Jack Nitzsche - Starman Leaves / End Title. (Original & Symphony Orchestra)

Tema compuesto para la película "John Carpenter's Starman", realizada en 1984.

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Original Soundtrack.

"Intro Trailer."

Composed, arranged & produced: Jack Nitzsche.
Except All I Have To Do Is Dream published by House of Bryant Publications (BMI)/Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. (BMI)
(P) 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

Album: "Starman"
"Starman Leaves/ End Titles"
Composed, arranged & produced: Jack Nitzsche.
Featured musical soloists: Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli.
Audio CD (24 July 2014)
Label: Varese Sarabande.
(C) 1984 Golden Torch Music Corp. (ASCAP)
(P) 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

*Symphony Orchestra.

Album: "The Science Fiction Album"
Composed: Jack Nitzsche.
Performed: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Conducted: Nic Raine.
Original Release Date: February 8, 2005
Label: Silva Screen Records.
Copyright: Silva Screen Records.
(P) 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.

*Original Soundtrack.

Album: "Starman"
"Jenny's Shot" (cut)
Composed, arranged & produced: Jack Nitzsche.
Featured musical soloists: Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli.
Audio CD (24 July 2014)
Label: Varese Sarabande.
(C) 1984 Golden Torch Music Corp. (ASCAP)
(P) 1984 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Distributed: Columbia Pictures

Starman is a 1984 American science fiction romance film directed by John Carpenter, that tells the story of a humanoid alien (Jeff Bridges) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

The original screenplay was written by Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon, with Dean Riesner doing uncredited re-writes. Bridges was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role.

The film inspired a short-lived television series of the same name in 1986.

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche (22 April 1937 – 25 August 2000) was an American musician, arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others. He also worked extensively in film scores, winning a song of the year Oscar in 1983 for co-writing "Up Where We Belong" (from An Officer and a Gentleman.)

The Starman soundtrack was one of the first ever released by Varèse Sarabande, on both LP and CD in 1990, in the now-rare and highly prized VCD series. As such, the CD is a little expensive these days, and copies are going for almost $30 on Amazon. As a further note to collectors: a stunning symphonic/choral version of Nitzsche’s main theme, performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra released in 2005. This cue makes for a wonderful ‘bonus track’ addition to the score, as it gives flavor of what the score could have sounded like had it been orchestral rather than electronic.

For contemporary audiences used to more sophisticated sounds, Starman could come across as sounding terribly dated. Nitzsche faced a great deal of difficulty in actually creating the sounds that feature in the score with the technological limitations of electronic instruments in the early 1980s, and taking those limitations into account, the end result is quite astonishing in terms of the different layers of sound and varying electronic timbres the score contains. Nevertheless, I feel I still have to remind readers that this score is a product of its time, and should be approached with the appropriate amount of prudence. With that in mind, I would still give Starman a cautious recommendation. The main theme is iconic, and the creativity Nitzsche brought to the project is worth experiencing in its own right.

Source: Wikipedia & Movie Music UK.