The Crow
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Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the 2-CD and digital release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell. This special release adds 25 additional tracks to the original album including Revell’s end title song, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” performed by Jane Siberry.

Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the 2-CD and digital release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell. This special release adds 25 additional tracks to the original album including Revell’s end title song, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” performed by Jane Siberry.

The digital album is available on all streaming and download services, while the CD is exclusive to VareseSarabande.com. Both are available today, October 1.

The Crow: Deluxe Edition will also be available as a 2-LP set on November 5. The bespoke package consists of a glossy wide-spine embossed jacket featuring original artwork, 2 black vinyl records housed in full-color inner sleeves with movie stills, new notes and interviews and a fold-out 16x24 movie poster. The LP configuration has been expanded by 14 tracks for a total of 30 minutes of additional music.

The Crow (1994) became famous before it was even released, due to the tragic death of star Brandon Lee in an on-set accident. Alex Proyas’ supernatural revenge thriller, based on a comic book, was met with critical and fan acclaim. It became a box-office hit and tribute to its fallen star, leading to a franchise of sequels and a television series.

The Crow features a masterful score by Graeme Revell (Dead Calm, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). With a background in what is typically called “world music,” Revell radically reinvented the grammar of film scoring by incorporating the authentic sonorities of non-Western cultures far more extensively and adroitly than had ever been attempted.

Under Revell’s expert hand, the Crow score is a unique mélange of synthesized, industrial, vocal, non-Western and Western elements—with everything from tribal drumming to rock guitars, children’s choir, blues riffs and bird samples, to a 50-piece string orchestra. It is dramatically impeccable, sonically inspired and beautifully produced.

“The Crow established a style that has been mimicked countless times. My use of voice as lead instrument was highly unusual at the time. Now it is extremely common. The crossover between music and sound effects has become ubiquitous. No one in the production saw the relevance of chamber strings to the Crow story but I persevered and recorded them anyway—in 3/4 time for good measure! Time has proven such themes to be the emotional core of similar movies, even when the bulk of the plot is action oriented. In The Crow, heroism took no pleasure in retribution. Sadness always remained.” – Graeme Revell

*2-CD set limited to 2,000 copies

Brandon Lee plays Eric Draven, a young rock guitarist who, along with his fiancé, is brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals. Exactly one year after his death, Eric returns—watched over by a hypnotic crow—to seek revenge, battling the evil crime lord and his band of thugs, who must answer for their crimes. Based on the graphic novel by James O’Barr.

'It began with The Crow, released in May 1994:... flies high... a seamless, pulsating, dazzling visual revenge fantasy that stands as one of the most effect live-actioners ever derived from a comic strip.'
- Variety -

More info at: Official Web Site Varèse Sarabande

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Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the forthcoming vinyl release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell. Fans of the cult classic can order the special vinyl edition since, July 15, 2021 ahead of its October 1 release.

Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the forthcoming vinyl release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell. Fans of the cult classic can order the special vinyl edition since, July 15, 2021 ahead of its October 1 release.
The bespoke package consists of a glossy wide-spine embossed jacket featuring original artwork, 2 black vinyl records housed in full-color inner sleeves with movie stills, new notes and interviews and a fold-out 16x24 movie poster.

The soundtrack has been expanded by 14 tracks and 30 minutes of additional music including Revell’s end title song, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” performed by Jane Siberry. An exclusive version pressed on marbleized black, gray and white vinyl is limited to 500 copies and available only on the Varèse Sarabande website.

The Crow (1994) became famous before it was even released, due to the tragic death of star Brandon Lee in an on-set accident. Alex Proyas’ supernatural revenge thriller, based on a comic book, was met with critical and fan acclaim. It became a box-office hit and tribute to its fallen star, leading to a franchise of sequels and a television series.

The Crow features a masterful score by Graeme Revell (Dead Calm, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). With a background in what is typically called “world music,” Revell radically reinvented the grammar of film scoring by incorporating the authentic sonorities of non-Western cultures far more extensively and adroitly than had ever been attempted.

Under Revell’s expert hand, the Crow score is a unique mélange of synthesized, industrial, vocal, non-Western and Western elements—with everything from tribal drumming to rock guitars, children’s choir, blues riffs and bird samples, to a 50-piece string orchestra. It is dramatically impeccable, sonically inspired and beautifully produced.

“The Crow established a style that has been mimicked countless times. My use of voice as lead instrument was highly unusual at the time. Now it is extremely common. The crossover between music and sound effects has become ubiquitous. No one in the production saw the relevance of chamber strings to the Crow story but I persevered and recorded them anyway—in 3/4 time for good measure! Time has proven such themes to be the emotional core of similar movies, even when the bulk of the plot is action oriented. In The Crow, heroism took no pleasure in retribution. Sadness always remained.” – Graeme Revell

About Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell was born in New Zealand in 1955. He graduated from The University of Auckland with degrees in economics and politics. He is a classically trained pianist and French horn player.
Revell worked as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Graeme Revell was a member of SPK, a 70s Industrial music group, for which he played keyboards and percussion.
Their single “In Flagrante Delicto” was the basis for his Dead Calm score. This was his first score and won him an Australian Film Industry award. Since then, he's done a number of major and minor film soundtracks including The Crow, The Crow: City Of Angels, The Craft, The Saint and Chinese Box.

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Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the forthcoming vinyl release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell, out October 1st, 2021.

Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the forthcoming vinyl release of the Original Motion Picture Score for The Crow: Deluxe Edition composed by Graeme Revell, out October 1st, 2021.

Limited to 500 copies on marbleized black, gray and white vinyl, exclusive to Varese Sarabande.
(Also available on black vinyl!)

This deluxe edition 2 LP set contains the original score album release plus 30 minutes of unreleased music. The records are housed in full color inner-sleeves with movie stills and new notes and placed along-side a fold out 16x24 movie poster within a beautiful wide-spine embossed jacket featuring new artwork. This Varese D2C exclusive version is pressed on marbleized black, gray and white vinyl.

The Crow (1994) became famous before it was even released, due to the tragic death of star Brandon Lee in an on-set accident. Alex Proyas’ supernatural revenge thriller, based on a comic book, was met with critical and fan acclaim. It became a box-office hit and tribute to its fallen star, leading to a franchise of sequels and a television series.

The Crow features a masterful score by Graeme Revell (Dead Calm, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle). With a background in what is typically called “world music,” Revell radically reinvented the grammar of film scoring by incorporating the authentic sonorities of non-Western cultures far more extensively and adroitly than had ever been attempted.

“The uses of ‘world music’ in film history had most often been direct references to location, race or culture,” writes Revell in a new introduction to this Deluxe Edition. “The opportunity instead to use all these sound sources in a fantasy setting like The Crow could release them from these confines. I heard them as universals. The key was my love of this music—especially Middle-Eastern—and my respect for it both within and outside of its regional or ethnic context. In the same way Western music had penetrated other cultures, it was clear to me that the inverse was bound to happen.”

Under Revell’s expert hand, the Crow score is a unique mélange of synthesized, industrial, vocal, non-Western and Western elements—with everything from tribal drumming to rock guitars, children’s choir, blues riffs and bird samples, to a 50-piece string orchestra. It is dramatically impeccable, sonically inspired and beautifully produced.

This Deluxe Edition greatly expands the program, and includes Revell’s end title song, “It Can’t Rain All the Time,” performed by Jane Siberry. New liner notes are by Revell and Randall D. Larson.

The Crow is a 1994 American fantasy film directed by Alex Proyas, written by David J. Schow and John Shirley with Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Ernie Hudson, Bai Ling & Tony Todd. Brandon Lee as Eric Draven/ The Crow;

The Crow is the tale of a young musician Eric Draven who, along with his fiancé, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is risen from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes….

More info at: Official Web Site Varèse Sarabande

More info at: Composer Graeme Revell Official Site