Zulu - The Film Music of John Barry
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Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 5/1999
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 466 275-4DH

Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 5/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 57
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 466 275-2DH

Label: Silva Screen
Magazine Review Date: 5/1999
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 101
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: FILMXCD305

Author:
After being submerged in these love juices, it comes as something of a shock to hear the re-recorded Zulu, now fractionally expanded from its original 20-minute duration. In the movie, silence was utilized at length, heightening the music’s impact once it arrived. Silva Screen released the original mono version just over a decade ago, and now this incarnation is presented in Dolby Surround. Its nine sections hurry through an exhausting variety of moods, percussive and angular, harsh horns tearing through sweeping string layers, extremely aggressive in places. With its two-disc capacity, the set also has time to present a capsule Barry history, newly interpreted, and sometimes edited down into capsule form. The Cotton Club’s muted-trombone growls lead into the genteel harpsichord preening of Love Among the Ruins. Midnight Cowboy’s ‘Florida Fantasy’ is two minutes of flatulent saxophone lunacy, while
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