Labyrinth - Original Score and Soundtrack Vinyl LP

$

38

Track Listing 1. Opening Titles Including Underground 2. Into the Labyrinth 3. Magic Dance 4. Sarah 5. Chilly Down 6. Hallucination 7. As the World Falls Down 8. The Goblin Battle 9. Within You 10. Thirteen O'Clock 11. Home at Last 12. Underground
Details Playing Time: 43 min. Distributor: EMI Music Distribution Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes Music written by Trevor Jones.Producers: Trevor Jones, David Bowie, Arif Mardin.Personnel: Trevor Jones (keyboards); David Bowie (vocals, background vocals); Clifford Kevin Clash, Charles Augins, Danny John-Jules, Richard Bodkin (vocals); Michael Lewin (guitar, lute); Dann Huff, Jeff Mironov, Kevin Armstrong, Albert Collins, Nick Moroch, Ray Russell (guitar); Ray Warleigh (saxophone); Bob Gay (alto saxophone); Maurice Murphy (trumpet); Richard Tee (piano); Robbie Buchanan (keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Nick Plytas, Dave Lawson, Brian Gascoigne (keyboards); Paul Westwood (bass guitar); Neil Conti, Harold Fisher, Steve Ferrone (drums); Andrew Thomas (programming); Cissy Houston, Diva Gray, Fonzi Thornton, Eunice Peterson, A. Marie Foster, James Glenn, Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller, Robin Beck, Will Lee , Renelie Stafford, Chaka Khan (background vocals).Audio Mixers: Jeremy Smith ; Lewis Hahn; Michael O'Reilly.Unknown Contributor Role: Steve Ferrone.Arrangers: David Bowie; Robbie Buchanan; Arif Mardin; Trevor Jones .Trevor Jones' music for this elaborate and ambitious Jim Henson/George Lucas production was filled with synthesizers blended cautiously into orchestral ensembles to provide a suitably ethereal tone -- one echoed very well by David Bowie's Goblin King singing the haunting "Within You" while stalking the film's heroine. This variant on the Persephone story, however, was treated as a half-hearted musical, with the Goblin King and his minions breaking out into raucous pop every so often, a tactic that undermined the tone of the entire film and upended the score. While "Underground" is a more than adequate Bowie entry, "Magic Dance" and others have a tendency to fall flat. A curious hodgepodge indeed. ~ Steven McDonald