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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LIFEFORCE 2CD SET TO BE RELEASED BY
BUYSOUNDTRAX
LIMITED EDITION EXPANDED SOUNDTRACK CONTAINS OVER
TWO HOURS OF MUSIC COMPOSED BY HENRY MANCINI AND MICHAEL KAMEN
(October 10, 2006- Los Angeles, CA) BuySoundtrax
Records will be releasing a 2CD set of music from Lifeforce, composed two
legendary composers, Henry Mancini and Michael Kamen. The package will
contain the complete original score composed by Mancini, the additional music by
Kamen, the Film Version of Grandson of The Web of Destiny, in addition to the
original soundtrack album.
Lifeforce was the film adaptation of the novel The
Space Vampires, by Colin Wilson. Director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, Poltergeist), took some liberties with the story to tie it in to the
reappearance of Halleys Comet. A space shuttle mission investigating the
comet inadvertently brings back a race of space vampires to London who seek to
transform the populace into zombies. Cannon Films, felt the title Space
Vampires seemed too low budget and the film was renamed Lifeforce.
In 1985 when the vampire science fiction film
Lifeforce was in need of a composer, the Academy Award winner Henry Mancini
seemed an unlikely choice. But when Hoopers first choice, James Horner,
hot off the heels of his work with the first two Star Trek films, proved
unavailable, Mancini was brought on board.
Henry Mancini may best be recognized for his work
with more lighthearted film fare, like Breakfast at Tiffanys and The Pink
Panther film series, but earlier in his career Mancini was a member of the music
department at Universal Pictures. As such he composed the scores for
numerous horror and science fiction films like It Came From Outer Space, The
Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Monolith Monsters, which led Hooper to
see if Mancini was interested in revisiting the genre.
Mancini composed a provocative, dramatic and
dynamic orchestral score, an hour and forty minutes of music, which mostly fell
victim to the cutting room floor. When Mancini did not want to go back and
compose new materials for the film, itself now 20 minutes shorter, Michael Kamen
was called in to fill in the musical blanks. Kamen was an up-and-coming
composer, having already completed scores for David Cronenberg (The Dead Zone)
and Terry Gilliam (Brazil).
BuySoundtrax Records presents a limited edition
release (3,000 copies) of Lifeforce, featuring Henry Mancinis complete score as
recorded in sequence, along with Michael Kamens additional tracks. The
package also includes the original soundtrack recording and a special bonus
track, the film version of Grandson of The Web of Destiny performed with
choir.
LifeforceExpanded Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack on BuySoundtrax Records is available for pre-orders at www.buysoundtrax.com, and will be in
stores on October 17.
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