Finally, it has come true!!!
INTRADA - www.intrada.com - has released the wonderful urban-funk score by Charles BERNSTEIN on limited CD (1200 copies). Get it while you can, it is one of the best urban-funk scores from that period, equal to the best works Lalo Schifrin ever did !!
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i cant get it, couldnt u put it up on net for download? please????
shareI´d love to, but I don´t know how and don´t have the equipment. :-( Didn´t anybody else put it up for share? It´s been released over a month ago, it should be findable somewhere in the net, I´d think ...
For the CD try:
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www.soundtrackcorner.de
Whawowowowow....Mr. Majestyk--my word is this good.
It's great that critic (and man-of-good-taste) Elvis Mitchell was involved with this release, going so far as to write the intro to the liner notes and encouraging Charles Bernstein to get this thing done.
I love the rustic, bucolic, melancholy feel of Charles Bernstein's "Mr. Majestyk" score. The "folky dissonances" heard throughout are soooo effective. When that theme is playing, I "see" sunsets, fields, and rolling hills. It's loaded with mood and storytelling. "Melon Harvest" is a brief, but absolutely beautiful cue. I could imagine this on something like How the West Was Won. I've already replayed that track three times in a row already.
Another thing I'm finding is how my interests in film scoring has turned more towards minimalist, spare, avant-garde and smaller orchestras. My long-time interests in Jazz and TV scores have no doubt influenced this change. Mr. Majestyk is another (great) example of this "less is more" approach--guitar, harmonica, percussion, trumpet. And stylistically speaking, I love most anything from the late-sixties/early-seventies that employ this kind of "sound exploration." Nice that my jazz and film score interests have--to use a term of the time---dovevtailed...
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