Moonraker (1979) John Barry - Re-recording

Posted by: Musicmad on 15 January 2015

Hi,

 

Should anyone be interested in a new recording of this lovely John Barry ~ James Bond 007 score and have a few quid to spare ...

 

... or perhaps you'd like to see your name in print:

 

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...-recording?ref=email

 

http://www.filmscoremonthly.co...umID=1&archive=0

 

Mitch

Posted on: 15 January 2015 by Richard S

Interesting, very interesting. I was listening to the score to OHMSS in the car today and since I like the "symphonic" approach John Barry uses I'm in!

 

Cheers for the heads up.

Posted on: 15 January 2015 by Guy007

Good call Mitch, wasn't sure how many FSM/score fans there were here.

Posted on: 15 January 2015 by Nick Lees

I've got their version of Barry's The Last Valley. At first I was a bit sniffy, as it's obviously not the original...but was swayed by the inclusion of so much more of the score. In the end I needn't have worried, the sound and performance are top notch.

 

I'll be in for Moonraker.

Posted on: 16 January 2015 by Musicmad

Thanks, guys, for the positive responses.  I should have stated that I have no involvement in this project other than being a JB (that's John Barry, but also refers to James Bond - if not quite so emphatically!) fan who has pledged and wants the project to go forward.

 

The early JB007 films in the main (plus, I should add: Westerns) got me into film music some 45+ years ago ... and one of the first names I absorbed in this somewhat specialist market was that of John Barry.

 

Mentions of OHMSS and The Last Valley bring a smile to my face ... two of my top three favourite film scores.

 

Moonraker is some way down that personal list but the less than perfect OST release with no subsequent release of official additional material means this is a good candidate for re-recording.

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

Posted on: 19 January 2015 by Guy007

Well it got funded, so expect a CD in the fall of this year...

 

Mitch, this score is up there with OHMSS and TLD for me.

 

I'm just happy to have the memories of seeing John Barry at the Royal Albert Hall ( with a young Chris Botti on Trumpet doing the Playing by Heart score ) before I left the UK. 

Posted on: 21 January 2015 by GeeJay

Just noticed that although the project made (and exceeded) the £25,000 threshold, funding for this project has been cancelled: "Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator about 15 hours ago."  Appears that there may be a rights issue (EON productions?) that may not have been cleared before the project was initialised.

 

Such a shame - this may now not see the light of day.

 

George