Tangerine Dream

Sorcerer

- Soundtrack, released 1977 -

Cover

CD release USA 1993

Tracks


1.	Main Title	5:28
2.	Search	2:54
3.	The Call	1:57
4.	Creation	5:00
5.	Vengeance	5:32
6.	The Journey	2:00
7.	Grind	3:01
8.	Rain Forest	2:30
9.	Abyss	7:04
10.	The Mountain Road	1:53
11.	Impressions Of Sorcerer	2:55
12.	Betrayal (Sorcerer Theme)	3:38
Total running time		43:52

Details


Recording date	1977
Composer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Musician(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann
Producer(s)	Edgar Froese, Chris Franke, Peter Baumann

Notes

After the European tour in 1976 Tangerine Dream started to work on a soundtrack for William Friedkin, the director of "The French Connection" and "The Exorcist". Sorcerer was a remake of Clouzot's "The Wages Of Fear" from 1953 about a risky truck transport, featuring now Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou and Ramon Bieri. William Friedkin had decided to make a film around whatever music TD would produce.

William Friedkin about the movie and the music: "I first heard Tangerine Dream while in Munich for the opening of 'The Exorcist'. Had I heard them sooner I would have asked them to score that film. A year later, we met in Paris. I told them the story of the film and gave them a script. It took more than two years to make Sorcerer. One day in the middle of a primeval forest in the Dominican Republic, about six months into shooting, a tape arrived from the Dream, containing ninety minutes of musical impressions. It is from this tape that the film has been scored, though the musicians had not then nor even now as this is written seen any of the footage. Yet somehow they were able to capture and enhance every nuance of each moment where the music is heard. The film and the score are inseparable."

Though the film was no great success, the soundtrack went Top 25 in the UK charts and was a milestone in TD's future career as film composers. Fans had to wait nearly 16 years to get a CD release of the soundtrack. Finally, after several delays, it was released in early 1993.

Releases


Australia	1977: MCA/ASTOR LP: MCA 2277; black rainbow labels
Belgium	197?: MCA LP: 4C 064-99194; black rainbow labels LP: 4C 064-99194; brown labels
Benelux	1980: MCA/Ariola LP: 201 315; black rainbow labels
Canada	197?: MCA LP: MCA 2277; black rainbow labels
France	1977: MCA/CPF LP: 414 012; black rainbow labels
Germany	1977: MCA LP: 0062.085; black rainbow labels LP: 62.085; black rainbow labels LP: 250 451-1; blue rainbow labels 1980: MCA/Ariola LP: 201 315; black rainbow labels LP: 201 315; blue rainbow labels 1993: MCA CD: MCD 10842
Greece	197?: MCA LP: 14C 062-99194; black rainbow labels
Hong Kong	1977: MCA/Chiang Huat LP: MCF 2806; blue rainbow labels
Italy	1977: MCA/Dischi LP: 4002 (MCA-2277); black rainbow labels, cover with imprint "Il Salario Della Paura" LP: 4002 (MCA-2277); black rainbow labels
Japan	1977: MCA/Virgin Promo-LP: VIM-6149; white promo labels LP: VIM-6149; black rainbow labels
Netherlands	1977: MCA/EMI-Bovema LP: 5C 062-99194; black rainbow labels
New Zealand	1977: MCA/Phonogram LP: MCA 2277; black rainbow labels
Portugal	1977: MCA/Phonogram LP: 6328 837; light brown labels
Spain	1977: MCA/Fonogram LP: 6328 837; black rainbow labels 1980: MCA/Ariola LP: I-201 315; black rainbow labels 1984: MCA/WEA/CBS LP: LB 250 451-1; blue rainbow labels 1984: MCA/WEA/Ariola LP: LB 250 451-1; blue rainbow labels
UK	1977: MCA/EMI Promo-LP: MCF 2806; black rainbow labels, promo sticker LP: MCF 2806; black rainbow labels 1982: MCA LP: MCL 1646; blue rainbow labels with title misspelled as 'THE SCORCHER' LP: MCL 1646; blue rainbow labels with correct title 1993: MCA CD: MCLD 19159 2002: MCA/Spectrum/Universal CD: MCAD 10842
USA	1977: MCA Promo-LP: MCA 2277; black rainbow labels, promo sticker LP: MCA 2277; black rainbow labels 8 track tape: T 2277 1993: MCA CD: MCAD 10842
Yugoslavia	1981: Beograd Disk LP: LPS-1031; orange labels