Rare Trevor Jones DARK CRYSTAL Film Soundtrack OST LP 1982 Jim Henson Frank Oz
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Description
Here I have for sale the UK release of the original motion picture soundtrack album LP to 'The Dark Crystal' (1982) by Trevor Jones.
Trevor Jones ?– The Dark Crystal Original Soundtrack
Label: CBS ?– CBS 70233
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Classical, Stage & Screen, Pop, Children's, Score
Style: Soundtrack, Easy Listening, Instrumental, Theme, Contemporary
Vinyl: NEAR MINT. Clean on visual inspection. Plays well.
Cover and sleeve: VG-EX. Colours are unfaded and no tears on the sleeve. Edge, corner and aperture wear as visible in the photos. Some creasing. Also a residual mark towards top right of cover.
Tracklist
A1. Overture (Trumpet – Maurice Murphy)
A2. The Power Ceremony.
A3. The Storm.
A4. The Mystic Master Dies.
A5. The Funerals; Jen's Journey.
A6. The Skeksis Duel.
A7. The Pod Dance (Percussion – Morris PertPipe – Richard Harvey)
B1. Love Theme (Recorder – Christopher Taylor)
B2. Gelfling Song.
B3. The Gelfling Ruins.
B4. The Landstrider Journey.
B5. The Great Conjunction.
B6. Finale.
Artwork – Brian Froud
Composed By – Trevor Jones
Conductor – Marcus Dods
Music By – The London Symphony Orchestra
Producer – Jim Henson
Review:
The fantasy film The Dark Crystal is a live-action feature performed entirely by puppets created by the Jim Henson organization, also responsible for the Muppets. As such, it is visually unusual, but Trevor Jones' score is a traditional orchestral work in the Hollywood tradition.
The initial idea was to come up with music just as inventive as the look of the film, but that plan was abandoned when it was decided that audiences needed something to feel comfortable with in contrast to what they were seeing.
Still, Jones augmented the London Symphony Orchestra with synthesizers to evoke some of the fantasy elements. He also, in "The Pod Dance," brought in medieval instruments like the crumhorn and a double-flageolet to suggest a period sound (although the period was as fantastic as anything else in the story). Jones follows the film's plot, which concerns fragmentation of the magical crystal and its restoration, by creating musical themes that eventually weave together in the seven-minute "Finale," which also serves as a medley of all that has gone before.
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Postage and packaging FREE to UK. Will post worldwide. Europe £6.50; North and South America, USA, Canada £9; Asia, Australia, Japan £11. No returns accepted.
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