Film Music by Mark Isham (CD, Jul-1987, Windham Hill Records) 
Film Music by Mark Isham (CD, Jul-1987, Windham Hill Records)

 
Film Music by Mark Isham (CD, Jul-1987, Windham Hill Records)

Artist: Mark Isham
Release Date: Jul 1987
Format: CD
Record Label: Windham Hill Records
Genre: New Age
UPC: 019341104124
Product ID: EPID3103117
Description: Isham in the 21st century is one hotshot soundtrack composer, having scored well over a dozen films in half as many years. FILM MUSIC collects some of his earliest and, as it turns out, best soundtracks. In many ways, this music benefici...
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Track Listing
1. Mrs. Soffel
2. Times of Harvey Milk, The
3. Never Cry Wolf

Details
Playing Time:47 min.
Contributing Artists:Lyle Mays
Distributor:BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Isham in the 21st century is one hotshot soundtrack composer, having scored well over a dozen films in half as many years. FILM MUSIC collects some of his earliest and, as it turns out, best soundtracks. In many ways, this music beneficially augmented the often-flaccid celluloid it was designed to accompany. That Windham Hill saw to release these three collected works immediately telegraphs where Isham was coming from in the mid-'80s: compositions couched in sublime beauty, gentle ambience, and a most un-Hollywood composing method that would gradually wane in his later Tinseltown work.
"Mrs. Soffel" drinks deep of Isham's undulating synth chords and Harold Budd-like piano motifs, enticing without being cloying. "The Times of Harvey Milk" conversely explores a more upbeat terrain, as piping electronics and probing strings suggest vibrancy, confidence, and hope. It is, however, Isham's epic suite for Carol Ballard's "Never Cry Wolf" that is this disc's epicenter. Though at times recalling some of Vangelis' film-work with its cooing electronics and triumphant phrasings, Isham manages to concoct one of cinema's first "ambient" scores-replete with flutes, synths, and sundry sounds whose tones are stretched out seemingly to infinity.

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