Post by CountryCrock on Mar 31, 2024 1:38:19 GMT
From the German-import cd of the 1970s soundtrack to CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?
"RETURNING TO THE STARS"
178MB
mega.nz/file/RSljXRJL#rQ60QaHCbBKDcgjfhd16IKY2PayBahW4mUebjPbUHeY
This "weird" German Science-Fiction documentary can be dismissed if one chooses to view it as crackpot --- however: the fascinatingly bizarre, Peter Thomas Orchestra score for it Polydor Records had made an album out of certainly can *not*! I've enjoyed listening to it for over 40+ years'-now; since my father had (both) the record as well as the 1975 orange shell 8-track cartridge.
The track here "Returning to the Stars", originally, was the first song on side 2 of the vinyl. I like it because, there's a lilting violin riff coupled-with a kinda funky and tightly-played snare drum rhythm...it, almost, reminds me sort-of like the Johnny Pearson recording to the original "All Creatures Great & Small" BBC-series theme. Some might say it's "elevator music"-sounding...*but*: the way the violin riff is repeatedly played with a loop-type effect (though "live"), you REALLY can visualize imagining a 1960s spacecraft spinning through orbit 17,000mph (or, at the time, also: the Skylab astronauts weightlessly tumbling around). THAT, exactly, was/is the imagery I'm sure Peter Thomas wanted this piece to convey and it succeeds. When further taken-into context alongside the far-out nature of the book/movie/album put together: *THAT* banishes any notion of "kitsch" completely (due-to: the simply strange juxtapositioning between the premise of ancient civilizations and, the idea that they somehow had discovered "modern" technology centuries long-before the twentieth).
Obviously, I'm no vinyl fan. I will, mind you, concede that the original Polydor record is a very vibrantly-mastered disc (except for: the way the last band of "side 1" and the last two bands of "side 2" are noticeably compressed). Unfortunately, the CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? score never got a reel to reel release; as Ampex's relationship toward manufacturing Polydor's/DGG's/and MGM's tape formats of albums ended after 1972 (while, this came out in 1974; when the movie had finally gotten around to being exhibited in the United States).
Anyone (deeply) familiar with this, particular, cut from this soundtrack knows there's an edit "fix" in it; lasting from 1 : 39 - 2 : 10. The brass section starts to come in too early (at 1 : 39) and, it throws-off the entire syncopated counterpoint between itself and the strings section. So(?)...even back to the original: it has always sounded like they'd tried to insert an overdubbed re-take in that spot and, had tried to "wipe" the wrongly played part from the recording. The backing brass suddenly disappears for an inordinate amount of measures before it "catches up" again and, also, there's an instance; where, when the interspersed edit ends at 2 : 10: there's a leftover faint squeak of an errant violin out of tune still audible from the foundational recording.
Point, being:
It's good nobody "cleaned" that up. It is from the master source and, now, the album is available on a better medium start-to-finish. If one's cd player (even in my case: a 34-y.o., Alpine-era-made, Luxman model "DZ-92" which has been re-capped and which I put a new 12AWG power cord with a Hubbell end connector on) CAN CAPTURE THAT MOMENT OF DETAIL --- THERE IS *NOTHING* ONE COULD POSSIBLY FIND FAULT WITH AND COMPLAIN ABOUT (re: equipment). *NOTHING*. We know all the vinyl "influencer" bullshit is overrun with Amazon merchant FRAUD, solely meant to *sell* a never-ending-ring of the most expensive gimmickry (mainly: so some medically-deaf p.o.s. in suburban Detroit can make commission to support his coke habit).
"RETURNING TO THE STARS"
178MB
mega.nz/file/RSljXRJL#rQ60QaHCbBKDcgjfhd16IKY2PayBahW4mUebjPbUHeY
This "weird" German Science-Fiction documentary can be dismissed if one chooses to view it as crackpot --- however: the fascinatingly bizarre, Peter Thomas Orchestra score for it Polydor Records had made an album out of certainly can *not*! I've enjoyed listening to it for over 40+ years'-now; since my father had (both) the record as well as the 1975 orange shell 8-track cartridge.
The track here "Returning to the Stars", originally, was the first song on side 2 of the vinyl. I like it because, there's a lilting violin riff coupled-with a kinda funky and tightly-played snare drum rhythm...it, almost, reminds me sort-of like the Johnny Pearson recording to the original "All Creatures Great & Small" BBC-series theme. Some might say it's "elevator music"-sounding...*but*: the way the violin riff is repeatedly played with a loop-type effect (though "live"), you REALLY can visualize imagining a 1960s spacecraft spinning through orbit 17,000mph (or, at the time, also: the Skylab astronauts weightlessly tumbling around). THAT, exactly, was/is the imagery I'm sure Peter Thomas wanted this piece to convey and it succeeds. When further taken-into context alongside the far-out nature of the book/movie/album put together: *THAT* banishes any notion of "kitsch" completely (due-to: the simply strange juxtapositioning between the premise of ancient civilizations and, the idea that they somehow had discovered "modern" technology centuries long-before the twentieth).
Obviously, I'm no vinyl fan. I will, mind you, concede that the original Polydor record is a very vibrantly-mastered disc (except for: the way the last band of "side 1" and the last two bands of "side 2" are noticeably compressed). Unfortunately, the CHARIOTS OF THE GODS? score never got a reel to reel release; as Ampex's relationship toward manufacturing Polydor's/DGG's/and MGM's tape formats of albums ended after 1972 (while, this came out in 1974; when the movie had finally gotten around to being exhibited in the United States).
Anyone (deeply) familiar with this, particular, cut from this soundtrack knows there's an edit "fix" in it; lasting from 1 : 39 - 2 : 10. The brass section starts to come in too early (at 1 : 39) and, it throws-off the entire syncopated counterpoint between itself and the strings section. So(?)...even back to the original: it has always sounded like they'd tried to insert an overdubbed re-take in that spot and, had tried to "wipe" the wrongly played part from the recording. The backing brass suddenly disappears for an inordinate amount of measures before it "catches up" again and, also, there's an instance; where, when the interspersed edit ends at 2 : 10: there's a leftover faint squeak of an errant violin out of tune still audible from the foundational recording.
Point, being:
It's good nobody "cleaned" that up. It is from the master source and, now, the album is available on a better medium start-to-finish. If one's cd player (even in my case: a 34-y.o., Alpine-era-made, Luxman model "DZ-92" which has been re-capped and which I put a new 12AWG power cord with a Hubbell end connector on) CAN CAPTURE THAT MOMENT OF DETAIL --- THERE IS *NOTHING* ONE COULD POSSIBLY FIND FAULT WITH AND COMPLAIN ABOUT (re: equipment). *NOTHING*. We know all the vinyl "influencer" bullshit is overrun with Amazon merchant FRAUD, solely meant to *sell* a never-ending-ring of the most expensive gimmickry (mainly: so some medically-deaf p.o.s. in suburban Detroit can make commission to support his coke habit).