This week’s selection is an oddball cue that’s a bit hard to categorize. It’s perhaps best described as a rhythmic/minimalist groove with an eclectic instrumental set. The driving sleigh bell brings winter associations, but the eastern-sounding musical scale makes the tone tense rather than jovial. You can probably listen to it more quickly than I can come up with a meaningful description. 🙂

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	Snow Running

This week’s music selection is from the short thriller Dead Line. Detuned piano, fiddle drones, and exotic bells create a disquieting atmosphere to accompany the image of lone figure walking through the Nevada desert at dusk.

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	Walking

We kick off the new year with one of my own personal favorites, the opening titles to the feature film Against Time. In the film, a teen whiz kid (Ean Mering) is accosted by a seemingly deranged old man (Robert Loggia) claiming to be his future self, here to stop a terrible mistake his past self is about to make. The clincher: time travel has supposedly disoriented him so much that he can’t remember what the mistake is.

Music written for opening titles tends to be an emotional synopsis of some element of the film. Here I was trying to capture a sense of passion and yearning, both of youth and old age, as well as a touch of the supernatural flavoring of time travel.

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	Against Time

Here’s a bit of noble militaristic heroism, also from the Empire Earth 2 score. Recording once again courtesy of the Budapest Film Orchestra.

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	The Troops Arrive