![]() ![]() ![]() Recalling Capricorn One in its dense, foreboding arrangements and evoking Goldsmith's landmark score to Ridley Scott's 1979 classic Alien in its atmospheric electronic textures, Outland represents an ambitious but largely unsuccessful attempt to meld the two approaches. Issued three years later, Outland can't help but suffer by comparison. It's a virtual master class in the art of film music. Tightrope-taut and brilliantly paced, the soundtrack is more vividly cinematic than its accompanying celluloid images themselves. Where followers like Alan Silvestri and James Horner rely almost solely on sensory assault to convey danger and dread, Goldsmith sculpts the music of Capricorn One via complex orchestration and meticulous sound effects, building and expanding his central themes to create genuine drama. An exhilarating work that evolves with masterful purpose and precision, its densely percussive arrangements remain synonymous with adventure and suspense decades after the fact. Although the film in question is largely forgotten, Goldsmith's Capricorn One work looms as arguably the most imitated action score of the late 20th century. Assembling both of composer Jerry Goldsmith's collaborations with director Peter Hyams, GNP Crescendo's Outland/Capricorn One two-fer contains some of the most influential and innovative action movie music ever created.
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