Test Pressing: Original Soundtrack Music from Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal"
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Description
October 1982 Test Pressing for Warner Brothers (by Allied Record Company in Los Angeles CA) of
"Original Sound Track Music from the Jim Henson Film The Dark Crystal composed by Trevor Jones performed by the London Symphony Orchestra".
Play graded in Excellent condition, with plain white test pressing record labels, and separate "Label Copy" in excellent condition with detailed customer, dates, track and timing information etc.
Side 1:
- Overture
- The Power Ceremony
- The Storm
- The Mystic Master Dies
- The Funerals; Jen's Journey
- The Skeksis' Duel
- The Pod Dance
- Love Theme
- Gelfing Song
- The Gelfing Ruins
- The Landstrider Journey
- The Great Conjunction
- Finale
From Wikipedia:
The Dark Crystal is a 1982 puppet-animated high fantasy film directed by Jim Henson and Frank Oz. It stars the voices of Stephen Garlick, Lisa Maxwell, Billie Whitelaw, Percy Edwards, and Barry Dennen. The film was produced by ITC Entertainment and The Jim Henson Company and distributed by Universal Pictures. The plot revolves around Jen, a Gelfling on a quest to restore balance to the world of Thra and overthrow the ruling Skeksis by restoring a powerful broken Crystal.
It was marketed as a family film, but was notably darker than the creators' previous material. The animatronics used in the film were considered groundbreaking for its time, with most creatures, like the Gelflings, requiring around four puppeteers to achieve full manipulation. The primary concept artist was fantasy illustrator Brian Froud, famous for his distinctive fairy and dwarf designs. Froud also collaborated with Henson for his next project, the 1986 film Labyrinth.
The Dark Crystal was produced by Gary Kurtz, while the screenplay was written by David Odell, with whom Henson previously worked as a staff writer for The Muppet Show. The film score was composed by Trevor Jones. The film received mixed to positive reviews from mainstream critics; while being criticized for its darker, more dramatic tone in contrast to Henson's previous works, it was praised for its narrative, aesthetic, and characters, and has since garnered a large cult following.[8]
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