Sold Date: November 1, 2017
Start Date: June 1, 2017
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Wyrd War very proudly presents the original motion picture soundtrack to Ralph Bakshi’s animated masterwork Wizards, on vinyl for the very first time!

Ostensibly Bakshi’s “family film,” this almost impossibly PG rated post-apocalyptic “fantasy epic of peace and magic” emerged like a strange fungus through fissures in the Hollywood machine in 1977 to psychedelicize unsuspecting audiences with slouching android assassins, nearly nude fairy wenches, supernatural siblings skirmishing for world domination between slugs of cheap wine, demonic dog soldiers belly-crawling through skeletal landscapes of airbrushed fog, and, perhaps most memorably, terrifying genocidal elfin warfare punctuated with Leni Riefenstahl stock footage, all perfectly choreographed to a beautifully ethereal sci-fi jazz soundtrack seemingly scorched with atomic energy. Such music!

Composer Andrew Belling delivered one of the first truly musical scores for a major Hollywood film composed almost entirely for ARP 2500 and ARP 2600 synthesizers. 40 years after its theatrical release, the music of Wizards continues to fascinate, perplex and inspire viewers, like a beautifully handcrafted Rorschach test of the late 20th century’s excesses, hopes and increasingly foreboding anxieties of things to come.

TRACKLIST:

Time Will Tell
The Story Begins / Scortch 3000 Years Later / Fairy Hookers / Peace Goes Forth / Peace In The Valley Of Montagar
War Against Peace / Weehawk Disturbs The Peace / The Bubble Bursts
Jukebox Junky Blues
Blackwolf Finds The Record / War & Frog / We Can't Lose
Moving Out
Battle & Peewhittle's Death
Now Begins Our Final Battle / Avatar Equestrian / On The Road To Scortch
Fairy Attack
Fairy Drums / Jungle Drums / Gargoyle Once A Day
Snow Drift / Snow Time / Assassins In The Snow
Tanks Again & Betrayal / Peace Isn't, Elinore Doesn't
To All Our Ships / Larry Gets Weehawk
The Elves Are Coming
Gathering Of The Heavies / The Charge Of The Heavy Brigade / The Battle Picks Up Tempo / The Punchup / The Elves Lose
Weehawk Finds Elinore / Elinore's OK / Blackwolf Bites It / Final History / Bye
Time Will Tell