Quartet Records, Geffen Records and Universal Music Special Markets present the long-awaited remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone’s iconic score for the no-less-iconic John Carpenter sci-fi/horror film THE THING (1982).
Although Carpenter himself (in collaboration with Alan Howarth) had scored his five previous films, he turned to the Italian maestro to compose the original score for THE THING since it was his first film with a big studio budget.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Morricone composed the music after viewing the film before it was even complete. He recorded the synthesizer parts in Rome and the large orchestra in Los Angeles. Ultimately, more than half the score was not used in the film, and some parts were replaced by electronic music newly composed by Carpenter and Howarth. However, Morricone’s work?one of his most imaginative, claustrophobic and paranoid scores?has developed a cult following. It is one of the scores most appreciated by the composer’s fans, and also by Carpenter fans.
The original MCA album was conceived and structured by Morricone himself with all his recorded material, comprising 10 sequences that feel more like evocative movements from an opera of fear and foreboding than a conventional soundtrack album. For this reissue, we have preserved the content and order prepared by Morricone, now fully restored and remastered by Chris Malone from first-generation album master tapes courtesy of UMG. The 16-page booklet includes exclusive, in-depth liner notes by Jeff Bond.---レーベルより
エンニオ・モリコーネが音楽を担当したジョン・カーペンター監督の傑作ホラー。モリコーネの人気の1枚。長年廃盤となっていたサントラが、第1世代のアルバム・マスターからリマスターで再リリース！今回は当時リリースされたLP盤ジャケット・デザインを起用。スケジュールの都合で完成前のフィルムを観てオリジナル・スコアを書き上げたが、本編では半分以上の音楽が使用されず、カーペンターとアラン・ハワースが新たに書き上げたスコアに変更された。しかしながらモリコーネのスコアは独創的で怖く、多くのファンに愛される作品の一つである。
トラックリスト氷の中から発見されたエイリアンと南極基地の隊員との死闘を描いた、ＳＦホラーの古典「遊星よりの物体Ｘ」のリメイクで、よりキャンベルの原作に近い。その恐怖は一匹の犬から始まった。見渡す限り氷に囲まれた白銀の大雪原をヘリコプターに追われて逃げる犬は、アメリカの南極観測基地へと辿りつく。ヘリコプターを操縦するノルウエー隊員が銃を乱射したため、アメリカ隊員はやむおえず彼を撃ち殺すが、やがて、ノルウエー隊員が異状に錯乱していた理由が明らかになる。なんと犬の正体は10万年前に地球に飛来したエイリアンだったのだ!接触するものを体内に取り込むエイリアンは、巧みに人間の姿に変身、吹雪に閉ざされた基地内で、隊員たちは互いに疑心暗鬼になっていく。そんな中、彼らは挙動不審なマクレディをエイリアンではないかと疑うが・・。
監督：ジョン・カーペンター、主演：カート・ラッセル。1982年。
Quartet Records, Geffen Records and Universal Music Special Markets present the long-awaited remastered reissue of Ennio Morricone’s iconic score for the no-less-iconic John Carpenter sci-fi/horror film THE THING (1982).
Although Carpenter himself (in collaboration with Alan Howarth) had scored his five previous films, he turned to the Italian maestro to compose the original score for THE THING since it was his first film with a big studio budget.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Morricone composed the music after viewing the film before it was even complete. He recorded the synthesizer parts in Rome and the large orchestra in Los Angeles. Ultimately, more than half the score was not used in the film, and some parts were replaced by electronic music newly composed by Carpenter and Howarth. However, Morricone’s work?one of his most imaginative, claustrophobic and paranoid scores?has developed a cult following. It is one of the scores most appreciated by the composer’s fans, and also by Carpenter fans.
The original MCA album was conceived and structured by Morricone himself with all his recorded material, comprising 10 sequences that feel more like evocative movements from an opera of fear and foreboding than a conventional soundtrack album. For this reissue, we have preserved the content and order prepared by Morricone, now fully restored and remastered by Chris Malone from first-generation album master tapes courtesy of UMG. The 16-page booklet includes exclusive, in-depth liner notes by Jeff Bond.---レーベルより
01. Humanity (Part 1) (6:56)
02. Shape (3:18)
03. Contamination (1:04)
04. Bestiality (2:58)
05. Solitude (5:57)
06. Eternity (5:27)
07. Wait (6:27)
08. Humanity (Part 2) (7:14)
09. Sterilization (5:05)
10. Despair (4:50)