Release Date: 07 December 2018
Label: Silva Screen Records Ltd / Silva Screen
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 738572155421
Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack
Description
A timely reissue for this seductive and alluring soundtrack on the 45th anniversary of the film's release on December 6th 1973 at London's Metropole Cinema. Based on the themes of fertile pre-Christian practices of pagan Britain, The Wicker Man did not follow the predictable formula of 1970's British horror movies. The equally non-formulaic music score was provided by talented songwriter Paul Giovanni, and his assistant Gary Carpenter. With only six weeks allotted to write, research and record the soundtrack, Giovanni drew on the rich traditions of Celtic music to present a brilliant collection of eclectic folk songs underpinned with aeons old verse.
"The music to the Wicker Man is quite extraordinary. I think it is probably the best music I have heard in a film." - Christopher Lee"
"The brilliant thing about The Wicker Man soundtrack is that it's risibly silly and total genius at the same time" - The Times
"This is a vital document of a time when the UK could still produce classic cinema. It's also a really fine album." - BBC Review
Tracklisting
Alan Titchmarsh/Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman
Lady Parts
Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
John Lunn
Tristram Cary And Mark Ayres
Brussels Philharmonic & Dirk Brosse
Jean-Luc Godard
Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney & Danny Kaye
Anne Nikitin
Leonard Bernstein
Paul Oakenfold
Various Artists
Various Artists
