Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Collector's Edition

Howard Shore fans have their pick of two new albums: Shore's eleventh-hour score to Edge of Darkness or Collector's Edition vol. 1, a collection of unreleased music. Both are about forty minutes of music. Edge sounds more like typical Shore: dark, atonal, and beautifully understated. But Collector's Edition is more appealing because the music on it, representing two unreleased scores and original compositions, is very different than the Shore music I'm used to. Shore promised that he will be releasing more volumes in the future, so it will be interesting to see what ends up on these albums.

Both are available as CDs or iTunes downloads, and I suppose you could just get them both if you're inclined to.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Sunday, February 14, 2010

First Impressions

I had broken down and listened to the Dr Who and the Daleks compilation soundtrack for the two Dr Who movies (I should say the two Dalek movies) of the 1960s. I was throughly warned that it was very sixties type music, but having just listened to the thirty-plus minutes of Malcolm Lockyer's score to the first music, I have no regrets.