The Clan Of The Cave Bear: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: Alan SilvestriEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1993-10-26
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title - Alan Silvestri
- The Bear Skull
- Ayla Finds the Cave
- Ayla Alone
- The Glacier Trek
- The Clan Finds Ayla
- Kreb on the Mountain
- The Counting
- Kreb Gives Ayla Totem
- Wolf Attack
- The Vision
- Iza's Death
- Caught
- The Clan
- Ayla Hugs Kreb
- The Rape
- End Title
Music reviews of The Clan Of The Cave Bear: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: well worth it if you can find it
Rating: 5 Stars
The score to CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR is all electronic - just synthesizer. Composed in 1986, it is the earliest of Silvestri's great electronic works with which I am familiar, the others being FERNGULLY in 1992 and BEOWULF of last year. Its texture is light and magical and very similar to what Vangelis had created in 1981 for BLADE RUNNER. It's simple, direct and melodically satisfying, but takes its time and will reward a patient listener.
Three melodies comprise the melodic basis of the score and they are introduced one by one in the first three tracks. The Main Title theme is essentially ascending and is exclusively major. It is slow to reveal itself, very broad, yearning and regal and sounds almost like Silvestri affecting the manner of John Barry or Jerry Goldsmith. At its cadence, it descends as the bass steadily ascends into a suspended chord for the finish. Utterly beautiful! The second melody, introduced in "The Bear Skull", seems almost to be some primitive pre-linguistic vocal communication - like a kind of human "bird call". The third, the "Ayla" theme introduced in "Ayla Finds the Cave", is descending and minor. Of the three melodies, the highlight is the Main Title theme, which is the kind of thing one can program to repeat for a half hour's time and never become weary of. Luckily for us, it recurs a half dozen times through the score and feels better each time. Silvestri also uses a lot of prominent electronic percussion, spots of which run solo for extended periods before being joined by one of the melodies - usually, and very effectively, the second.
This disc hasn't been so easy to come by. Any Silvestri (or Goldsmith) fan would do well to track it down and add it to his/her collection.
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