Red Eye & Old Boyfriends

New releases Intrada

Intrada has released 2 new soundtracks this week. Marco Beltrami's score to Wes Craven's Red Eye and David Shire's score to Old Boyfriends.

Catch a flight to terror with premiere release of exciting Marco Beltrami soundtrack from Wes Craven air travel thriller! Rachel McAdams is the passenger, Cillian Murphy is her seatmate, terror is the name of the game. Beltrami sets both mood and pulse from the outset with lean, suspenseful ideas for strings and French horn over steady rhythm in percussion & keyboards, with low brass outbursts slashing through all. As the suspense increases, so do the above musical devices, culminating in aggressive, dynamic action music for the entire orchestra. Interestingly, Beltrami relies heavily on French horn, bass trombone to bring intensity to his score but omits trumpet. Resulting action sequences are grim, darker-edged, powerful! Crisp recording, dynamic performances create vibrant audio, lengthy cues create coherency. Another exciting asset: generous maxed-out CD playing time. Film itself is scored nearly wall-to-wall with numerous cues playing front and center. All of them (plus two 'extras') are presented in stereo from pristine condition digital scoring session mixes courtesy Paramount Pictures. Marco Beltrami composes, Pete Anthony conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!

Track list

1. Main Title Sequence 2:05
2. Arriving At The Airport 4:10
3. A Friendly Gesture 1:15
4. Waiting For The Flight 2:37
5. Takeoff 1:58
6. Changing Focus 10:11
7. No Back-Up Plan 4:19
8. Things That Go Bump In The Night 4:12
9. Bathroom Interlude 4:13
10. A Stolen Pen 2:18
11. Landing 8:47
12. The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword 4:56
13. Rocket Fishing 3:16
14. Arriving At Home 2:04
15. Jack’s Back 8:36
16. End Credits 8:51

The Extras
17. Arriving At The Airport, Pt. 1 Alternate 2:23
18. Jet Lag Gestures 2:31

Planned - but never released - 1979 David Shire soundtrack album from Joan Tewkesbury drama starring Talia Shire finally becomes available on CD! Sterling cast surrounding Talia Shire includes Keith Carradine, Richard Jordan, John Houseman, John Belushi. Story of Talia Shire's dissolving marriage and her reflections on previous troubled relationships affords composer David Shire ample opportunity to write multiple themes, each with unique melodic lines, harmonic colors. Highly dramatic ideas also weave into tapestry. Shire anchors with gorgeous love theme for Dianne & Wayne, uses it as main building block but allows numerous other themes to share spotlight as well. Aggressive, charged main title launches score in propulsive mode, then individual thematic ideas emerge as score progresses. Brief but powerful! Interestingly, distributor Avco Embassy had confidence in Academy Award potential of Shire's score, engaged Columbia Records to prepare soundtrack album featuring 31 minutes of Shire's work (plus four unrelated standards sung by John Belushi), then promoted demo album for voting consideration. Commercial LP was planned but then cancelled. Actual stereo album masters remained locked in Sony vaults until now. Crisp recording by Dan Wallin brings considerable impact, detail to orchestral performance. Though score ultimately did not win recognition it deserved, composer was able to reprise main love theme many years later in his successful 2007 musical Take Flight about the history of early aviation. Now Shire fans can finally enjoy Old Boyfriends in the world premiere release of his score, presented as he originally produced and assembled it for album release back in 1979. Notes by Tim Greiving provide details about this rare score, Joe Sikoryak package design features original campaign artwork. David Shire conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!

Track list

1. Main Title 1:40
2. Love Scene: Dianne & Jeff 3:57
3. Motel Mirror/To Minneapolis 2:02
4. Love Scene: Dianne & Eric 3:00
5. To Luddington 3:16
6. Luddington Walk 4:11
7. To The Arbor 1:10
8. Love Scene: Dianne & Wayne (Theme From Old Boyfriends) 2:46
9. The Return/ The Bathtub/Housecleaning 2:09
10. Jeff Returns/Finale 4:12
11. End Title (Theme From Old Boyfriends) 2:58