Escape from New York: New Expanded Edition [Original Film Soundtrack]
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Composer: Alan HowarthComposer: John Carpenter
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Silva America
Soundtracks:
- Main Title
- The Bank Robbery
- Prison Introduction
- Over The Wall/Airforce One
- He's Still Alive/Romero
- Snake Plissken
- Orientation
- Tell Him
- Engulfed Cathedral
- Across The Roof
- Descent Into New York
- Back To The Pod (Version No.1)
- Everyone's Coming To New York
- Don't Go Down There
- Back To The Pod (Version No.2/The Crazies Come Out)
- I Heard You Were Dead
- Arrival At The Library
- You Are The Duke Of New York
- The Duke Arrives/Barricade
- President At The Train
- Who Are You?
- Police Action
- Romero And The President
- The President Is Gone
- 69th Street Bridge
- Over The Wall
- The Name Is Plissken
- Snake Shake
Music reviews of Escape from New York: New Expanded Edition [Original Film Soundtrack]
Music Review: Superior to the original release
Rating: 4 Stars
If you're familiar with John Carpenter's early, spare analog synth scores, you have a basic idea of what this is like. The music for "Escape from New York" is undoubtedly one of his best scores for one of his best films; it's an infectious blend of simple, ingenious melodies and rhythms that can induce even the heaviest, most reluctant toes to tap along. While some of the themes are almost overused in their repetition, the score is never boring. It's a cold, exciting and sometimes creepy aural supplement to a film that's as violent and desperate as this music implies.
One of the score's highlights is a condensed, synth-rendered version of "Engulfed Cathedral" from Debussy's first book of Préludes. In the film, this track accompanies a sequence wherein Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) navigates a glider through the penal colony of 1997 New York, ultimately landing atop one of two decaying World Trade Towers. Both the production of this track and the composition itself perfectly complement the theme and character of this scene.
Carpenter's influence as both a film director and a composer of his own film scores has been fairly widespread. One of the most notable instances of this is Robert Rodriguez's recent score for his "Planet Terror" contribution to "Grindhouse," which implements quite a bit of analog kitsch in the vein of Carpenter's scores. In fact, a scene in the film utilizes an extract from this disc's "Back To The Pod Version No. 2 / The Crazies Come Out." What an homage!
Unlike the abridged 1981 Varèse Sarabande LP or its 1989 CD reissue, this disc contains the complete score, capably remastered by Alan Howarth himself. At least five tracks from the film's soundtrack are restored, as are "The Bank Robbery" (tense music composed for a mediocre outtake), "Snake Shake" (a rather funky track originally intended to score the movie's end credits) and "Everyone's Coming To New York" (Nick Castle's jolly, apocalyptic convict folk song). Extracted audio from the film comprised of some of its more memorable dialogue is also included. As with Silva Screen's reissued album of the score for "The Fog," their release isn't just better than the Varèse predecessor; it also renders the prior album obsolete.
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