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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 time43:52


Details

Recording date1977
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
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