Singular Soundtrack announces their upcoming releases, that will be available in two weeks, as soon as their website,
http://www.singularsoundtrack.com/, becomes operative.
Here at last!!!...
THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED (LA RESIDENCIA, AKA "THE FINISHING SCHOOL" and
WHO IS KILLING A CHILD? (¿QUIÉN PUEDE MATAR A UN NIÑO?, AKA "ISLAND OF THE DAMNED"), two masterpieces by the argentinian composer Waldo de los Ríos for the two only films ever directed by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, absolute cult classics for all european fantastique lovers, together in a CD that will make history.
After many years trying to recover this score, long awaited by the film music lovers, Singular Soundtrack located the masters of THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED, which many thought lost for ever. Hidden under other title, in a 1/4 tape with the music recorder for the film in a suite form (or "composer?s cut"), it was recently discovered in the private archives of the composer, giving us the chance to enjoy the music for first time.
WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?, was released in 1976 on Hispavox as an LP (and released on CD in 2002), where there was a selection of tracks of the movie selected and edited by the composer to give the soundtrack a better chance in the general market. We have discovered and recovered the original tapes with the whole recording session, and checked that there where some fragments missing, and, most important, recorded material never used in the final cut.
Remixed and remastered from the original recording tapes, this is the best way to celebrate
the 40th anniversary of THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED and enjoy WHO IS KILLING A CHILD? as it was originally created.
TWO MARVELLOUS SCORES IN A DOUBLE CD!!
Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by Waldo de los Ríos
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Limited edition 1000 copies
CD-1
"THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED" (Original Score)
"WHO IS KILLING A CHILD?" (1976 Album Re-recording)
CD-2
"WHO IS KILLING A CHILD?" (Complete Session Score)
The second volume that SINGULAR SOUNDTRACK dedicates to the unmissable argentinian composer Waldo de los Ríos is focused in two of his sondtracks for westerns, to which he gave his unique style, away both from the genuine american sound and the italian stilistical rupture that Ennio Morricone and other italian composers brought into the genre. Based on the folklore of his country, in orchestrations based in symphonical and in the lattest modern tendencies of Central Europe, Waldo de los Ríos ideas for the western can only be described as surprising.
A TOWN CALLED HELL, co-production between Spain-USA (1971) directed by Robert Parrish and with an outstanding cast starring Telly Savallas, Robert Shaw, Martin Landau, Stella Stevens, Michael Craig and Al Lettieri. Never released before, its masters were found in the private archives of the composer and remixed and remastered from the original 1/4 tapes.
SAVAGE PAMPAS, western produced in 1966 by Samuel Bronston in Spain and directed by the argentinian Hugo Fregonese, it was starred by Rod Taylor, and told the strange event of the battle between the american confederates against the indian and bandits in the distant Argentinian Pampa. It gave Waldo de los Ríos the chance to research and experiment with the origins of the "música criolla" and the folklore of Agentina, composing a great symphonic score with choral pieces and a special percussion section with strange instruments created by himself.
The score had 63 tracks, but they had a poor sound, and were partly shortened. Fortunately, the composer prepared a brilliant album with 6 suites from the original recording, 47 minutes of music released on Hispavox only in Spain and Argentina.
Remixed in spectacular stereo from the original master, this is the first AUTHORISED OFFICIAL release of a western classic, and a greatest score by Waldo de los Ríos.
TWO MARVELLOUS SCORES IN A DOUBLE CD!!
Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by Waldo de los Ríos
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Limited edition 1000 copies
LADY CAROLINE LAMB - Music Composed by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
The complete score of the delighfull score by Richard Rodney Bennett, with its original cover. Licensed by EMI Classics and remastered from the original recording tapes.
NEW PHILARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by MARCUS DODS
"Elegy for Caroline Lamb" played by PETER MARK, solo viola
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Additional information and preorders at:
SINGULAR SOUNDTRACK
email:
singularsoundtrack@gmail.comhttp://www.singularsoundtrack.com/
15-time Academy-Award nominee and the first ever composer to receive a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, Alex North is considered one of the most creative and innovative composers in film history. After a successful career in theatre productions such as Death of a Salesman and The Innocents, North's first Hollywood assignment was Elia Kazan's film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. His heavily jazz-based film score proved groundbreaking and helped start build an international reputation that was later cemented in such classic films as Spartacus, Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Rose Tattoo, Viva Zapata! and The Shoes of the Fisherman.
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