"RESERVOIR DOGS" OST

Original released on CD MCA MCAD-10541

(US 1992, October 13)

OST "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (W. Kilar, 1992)

Original released on CD Columbia CK 53165

(US 1992, November 24)

"Bram Stoker's Dracula" foi um dos primeiros filmes a ser editado em DVD. A junção da atmosfera da inquietante história vampiresca com a eterna história de amor, conseguem criar uma excelente adaptação deste clássico da literatura mundial. A banda-sonora, composta por Wojciech Kilar, cobre todos os aspectos do filme, desde o mais sinistro ao mais romântico. No final, durante a apresentação dos créditos, temos ainda direito a uma brilhante interpretação de Annie Lennox do tema "Love Song For a Vampire".

Come into these arms again

And lay your body down

The rhythm of this trembling heart

Is beating like a drum

It beats for you, it bleeds for you

It knows not how it sounds

For it is the drum of drums

It is the song of songs

Once I had a rarest rose

That ever deigned to bloom

Cruel winter chilled the bud

And stole my flower too soon

Oh loneliness, oh hopelessness

To search the ends of time

For there is in all the world

No greater love than mine

Love, oh love, oh love

Still falls the rain (still falls the rain)

Love, oh love, oh, love

Still falls the night

Love, oh love, oh love
Be mine…

OST ~ "1492" (1992)

VANGELIS

"1492 – CONQUEST OF PARADISE"
Original released as LP EastWest 4509-91014-2, Germany 1992-10-09

Side one

                  A1. Opening (1:22)

                    A2. Conquest of Paradise (4:48)

                    A3. Monastery of La Rabida (3:38)

                    A4. City of Isabel (2:16)

                    A5. Light and Shadow (3:46)

                    A6. Deliverance (3:28)

                    A7. West Across the Ocean Sea (2:53)

                    A8. Eternity (1:59)

Side two 

                  B1. Hispanola (4:56)

                    B2. Moxica and the Horse (7:06)

                    B3. Twenty-Eighth Parallel (5:14)

                    B4. Pinta, Nina, Santa Maria (Into Eternity) (13:20)

CREDITS:

Vangelis: composer, arranger, producer, performer, synthesizer, electric piano, harp

Philippe Colonna: recording engineer, mixing engineer

Frederick Rousseau: assistant producer

Bruno Manjarres: Spanish guitar, voices

Pepe Martinez: Spanish guitar, voices

Francis Darizcuren: mandolin, violin

Didier Malherbe: flute

Guy Protheroe: vocals, choirmaster

English Chamber Choir: choir

Alain Marnat: mastering engineer

Sheila Rock: photography

David Appleby: images

“1492: Conquest of Paradise” é uma banda sonora de 1992 para o filme homónimo, escrito pelo compositor grego Vangelis . O filme, um relato da primeira viagem à América em 1492 pelo navegador genovese Cristóvão Colombo, foi dirigido por Ridley Scott, para quem Vangelis havia composto dez anos antes a banda sonora de “Blade Runner”. Devido ao grande sucesso conseguido, Vangelis ganhou o prémio Echo como "Artista Internacional do Ano". O álbum foi indicado para "Melhor Banda Sonora Original - Filme" nos 50º Globos de Ouro em 1993. Na altura do lançamento o disco não foi logo um sucesso, mas três anos depois, em 1995, as vendas aumentaram em flecha devido ao boxeador alemão Henry Maske começar a usar a faixa do álbum "Conquest of Paradise" como tema de introdução durante as lutas de boxe, tendo culminado por vencer o título mundial da IBF na categoria de meio-pesados. Posteriormente, devido ao volume de vendas, o album foi certificado Ouro e depois Platina em mais de 17 países. Independentemente da parte comercial, “1492 – Conquest of Paradise” é uma das melhores bandas sonoras de sempre. A mistura de elementos eletrónicos, acústicos, étnicos e sinfónicos consegue atingir o equilíbrio perfeito, podendo ser ouvido como uma obra à parte, independentemente de se ter visto ou gostado ou não do filme. E, claro, um item obrigatório para os coleccionadores da obra de Vangelis.

NICHOLAS PIKE: "Sleepwalkers" OST

Original released on CD Milan 10132-2

(FRANCE, 1992)

TANITA TIKARAM: "Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness"

Original released on CD Reprise 9 26835-2

(US, 1992)

Much of Tanita Tikaram's songwriting is actually about generating mood rather than dealing with lyrics that have a conclusive structure to them. While she's proven able to write complete lyrics in the past, she more often produces lyrics that are almost broken down, focusing on a mood, an image or an idea rather than developing that into a story. Musically, it's another matter, and this is where she excels. She has a knack for great musical hooks and for engaging arrangements that pull you into the music, balancing that music off against her deep, dark voice. What makes this even more intriguing is that her voice is very much the rusty folk singer type of voice - there are times when she reaches for a note and misses, and even that never stops her. But she makes it work - her songs are structured around her vocal characteristics, and she uses her voice to good effect with her songs. "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" (which has twelve songs, indicating one isn't about loneliness) is uniformly listenable, especially if you allow the music as a whole sweep over you. Tikaram is a born cynic whose penchant is for examining elements of life and love from that cynical viewpoint; still, there's a sense of joy, if only in the music, that comes through, balancing the edge. Her talents still need some fine-tuning, but she's on her way to being a consistently solid presence in the singer/songwriter arena. (Steven McDonald in AllMusic)

"Rush" (OST)

Original released on CD Reprise 9 26794-2

(US, January 1992)

"Rush" is an excellent dark blues score written by Eric Clapton (with help on the three songs) and performed by an augmented version of his band. This soundtrack album produced one big hit for Clapton with "Tears in Heaven," but it's a wonderfully intense piece of work all the way through, with some terrific guitar work from Clapton himself. Buddy Guy turns up to add lead vocals and guitar on the 11-minute version of Willie Dixon's "Don't Know Which Way to Go," and that's more than all right too. There's a very good chance that the dark intensity of this music was as much informed by the tragedies in Clapton's life ("Tears in Heaven" is about his son) as the film itself. Whatever the cause, this album has far more impact than you might expect from the score to a movie - there's a sense of the music here working something out in Clapton's heart, a sense given a lot of power thanks to the intense, heart-wrenching passion invoked by some of the turns taken here. At its best, Clapton's music can speak of the pain he feels - and Clapton has rarely been better than he is here. (Steven McDonald in AllMusic)

MIKEL ERENTXUN: "Naufragios"

Edição original em CD GASA 9C0497 C

(ESPAÑA, 1992/07)

Con una portada diseñada por Javier Aramburu (mucho antes de sus cotizadas creaciones para La Buena Vida o Los Planetas) se presentó en solitario Mikel Erentxun en 1992. Tras el pequeño paso atrás en críticas que supuso "Supernova" (1991) frente a la magnitud de un trabajo como "Autobiografía" (1989), Mikel y Diego decidieron tomarse un descanso para meditar el rumbo que Duncan Dhu debería seguir en lo sucesivo, tiempo que aprovecharon para reactivar sus proyectos paralelos. Eclipsadas por la enorme popularidad (y calidad) que aportaba "A Un Minuto de Ti", primer single y una de las composiciones más Duncan Dhu que Mikel ha publicado en solitario, vieron la luz estas trece canciones de desigual factura. Con soberbios temas como "No Arranques Más Flores", "Lentamente" o "Jugando Con el Tiempo" conviven piezas más tibias como "Gritar al Viento" o un "Miénteme" que finalmente no pudo (o no se atrevió a) interpretar Miguel Bosé. El sonido del disco es muy similar en esencia al de los Duncan Dhu más clásicos, con una fuerte presencia de guitarras acústicas que potencian la voz de Mikel, llegando sin embargo a ahogarla en alguno de los temas. Se aprecia, en cualquier caso, una producción menos cuidada que en ningún otro álbum del donostiarra, haciendo pasar grandes composiciones por simples temas de relleno. Sube significativamente la calificación del álbum la inclusión de dos grandes canciones, como son "A Un Minuto de Ti" y "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagará". La primera, santo y seña de una carrera en solitario con algunos altibajos, es una de sus creaciones más conocidas y destaca por un fantástico estribillo que entronca perfectamente con la mejor tradición Duncan Dhu. "Esta Luz Nunca Se Apagará", por su parte, fue el segundo single extraído de "Naufragios" y cosechó casi el mismo éxito que el primero. Es una brillante adaptación al castellano del tema "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", original del grupo británico The Smiths, aparecido por primera vez seis años atrás en el magistral álbum "The Queen Is Dead". Mikel nunca ha escondido su predilección por la banda y, especialmente, por la carrera en solitario de Morrissey, a la que se acercó en "Acróbatas" (1998) para adaptar "Everyday Is Like Sunday". (in RateYourMusic)

SINÉAD O'CONNOR: "Sacrifice" (1987>>>1997)

"I Will Always Love You" By WHITNEY HOUSTON

"Stay" By SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS

A HERANÇA MUSICAL DE JOSÉ AFONSO