John Carpenter Orig US Soundtrack LP Escape from New York NM 1981 Cult Sc-fi
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John Carpenter~Orig US Soundtrack LP Escape from New York NM 1981 Cult Sc-fi
John Carpenter
Escape from New York
Original US Soundtrack LP released in 1981 on Varese Sarabande Records. Cat: STV 81134.
Over the next several months we have the pleasure of listing a spectacular vinyl collection of over 6000 LP's. This collection consisting of mostly Jazz but also Blues, Folk ,Rock, Soundtracks and Classical was kept in amazing condition. Most of the records were played once, transferred to tape for listening and then stored away in cliplock sealed bags in specially made cupboards. The overall condition of this collection is sublime to say the least and whatever items I list as Near Mint you can be assured that it was probaly only ever played once!! Over the last few weeks you may have noticed some of the lovely jazz & rock titles I have listed, these are just the tip of the iceberg here. I hope you enjoy seeing these listings as much as I have in offering them.
John Carpenter is a rarity among film directors in that he is also a composer who writes the musical scores for his movies as well. Carpenter's 1981 film Escape From New York was a kind of genre hybrid, a science-fiction crime thriller with suggestions of a spaghetti western thrown in. Set in a near future when Manhattan has been converted into a no-man's-land prison, the movie needed an appropriately futuristic soundtrack, and Carpenter came up with a score for synthesizer that he played with his sound designer Alan Howarth. Despite the instrumentation, however, the composer retained a style familiar from such earlier works as Halloween. He favored simple, repetitive keyboard figures, generally two per sequence, set in a fast-slow counterpoint. The Escape From New York score had a few changes of pace, notably a borrowing from Debussy and an ersatz Broadway show tune, "Everyone's Coming to New York" ("Shoot a cop with a gun/The Big Apple is plenty of fun"), but most of the music sounded like earlier Carpenter scores, similarly creating a tense, ominous tone much of the time.
Tracks: Main title/ Up the wall - Airforce #1/ Orientation #2/ Engulfed cathedral (Debussy)/ Back to the pod - The crazies come out/ Arrival at the library/ Everyone's coming to New York/ The Duke arrives - The barricade/ Police state - Romero and the president/ The president at the train/ The President is gone/ Chase across the 69th street bridge/ Over the wall.
There are no signs of spindle marks on labels. Record has been played once and is in Near Mint condition. Cover has a few tiny surface tears around edges and is in Excellent condition.
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