Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Music by Klaus Badelt

Themes by Hans Zimmer

Renovatio Records has set sail into the the high seas and presents you with the score for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, composed by Klaus Badelt, in collaboration with Hans Zimmer. The swashbuckler fantasy film is based on the Disney theme park ride of the same name and quickly became an instant hit, providing a solid ground for one the most successful film franchises of the latest years. Directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring the talents of Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Orland Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Jonathan Pryce, among others, the film tells the story of Captain Jack Sparrow, blacksmith Will Turner and the latter's love interest, Elizabeth Swann, who are forced to deal with Captain Hector Barbossa and his Black Pearl, a cursed ship whose crew become undead skeletons at night.

At an early stage, Alan Silvestri was attached to compose the score, but he was dismissed by Bruckheimer (a decision some fans will never forgive) in favor of hiring his fellow frequent collaborator Hans Zimmer, who brought Klaus Badelt aboard along with his team of young aspiring composers (almost fifteen people in total). Zimmer took credit of the themes for the film, which he would expand in the following sequels, and Badelt and co. did the rest of the work. The score was considered simplistic and uninspired by many critics, who also found in the music a guilty pleasure, having enjoyed its cliched motifs and techniques. The main theme would later become an iconic feature of the franchise, making its way into live performances from many school bands and film music concerts.

The score was released in 2003 by Walt Disney Records in the form of an album that was badly arranged and mixed, with many tracks sounding extremely loud, causing an almost intolerable dissonance at times, that could even hurt your ears! This, along with most of the tracks incorrectly labelled, made the listening experience quite a challenge. Now, Renovatio Records brings forward a new arrangement of this highly enjoyable score in a better balanced representation, that also incorporates previously unreleased material. Enjoy it, lads!!

Track Listing:

1. Fog Bound (4:21)

2. Captain Jack Sparrow (2:30)

3. The Worst Pirate I've Ever Seen (2:32)

4. The Black Pearl Arrives (4:29)

5. Swordfight (2:18)

6. Under The Command Of A Pirate (1:33)

7. Leaving Port Royal (2:25)

8. Moonlight Serenade (5:19)

9. Blood Ritual (3:56)

10. Bring Out The Oars (4:07)

11. A Ship Is Freedom (1:19)

12. Underwater March (5:30)

13. Bloody Pirates! (7:06)

14. One Last shot (3:19)

15. He's A Pirate (4:51)

16. Pirates Of The Caribbean (1:31)

Total Running Time: 57:06

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Aliens

Aliens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Music Composed and Conducted by James Horner

To accompany Renovatio Records previous release, we present you the score for 1986 sci-fi action film Aliens by James Horner. The film is the second installment in the Alien franchise and has Sigourney Weaver returning as Ellen Ripley, who joins a group of marines with the mission of surveying the now colonized planet of the first film. They not only find that everyone is missing, but also that the place is filled with a vicious and hostile horde of Xenomorphs building up their own hive. Directed by James Cameron and featuring an ensemble that includes Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser and Bill Paxton, the movie quickly became a critical and commercial success and is currently considered one of the best action films ever made.

The same can be said about Horner's terrific music. The composer, despite dealing with tight schedules, managed to produce a score that merged action with sci-fi horror, highlighted by the magnificent performances of The London Symphony Orchestra. It never made it to the film as it was originally conceived, though, since Horner saw his music being replaced, moved to other scenes and chopped into unrecognisable shorter cues. The score, however, made it to receive proper recognition as it gave Horner his first Academy Award nomination and continues to inspire many composers that tackle the genre nowadays.

The score received two album releases, both by Varèse Sarabande, one in 1986 and the other in 2001, in the form of Deluxe edition that includes all the music written by Horner. Both album compilations proved to be quite troublesome: the first one for being way too short and not following a chronological order of tracks, and the second one for being way too long, a trait that affects fluidity and the proper enjoyment of the listener. Now, Renovatio Records brings you this new arrangement, for you to enjoy Horner's thrilling ride once more!

Track Listing:

1. Main Title (5:20)

2. The Sulaco (1:15)

3. Combat Drop (3:31)

4. Sub-Level 3 (5:52)

5. The Aliens Attack (2:25)

6. Ripley's Rescue (3:20)

7. Facehuggers (4:28)

8. Approaching Aliens (3:09)

9. Futile Escape (5:17)

10. Dark Discovery (2:07)

11. Going After Newt (3:18)

12. Bishop's Countdown (2:52)

13. Resolution And Hypersleep (6:38)

Total Running Time: 51:48

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Alien

Alien (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Renovatio Records goes all the way back to 1979 for you to revisit Jerry Goldsmith's terrific score for Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror masterpiece Alien. The widely known and highly praised film stars younger versions of Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto and John Hurt, and sees them as a crew of a spaceship who are stalked by a very aggressive extraterrestrial creature. Since its initial release, the film has been regarded as one of the best horror science fiction films ever made and became the starter of a very successful saga that is still being revisited by not only filmmakers but also game producers and creators. The film owes much of its success to the magnificent otherwordly sets and landscapes and to the vicious yet erotic design of the creature itself, envisioned by the late H.R. Giger.

For the score, Scott was using some of Goldsmith's previous works as temp tracks. This ultimately led to the director hiring the composer to produce one of the most characteric scores of his career. Despite many production issues concering Scott ordering new alternate cues of several pivotal scenes and even dropping almost entirely a fantasy romantic title theme, Goldsmith managed to develop one of his most visceral scores. Instead of focusing on themes, the composer went for atmosphere and created an array of disturbing stingers along with an exotic instrumentation in order to build an intense and dissonant soundscape that considerably elevates many of the most frightening scenes of the film.

The score was first released in 1979 and later re-printed in CD in 1988 by Silva Screen Records, in an issue containing roughly 30 minutes of music. In 2007, the score received a new treatment by Intrada Records in the form of a long 2-CD album presentation that includes the complete score, plus the alternate takes recorded by Goldsmith. Now, Renovatio Records brings its own arrangement of the score and presents it for you to musically revisit and explore those dark metal corridors, vast cold inhabited landscapes and cavernous derelict ship interiors, along with the occasional Xenomorph bursts of terror that Goldsmith's music evokes so well. Enjoy it!!

Track Listing:

1. Main Title (4:10)

2. Hyper Sleep (2:44)

3. The Landing (4:30)

4. Derelict Ship (5:44)

5. Facehugger (3:38)

6. Nothing To Say (1:50)

7. Here Kitty (2:05)

8. Dallas In The Shaft (4:30)

9. Parker's Death (1:48)

10. Blockade (2:53)

11. No Time (3:11)

12. Alien On Board (3:04)

13. Ripley Confronts Terror (3:02)

14. End Title (4:24)

Total running time: 47:33

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