Sorcerer

Music by Tangerine Dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was a brave attempt by director William Friedkim with his "surreal poem" (printed in the CD booklet), but to define Tangerine Dream´s music is as impossible as useless.

Sorcerer (1977), remake of the classic French Le Saleur La Peur (The Wages of Fear, 1955) directed by Henri Georges Clouzout was the excellent group's debut in cinema and certainly the best track ever composed by Tangerine Dream. A kind of intermediate work between the abstract phase of the early years (1972 - 1974) and the subsequent techno-pop direction in the 80s. In the US movie market the work meant the advancement of electronic music as a score for a movie. Tracks like The Journey and The Mountain Road, immediately refer to the sound of Tangerine Dream's early 70s, while momentos of more rhythms as Vengeance, Impressions and Rain Forest bridged to the subsequent pop orientation. But it is in the "cosmic" abstractions  of Main Title, The Call and Abyss that the acore shows unique in its unclassifiable electronic landscapes. Music is used especially in the second half of the film when the four characters prepare the trucks (the Creation) and leave for the suicidal commit (The Journey and Grind). The sequence when Scanlon (Roy Scheider) and Nile (Francisco Rabal) drives through a "moonscape" landscape uses an excerpt from Hymns Spheres of keyboardist Keith Jarrett, not included in this CD.