Bond music reconstructions
mattjoes
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Hello,
I just wanted to share some of my most recent Bond music reconstructions.
And a little cover of the Bond theme, inspired by the pause theme of the GoldenEye 007 video game.
Enjoy!
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They're wonderful work, best I've heard.
Very nice work. I especially enjoyed hearing the Gondola Chase. I've always been disappointed by the lack of James Bond Theme on the Moonraker album, and your reconstruction does a good job of evoking the original as heard in the film.
Thank you.
As I understand it, LPs could hold 45 minutes of music. I wish they had included more on the Moonraker album rather than just 30 minutes.
Very enjoyable, thank you.
These are excellent, I've also listened to the goldfinger reconstruction which is excellent.
Please do more .
"Yearning for James" is amazing. Can't understand how it missed the album release.
Good job!
A few more:
Very nice, @mattjoes. Some of those transitional John Barry pieces such as the arrivals at Zorin's and Drax's chateaus are some of my favourite short cues.
Lovely stuff. Thanks for posting.
And another one:
Thank you very much, mattjoes.
And for us completists...
A new one:
Much appreciated, many thanks.
Wonderful!
@mattjoes I hope you don't mind me gate crashing your thread, but just by chance I found these on YouTube. I was going looking for somewhere to share them when I saw your thread.
First up The Living Daylights given a rock twist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czllVg7SepU
Author of 'An Ungentlemanly Act' and 'Execution of Duty'. The WW2 espionage series starring Harry Flynn.
TWINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNGABJdJWAI
Author of 'An Ungentlemanly Act' and 'Execution of Duty'. The WW2 espionage series starring Harry Flynn.
And finally, the Bond theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD5N_v4eY9o
Author of 'An Ungentlemanly Act' and 'Execution of Duty'. The WW2 espionage series starring Harry Flynn.
I absolutely agree with that. Great work! It really is a treat to hear 'Gondola Chase' as an isolated track.
The MR gondola sequence constituted perhaps the broadest comedy in a Bond movie for which John Barry ever composed a complete piece, but still he managed gracefully to combine a sense of lightness with atmospheric notes of drama. Barry 'got' that this was a self-parodying but exciting sequence which, for example, juxtaposes funereal themes with a cameo by Brit comedian Alfie Bass; there's a possible in-joke, there, about Cubby Broccoli's former connection with the coffin making business. I've always enjoyed the tomfoolery of this sequence, almost as much as anything else in the film.
And I've always loved the passage of 'Gondola Chase' which is represented in @mattjoes 's reconstruction at 1.40-2.00 (in the youtube file). Accompanying a cartoonish collision with a gondola occupied by an oblivious pair of snogging lovers - and the amusing spectacle of their bemused punter sinking into the canal - it's a passage which musically connotes disorientation and some sense of gravity before the humour exquisitely rebounds in a quirky strings signature and the piece reaches its end. It reworks an MR action theme first heard during the movie's PTS freefall stunt, where it carried a tumbling sense of the circus; here, it's a low bass undertow. (David Arnold worked in, briefly, a similar interval during his long, busy piece for the Thames boat chase in TWINE; starting with a pause, after a big explosion, when Brosnan checks his sat nav and decides to steer his vessel through a canal intersecting the river, where he splashes some nearby vehicle clamping officers.)
Generally, Barry's use of the symphonic arrangement of the Bond theme in 'Gondola Chase' recalls his use of it in TMWTGG. It's really MR which 'institutionalises' this variant (already nostalgic - we hadn't heard it for five years): it's recognisable as Barry's post-Connery, Roger-friendly Bond theme.