Vangelis - Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
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Artist: VangelisBrand: Dig
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Music Label: Polydor
Soundtracks:
- Main Titles
- Blush Response
- Wait For Me
- Rachel's Song
- Love Theme
- One More Kiss, Dear
- Blade Runner Blues
- Memories Of Green
- Tales Of The Future
- Damask Rose
- Blade Runner (End Titles)
- Tears In Rain
- Longing
- Unveiled Twinkling Space
- Dr. Tyrell's Owl
- At Mr. Chew's
- Leo's Room
- ONE ALONE (Bonus Track)
- Deckard And Roy's Duel
- Dr. Tyrell's Death
- DESOLATION PATH (Bonus Track)
- Empty Streets
- Mechanical Dolls
- Fading Away
- Launch Approval - Scott Bolton, Bryce Bolton
- Up And Running - Sir Ridley Scott
- Mail From India - C. Lambrakis
- BR Downtown - Oliver Stone, Akiko Ebi, Cherry Vanilla
- Dimitri's Bar - Akiko Ebi, Oliver Stone, Dimitris Tsakas
- Sweet Solitude - Dimitris Tsakas
- No Expectation Boulevard - Rutger Hauer, Wes Studi, Bhaskar Balakrishnan
- Vadavarot - Irina Valentinova, Florencia Suayan Tacod
- Perfume Exotico - Edward James Olmos
- Spotkanie Z Matka - Roman Polanski
- Piano In An Empty Room
- Keep Asking - Bryce Bolton
Music reviews of Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
Music Review: A decent compliment to the bootlegged versions.
Rating: 3 Stars
As the other reviewers comment, this only adds a little bit of actual new music from the film previously unreleased. The rest is re-composition, re-orchestration and disc 3 is all new material from Vangelis.
For blade runner fans, it's still worth having, the material on disc 2 is crisp and of a higher quality than the bootlegs. You can also finally hear a version of "fading away" that does not include Rutger Hauer's magnificent speech.
For Vangelis fans, it's worth having as the first new release in a long time from a composer who more or less appears to be retired at this point. (He is 66 as of this writing and has not released an album or score in 8 years.)
The last few tracks on CD 3 are very good, Spotkanie Z Matka, Piano in an Empty Room and Keep Asking. I am not fond of the remixes-to-a-beat of some of the other songs, but some Vangelis fans might find them to their liking.
Overall it's a good buy but nothing incredible. In the sound track world, a lot of wrongs have been righted, but this looks like one that will never completely be righted by one set of CDs. In the context of all the other blade runner material out there, it rounds off and finishes the collection, though not how many of us would like it to have been. Owing to the ages of the film itself and the people involved, this will probably be the last item we will see related to the film, along with the excellent "Final Cut" version of the film.
Description of Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary [3 CD]
This is the first time that Blade Runner fans in the U.S. will be able to purchase this special release domestically and not as an import.Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, with its apocalyptic depiction of LA in 2019, has become one of the most celebrated sci-fi releases of the 20th century. It's one of those films where all of the constituent parts - the set, the lighting, the characters, the sparse dialogue and of course the music - work uniquely together to produce a cult masterpiece.
The music has always been a key element of Blade Runner and there have been various versions of the soundtrack over the years, some 'official' and some bootlegs. But they have all either been incomplete or have suffered from poor sound quality, until now.
Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary is a 3-CD set which - for the first time - puts all the pieces together, providing the complete music from the film and a lot more besides.
CD 1 features the original and remastered soundtrack as it first appeared in 1994, twelve years after the film was released. The second CD contains all the remaining music from the film that did not appear on the original 1994 soundtrack, plus two bonus tracks ('One Alone' and 'Desolation Path'). None of this material has been released before. The third and final disc will be of real interest to Vangelis fans, as it contains an entire album of newly written material composed by Vangelis to mark the 25th anniversary of Blade Runner. The music is strong and flowing, and retains the dark, atmospheric sense of the original score. There are some intriguing spoken word contributions too, from Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski, Oliver Stone and a host of distinguished actors, personalities and world dignitaries.
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