| Doctor Mordrid The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by Richard Band Liner Notes Composer of the Unknown Richard Band has spent much of his career in the company of devil dolls, ominous aliens and monsters from the fourth dimension. His suspenseful themes and synthesizer shocks have given evil a melodic face, a talent for unholy rhythms that has made Band one of the genre's foremost composers with scores like "Re-Animator", "From Beyond" and "The Pit And The Pendulum". Born in 1953 to director Albert Band ("I Bury The Living"), Richard and his brother Charles were fated to explore the cinema's most twisted paths. A self-taught guitarist, Richard toured Europe with a rock band at the age of 13, before co-composing (with Joel Goldsmith) his first score for 1978's "Laserblast". Band would be consumed by the bizarre worlds that his brother's imagination produced; his grasp of uncanny tunes growing from computerized music to composing "Metalstorm" for an 80-piece orchestra. As he brought musical flesh to impish "Troll" and "Ghost Warrior's" reborn Samurai, Band tured the London Symphony and Rome Philharmonic into graveyard orchestras, his twisted take on Bernard Herrmann bringing him cult acclaim with "Re-Animator". Band's fiendish collaboration with director Stuart Gordon continued with "From Beyond", "Dolls" and The Pit And The Pendulum", the composer's further taste of Lovecraftian menace on "The Resurrected" developing a mutant musical style that's come to fruition with "Doctor Mordrid". "Doctor Mordrid" is Richard Band's most notable marriage of light and darkness, heroic tunes in eternal conflict with evil dissonance. "Doctor Mordrid's" larger-than-life sounds comes from a mixture of orchestra and electronics, the 14 brass instruments and 21 violins played simultaneously with their synthesized counterparts. Band is one of the few composers to employ this unique style, one that gives "Doctor Mordrid" its magic. Written in three weeks to meet the delivery dates of the film and his pregnant wife, Richard Band nevertheless managed to compose one of his favorite scores, containing themes for Mordrid's nobility, a "sorcery mysterioso" to play underneath his visitations by the all-powerful "monitor" and a love motif to show Mordrid's unspoken yearning for a beautiful police assistant. As Band goes for a comic book's sense of mystery and adventure, his musical tricks weave an eerie and tantalizing spell. Besides composing for "Doctor Mordrid's" cosmo-shattering battle and fierce dinosaur skeletons, Richard Band is in equally good company with vicious dolls. As with his scores for the "Puppet Master" films, "Demonic Toys" shows Band's fondness for demented childhood melodies, his music announcing the approach of playthings from Hell. But unlike his lush orchestrations for Andre Toulon's puppets, Band's "Demonic" score rips apart those instruments into mocking xylophones, electronics and drums, his bloodthirsty teddy bears and jack-in-the-boxes ready to pounce. Their attacks are accompanied by Band, his shrill themes speeding from one kill to the next with a ghoulish laugh. As Richard Band continues to explore the unknown with "The Arrival", "Crash and Burn" and "Bride of Re-Animator", his grasp for the supernatural's most hypnotic melodies seize our imaginations. "Doctor Mordrid" and "Demonic Toys" are further proof that Band has tapped into the music of the beyond. -Daniel Schweiger |
| Jeffery Combs speaking of Richard Band's score to Doctor Mordrid Once again Ricard Band comes through with a stellar score. It's always comforting to know that every element of a film is in capable hands and that's especially true when it comes to Richard's soaring music. And it's very pleasing to know that my character, Doctor Mordrid, is represented by one of my favorite instruments - the french horn. Bravo, Richard! Doctor Mordrid The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Track List 1. Doctor Mordrid (2:58) 2. Astral Projection (3:14) 3. The Detective Next Door (2:01) 4. Into The Fourth Dimension (3:00) 5. Fortress Of The Damned (1:09) 6. Gunner's Warning (1:33) 7. Eternal Enemies (3:50) 8. Station Break (2:00) 9. To Hell With The Police (1:15) 10. Setting The Demons Free (0:55) 11. Dinosaur War (&:44) 12. The Monitor Beckons (1:20) Total Running Time 31:06 |
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