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OP plus LALD. Delivered together to northwest Virginia.
I have a LONG road trip starting Wed next week which will be right on time for this.
aside from remastering mix qualities and better chronological order the la la land edition gives us the complete baron samedi flute cue as part of the track the lovers heard in the film when bond and solitaire "follow the scarecrows" en route to escape by bus.otherwise i'd say 2003 and 2024 releases are the same.ps we are still missing that voodoo drum cue thatsegues into "sacrifice" also film versions of just a closer walk with thee [bridging extension].
Then, there are the inevitable surprises that come with a release like this: the bits of unused music, like the end of Kremlin Art Repository. The cues that were originally meant to go with the death scenes of Mischka and Grischka are especially interesting, because they reuse the India action theme, but in the film, they were replaced with the 009 Gets the Knife music. I think this was a good choice, because it calls back to that scene and fits the locale better.
The other thing I was thinking about is that this score uses trills or tremolos quite a bit. More than other Barry scores, I would say.
It wasn't on the tapes they found. Documents indicate the original idea was to use the ATH instrumental in that scene.
Let the Sport Commence is played in the film when Bond is in the bag, but I don't remember if it's heard in full. I think The Hunt Continues is not heard in the film, and was replaced with the cues you mention.
That's diegetic music, so it was never going to be part of the main album program, which consists of non-diegetic music. In other words, they weren't going to stick it between Checkpoint Charlie and The Romanov Star, so they pushed it to the end of the first disc. Now why not place it chronologically in that section of the disc (between The Floating Palace and Distraction)? Clearly, because it's a very short cue that would break the flow of the album.
Yes, the stab note is clearly an overlay that was added later on. Somehow, I suspected it was going to be absent from the album track. However, I think I can extract it from the film audio and add it on top of the album track. Will let you know.
Sometimes, out of necessity, soundtrack albums are put together from multiple sources. In fact, I recall the expanded version of John Barry's The Dove used film audio stems provided by Paramount to supplement the music that was not available in the tapes they had found.
Yes, very noisy, that's why I couldn't determine which Dramatic Drumming cue they used.
I'm going to look into that web sting cue, see if it can be extracted too.
I played a little game with myself: what other titles would I like to see them take care of next? This is the outcome, in decending order of urgence:
1) MR
2) AVTAK
3) LTK
4) TSWLM
I'd love to have these four as complete as possible, with tracks arranged in film order.
Well I wish every success with those stings (speaking of those ,it's something of a paradox to me that they are absent, yes not unsurprising if they are late production pick-ups or inserts, and yet we have the hot air balloon section of palace fight by contrast found and presented.) moving on i do think dramatic drumming no.2 is the film used track. As for the elusive casino sources at this moment in time i really would be stunned if they turned out to be library tracks not composed by Barry as that sort of music would be more john's meat and potatoes than tracks like ganguar ghat and bazaar for instance(though they clearly show he could do ethnic.
Absolutely, I do think it's more likely that the casino music was recorded for the film.
As for tracks like Gangaur Ghat and Bazaar, I think it's likely that Barry asked the musicians to improv something in the moment, much like the Gypsy Camp guitar solo in FRWL, the banjo music in GF and the jacuzzi music in AVTAK. In other words, it's possible these tracks, while recorded for the film, were only supervised by Barry rather than composed by him.
I tried extracting the web sting music but the results weren't satisfactory enough. Audio looping is needed to get around the SFX, but I couldn't quite crack it this time.
On the other hand, I did manage to add the sting to the Palace Intrigue music. Download here:
https://mega.nz/file/9UQzhTQL#AJcoVUz_q_FrA54E580qy3lKIcCKjGqsYdb7uv706YU
Yeah. Agreed. The sound quality of the two scores is audio heaven.
Of all things, I also find Bazaar very catchy. I always remembered the music accompanying the bit with the flower necklace.
It's a very crisp and detailed mix, but I feel it lacks a bit of low end. The 2003 mix had more bass to it. Not a real complaint though, I'll take Bond music any way I can get it.
Octopussy: The Tarantula Nest - Download here:
https://mega.nz/folder/hAZ0UDoL#KStDmUbjXpB-U_Prsiotyg
You are a genuine musical Santa Claus, sir. Thank you!
(more info in the video description)
Thanks for all the great reconstructions, @mattjoes. It's great to know that more AVTAK music is coming :) Loved your work on Goldfinger too.
Very nice made
Thank you very much @bcalou for this! Would you mind sharing a downloadable link for us please?
Here is a download link for the wav files : https://mega.nz/file/cPF0gZpK#Uzu_PhOgFp0Cf0wmVS-G8CkjCBej6n1UvlVCpEYgzbc