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« Blade Runner : Music from the motion Picture — A 30th Anniversary Celebration » is a new recording of the classic score composed by Vangelis, produced and performed by composer Edgar Rothermich.
Released in 1982, Blade Runner was directed by Ridley Scott and featured Harrison Ford in his second starring role after Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2012, Blade Runner has become a cult film favorite the world over. Loosely based on a 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, Ford starred as Rick Deckard, a former police officer reluctantly assigned to terminate four replicants who have come to Earth to find their maker.
Over the years, multiple edits of the film have been created for the home video, DVD and Blu-Ray markets. Similarly Vangelis' score has been released in several different incarnations, but none of them are accurate representations of what was heard in the original 1982 film. "Largely because of a dispute between Vangelis and Scott over the director's use of his music in the film, a proper soundtrack of the music as it is heard in the film has never been commercially issued (despite the promise of a soundtrack album from Polydor Records given in the film's end titles)," described Randall D. Larson in the liner notes of the new recording from BSX (Buysoundtrax) record label.
Buysoundtrax Records seeks to correct this oversight, with a new recording faithfully recreating the original music from the film, which proved to be a difficult task. Vangelis' score was composed entirely by performing on keyboards and recording it directly, so no written transcriptions exist. Composer Edgar Rothermich was charged with reverse engineering the score — listening to the original music and a 1982 album mock-up and transcribing it by ear. He also had to recreate the sound of 1982 synthesizers and decipher if noise heard was due to recording on tape or stylistic choices by the composer. "The objective from the very beginning was to be as close as possible to the original score as heard in the film," Rothermich said. "It was never a case of my interpreting the soundtrack. It was essentially a re-recording of the soundtrack music."
" Blade Runner is the most difficult kind of score to deconstruct," said BSX producer Ford A. Thaxton. "Symphonic music can usually be determined because the instrumental palette is known. But the 1970s-era electronic technology and the improvisational style in which Vangelis created the score made it especially difficult. But we feel Edgar's made a very close replication of what the score sounded like in the film. He's true to the sound the original but he's brought it into today's world."
"The objective from the very beginning was to be as close as possible to the original score as heard in the film," Rothermich said. "It was never a case of my interpreting the soundtrack. It was essentially a re-recording of the soundtrack music."
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Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Stephanie O'Keefe, French Horn - John Williams, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
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Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Gail Laughton, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Fella Oudane, Vocals - Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Edgar Rothermich, Music transcription (recorded and mixed with Logic Pro)
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Tom Schmid, Vocals - Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Peter Skellern, Composer - Produced and arranged by Dominik Hauser - Mixed by Michael Farrow
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Paul Frederick, Saxophone - Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer - Paul Frederick, Transcription
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Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Edgar Rothermich, Synth programming - Vangelis, Composer
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
Album review
« Blade Runner : Music from the motion Picture — A 30th Anniversary Celebration » is a new recording of the classic score composed by Vangelis, produced and performed by composer Edgar Rothermich.
Released in 1982, Blade Runner was directed by Ridley Scott and featured Harrison Ford in his second starring role after Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Celebrating its 30th Anniversary in 2012, Blade Runner has become a cult film favorite the world over. Loosely based on a 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, Ford starred as Rick Deckard, a former police officer reluctantly assigned to terminate four replicants who have come to Earth to find their maker.
Over the years, multiple edits of the film have been created for the home video, DVD and Blu-Ray markets. Similarly Vangelis' score has been released in several different incarnations, but none of them are accurate representations of what was heard in the original 1982 film. "Largely because of a dispute between Vangelis and Scott over the director's use of his music in the film, a proper soundtrack of the music as it is heard in the film has never been commercially issued (despite the promise of a soundtrack album from Polydor Records given in the film's end titles)," described Randall D. Larson in the liner notes of the new recording from BSX (Buysoundtrax) record label.
Buysoundtrax Records seeks to correct this oversight, with a new recording faithfully recreating the original music from the film, which proved to be a difficult task. Vangelis' score was composed entirely by performing on keyboards and recording it directly, so no written transcriptions exist. Composer Edgar Rothermich was charged with reverse engineering the score — listening to the original music and a 1982 album mock-up and transcribing it by ear. He also had to recreate the sound of 1982 synthesizers and decipher if noise heard was due to recording on tape or stylistic choices by the composer. "The objective from the very beginning was to be as close as possible to the original score as heard in the film," Rothermich said. "It was never a case of my interpreting the soundtrack. It was essentially a re-recording of the soundtrack music."
" Blade Runner is the most difficult kind of score to deconstruct," said BSX producer Ford A. Thaxton. "Symphonic music can usually be determined because the instrumental palette is known. But the 1970s-era electronic technology and the improvisational style in which Vangelis created the score made it especially difficult. But we feel Edgar's made a very close replication of what the score sounded like in the film. He's true to the sound the original but he's brought it into today's world."
"The objective from the very beginning was to be as close as possible to the original score as heard in the film," Rothermich said. "It was never a case of my interpreting the soundtrack. It was essentially a re-recording of the soundtrack music."
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:11:49
- Main artists: Edgar Rothermich
- Composer: Vangelis
- Label: MAFY, Inc
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
(C) 2012 MAFTY Inc. (P) 2012 MAFY INC
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