Koyanisqatsi (Original Version)专辑介绍
By Douglas Burkett
'Koyaanisqatsi' is a great film and I have watched it many times...I have listened to the original soundtrack even more. I also enjoyed musical cues that were in the movie that were not in the original soundtrack release; I used to have to watch the movie to hear these unreleased musical cues/cuts. Naturally, as someone who has almost every Glass release I was glad to see they would finally add these other cues onto a complete version of this amazing soundtrack.
Listening to the completed soundtrack creates a mood that is much more like watching the film itself as you hear some of the pieces weaving right into each other as they do in the film (rather than silence between tracks). The incorporation of some of the actual sounds from the film in the extra cues works much better than I thought it would. So it is a fine representation and recreation of the entire film's soundtrack onto CD and worth five stars for concept and reproduction of the original film music.
My only issue with this new release would be with sound quality. I find there are several places on the recording where the quality of the sound is 'iffy' compared to the original CD release. If the degredated quality was only in the unreleased tracks I could understand, but I heard some strange anomalies during tracks that sounded fine on the original CD. One track, 'Vessels' (#5 on this disc) starts out clearly and normally enough but in the middle section when the instruments enter the entire sound of the music and chorus suddenly sounds like they are playing in a tunnel. It becomes almost impossible to pick out individual instruments and everything kind of blends together into an heavy echo/reverb-like resonance. I can almost not even make out the chorus against the instruments because it just has such a tunnel-effect. It just sounds very, very strange. It was so odd that I decided to check it against the original soundtrack CD and the clarity of the original was much better in this section and in other places so I don't know what happened with the sound compared to the original release.
So a potential 5 stars for the idea and release of the album, but minus one for some questioning of quality and sound issues in a few places.
'Koyaanisqatsi' is a great film and I have watched it many times...I have listened to the original soundtrack even more. I also enjoyed musical cues that were in the movie that were not in the original soundtrack release; I used to have to watch the movie to hear these unreleased musical cues/cuts. Naturally, as someone who has almost every Glass release I was glad to see they would finally add these other cues onto a complete version of this amazing soundtrack.
Listening to the completed soundtrack creates a mood that is much more like watching the film itself as you hear some of the pieces weaving right into each other as they do in the film (rather than silence between tracks). The incorporation of some of the actual sounds from the film in the extra cues works much better than I thought it would. So it is a fine representation and recreation of the entire film's soundtrack onto CD and worth five stars for concept and reproduction of the original film music.
My only issue with this new release would be with sound quality. I find there are several places on the recording where the quality of the sound is 'iffy' compared to the original CD release. If the degredated quality was only in the unreleased tracks I could understand, but I heard some strange anomalies during tracks that sounded fine on the original CD. One track, 'Vessels' (#5 on this disc) starts out clearly and normally enough but in the middle section when the instruments enter the entire sound of the music and chorus suddenly sounds like they are playing in a tunnel. It becomes almost impossible to pick out individual instruments and everything kind of blends together into an heavy echo/reverb-like resonance. I can almost not even make out the chorus against the instruments because it just has such a tunnel-effect. It just sounds very, very strange. It was so odd that I decided to check it against the original soundtrack CD and the clarity of the original was much better in this section and in other places so I don't know what happened with the sound compared to the original release.
So a potential 5 stars for the idea and release of the album, but minus one for some questioning of quality and sound issues in a few places.