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Tangerine Dream Sorcerer- Soundtrack, released 1977 - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes | "In the bottomless silence. Without warning A curtain slowly ascends revealing A midnight dawn. A whisper of chill wind And white sun eclipsed by pale yellow moon. Rumor of distant thunder trembles along the edge of a galaxy Cascading down infinite corridors of burning mirrors reflecting and rereflecting momentous oceans of stampeding wild horses. Glass shatters, shrieks and spins away becoming clusters of starfall that scatter from hidden places. Pulsating. Relentless like a recurring nightmare. Centaurs throb within the blood crossing arteries of storming cavalries that crash though the top of your head Recycle and recur Again and again Reminding of white suns eclipsing oceans of stars shrieking through the midnight dawn. Never ending. Without warning." - William Friedkin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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