Richard Band - The Primevals (Original Soundtrack) (CD)

The Primevals represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fueled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation.Award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band outlines his approach to the music and the inspiration that lies behind it -"I've always been a firm believer in the importance of themes in film scoring and this score cried out for an epic theme perhaps in the classical manner of a Steiner, Herrmann or Rozsa, or perhaps even a Goldsmith, Williams, Jarre or Shore. It was movies from my childhood like 'Lost Horizon' and 'Jason and the Argonauts' as well as epics like 'Dr. Zhivago' and 'Ben-Hur' that had the import I was searching for. This film was a true joy to score and well worth the roughly 20 odd years I waited to do it."

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. The Gale and Mountain Shack / Battling the Yeti / Main Title
2. Dr. Collier's Announcement
3. Unveiling the Yeti
4. Matt and Dr. Collier
5. They Talk / the Expedition
6. Rondo Agrees to the Expedition
7. Meeting Cathleen / Kiku
8. Pushing on / Yeti Tracks
9. Awakened By a Yeti / Kiku
10. The Tower / Earthquake
11. The Cave / a New Land
12. Rafting Down the River
13. The Hominid Village
14. Matt Hears Villagers Screaming
15. The Hominid Confrontation
16. The Wrecked Village / Onwards
17. Entering the Caves
18. Huge Spaceship Discovery
19. The Spaceship / Inside the Spaceship
20. The Abduction
21. In the Cages
22. Taken to "The Arena"
23. The Lizard Arena Show
24. The Yeti Is Released
25. Escaping the Cages / the Yeti Helps the Escape Part 1
26. The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 2 / Matt Has a Plan
27. Dr. Collier Dies ; Finale
28. End Titles