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January 15, 2024

Intrada Presents Expanded James Horner SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES Soundtrack

“With the kind assistance of Simon Rhodes, the composer’s long time scoring mixer of choice, and the generous help of our dear friends at Walt Disney Records, we are happy to bring back this sensational and frightening 1983 score that James Horner composed for Ray Bradbury’s SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, released through Walt Disney Productions,” reports Intrada. Directed by Jack Clayton directs and starring Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier. Modestly expanded from the label’s previous release (2009), this newly remastered release includes the music that Horner and Rhodes opted to delete from that release. This new look at the score includes everything that survives from the now-obsolete 3M digital format masters, made for us by the team at Disney Imagineering, who had preserved a rare working machine for playbacks. While Rhodes was now able to provide just a few more minutes of music, the new material included, a last, the subtle and chilling wordless choral cues associated with “The Dust Witch” and the spooky “Holloway Talks To Dark” as well as the source music recorded at the sessions, composed and arranged by Horner’s orchestrator, Greig McRicthie.

“The entire score is presented in crisp, detailed stereo,: reports the label. “Executive producer Roger Feigelson offers detailed descriptions of the film and music cues in his informative notes and provides the original cue titles as indicated on Disney’s scoring session paperwork. Intrada’s latest Special Collection CD is available while quantities and interest remain!

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