Blade Runner - O.S.T.
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Brand: VANGELISPerformer: Vangelis
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1994-06-21
Music Label: Atlantic
Soundtracks:
- Main Titles Music from the Motion Picture "Blade Runner"
- Blush Response
- Wait for Me
- Rachel's Song
- Love Theme from Blade Runner [Music from Blade Runner]
- One More Kiss, Dear [Music from Blade Runner]
- Blade Runner Blues [From the Motion Picture blade Runner]
- Memories of Green [Music from Blade Runner]
- Tales of the Future
- Damask Rose
- Blade Runner (End Title) [From the Motion Picture blade Runner]
- Tears in Rain [Music from Blade Runner]
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Free Music Review: Vangelis' Musical Tour de Force of the Future
Hit: 5 Stars
Vangelis has always been ahead of his time as a musical pioneering genius.This work still holds up astonishingly well from 1982 and will continue to stand the test of time. There is a multitude of other late 70's and 80's sci-fi film soundtracks and scores from other artists that sound very dated and contrived.Those scores will never reach the same cult and classic status or pinnacle as Blade Runner (like the film itself)!
While every critic has used terms like ethereal, mesmerizing, other-worldly, dream-like, etc., etc., one thing remains; This is the ultimate soundtrack for any future sci-fi film out there (some would claim maybe John Williams' Star Wars soundtrack is the king---but remember, we're talking electronic wizardry here, not symphonic or classical).
The bonus tracks not in the film are very intriguing and captivating in their own right and blend in so well with the on-film tracks. The strongest non-soundtrack tracks are the seductively hypnotic Wait For Me and the melodically enchanting Rachel's Song. One can feel the tension or the build up in Blush Response with it's electronically thundering and repetitve clashing cymbals and slapping percussion(for those that remember the scene in the film this is where Detective Deckard is testing Rachel Tyrell to indulge creator Eldon Tyrell's purpose or point). Blade Runner Blues,Memories of Green and the Love Theme are the soothing jazz-like("electronically warm"), melancholy counterpoints to some of the other tracks which paint a very dark and bleak and sometimes chaotic and menacing future world in 2019 drenched and flooded in cold night rain and hot neon-ad lights.Some of the dialogue used from the film on certain tracks adds an enhanced dream-like quality.Listen to the softly spoken words by the replicant Rachel (actress Sean Young)at the beginning of the track Wait For Me;They have a very soothing and calming or tranquil effect (sort of drowsy effect?). For me it's very reminiscent of when I dream and hear people speaking in my dreams ! Listen to Deckard's dialogue on the first opening titles track; the words sound very hypnotic.He sounds like a hypnotist giving someone commands while they are under a trance(for those of us who have seen the film,we know Deckard is actually giving voice commands to a computer-photo/video enhancer called an Esper machine).Replicant Roy Batty's lines on the last track as he is "dying", Tears in Rain, as in the movie, concludes the whole soundtrack in a gentle and peaceful manner.In sum, Vangelis chose wisely which dialogue to use and for an excellent artistic effect...
Essentially, what you get from Vangelis is a richly and texturally painted musical sci-fi panorama that beneath it's cold synthesized surface (as described by some)emanates a sound of escapism that to this day is not duplicated by any other artist. It can't be. Hopefully, sometime in the near future, Vangelis will release/re-issue a definitive or complete Blade Runner soundtrack that WILL include the opening credits theme as well as some other vital pieces missing from this cd version (and no more bootlegs, but the real deal)! Even alternate tracks would be greatly welcomed. I can even wait until the year 2007 for a 25th Anniverary edition of both re-mastered dvd and soundtrack version of Blade Runner !
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No Description AvailableNo Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: VANGELIS
Title: BLADE RUNNER
Street Release Date: 06/21/1994
Genre: NEW AGE
For years, the soundtrack to Blade Runner held legendary status among fans of Greek synthesist Vangelis. Except for a few cuts on the Themes compilation, it had never been released on vinyl or CD, although there was an orchestral version of the score. But in 1994, 12 years after Vangelis composed the dark, edgy soundtrack to director Ridley Scott's archetypal science fiction thriller, the music of Blade Runner came out in all its cybernoir glory.
Vangelis couched his electrosymphonic score in percussive rhythms and shadowed timbres. Effectively interpolating dialogue from the film, the CD moves from the threatening tension of "Blush Response" to the ethereal wordless vocal of Mary Hopkin over a water-drop synthesizer sequence on "Rachel's Song." A few tracks, notably "Love Theme" with Dick Morrisey's smarmy saxophone solo, drip with Hollywood sentimentality, but Vangelis quickly wipes that away with the hyperdrive of "Blade Runner (End Titles)." --John Diliberto
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