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BEST SOUNDTRACKS OF 2023
TheOscar ceremony wrapped an average year overall for film music, with Ludwig Goransson taking the academy award for best score for 2023. Undoubtedly, his score for Chris Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER was a well-crafted score albeit based on a not so original idea, the use of ascending-descending tonic scales in order to musically introduce a complex character and a brilliant mind like Robert Oppenheimer’s.The scores we here in “ITSCOREZ” believe are the crowning achievements in film music for the year 2023, were Daniel Pemberton’s score for SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE and Fabio Massimo Capogrosso’s score for Marco Belocchio’s RAPITO that were flawless both as…
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SLASHER MOVIE SCORES – TEN SCORES TO REMEMBER
The slasher movie sub-genre didn’t arrive with a roar; it crept in on a whisper. Bob Clark’s “Black Christmas” (1974) laid the groundwork—intimate spaces violated, the killer’s-eye gaze, victims isolated and helpless towards a killer force so menacing that becomes unbeatable. The movie wasn’t a hit machine, but it defined the characteristics of a new form. Four years later, John Carpenter’s “Halloween” (1978) refined that language into pop mythology. An ordinary suburb rendered uncanny, a mask without a face, and a score of icily repeating figures that became the definitive sound of cinematic horror for a new era. The…
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ENNIO MORRICONE RARITIES ON CD
The great composer and maestro Ennio Morricone, was perhaps the most prolific and busy composer of film music during his productive years. He is probably the only film composer that retains even after his passing such a dedicated club of collectors of his music. Since the late 60s, the search for his soundtracks attract an interest on the verge of obsession among collectors and his fan club is so dedicated that every new release has a huge potential of becoming a collector’s item.There are of course other film composers that attract similar volumes of dedicated followers,…
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JERRY GOLDSMITH VINYL TREASURES
I still remember the first time i saw the cover of the Japanese edition of the soundtrack to THE SAND PEBBLES. The impression was striking. Perhaps there are many of you soundtrack collectors and film music fans who are more fond of the American release album cover, but my aesthetics’ bells ring ferociously when i see those amazing photo-collage Japanese soundtrack covers. This reason alone, was enough for me to try to find the Japanese edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s score realizing almost instantly, that the price to obtain my object of desire was very very high.…
