Format Details: 2LP set Ice Blue
Release Date: 19 July 2024
Label: Silva Screen
Packaging Type: Gate Fold
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5014929000275
Genres: Soundtracks Film Soundtrack
Description
The Primevals belongs to a different time, a different place, an imagined world of monsters, myth and magic that has only ever existed within the confines of classic fantasy cinema. Even if its chief architect, David Allen, had lived and the film had been released in the 1990s, it would have still been out of synch with the zeitgeist.
Fifty years ago, filmmaker David Allen registered the story for the film that would become The Primevals. His goal was to elevate the art of stop-motion animation into more serious, thoughtful storytelling. In the mid-1960s, the film had started as an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs, reminiscent of the fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen that had impressed David as a child. He sadly died in 1999 and the task of completing the film fell to his visual effects colleague Chris Endicott.
Award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band is primarily known as a composer for Horror and Genre films. He was recently awarded the MOSMA Film Music Festival's "LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" and the subsequent two nights of concerts in Malaga, Spain included an encore in which The Primevals main title for full orchestra had its live premiere.
The music represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fuelled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation.
Double LP pressed on ice blue / lilac coloured vinyl.
"Richard Band's thundering, evocative score that amplifies the overall experience, accentuating every delirious moment, every delicate passage, every terrifying encounter, with an unapologetically old-fashioned sense of the cinema fantastique." - Chris Alexander, editor of Fangoria and Delirium magazines
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
Richard Band
Richard Band
Richard Band
Richard Band
Richard Band
Richard Band
Richard Band
