Shattered
Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 482 Expanded

Intrada kicks off February with Alan Silvestri's score to the 1991 thriller Shattered. With the generous cooperation of MGM and Sony Music Entertainment, this new edition features a significant helping of previously unreleased tracks, expanding the Silvestri program from around 20 minutes on the original release to over an hour.

Intrada kicks off February with Alan Silvestri's score to the 1991 thriller Shattered. With the generous cooperation of MGM and Sony Music Entertainment, this new edition features a significant helping of previously unreleased tracks, expanding the Silvestri program from around 20 minutes on the original release to over an hour.

Silvestri's unique orchestration restricts the orchestra to strings, piano and percussion, further augmented by electronics.
The result is a sound that captures the confusion and mystery with which the main character must wrestle.
The enigma of the story and character unfold before the listeners ears right from the start when the score opens with a sweeping theme over sparkling synths – is that a sense of wonder underlined by a dose of deceit?

Intrada produced this release from the digital two-track stereo master elements. Due to the nature of the score, including many memory flashes of the main character, Silvestri fashioned shorter, fragmented statements.

Many of these were assembled into the main program. But those that were not ideal for a coherent listening experience have been placed in the Extras section of the album. The album concludes with a Source Music section that includes the 'Hacienda' and Moody Blues' 'The Night' pieces.

Directing from his own script, Wolfgang Petersen opens Shattered with a spectacular car crash that leaves the driver badly disfigured and with no memory of his life before the accident. Undergoing extreme reconstructive surgery, the man learns that his name is Dan Merrick (Tom Berenger) and that his wife, Judith (Gretta Scacchi), survived the crash unscathed.
His partner at an architecture firm, Jeb Scott (Corbin Bernsen), is happy to have him back at work, though Scott’s wife, Jenny (Joanne Whalley), seems to know more than she lets on. Dan’s suspicions are magnified when he discovers pictures of his wife with another man.
The trail takes him to a quirky pet store owner named Gus Klein (Bob Hoskins), who reveals that he is a private investigator whom Dan hired to prove that Judith was having an affair with a man named Jack Stanton.
Dan and Gus pursue the truth about Judith and Jack—her real agenda and whether Jack survived the night of the crash—with all roads leading to a derelict shipwreck that conceals a shocking secret.

Intrada ISC 482

( - Intrada Records - )

Premiere expanded CD release of dark thriller score by Alan Silvestri! MGM presents, Wolfgang Petersen directs from his own screenplay drawn from Richard Neely novel, Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley Kilmer, Corbin Bernsen star, Alan Silvestri scores. After horrific car crash, amnesiac victim works to recreate his past, discovers he is caught in web of deceit, lies… and murder. Intense thriller builds in scale, ends in abandoned shipyard with buried vessel and the shocking truth behind the mystery.

Alan Silvestri scores for large string orchestra, augmented with piano, percussion and synths. Interesting use of major seventh interval throughout, especially important in primary melody beginning on that interval on top of the harmony established underneath. Striking idea immediately generates degree of suspense.

As score progresses, Silvestri winds his orchestral strings tighter and tighter. In segments such as “The Shipyard”, “Mystery Man Arrives”, “The Body Is Revealed”, Silvestri writes some of his most complex material of his distinguished career, using an array of numerous bowing techniques, pizzicatos, sliding string glissandi and cello slaps, with piano figures surrounded by synths to generate intensity that culminates in dramatic resolution to the tale.

Score balances between winding romantic main theme with widely spaced intervals and aggressive thriller elements with edgy character ultimately getting the upper hand in “Klein’s Shot”. Entire lengthy score is presented direct from original stereo session mixes made by Dennis Sands, courtesy MGM, Sony Music Entertainment and the composer.

Film features numerous memory “flashes” as mystery unfolds, with Silvestri scoring them in short bursts of intensity. Several other cues are necessarily brief ideas bridging dialog. All of these are also included in the “extras” portion off the CD.
Two source cues, “Hacienda Source” and famed “The Night” performed by The Moody Blues bring generous 78-minute CD to a close.

Informative booklet notes by John Takis, dramatic flipper-style package design by Kay Marshall complete this release. Alan Silvestri orchestrates, composes, conducts.

More info at: Official Web Site Intrada Records

More info at: The Film Music of Alan Silvestri