Lalo Schifrin

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August 30, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Ben Living: The Haddonfield Recordings

Ben Living The Haddonfield Recordings Earthship Records Drummer, producer, remixer – sonic prankster – Ben Living gets to combine his clever skills with his deep love of horror films here on a project that takes samples of the Halloween film and score and bends them into the shape of what you might once have expected […]

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September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 36 – Jim Morrison, “An American Prayer”

Jim Morrison, An American Prayer, 1978 I’ll always maintain that in terms of poetry, Jim Morrison had a spectacular voice. Maybe not anything special as actual poetic voice – but his spoken-world delivery was superb. He was just mad enough and insecure enough to want to try to believe everything he said. But quite apart […]

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March 16, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: #195 – Enter The Dragon: Karsh Kale and Midival Punditz, Wellington, 2010

This was an interesting show – Karsh Kale performed a brand new soundtrack for the movie, Enter The Dragon, and you saw the score performed live with the movie as backdrop. It was good – for the most part. But it was a tall order, given the wonderful soundtrack that already exists for the film. […]

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October 23, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1795

Lalo Schifrin, Enter The Dragon [OST] (1973) Lalo Schifrin is amazing – one of the greats for me as a film/TV composer and I became aware of him through the Dirty Harry series. But I had already seen the movie Enter The Dragon by this point – it made complete sense that the same composer […]