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Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer
1977 | OST | Genre : Electronic | FLAC - Lossless | 214 Mb | RS | Covers & Label incl
| “ | Tangerine Dream's first movie soundtrack was for Sorcerer, a film directed by William Friedkin. This was a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Salaire de la Peur (or Wages of Fear), a classic nail-biter in which four men enlist to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerine across treacherous terrain, including, as can be seen from the cover, a less-than-fortified bridge.Sorcerer would turn out to be Friedkin's first major bomb, though over time the film has garnered more favorable reappraisal. Friedkin was already familiar with another member of the Virgin Records roster, Mike Oldfield, having used the main theme of Tubular Bells for his previous film The Exorcist. Friedkin met Tangerine Dream and gave them script for Sorcerer. They responded by mailing him ninety minutes of music while he was filming, all created without having seen any of the actual footage of the movie. Friedkin remains laudatory: "The film and the score are inseparable." Though released a year after Stratosfear, musically this score falls prior to it, without the upgraded sequencing gear that seems to be present on some of that album's work. Rather, Sorcerer works as a summation of the ideas that had come from the Phaedra-Ricochetsequence. Perfectly complemented by a terrific picture of the trio with glowering stares in half-silhouette (Baumann looks especially evil), the band shows they are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty and textural once again. The "Main Title" makes an incredible start. For my money, it is probably the most compelling music the band had presented for several albums. Opening with an electronic wind and echoing, and continuing onwards with low buzzing and throbbing, this track marks a welcome return to the quality of their earlier, experimental material, particularly Phaedra: a wailing wall of dark sound evoking the wild nature of the terrain. "Rain Forest" gives off a foreboding mood as well, with a pulsing bass riff and a synthesizer that scrapes in upwards movements like the patter of insects. The opening of "Abyss" also builds impressively in atmosphere with backwards and phasing effects, before launching into a hallucinogenic blur of Phaedrian string mellotron. Other tracks lean toward the more repetitive-melodic, accessible approach of the albums that immediately preceded this soundtrack. Examples of these include "Search," the Bolero-like slow march of "Vengeance," the heroic theme of "Grind," and "Betrayal." While many tracks are nothing really new, the only one that sounded lesser to me was the "Impressions of 'Sorcerer'" track, where the band goes for a funkiness that comes off a little stiff, with Froese's guitar soloing, something of which I've never really been taken. Overall a good effort, and the best tracks on here like the opening one and "Abyss" are high grade TD. My guess is fans of the Baumann-era lineup will probably end up having this one sooner or later in any case. review by Joe McGlinchey | � |
Tracklist:
1.Main Title � 5:29
2.Search � 2:54
3.The Call � 1:58
4.Creation � 5:00
5.Vengeance � 5:34
6.The Journey � 2:00
7.Grind � 2:49
8.Rain Forest � 2:36
9.Abyss � 7:10
10.The Mountain Road � 1:54
11.Impressions of Sorcerer � 2:53
12.Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme) � 3:41
Edgar Froese -guitars, mellotron, grand piano, Oberheim polyph. synth, ARP Omni string synth, PPG synth,Moog;
Chris Franke -Moog Modular synth, Comp.studio Digital synth, mellotron, ARP synth, Elka string synth, Oberheim sequ.;
Peter Baumann -Projekt Elektronic Modular synth and sequencer, Fender Rhodes, ARP Soloist synth, mellotron;
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