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* Newly remastered audio, pressed on BLACK wax and different artwork to Black Friday version.
* Housed in a deluxe Stoughton tip-on jacket with folded 18×24 poster of cover art
Sometimes, it doesnt take very long to create something brilliant. When producer Robert Evans rejected Phillip Lambros original score for Chinatown, Jerry Goldsmith was hired to create another, from scratch, in just 10 days.
To say he rose to the challenge is an understatement. Goldsmith, a 20 year veteran of the TV and movie industry with credits including Dr Kildare, Planet Of The Apes and even The Waltons theme, turned in a work that was both a career peak for him and the saviour of Roman Polanskis masterpiece of neo-noir.
What was clever about it? It wasnt quite straight jazz, it wasnt quite classical. It was identifiably a movie soundtrack, but an unusual one at that, leaning heavily on Uan Raseys mournful trumpet solos, sparingly using pianos, harps, strings and percussion, and employing sounds and crashes as overtures. It doesnt try to speak to the films 1930s setting so much as to the mood and feel of the movie, a piece about political and moral corruption in a water-starved LA featuring Jack Nicholson at the absolute top of his game.
I remember [Evans] speaking about the music having a contemporary feel, contemporary meaning the 30s, Goldsmith said in an interview before his 2004 death. I said, Bob, I dont think so you see that on the screen, why should I do that in the underscore? Emotions are timeless.
Originally released as a soundtrack in 1974, and long out of print, Cinewaxs reissue is remastered from the original tapes and is presented as an exact reproduction of the original album artwork featuring Jim Pearsalls classic film art. Drop the needle and hear why Chinatown is, reportedly, David Lynchs favorite soundtrack. Goldsmith was right about emotions
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