Artist:  LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Title:   “The Dark Crystal” original soundtrack

Label:   WARNER BROS.  Label is black with white text.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Catalog number is 1-23749. 

Year:  1982.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is gorgeous NM- with full original gloss.  Side One has one light paper scuff – not audible, nothing more.  Has been played a small number of times, likely once or twice, and handled with utmost care.  Fidelity is awesome.  Labels are clean with no spindle trail marks.    

JACKET:   Jacket is EXCELLENT with nice bright artwork.  A bit of minor wear on edges & at corner tips.  Reverse is clean with no writing, stickers, or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket.  

Poster insert is included in gorgeous NEAR MINT condition.

Track Listing: 

Side One:

Overture Power Ceremony The Storm The Mystic Master Dies The Funerals: Jen’s Journey The Skeksis’ Duel The Pod Dance

Side Two:

Love Theme Gelfling Song The Gelfling Ruins The Landstrider Journey The Great Conjunction Finale

Review:

“The fantasy film The Dark Crystal is a live-action feature performed entirely by puppets created by the Jim Henson organization, also responsible for the Muppets.  As such, it is visually unusual, but Trevor Jones' score is a traditional orchestral work in the Hollywood tradition.  In Randall D. Larson's liner notes to the 25th anniversary edition of the soundtrack album (reissued to coincide with a similarly commemorative DVD release), Jones reveals that the initial idea was to come up with music just as inventive as the look of the film, but that plan was abandoned when it was decided that audiences needed something to feel comfortable with in contrast to what they were seeing.  Still, Jones augmented  the London Symphony Orchestra with synthesizers to evoke some of the fantasy elements.  He also, in "The Pod Dance," brought in medieval instruments like the crumhorn and a double-flageolet to suggest a period sound (although the period was as fantastic as anything else in the story).  Jones follows the film's plot, which concerns fragmentation of the magical crystal and its restoration, by creating musical themes that eventually weave together in the seven-minute "Finale," which also serves as a medley of all that has gone before.”

(courtesy William Ruhlmann, allmusic.com.)

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