Howe Records will release three new soundtrack albums for a number of films directed by David Cronenberg featuring music written by the director’s regular composer Howard Shore (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silence of the Lambs). The first release features the complete and remastered score for the 1996 psychological thriller Crash starring James Spader, Deborah Kara Unger, Elias Koteas, Holly Hunter and Rosanna Arquette. The soundtrack will be released on October 14, 2014 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The second new Collector’s Edition features the complete score for the 1988 drama Dead Ringers starring Jeremy Irons and Geneviève Bujold. Click here to pre-order the CD. The third new release from the composer’s label features the complete and remastered score for the 1991 sci-fi drama Naked Lunch starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm and Roy Scheider. The music performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra features free jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Visit Amazon to pre-order the album.
In those albuns’ covers, is saying that they are volumes 4, 5 and 6. So, what were the volumes 1, 2 and 3 before them?
Anyway, they seems to be good releases, and an oportunity for all film score fans discover the music that Howard Shore has composed for Cronenberg.
Volume 1:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/89704/Howard+Shore%3A+Collector's+Edition+Vol.+1
Volume 3:
http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/title/8162/Ed+Wood
I’ll let somebody else find Volume 2.
This is an odd way of numbering, because Shore’s label has had probably a dozen releases now. Plus, there’s no need to label them like that, when each Howe release has a catalogue number; Varese, Intrada, La La Land, Music Box, etc., don’t label seperate unrelated scores as “Volume (insert number)” — only a second volume of something, like Volume 2 or the upcoming Volume 3 of “Batman: The Animated Series”, make sense since it’s the same title but just more music.
Volume 2 is Soul of the Ultimate Nation.