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    Quote Originally Posted by JJ88 View Post
    ^Yes, Wakeman had some in the 70s.
    And in the '80s: The Burning; G'olé!; Crimes of Passion; Creepshow 2 (just released on vinyl by Waxwork).

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    ^I'd imagine Vangelis dominates this field.
    Nowhere near as many as Tangerine Dream (they have a quite a few unreleased scores in addition to the ones commercially available or otherwise). Franke (up to a point) and Haslinger made second careers out of film scoring. Froese supplied the music for Kamikaze 1989.

    Other prog (and prog-related) "personnel" with soundtracks to their credit that haven't been mentioned:

    Robert Schroeder – Brain Voyager (album name, the film is Glücksgedanken)

    Libra – Schock (Itali-horror)

    Claudio Simonetti (Goblin/Daemonia keyboardist-composer) – Conquest; Rage; Nightmare Beach; Love Threat; Demons; Opera; The Versace Murder; Il Cartaio; La Terza Madra; Dracula 3D; MultipleX; two Masters of Horror episodes: "Jenifer" (not a typo) and "Pelts"

    ...and hey, let's not forget Yanni and his snoozer of a score for Heart of Midnight.

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    Froese supplied the music for Kamikaze 1989.
    Though I believe the film finally got a digital edition fairly recently, the soundtrack remains elusive, the last CD edition came out way back in ’93. And no, I don’t count the digital download as a proper “release.” Incidentally, the film is a rare (and late-career) acting performance from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who did not direct!). Interesting for a one-time viewing, but hardly essential.
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    Greetings,

    Guitarist-composer Lyle Workman, who has put out three great proggy solo albums, has done a ton of Hollywood soundtrack work, including the score to Superbad and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I just hope he gets back to putting out more of his own music in the vein of his previous CDs.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Though I believe the film finally got a digital edition fairly recently, the soundtrack remains elusive, the last CD edition came out way back in ’93. And no, I don’t count the digital download as a proper “release.” Incidentally, the film is a rare (and late-career) acting performance from director Rainer Werner Fassbinder (who did not direct!). Interesting for a one-time viewing, but hardly essential.
    Same here.

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    From the cover of Klaus Schulze's Body Love--I had the pink version with stills from the movie and the director's name and picture featured prominently like he was some big deal auteur--I was expecting the film to be an art movie with sex in it. Turned out to be a flat-out hardcore porn flick. It's kind of weird hearing Schulze's floating music behind all the sweaty humping and sucking.
    Speaking of Klaus Schulze, the music from his album X was used in a low budget horror movie called Barracuda. I'm not sure if the music was composed/recording with the film in mind, or if Herr Klaus simply handed a reel of whatever he had recorded most recently to the director and said, "Have fun". I know I read that he visited the location shoot for the picture, so presumably the whole deal was done with his blessing. And I would say his music probably fits better in this picture than it did in Body Love.

    One more sort of adult oriented picture worth noting: Bachanelles Sexuelles, a French sort of softcore picture, which has a scene wehre two women make love while listening to the Art Ensemble Of Chicago! One of the women even makes sure she holds up the record cover so the camera gets a good shot of the band name while she's putting the record on the turntable (then later, the other woman gets up in the middle of the act, to flip the record over, suggesting it was some kind of 12" single).

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdventAlan View Post
    Greetings,

    Guitarist-composer Lyle Workman, who has put out three great proggy solo albums, has done a ton of Hollywood soundtrack work, including the score to Superbad and The 40-Year-Old Virgin. I just hope he gets back to putting out more of his own music in the vein of his previous CDs.


    Cheers,


    Alan
    Amen to that. Love his solowork! But I guess scoring for movies brings in the money, so it's no surprise he's concentrating on that (beside his many session-jobs of course).

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    New Trolls - The Designated Victim
    Nicklas Barker - El Último Fin de Semana
    Trans Europa Express - Watch me when I Kill
    Vince Tempera (sometimes with Fabio Frizzi) - Four of the Apocalypse, Sette note in nero, Silver Saddle, The House of Clocks and The Sweet House of Horrors and more
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    Juergen Fritz-It Is Hard To Be A God (Russo-German science fiction film from 1990)
    "and what music unites, man should not take apart"-Helmut Koellen

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    I've been looking at this the other way around lately: which soundtrack maestros are making "prog" music? I saw Hans Zimmer's live show a couple weeks ago and it blew me away -- 19-piece band plus choir and orchestra playing bombastic instrumental music that by most assessments would pass as symphonic progressive rock. Soundtrack music definitely fits the genre in many cases.
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    In that case Morricone fits the bill as well. There a huge thread about his work on here somewhere. Definitely Progressive and yes, sometimes rock as well.
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    Robby Aceto is making music for films with Chloud Chamber Orchestra. One of their projects was released on CD, Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life (1925).

    Lots of music can be found on https://soundcloud.com/cloud-chamber-orchestra/tracks.



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    Don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I remember Jon Anderson's solo work being featured in this film that has several different versions. Quite an old film, that doesn't have any of its original sound (if it had any, can't remember), that some people thought it was a great idea to make a 80's music version. Was hilarious I must admit. Technically doesn't count, since it wasn't the official, official release but whatever. It was a good laugh. Don't remember the name, I will have to do some research.

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    ^ Metropolis, as scored by Giorgio Moroder.

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    re: Metropolis

    Quote Originally Posted by PhilIsLife View Post
    D. Quite an old film, that doesn't have any of its original sound (if it had any, can't remember),
    Well, it was a silent movie, so no, it had no original sound.


    that some people thought it was a great idea to make a 80's music version.
    Well, it was Giorgio Moroder's idea, I think, he was sort of the brains behind that particular version. The thing you have to remember about Metropolis is, for many decades, the only versions of the film that were known to exist were heavily edited. Any complete print that might have existed was most likely lost during WWII, either due to one of the Allied military campaigns, or Nazi censorship.

    Though it may seem like a joke now (and I guess for some, it was very much an act of sacrilege, colourizing the picture and adding an 80's rock/pop soundtrack), it was important for a couple reasons:

    1. It was the first serious attempt to restore the movie to anything even remotely resembling a complete print. Up until then, only the edited prints from the original US distributor were known to exist.

    2. It put Metropolis in the public eye (also in part thanks to Queen's Radio Ga-Ga video, which used footage from the film, which they were allowed to use via Freddie Mercury's participation in the Moroder soundtrack), which had people talking about the film (if in a lower key fashion than, say, Star Wars or Star Trek).


    Was hilarious I must admit. Technically doesn't count, since it wasn't the official, official release but whatever.
    Well, Moroder had the legal right to do whatever he wanted to do with the picture, so it was about official as it was going to get, circa 1984, short of having a necromancer bring Herr Lang back from the dead so that he could give his consent.

    In the decades since, theoretically better and more complete restorations have been done, with a nearly complete print of the picture being found in Argentina, of all places, about 12 or so years ago, so the Moroder version may seem a bit of a curiosity to some, but for a lot of us, that was the first version of Fritz Lang's masterpiece we ever got to see. Before that, I only knew about Metropolis from reading about it in Starlog and other sci-fi oriented magazines. So the Moroder version was better than nothing.

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    Hey Gruno....

    We both forgot to mention that Kevin and David Baerwald wrote "Come What May", the 'love theme' from the film Moulin Rouge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    re: Metropolis



    Well, it was a silent movie, so no, it had no original sound.




    Well, it was Giorgio Moroder's idea, I think, he was sort of the brains behind that particular version. The thing you have to remember about Metropolis is, for many decades, the only versions of the film that were known to exist were heavily edited. Any complete print that might have existed was most likely lost during WWII, either due to one of the Allied military campaigns, or Nazi censorship.

    Though it may seem like a joke now (and I guess for some, it was very much an act of sacrilege, colourizing the picture and adding an 80's rock/pop soundtrack), it was important for a couple reasons:

    1. It was the first serious attempt to restore the movie to anything even remotely resembling a complete print. Up until then, only the edited prints from the original US distributor were known to exist.

    2. It put Metropolis in the public eye (also in part thanks to Queen's Radio Ga-Ga video, which used footage from the film, which they were allowed to use via Freddie Mercury's participation in the Moroder soundtrack), which had people talking about the film (if in a lower key fashion than, say, Star Wars or Star Trek).




    Well, Moroder had the legal right to do whatever he wanted to do with the picture, so it was about official as it was going to get, circa 1984, short of having a necromancer bring Herr Lang back from the dead so that he could give his consent.

    In the decades since, theoretically better and more complete restorations have been done, with a nearly complete print of the picture being found in Argentina, of all places, about 12 or so years ago, so the Moroder version may seem a bit of a curiosity to some, but for a lot of us, that was the first version of Fritz Lang's masterpiece we ever got to see. Before that, I only knew about Metropolis from reading about it in Starlog and other sci-fi oriented magazines. So the Moroder version was better than nothing.
    Thanks for all the info. It was a while ago when I saw this, so I could remember hardly anything, just that Jon's music was in it. And I was never saying it was bad, just that it was an interesting choice. But I know it was why that music was added, as that would get more attraction for that time period.

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    Keith Emerson did several including Inferno and Nighthawks. He also did the animated TV series of Ironman.

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    do we dare mention Trevor Rabin without this thread getting moved to O/T?

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    While he didn't do the scoring Ian Underwood worked closely with James Horner on a number of soundtracks inclusing The New World (lovely) and A Beuatiful Mind.

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    Wakeman - G'ole
    Patrick Gleeson - The Plague Dogs
    Klaus Schulze - Angst, Barracuda, Havlandet
    Toto - Dune
    Wim Mertens - Belly Of An Architect
    Michael Stearns - Chronos, Baraka
    Synergy - The Jupiter Menace
    Renaissance - The Paper Lads (Theme Only)
    Tomita- Misty Kid Of Wind, The First Emperor, Jungle Emperor Leo, Hidden Sword, some others
    Stomu Yamashta - The Tempest (and others)
    Pat Metheny Group - The falcon and the snowman
    Anthony Philips - Tarka (not used), lots of Library Work

    Now, although not prog, for me an honourable mention goes to Trevor Jones,
    who created such great soundtracks like The Dark Crystal, Gullivers Travels, Labyrinth, Cleopatra and many more.

    I really liked Trevor Jones score for Runaway Train, the Jon Voight/Eric Roberts movie.
    I only clicked on it because I thought it was going to be something more interesting...

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