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Michael Kamen / Stanley Myers / Hans Zimmer
Mona Lisa / Castaway (Original Music From The Motion Pictures)

Compil. ES 2013 on Quartet Records label
Soundtrack (Soundtrack, Score)

Limited Collector’s Edition of 1000 units. Total Disc Time: 79:14 From quartetrecords.com: "Two-on-one CD premiere of two soundtrack albums previously issued on LP by EMI. Michael Kamen’s Mona Lisa (1986) was written for Neil Jordan’s stylish crime story about a high-class prostitute and her reluctant driver who descend into the London underworld while forming an unlikely alliance in the process. Kamen’s score is infused with two Nat King Cole standards (the eponymous “Mona Lisa” and “When I Fall in Love”), but he also provides excellent suspense cues for scenes of deceit and murder. The soundtrack also contains two vintage Nat King Cole recording, two contemporary pop songs and an excerpt from Puccini’s Madame Butterfly. Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer’s Castaway (1987) underscores Nicholas Roeg’s erotic tale based on a true story concerning a woman who volunteers to be the wife-for-hire to an eccentric writer, seeking refugee on a deserted island for a year. Myers and Zimmer music (although the LP released at his date said only “Original Music by Stanley Myers” and Hans Zimmer was credited in the section of “additional music”, actually all the tracks were composed by both composers, and produced entirely by Hans Zimmer) offers a psychedelic pop exotica experiment shaped by the sound of the sea, the wind and the forest. The soundtrack program also includes the theme song by Kate Bush and one additonal track by Brian Eno. This release contains both soundtrack programs as they originally appeared on LP, and has been mastered from first generation master tapes vaulted at Abbey Road Studios in London. The package is rounded out with richly illustrated booklet with liner notes by Gergely Hubai, who discusses both films and scores in detail." ℗© 1986, 1987, 2013 EMI Records Ltd. Manufactured by Quartet Records under License from EMI Music Licensing. Printed in E.U.

Musicians

	Michael Kamen key, ob, 1948-2003 US arranged by, composed by, conductor, orchestrated by, album by
	Stanley Myers g, 1930-1993 GB arranged by, composed by, album by
	Hans Zimmer key, syn, *1957 US compiled by, producer, composed by, album by
	Jimmy Lindsay voc, bvoc, perc, composed by, vocals, vocals, composed by
	Barry Guy cb, *1947 GB composed by, performer
	Brian Eno syn, *1948 GB composed by, performer, producer
	Jon Hassell tr, *1937 US composed by, performer, producer
	Kate Bush p, voc, *1958 GB composed by, vocals
	Tullio Serafin , 1878-1968 IT conductor
	Tonia Davall contractor
	Ray Williams , *1947 GB coordinator, original album co-ordinated by
	Christopher Palmer , 1946-1995 GB orchestrated by
	Jose María Benítez , producer, reissue
	Carlo Bergonzi voc, 1924-2014 IT vocals
	Exception , vocals
	Nat King Cole voc, p, 1919-1965 US vocals
	Renata Tebaldi voc, 1922-2004 IT vocals

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