Format Details: 2LP set Red Vinyl
Release Date: 22 January 2021
Label: Silva Screen
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 738572160678
Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack
Description
The long-awaited score album from the 1986 horror movie Rawhead Rex . The 15-track album is penned by composer Colin Towns, known for The Puppet Masters, Space Truckers, Maybe Baby, Foyle's War, Doc Martin, Pie In The Sky.
Rawhead Rex is a nuanced and lush horror score from a hugely talented composer at his best. The sound of the score grows and withers; from pastoral melodies to screaming brass and orchestral cacophony, back to clear harmony and fragile lines, bringing anticipation and dread to all the right points in the story. The music afterthought, There is a Green Hill Far Away, dissolves the mass of sound into the creepy and fragile, hymn-like vocal track.
This enjoyable creature-feature is based on a short horror story by Clive Barker (Hellraiser) and directed by George Pavlou. Released in 1986, the story of Rawhead Rex is set in 1980's rural Ireland. The Demon, alive for millennia and trapped in the depths of hell, is unleashed on the sleepy local farming community. Remembered faintly through pre-Christian myth, the only one that can stop Rawhead's bloody rampage is the historian, desperately racing against the time.
Composer Colin Towns is not only one of Europe's most prolific film, television and theatre composers, but also a pianist, songwriter, arranger, producer and collaborator. His name has graced the credits of many prestigious and popular features.
Double LP pressed on red vinyl and housed ina gatefold sleeve.
Tracklisting
Tina Guo
City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Gray
Various Artists
Tristram Cary & Mark Ayres
Tom Howe
Simon Goff
Robert Mellin and Gian-Piero Reverberi
Colin Towns
Colin Towns
