarantino Movies --- May

Ennio Morricone: Spaghetti Western --- May

Ennio Morricone: The Dollars Trilogy --- May

Nino Rota: The Godfather Trilogy --- May

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Audrey Rose (Michael Small) --- ltd. 1000

Berlin Affair, The (Pino Donaggio) --- ltd. 1000

Black Sunday (Les Baxter) --- ltd. 1000

Camelot (London Cast) --- ltd. 1000

Marco Polo (Les Baxter) --- late June, ltd. 1000

Mulholland Falls (Dave Grusin) --- ltd. 1000

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Hoodwinked Too! (Murray Gold)

Scream 4 (various) --- song + score CD

Tree of Life (Alexandre Desplat)

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La-La Land Records (USA)

Blob, The (1988) (Michael Hoenig) --- ltd. 2000

Breakdown (Basil Poledouris) --- 3 CDs, ltd. 3000

Copernicus’ Star (Abel Korzeniowski) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Crysis 2 (Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe) --- 2CDs

DC Showcase: Superman + Shazam! The Return of Black Adam + Jonah Hex + Green Arrow + The Spectre (Jeremy Zuckerman, Benjamin Wynn) --- ltd. 1000

First Knight (Jerry Goldsmith) --- 2CDs, ltd. 5000

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Ernest Gold) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 2000

Medal of Honor (Christopher Lennertz, Michael Giacchino, Ramin Djawadi) --- 8CDs

Socom 4 (Bear McCreary) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 2000

X-Files: Vol. 1 (Mark Snow) --- 4 CDs, ltd.

X The Man with X-Ray Eyes + Tales of Terror: Morella (Les Baxter) --- ltd. 1200

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Legend Records (Italy)

Bible, The (Toshio Mayuzumi) --- 2 Cds

La donna del fiume / The River Girl + La Risaia / The Rice Girl (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) --- late June, ltd. 1500

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Madison Gate Records (USA)

Soul Surfer (Marco Beltrami) --- CDR

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Mask Records (Italy)

Salon Kitty (Fiorenzi Carpi) --- ltd. 1500

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Milan Records (USA/Europe)

Angelo Badalamenti - Ghent International Film Festival and Brussels Philharmonic + The Orchestra of Flanders

Craig Armstrong - Ghent International Film Festival and Brussels Philharmonic + The Orchestra of Flanders

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Monstrous Movie Music (USA)

It! The Terror from beyond Space (Paul Swatell, Bert Shefter) --- ltd. 1000

Monster That Challenged the World, The (Heiz Roemheld) --- ltd. 1000

Project Moonbase + Open Secret (Herschel Burke Gilbert) --- ltd. 1000

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Age of Heroes (Michael Richard Plowman)

Almighty Thor (Chris Ridenhour, Chris Cano)

Dawning (Nathaniel Levisay)

Heartless (David Julyan)

Lion of Judah (Greg Sims)

Rainbow Suite: The Choral Music of Mikael Carlsson [non-film]

Stake Land (Jeff Grace)

White Lion (Philip Miller)

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Music Box Records (France)

Comment le seduire + Les strip teasueuses + Les combinards (Francois de Roubaix) --- mid-June, ltd. 1000

Le bon plaisir (Georges Delerue) --- mid-June, ltd. 1000

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Music for Moving Images (USA)

Piano Music from the Movies (Stephen Edwards)

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Naxos (USA)

Monster Music: Classic Horror Film Scores (various) --- June 28, 6 CDs

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne (Nick Glennie-Smith) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 1200

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Phantom Soundtracks (USA)

Alien Terrain (Darren Callahan)

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Appassionata (Piero Piccioni) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 500

Grace Quigley (John Addison) --- ltd. 1000

Il giardino dell’eden (Stelvio Cipriani) --- ltd. 500

Happets in the Kingdom of the Sun, The (Zeltia Montes) --- ltd. 500

Killing Me Softly (Patrick Doyle) --- ltd. 1000

Knack… and How to get It, The (John Barry) --- ltd. 1000

War Goddess / aka Le guerriere dal seno nudo and Le amazzoni (Riz Ortolani) --- ltd. 500

What’s New Pussycat? (Burt Bacharach ) + Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (Lalo Schifrin) --- ltd. 1000

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

Eagle, The (Atli Orvarsson)

Historic John Barry, The

Music of Pixar, The (various) --- digital album

Symphonic Celtic Album, The (various)

Theme Tunes of Hanna Barbera, The (various) --- digital album

Trailer Tunes (various) --- digital album

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Sony (USA)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Rachel Portman) --- July 12

X-Men: First Class (Henry Jackman) --- June 21

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SPV (Germany)

Popol Vuh Revisited and Remixed 1970-1999 --- July 26 (USA)

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Universal Music / Polydor (Germany)

Botschaft Der Götter / aka Mysteries Of The Gods (Peter Thomas)

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Universal Music (Italy)

Habemus Papam (Franco Piersanti)

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Volume 1, The (Bernard Herrmann) --- June 6, 2 CDs, ltd. 3000

Another Year + Happy Go Lucky (Gary Yershon)

Cowboys and Aliens (Harry Gregson-Williams) --- July 26

Fast Five (Brian Tyler)

First Grader, The (Alex Heffes)

Game of Thrones (Ramin Djawadi) --- June 14

I am Number Four (Trevor Rabin)

Jerry Goldsmith 80th Birthday Tribute Concert – Filmucite 3 (DVD + CD) --- June, ltd. 2000

Jig (Patrick Doyle) --- July 12

Kung Fu Panda 2 (Hans Zimmer, John Powell)

Monte Carlo (Michael Giacchino) --- June 28

Mr. Popper’s Penguins (Rolfe Kent) --- June 28

My Demon Lover (David Newman) --- June 6, ltd. 1000

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Patrick Doyle) --- TBA

Scream: The Deluxe Edition (Marco Beltrami) --- June, ltd. 2000

Super 8 (Michael Giacchino) --- June 28

Too Big to Fail (Marcelo Zavros) --- June 28

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Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Steve Jablonsky) --- June 14

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MUSIC FROM PLUTO via label Dnigbat:

Tributares di  planeta Pluto (Ennio Morricone) --- Knpthssst audio format only, ltd. 12, orders placed before June 30 cannot guarantee delivery before 2988

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.






Mark R. Hasan, Editor
KQEK.com

Soundtrack News & Other Tidbits

I think I’ve found the best time to post the full tally of current and upcoming score releases: mid-month / near-end. It’s after all the biggies have been released, and the biggies of the coming weeks have been announced, and the fact it takes a good chunk of hours to check out various sites, do some scoping, and update my Master List of soundtrack labels (which keeps growing).

I’ll keep this brief due to time issues, but prior to the mega-list, I have to mention a few nice surprises.

I love reading Glenn Erickson’s DVD Savant columns & reviews, and he’s so well-nestled among film fans that include filmmakers and preservationists. Ergo, another update on the status of Windjammer, the epic 1958 film produced in the knock-off Cinerama process known as Cinemiracle.

Never heard of Cinerama? Don’t worry, because it didn’t live long, but this nascent 3-camera, super-widescreen process is the reason standard widescreen filmmaking (2.35:1) came back in the fifties after the first formats died during the Great Depression.

Sound was costly enough for theatres, so most gave a big NO to the studios when they wanted to improve the filmgoing experience with wide format movies around 1929. Fox Home Video, prior to abandoning their regular wave of classic films on DVD, produced a wonderful 2-disc edition of Raoul Walsh’s The Big Trail (1930), shot in the Grandeur format.

When widescreen film returned to cinemas, it came via Cinerama, a process beautifully documented by filmmaker David Strohmaier in his must-see film, Cinerama Adventure (2002). Apparently restoration work is happening on the first Cinerama film, This is Cinerama (1952), as evidenced by the promo trailer archived on YouTube in the Smilebox format.

Also on YouTube is a trailer for Windjammer, which DVD Savant believes will also make its way to HD this year. Hopefully the films will make it to Blu-ray in factually loaded special editions, and film prints will once again be in circulation at the handful of remaining theatres equipped to exhibit this widescreen granddaddy format on planet Earth.

Here’s a prior press release regarding the Windjammer restoration project, and a website devoted to the film and much Cinemiracle publicity ephemera. Hopefully the inevitable BR release (it has to come out on home video) will boost an interest in the release of Morton Gould’s score, which came out on a Columbia LP during the film’s original theatrical release, as discussed by simpatico fans at FSM’s message board a while ago.

Moving on.

Elizabeth Taylor passed away yesterday at the age of 79. Undoubtedly the airwaves have been filled with tributes and archived interviews, and my own will follow this weekend when I review a set of her early films, including Lassie Come Home (1943), years before she started getting her own starring vehicles at MGM, and gained solid career footing in films like Father of the Bride (1950).

Back to film scores.

Twilight Time’s just released a DVD of John Huston’s The Kremlin Letter (1970), and their next title is Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday (1955). The DVDs can be ordered from Screen Archives Entertainment, and each film comes with an isolated music track.

Robert Drasnin’s score for Kremlin is also available on CD via Intrada, and the label also released Hugo Friedhofer’s Violent score a few years ago as part of a CD double-bill with Leigh Harline’s for Warlock, another fine CinemaScope production.

Most important factoid: another ‘scope film (in 2.55:1, no less) is rescued from oblivion, and it’ll be interesting to watch the film with Friedhofer’s music solo. I still content he’s one of the most underappreciated composers from the fifties, and his scoring approach (particularly in the surround sound ‘scope productions) establish the parameters for how composers should use bass, and envelope audiences in 4.0 and later 5.1 environments.

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I’ve placed online-only scores from labels at the top of the list, and am working on a way to find exclusive iTunes releases, because I’m pretty sure there’s music that falls under collector radars simply due to the volume of new, older, and archival film music that keeps coming out.

Trust me, I still have the odd eighties Intrada catalogue in a drawer that lists maybe 15-20 new releases for the next month.

Two more things.

Rue Morgue reviewed the video game Dead Space 2, and I’ve posted a review of Jason Graves’ fun, dissonant score that should only be played loud at night in a dark room. An interview with the composer is available at the G4 website.

And lastly, U.K. label Finders Keeprs (I love that name) has been slowly putting out material by Polish composer Zdenek Liska (The Shop on Main Street), and a series of albums featuring music from Jean Rollin films.

I’ll have a review of several Liska scores in the coming weeks (including one rarity, with its corresponding film), but collectors should check out the label’s website. They feature a wild collection of music from around the world, mostly from the trippy sixties and seventies, but their art direction for limited LP pressings is fantastic.

The only label that comes to mind with any equivalent bonus material – reproductions of ephemera as inserts in deluxe gatefold or standard sleeve packaging – is Screen Archives Entertainment, in their Albert Glasser diptych Tokyo File 212 (1951) and Huk! (1956) – the latter film still in my top want-to-see-now list.

Now to shut up, get on with more finger-hurting typing, and let you peruse the Master List.

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Online only via iTunes and Amazon.com

Dead Space 2 (Jason Graves)

Dragon Age II (Inon Zur)

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Alhambra (Germany)

Dschungelkind (Annette Focks)

Im Himmel, Unter der Erde (Karim Sebastian Elias)

Schicksalsjahre (Wolfram De Marco)

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Anti (USA)

Rango (Hans Zimmer)

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Beat Records (Italy)

Beware the Darkness (Fabio Frizzi) --- ltd. 500 copies, late March

Cugni carnali / High School Girl, aka Hot and Bothered (Claudio Mattone) --- late March

Campa carogna la tagliacresce / Those Dirty Jobs (Nico Fidenco) --- late March

Etoore lo fusto / Hector the Might (Francesco DeMasi) --- ltd. 500 copies, late March

La pardona e’servita / The Mistress is Served (Stevio Cipriani) --- late March

Tutto a posto e niente in ordine / All Screwed Up (Piero Piccioni) --- ltd. 500 copies, late March

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BSX Records (USA)

Megaforce (Jerold Immel) --- ltd. 2000 copies

Perkins’ 14 (Kostas Christides) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Cometa (Italy)

La ragazza alla pari / The Best, aka Au-Pair Girl (Enrico Pieranunzi, Giovanni Chimenti) --- late March

Mannaja / A Man Called Blade (Guido and Mauzizio De Angelis) --- late March

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Il grande attacco (Franco Micalizzi) --- early April

La cripta e l’incubo (Carlo Savina) --- early April

Stridulum (Franco Micalizzi) --- early April

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él Records (UK)

Beat Girl (John Barry)

Strada, La / Le Notti Di Cabiria (Nino Rota) --- April 4

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

Homecoming: A Christmas Story, The (Jerry Goldsmith) + Rascals & Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (James Horner)

I Spy, Vol. 2: The LPs (Earle Hagen)

Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Nathan Van Cleave)

Telefon (Lalo Schifrin) + Hide in Plain Sight (Leonard Rosenman)

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Finders Keepers Records (UK)

Frisson des vampires, Les (Acanthus) --- CD + LP

Jeunes filles impudiques (Pierre Raph) --- LP

Mala Morska Vila (Zdenek Liska) --- CD + LP

Saxana – The Girl on a Broomstick (Angelo Michajlov) --- CD + LP

Solla Solla (various) --- CD + LPs

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GDM (Italy)

America paese di dio / So This is God’s Country? (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Armando Trovaioli) --- ltd. 500 copies, late March

Ballata per un pistolero (Marcello Giombini) --- ltd. 300 copies, reissue, late March

Da uomo a uomo / Death Rides a Horse (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. reissue, late March

Dinamite Jim (Nico Fidenco) --- ltd. 500 copies, early April

Disubbidienza, La (Ennio Morricone) --- CD Club

L’Uomo che ride: original (Carlo Savina) + rejected (Piero Piccioni) scores --- ltd. 500 copies*

Ringo il volto della vendetta (Francesco DeMasi) --- reissue, ltd. 300 copies, late March

Tedeum (Guido and Maurizio De Angelis) --- early April

Uccideva a freddo / The Cold Killer (John Ireson, Wyman L. Parham) --- mid-April

Vita a volte e’molto dura, vero provvidenza?, La (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 750 copies, early April

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Heristal (Italy)

Ennio Morricone performed by Movies Trio

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Intrada (USA)

Battlestar Galactica (Stu Phillips) --- ltd. 3000 copies

Cliffhanger (Trevor Jones) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 2000 copies

Exposed (Georges Delerue) --- ltd. 1000 copies

House of Usher, aka Fall of the House of Usher (Les Baxter) --- ltd. 1200 copies

Kremlin Letter, The (Robert Drasnin) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Trail of the Pink Panther (Henry Mancini) --- 1200 copies

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (Ron Goodwin) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 2000 copies

Wrongfully Accused (Bill Conti) --- ltd. 1500 copies

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Audrey Rose (Michael Small) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Carnival – London cast (Bob Merrill) --- ltd. 1000 copies, early April

Counterfeit Traitor, The (Alfred Newman) --- ltd. 1500 copies, early April

Ordeal by Innocence (Pino Donaggio) --- ltd. 1000 copiess

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Beastly (Marcelo Zarvos)

Drive Angry (Michael Wandmacher)

Source Code (Chris Bacon) --- March 29

Super (Tyler Bates) --- April 5

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Legend Records (Italy)

Guendalina + Nata di marzo / March’s Child + La parmigiana / The Girl from Parma (Piero Piccioni) --- ltd. 1500, late March

Moses the Lawgiver (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 1500, 2 CDs, late March

Valdez il mezzosangue / Chico, aka Valdez’ Horses (Guido and Maurizio De Angelis) --- ltd. 1500 copies, late March

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Mark Isham Music / MIM (USA)

Mechanic, The (Mark Isham) --- see website for various release versions

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Cuckoo (Andrew Hewitt)

Herencia Valdemar II: Sombre Prohibida, La (Arnau Bataller)

Land That Time Forgot: The Fantasy Film Music of Chris Ridenhour, The

Mega-Shark vs. Giant Octopus: The Monster Film Music of Chris Ridenhour

Monster Mutt (Chris Walden)

2012 Supernova: The Sci-Fi Film Music of Chris Ridenhour

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Naxos (USA)

Carmen (Ernesto Halffter) --- March 29

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Nuba Records / Karonte Distribution (Spain)

Retornos (Sergio Moure)

Secuestrados (Sergio Moure)

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Death Warrant (Gary Chang) --- ltd. 2000 copies, mid-March

Slipstream (Elmer Bernstein) --- ltd. 3000 copies, late April

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Phantom Soundtracks (USA)

Alien Terrain (Demetri Fox)

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Il Peccato (Antonio Perez Olea) --- ltd. 500 copies

La Notte (Giorgio Gaslini) --- ltd. 500 copies

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RCA (USA)

Bette Davis: Classic Film Scores of Bette Davis (Max Steiner)

Citizen Kane: Classic Film Music of Bernard Herrmann

Elizabeth and Essex: Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Laura + Forever Amber + The Bad & the Beautiful (David Raksin)

Now Voyager: Classic Film Score of Max Steiner

Spellbound: Classic Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa

Sunset Boulevard: Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

Being Human (Richard Wells)

Biutiful (Gustavo Santaolalla)

Doctor Who: A Christmas Special (Murray Gold) --- late March

Promise, The (Debbie Wiseman)

Rite, The (Alex Heffes)

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Sony (Italy)

Come un delfino (Ennio Morricone) --- late March

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Times Square Records / Silva Screen (USA)

Sufis at the Cinema: 50 Years of Bollywood Qawwali & Sufi Song 1958-2007 (various) --- 2 CDs

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Trunk Records (USA)

Primitive London (Basil Kirchin)

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Twilight Time / Screen Archives Entertainment - DVDs with isolated scores (USA)

Kremlin Letter, The – DVD with isolated track of Robert Drasnin’s score --- ltd. 3000 copies

Violent Saturday – DVD with isolated track of Hugo Friedhofer’s score – litd. 3000 copies, April 12

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Universal Music (USA)

Paul (David Arnold / various) --- April 5

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Battle: Lost Angeles (Brian Tyler)

Fringe: Season 2 (Michael Giacchino)

Hop (Christopher Lennertz) --- April 5

Ironclad (Lorne Balfe)

Largo Winch II (Alexandre Desplat)

Ligne Droite, La (Patrick Doyle)

Princess of Montpensier, The (Philippe Sarde) --- Apr. 5

Pushing Daisies: Season 2 (Jim Dooley) --- Apr. 5

Randy Edelman: ThePacific Flow to Abbey Road --- Apr. 5

Yeux de sa mere, Les / Hos Mother’s Eues (Gustavo Santaolalla)

Your Highness (Steve Jablonsky) --- Apr. 15

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Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Danny Elfman & Tim Burton Anniversary Music Box, The --- 16CD deluxe set + 1 DVD + book, ***released date updated to April 15th at Amazon.com [non-limited set; does not incl. 17th Bonus Disc with ltd. pre-order set from Dec. 2010]

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.

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Mark R. Hasan, Editor
KQEK.com

New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases

Here's the latest tally of new and upcoming soundtrack releases on planet Earth, including titles regular and limited, plus a few you totally missed out on because you blinked too slowly.

(Relax, I too missed Les Baxter's Fall of the House of Usher, which Intrada released Feb. 7th. Two specific points related to an argument: it's Baxter, it's a classic Poe film, so why didn't you press more for the other few hundred that wanted the blasted score? I wonder if I have to wait another 25 years to finally get a copy. Ha-rumpf.)

New to the list is nascent DVD label Twilight Time via Screen Archives Entertainment, who plan to release films on disc with film music goodies, such as isolated scores - a special feature pretty much restricted now to the odd indie title (such as Synapse Films' recent DVD/Blu-ray combo of Vampire Circus [M]) or select Fox Blu-ray titles. More info on the series is available via the Film Score Monthly Message Board.


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Alhambra (Germany)

Hindenburg (Dirk Leupolz)

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Anti (USA)

Rango (Hans Zimmer) --- Mar. 15

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Beat Records (Italy)

Il cinico l’infame il violento / The Cynic, the Rat, and the Fist (Franco Micalizzi) --- ltd. 1000 copies, Feb.

Notti porno nel mondo n.2 / Sexy Night Reporter N.2 (Gianni Marchetti) --- ltd. 500 copies, Feb.

Roma a mano armata / Brutal Justice – Tough Ones (Franco Micalizzi) --- ltd. 1000 copies, Feb.

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BSX Records (USA)

Bounty, The (Vangelis) --- re-recording, 2000 copies

Night Sins (Mark Snow) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Cinevox (Italy)

Giu’la testa / Duck You Sucker (Ennio Morricone) --– 2CDs, Feb.

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Albert e l’uomo Nero (Franco Micalizzi)

Il Massacro della foresta near (Carlo Savina)

Roma l’altra faccia della voilenza + La banda vallanzasca (Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, Vince Tempera, Gian Paolo Chiti, Sergio Montori)

Signora Gioca bene a scopa? La (Alessandro Alessandroni) + L’infermiera (Gianfranco Plenizio)

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Disques Cinemusique (Canada)

Guy de Maupassant (Georges Delerue)

Musique pour l’ecran (Raymond Alessandrini)

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

Big Bus, The (David Shire) --- ltd. 2000 copies

Lassie Come Home: The Canine Cinema Collection (various) --- 5 CDs, ltd. 1000 copies

Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 10,000 copies

Rich and Famous + One is a Lonely Number (Michel Legrand) --- ltd. 2000 copies

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GDM (Italy)

Assassination (Robby Poitevin)

Boccaccio ’70 (Nino Rota)

Che c’entriamo noi con la rivoluzione? – expanded (Ennio Morricone)

Disubbidienza, La / The Disturbance (Ennio Morricone) --- late Feb.

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso / Complete Edition (Enno Morricone) --- Feb.

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Harkit Records (UK)

Depart, Le + Bariera (Christopher Komeda)

Green Hornet, The (Billy May)

Mambo in Paris – non-film (Lalo Schifrin)

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Intermezzo Media / Mask Records (Italy)

Alessandro Alessandroni: Prisma Sonore --- mid-Feb.

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Interscope Records (USA)

127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)

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Intrada (USA)

Battlestar Galactica (Stu Phillips) --- ltd. 3000 copies

48 HRS. (James Horner) --- ltd. 5000 copies

House of Usher (Les Baxter) --- 1200 copies

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Casino Royale (1967) (Burt Bacharach) --- 2CDs, ltd.1000 copies, Jan. 18

Dry White Season, A (Dave Grusin) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Fear Strikes Out / The Tin Star (Elmer Bernstein) --- ltd. 1500 copies, early Mar.

Gone with the Wind (Harold Rome musical) --- ltd. 1000 copies, early Mar.

Gorky Park (James Horner) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Beastly (Marcelo Zarvos)

Blue Valentine (Grizzly Bear)

Drive Angry (Michael Wandmacher)

Faster (Clint Mansell)

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Milan Records (USA/Europe)

Oldboy (Jo Yeong-Wook)

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Amalia (Nuno Malo)

Cool Dog (Stephen Edwards)

Cuckoo (Andrew Hewitt)

Herencia Valdemar II: La Sombre Prohibida, La (Arnau Bataller)

Monster Mutt (Chris Walden)

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Music Box Records (France)

L’Incorrigible / Va voir maman, papa travaille (Georges Delerue) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Normal Records (Germany)

Alpha 0.7 (Christopher Blaser, Steffen Kahles)

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Death Warrant (Gary Chang) --- ltd. 2000 copies

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Harry & Son (Henry Mancini) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Il Peccato / Noche de Verano (Antonio Perez Olea) --- ltd. 500 copies

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RCA (USA)

Bette Davis: Classic Film Scores of Bette Davis (Max Steiner) --- Mar. 1

Citizen Kane: Classic Film Music of Bernard Herrmann – Mar. 1

Elizabeth and Essex: Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold --- Mar.1

Laura + Forever Amber + The Bad & the Beautiful (David Raksin) --- Mar. 1

Now Voyager: Classic Film Score of Max Steiner --- Mar. 1

Spellbound: Classic Film Scores of Miklos Rozsa --- Mar. 1

Sunset Boulevard: Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman --- Mar. 1

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

Brighton Rock (2010) (Martin Phipps) --- Feb. 7

Doctor Who: Series 5 (Murray Gold) --- 2CDs

Eagle, The (Atli Orvarsson) --- mid-Mar.

Francis Lai: The Essential Film Music Collection --- Jan. 11

Next Three Days, The (Danny Elfman)

Promise, The (Debbie Wiseman)

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Trunk Records (USA)

Primitive London (Basil Kirchin)

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Twilight Time / Screen Archives Entertainment - DVDs with isolated scores (USA)

Kremlin Letter, The – DVD with isolated score track --- ltd. 3000 copies, mid-Mar.

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Battle: Lost Angeles (Brian Tyler) --- March 8

Fringe: Season 2 (Michael Giacchino) --- Mar. 8

Ironclad (Lorne Balfe) --- Mar. 1

Largo Winch II (Alexandre Desplat) --- Mar. 22

Ligne Droite, La (Patrick Doyle) --- Mar. 8

Princess of Montpensier, The (Philippe Sarde) --- Apr. 5

Pushing Daisies: Season 2 (Jim Dooley) --- Apr. 5

Randy Edelman: ThePacific Flow to Abbey Road --- Apr. 5

Sanctum (David Hirschfelder)

Unknown (John Ottman) --- Feb. 15

Way Back, The (Burkhard Dallwitz)

Yeux de sa mere, Les / His Mother’s Eyes (Gustavo Snataolalla) --- Mar. 22

Your Highness (Steve Jablonsky) --- Apr. 15

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Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Danny Elfman & Tim Burton Anniversary Music Box, The --- 16CD deluxe set + 1 DVD + book, Feb. 15 [non-limited set; does not incl. 17th Bonus Disc with ltd. pre-order set from Dec. 2010]

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.








Mark R. Hasan, Editor
KQEK.com

New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases

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Here's the latest tally of new and upcoming soundtrack releases on planet Earth, including titles regular and limited (ahem).

BSX Records (USA)

Bounty, The (Vangelis) --- re-recording, 2000 copies

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Cometa (Italy)

Otello (Luigi Zito) CMT10012

Mysticae / aka L’uomo e la magia (Ennio Morricone) --- Jan.

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Decca (USA)

King’s Speech, The (Alexandre Desplat)

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Albert e l’uomo nero (Franco Micalizzi)

Colt e la mia legge, La (Carlo Savina)

Signora gioca bene a scopa, La? (Alessandro Alessandroni) + L’infermiera (Gianfranco Plenizio)

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Disney (USA)

Tron Legacy (Daft Punk) --- Dec. 7

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Epic Records (Japan)

Leonie (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

Man Called Horse, A (Leonard Rosenman) --- ltd. 2000 copies

North Dallas Forty (John Scott) --- ltd. 2000 copies

Poltergeist (Jerry Goldsmith ) --- 2CDs, ltd. 10,000 copies

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GDM (Italy)

Assassination (Robby Poitevin) --- coming soon

Che C'Entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione? (Ennio Morricone) --- coming soon

Maledette pistole di dallas, le / Damned Guns of Dallas (Gioacchino Angelo) --- ltd. 500 copies

Pistole non discutono, Le / Guns Don’t Talk (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 750 copies

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Ghent Film Festival (Belgium)

For the Record: Shigeru Umebayashi

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Harkit Records (UK)

Green Hornet, The (Billy May) --- 60 mins. CD

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Interscope Records (USA)

127 Hours (A.R. Rahman)

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Intrada (USA)

Clash of the Titans (1981) (Laurence Rosenthal) --- 2CDs, ltd. 3000 copies

First Blood (Jerry Goldsmith) --- 2CDs

Navy Seals (Sylvester Levay) --- ltd. 1200 copies

On the Threshold of Space (Paul Sawtell) + The Hunters (Lyn Murray) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Patton (Jerry Goldsmith) --- 2CDs

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Casino Royale (1967) (Burt Bacharach) --- 2CDs, ltd.1000 copies, Jan. 18,

Dead of Winter (Richard Einhorn)

Genghis Khan (Dusan Radic) --- mid-Jan.

Sadismo (Les Baxter)

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Faster (Clint Mansell)

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La-La Land Records (USA)

Batman Returns (Danny Elfman) --- 2CDs, ltd. 3500 copies

Haunted Honeymoon (John Morris) --- ltd. 1200 copies

Home Alone (John Williams) --- ltd. 3500 copies

Jade (James Horner) --- ltd. 3000 copies

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Jerry Goldsmith) --- 2CDs, ltd. 5000 copies

Unstoppable (Harry Gregson-Williams)

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Largo Music (France)

Vladimir Cosma Vol. 2: 51 Films – 51 Original Soundtracks --- 17 CDS

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Madison Gate Records / Columbia (USA)

Salt (James Newton Howard) --- Amazon on-demand CD-R

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Milan Records (USA/Europe)

Illusionist, The (Sylvain Chomet)

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Amalia (Nuno Malo)

Bruc (Xavier Capellas)

Cuckoo (Andrew Hewitt)

Happy Now (Dario Marianelli)

Merlin (BBC) (Rob Lane)

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Nonsuch (USA)

True Grit (Carter Burwell) --- Dec. 21

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Puppet Master (John Massari, Peter Bernstein, Richard Band) --- 5CDs

Unforgettable (Christopher Young) --- ltd. 1200 copies

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Coup de foudre (Luis Bacalov) --- ltd. 500 copies

Dedicato al mare egeo (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Pianos mecaniques, Les (Georges Delerue) --- ltd. 500 copies

Tambien la lluvia / Even the Rain (Alberto Iglesias)

Yellowbeard (John Morris) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Saimel (Spain)

Angeli senza paradise (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino) --- mid-Dec.

Heroes (Arnau Batalier) --- mid-Dec.

Pa negre – pan negro (Jose Manuel Pagan) --- mid-Dec.

Ragazzo che sorride, Il (Carlo Rustichelli)) --- mid-Dec.

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Screen Archives Records (USA)

Cyrano de Bergerac (Dimitri Tiomkin) --- 2CDs, ltd. 1500 copies

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

Brighton Rock (2010) (Martin Phipps) --- Feb. 7

Doctor Who: Series 5 (Murray Gold) --- 2CDs

Francis lai: The Essential Film Music Collection --- Jan. 11

Next Three Days, The (Danny Elfman)

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SMJ Records (Japan)

Norwegian Wood / Noruwei No Mori (Jonny Greenwood)

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Sony (USA)

Black Swan (Clint Mansell)

Chronicles of Narnia, The (David Arnold)

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SPV (Germany)

Popol Vuh: The Werner Hezog Soundtrack + Book --- 5CDs + book, ltd. 5000 copies, Jan. 25

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Toho (Japan)

Rodan / Yog, Monster from Space (Akira Ifukube) --- 2 CDs, late Jan.

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TVT Records (USA)

Tempest, The (2010) (Elliot Goldenthal)

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Get Low (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)

Gulliver’s Travels (Henry Jackman)

Karate Kid, The (Bill Conti) --- Varese CD Club, ltd. 2000 copies

Little Fockers (Stephen Trask) --- Jan. 11

Sanctum (David Hirschfelder) --- Feb. 1

Skyline (Matthew Margeson)

Tourist, The (James Newton Howard)

Way Back, The (Burkhard Dallwitz) --- Jan. 18

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Verita Note (Japan)

Finalmente… Le mille e una notte (Carlo Savina)

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Warner Bros. Records (USA)

Danny Elfman & Tim Burton Anniversary Music Box, The --- 16CD deluxe set + 1 DVD + book, Feb. 15 [non-limited set; does not incl. 17th Bonus Disc with ltd. pre-order set from Dec. 2010]

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.

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Mark R. Hasan, Editor

KQEK.com

New & Imminent Soundtrack Releases

The latest tally of international soundtracks includes a few labels I’ve never heard of – RKYoung, France’s Largo Music, Japan’s Verita Note, and Germany’s Königskinder Music.

As always, I’ve tried to find direct links to the record labels’ own sites, but if you have a link for the ones I’ve missed, please post them in the Comments section (and if you’d like to have your soundtrack reviewed at KQEK.com or your horror score covered in Rue Morgue Magazine, please see the About Me sidebar for further info).

Incidentally, Königskinder Music, like a number of labels, has their own Facebook page, and they’ve included some brief video footage of David Newman conducting the Berlin Score Orchestra.

Coming soon shortly will be a review of Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Water Magician / Taki no shiraito (1933), and an interview with Brandon Hocura, whose group VOWLS recently performed their original score live for an audience at the Shinsedai Cinema Festival in Toronto.

The Soundtrack List (updated, as of Wednesday Sept. 22/2010):

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Chandos Records (UK)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: The String Quartets --- Sept. 28

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Chris’ Soundtrack Corner (Germany)

Papaya dei caraibi / Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals (Stelvio Cipriani) --- early Sept.

Vai gorilla / The Hired Gun (Fabio Frzzi, Franco Bixio, Vince Tempera) --- early Sept.

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Colosseum (Germany)

Hochzeitspolka (Jacob Ilja) --- Sept. 24

L’arbre / The Tree (Grégoire Hetzel)

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Cometa (Italy)

10 bianchi uccisi da un piccolo indiano / Blood River (Piero Umiliani) --- ltd. 500 copies

Si salvi chi vuole (Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 500 copies, mid-Sept.

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DigitMovies (Italy)

Black Box Affair / Il mondo trema (Gianni Ferrio) --- late Sept.

Eat It / Mangiala (Ennio Morricone) --- late Sept.

Sergente Klems (Carlo Rustichelli) --- late Sept.

Un'anguilla da 300 milioni / Million Dollar Eel (Fiorenzo Carpi) --- late Sept

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Film Score Monthly (FSM) (USA)

CHiPs: Vol. 3 (John Parker, Alan Silvestri) --- ltd. 3000 copies

Dragon Seed (Herbet Stothart) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 1000 copies

Hawaii Five-O (Morton Stevens)

Hunters are for Killing (Jerry Fielding) --- ltd. 2000 copies

Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project 1987-1999) --- 14 CDs, ltd. to 5000 copies, late Sept.

TV Omnibus: Volume One (1992-1976) (various) --- 5 CDs, ltd. 2000 copies

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GDM (Italy)

Anastasia mio fratello / My Brother Anastasia (Piero Piccioni) --- early Sept.

Ci risiamo, vero provvidenza? (Bruno Nicolai, Ennio Morricone) --- ltd. 750 copies, early Oct.

Come imparai ad amare le donne (Ennio Morricone) --- expanded CD, early Oct.

Di tresette ce n’e’ uno tutti gli altri son nessuno / The Crazy Bunch (Alessandro Alessandroni) --- early Oct.

Drammi Gotici / Gothic Dramas (Ennio Morricone) --- early Sept.

Johnny Oro (Carlo Savina) --- ltd. 500 copies, early Oct.

Per il gusto di uccidere / Bounty Killer (Nico Fidenco) --- early Oct.

Un tranquillo posto di campagna / A Quiet Place in the Country (Ennio Morricone)

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Image Entertainment (USA)

Thriller: Complete Series (DVD, featuring select isolated music & effects tracks of music by Jerry Goldsmith & Morton Stevens)

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Intrada (USA)

Brotherhood of the Bell, The / Step Out of Line, A (Jerry Goldsmith) --- ltd. 2500 copies

Cohen & Tate (Bill Conti) --- ltd. to 1200 copies

Deep, The (John Barry) --- 2 CDs, ltd. 3000 copies

Organization, The (Gil Melle) --- ltd. 1000 copies

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Königskinder Music (Germany)

Konferenz Der Tiere / Animals United (David Newman) --- Coming soon

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Kritzerland Records (USA)

Billy Barnes’ L.A. (Billy Barnes) --- ltd. 1000 copies.

Boy and the Pirates, The + Attack of the Puppet People suite (Albert Glasser)

One-Eyed Jacks (Hugo Friedhofer) --- 2 CDs, ltd .1000 copies --- mid-Sept.

Saint Joan (Mischa Spoliansky) --- ltd. 1000 copies

Sugar (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) --- 2 CDs, ltd. to 1000 copies, mid-Sept.

Unforgiven, The + The Way West (Dimitri Tiomkin + Bronislau Kaper) --- reissue & remaster, ltd. to 1000 copies, early Oct.

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Lakeshore Records (USA)

Jack Goes Boating (Evan Lurie)

Least Among You, The (Mark Killian)

Waiting for Superman (Christopher Beck) --- Oct. 19

Vampires Suck (Christopher Lennertz)

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La-La Land Records (USA)

Beach Blanket Bingo (Les Baxter)

Dunston Checks In (Miles Goodman) --- Sept. 14

Greystoke: Tarzan Lord of the Apes (John Scott) --- expanded,
ltd. 3000 copies, Sept. 21

Hell’s Bells (Les Baxter) --- ltd. 1200 copies, Sept. 14

Lone Gunman, The / Harsh Realm (Mark Snow) --- ltd. 2000 copies

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Largo Music (France)

47 bandes originales pour 47 films (Vladimir Cosma) --- 17 CDs, coming soon

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Milan Records (USA/Europe)

Resident Evil: Afterlife (Tomandandy) --- Sept. 28

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Deadline (Carlos Jose Alvarez)

Deux mondes, Les (Richard Harvey)

Horde, The (Christopher Lennertz)

Legend of Silkboy, The (Alain Mayrand)

Within (Jeff Toyne)

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Perseverance Records (USA)

Jason and the Argonauts (Simon Boswell) --- early Oct.

Red Sonja (Ennio Morricone) – coming soon

Unforgettable (Christopher Young) --- ltd. 1200 copies --- coming soon

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Quartet Records (Spain)

Cinema Tivoli (Alfonso Santisteban) --- ltd. 500 copies, late Sept.

Curse of the Pink Panther (Henry Mancini) --- ltd. 1000, late Sept.

Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue / Horror Express --- ltd. 500 copies, late Sept.

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RKYoung (?)

Shane: A Tribute to Victor Young --- reissue of 1996 KOCH digital recording, ltd. to 500 copies

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Silva Screen (USA / UK)

100 Greatest Western Themes (various) --- 6 CDs

Classic Greek Film Music (various) --- Oct. 16

Expendables, The (Brian Tyler)

Get Carter (Roy Budd)

Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy (Jacob Groth)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Brad Fiedel)

Town, The (Harry Gregson-Williams) --- Sept. 14

Wicker Man, The (Pauk Giovanni) --- reissue, Oct.5

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Sumthing Else (USA)

Halo: Reach (Martin O’Donnell, Michael Salvatori) --- Sept. 28

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Varese Sarabande (USA)

Angelo Badalamenti: Music for Film and Television --- Oct. 12

Charlie Cloud (Rolfe Kent)

Hachi: A Dog’s Tale (Jan P. Kaczmarek) --- Oct. 12

Let Me In (Michael Giacchino) --- Oct.5

Lost: The Final Season (Michael Giacchino) ---Sept. 14

Never Let me Go (Rachel Portman)

Pillars of the Earth, The (Trevor Morris) --- Sept. 21

Spartacus (Joseph LoDuca) --- Sept. 21

Tru Blood: Season 2 (Nathan Barr) --- Sept. 14

Tudors: Season 4 (Trevor Morris) --- Oct. 12

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Verita Note (Japan)

Ti ho sposato per allegria (Piero Piccioni) --- coming soon

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Water Tower Music (Warner Bros.) (USA)

Batman: Under the Red Hood (Christopher Drake) – Amazon on-demand

Supernatural: Seasons 1-5 (Christopher Lennertz, Jay Gruska)

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This handy-dandy list was compiled from various sources, including catalogue announcements at Screen Archives Entertainment, Soundtrackcollector.com, Chris’ Soundtrack Corner, and Intrada.

Mark R. Hasan, Editor
KQEK.com

Soundtrack Reviews and Upcoming Releases

Part 1: Isolated Goodies

Before we get to this week’s newly released / announced soundtrack tally, I should mention a pair of upcoming Blu-ray releases that will feature isolated scores.

Image has released Rod Serling’s original Twilight Zone series many times on DVD – first as a series of non-chronological singles, then in boxed sets, and finally in a beautifully remastered 5-volume series that presented the episodes in their original broadcast order, with oodles of extras, including isolated scores.

Some of the isolated music tracks – which included early work by Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman, and several gifted but marginalized composers like Nathan Van Cleave – were already present on the first wave of DVDs, but the Definitive Collection, as the latest sets were branded, seemed to included every possible isolated score that existed in the vaults, including Bernard Herrman’s “Little Girl Lost,” which Varese had to re-record because the stems weren’t available for a CD release.

Universal seems to have followed the trend and will be releasing the classic Boris Karloff series Thriller Aug. 31 with some isolated music materials. Thus far, there’s only been a re-recorded LP of Pete Rugolo’s music on the old Time label, but the new DVD set will feature “isolated music and effects tracks for select episodes from composers Jerry Goldsmith and Morton Stevens,” which is great news from a DVD label that’s shunned that specific special feature for years.

Back when I wrote for the print edition of Music from the Movies, I did a profile of the first volume of Image’s Definitive Collection (see parts One and Two), with some comments by an Image rep on the inclusion of the previously unreleased music stems.

Image recently announced the inevitable: Season 1 will make its debut on Blu-ray Sept. 14, with an SRP of $119.99 CAD. That’s one of the reasons I never bought the mega-set of the Definitive volumes (alongside bad book-styled binding with poor glue). Paramount has already put out the original Star Trek on BR, so it seemed logical TZ was on the way – the only caveat is how long it’ll take for all 5 seasons to be released on BR, and whether Image will package them in a mega-set.

(If the series’ release history tells us anything, most likely it’ll be a while for a mega-set, since they usually come out at a lower price because it’s one way for labels to blow out excess stock, after ardent fans have snapped up the pricier single season editions.)

In any event, Image’s PR sheets state the BR edition of Season 1 will contain the isolated scores, so as an ardent fan of the TZ series and the great chamber-sized scores by some of film music’s unsung heroes, I’m giddy. Varese Sarabande's original 5-LP slate of TZ music from the 1980s was one of the reasons I got into film music, and they were among the first soundtracks I bought while still in high school.

Moving on, Fox hasn’t been doing much with their back catalogue of late, and they’ve been focusing on key franchises and contemporary classics rather than re-starting the film noir and classics lines which film fans loved so much. The downside to that decision is a lot of little-seen and CinemaScope classics will never appear on DVD or BR, and what we've been getting is a regurgitation of films seemingly culled from AFI’s top whatever list – populist classics that will probably sell, albeit after already being released many times on DVD.

When the Alien Quadrilogy debuted in a box that unfurled like the felt wrapper my mother used to pack up the silverware, it was a pricey monster that eventually got knocked down to loss leader status. I waited long after writing up a detailed review of the set (see parts One and Two) and snapped it up for $14, which made a friend wince, seeing how he paid full price a few years earlier.

For the franchise’s inevitable BR release on Oct. 26 (SRP to be determined for Canada), Fox is porting over everything from the Quadrilogy, and taking an idea from the prior Alien boxed set, where Alien had an isolated score track. ALL of the 4 Alien films will have isolated music tracks, and the PR sheet’s wording is a bit murky in describing whether the scores will be the theatrical score edits, or the full realm of used and unused cues.

Jerry Goldsmith, for example, had to write a lot of alternate music for Ridley Scott’s Alien; more than enough to fill Intrada's non-limited, 2-disc CD set. In Aliens, director James Cameron dropped some of James Horner's cues in favour of sound effects. With Alien 3, Elliot Goldenthal had to contend with a film that was never in any final shape, and John Frizzell wrote a big chunk of music for Alien Resurrection. If these scores are included in their full length, the BR’s will provide fans a great chance to see the films as the composers envisioned before sound effects and radical editorial changes were brought into the blender. That, plus the music in uncompressed stereo.

Also announced is a new 3-disc set of Apocalypse Now for Oct. 19, which is moving from Paramount to Lionsgate (USA) / Maple (Canada). That’s a nice feather in the cap for the two labels, since Paramount’s been deleting a massive amount of back catalogue titles over the past two years. Apparently the new BR set will feature the theatrical and redux versions in the former’s original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 – reportedly a first for home video – plus the great doc Hearts of Darkness, where director Francis Ford Coppola almost lost his sanity making his epic. An isolated score track would be nice… but that doesn’t seem to be in the package, although the set will contain a featurettes on the synth score.

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Part 2: What in Hell is Wrong With You?

Lastly, this Tuesday John Carpenter’s Escape from New York makes its debut on BR via MGM / Fox in a new 1080p transfer, but if this set is an indication of where MGM’s corporate brain is right now, film fans will be in for a lot of disappointing catalogue releases.

Disc 1 features the film; Disc 2 has the film in Standard DVD, plus a theatrical trailer.

That’s it.

The 2-disc set MGM released in 2003 (when still solvent and sane) contained a deleted opening scene (a 10-min. bank robbery sequence); making-of featurettes on the film and comic book, photo gallery, and A COMMENTARY TRACK WITH DIRECTOR JOHN CARPENTER AND KURT RUSSELL, plus ANOTHER COMMENTARY TRACK WITH PRODUCER DEBRA HILL AND PRODUCTION DESIGNER JOE ALVES.

Around 2003, MGM exploited the old Avco-Embassy catalogue by bringing out excellent special editions of The Howling (1981), The Fog (1980), and Escape from New York, but of late they’ve done little of note for exploitation or classic titles. Older classics like Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly and John Huston’s The Misfits, for example, are now out of print, and may stay that way for a while until the company’s financial issues are settled.

Most likely MGM is focusing on keeping a bare bones release schedule, with best-selling classics getting the BR treatment. The decision to port over zero extras from the SD-DVD is pure laziness, or some daft effort to double-dip the consumer. If MGM wants money, they should put out definitive editions filled with extant value added features, instead of going half-assed.

The Digital Bit’s Bill Hunt has had two large rants about what the labels are doing wrong with BR, and he’s certainly dead-on with the bizarre decision to hold back on extras in favour of bare bones editions that leave room in the future for a double-dip.

If you want the format to gain the broadest acceptance among consumers, make it the best product you can.

MGM couldn’t fit the previously released extras on a 50 GB BR disc?

Rubbish. MGM: go to the corner, and firmly plant that dunce cap onto your head until you wake up and realize you’re neither helping the market, the format, nor the company by being creatively numb and cheap.

Universal is equally contemptuous of their back catalogue. Joe Dante’s Matinee (1993) recently made it to DVD in an anamorphic transfer, but it’s a bare bones release that features none of the modest extras used on the old laserdisc. The label’s apathy is wholly confounding, because Dante had been making overtures to Universal for years, offering to loan production ephemera and participate in a special edition. At DVD Savant, Glenn Erickson interviewed Dante about the label’s ignorance, and it’s a saddening read, since the film will likely never get a special edition in North America.

Although... maybe in Britain? Carpenter recorded audio commentary tracks for They Live and Howard Hawks’ The Thing. Heck, even MGM Europe had the keen desire to create special editions around 2004 of Sergio Leone westerns before they were eventually ported over to Region 1 land, as well as war classics like 1969’s Battle of Britain and 1977’s A Bridge Too Far).

It reads like collector whining, but ask yourself this: If you just dropped $2000 on a new 1080p entertainment system, wouldn't you be irked that for $20, you get a bare bones release of a movie in a BR / DVD combo, but for $10 more, you get the special edition, albeit on DVD? The price point is retarded, and it's an example of inept planning within MGM's home video division, which seems to have been incipient since 2005. Certainly one reason MGM is a mess and Warner Bros. and Sony remain dominant forces in the home video market is where the latter two know how to exploit their catalogue titles with value added features, and logical pricing. Warner's A Star is Born (1954) is loaded on DVD, but if you spend a bit more, you get better resolution and the full package of special features.

That's just logical, so you have to wonder: What the hell is wrong with MGM?

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Part 3: New Soundtrack Reviews

Just uploaded are five CD reviews, with more to follow shortly: Franco Micalizzi’s Le Amazzoni / Battle of the Amazons (DigitMovies), Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s score for the 1955 travelogue / documentary Continente Perduto / The Lost Continent (Alhambra), Mark Mancina’s complete Speed 2: Cruise Control (La-La Land), Theodore Shapiro’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid (La-La Land), and La-La Land’s Mike Judge double-billing of John Frizzell’s Office Space, and Shapiro’s Idiocracy.

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Part 4: Soundtracks – New and Imminent

Beat Records (Italy)

Lesbo (Alessandro Alessandroni, Francesco De Masi) --- late July; ltd. 500 copies

Milano: Il clan dei Calabresi / The Last Desperate Hours (Gianni Marchetti) --- late July; ltd. 500 copies

Via della prostituzione, La / Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (Nico Fidenco) --- late July; ltd. 1000 copies

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Film Score Monthly / FSM (USA)

Butterfield 8: Bronislau Kaper at MGM, Vol. 1 (1954-1962) --- Ltd. 1200 copies

Dragon Seed (Herbert Stothhart) --- Ltd. 1000 copies

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GDM (Italy)

Anastasia mio fratello / My Brother Anastasia (Piero Piccioni) --- early Sept.

Drammi Gotici / Gothic Dramas (Ennio Morricone) --- early Sept.

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Intrada (USA)

Maxie (Georges Delerue) --- Ltd. 1200 copies

Mean Season, The (Lalo Schifrin) --- Ltd. 1200 copies

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Kritzerland (USA)

Promises, Promises (Burt Bacharach / Hal David) --- mid. Aug.

Romantic Comedy (Marvin Hamlisch) --- early Aug. / Ltd. 1000 copies

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Lakeshore (USA)

Countdown to Zero (Peter Golub) --- Aug. 17

Dinner for Schmucks (Theodore Shapiro) --- Aug. 3

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La-La Land Records (USA)

Batman (Danny Elfman) --- 2CDs / Ltd. 5000 copies

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Theodore Shapiro)

Krull (James Horner) --- 2CDS / Ltd. 3000 copies

Predators (John Debney)

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MovieScore Media (Sweden)

Deadline (Carlos José Alvarez)

Legend of Silkboy, The (Alan Mayrand)

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Legend (Italy)

Fraulein Doktor (Ennio Morricone) --- mid-Aug. / Ltd. 1500 copies

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Music Market (Italy)

Super Bud Spencer & Terence Hill, Vol. 1 (various) --- early Aug.

Super Bud Spencer & Terence Hill, Vol. 2 (various) --- early Aug.

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Perseverance (USA)

Kickboxer (Paul Herzog) --- early Aug.

No Retreat, No Surrender (Frank Harris) --- early Aug.

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Silva Screen (UK / USA)

Expendibles, The (Brian Tyler) --- late Aug.

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Brad Fiedel) --- mid-Aug.

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Tadlow (UK)

Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) – early Sept. / 2-CD re-recording

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Toho (Japan)

Mothra (Yuji Koseki) --- early Aug. / 2-CDs

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Mark R. Hasan, Editor

KQEK.com