PREDATOR PREDATOR Download Artwork Alan Silvestri Label: Intrada MAF 7118 Time: 1:16:05 Tracks: 20 Ok! You spoke... we listened! Completely re-mastered release of complete Alan Silvestri soundtrack for John McTiernan alien action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes as both licensor (20th Century Fox) and composer seek re-release of wildly popular score to wider market. You asked for every drop of blood, we now give it to you. New CD restores tiny bits edited from earlier issue, removes select crossfades, includes brief cue "The Aftermath" prior to "End Credits". CD plays in chronological order as originally scored by composer. Silvestri's incredibly muscular score is dynamite example of scoring via small motifs. Rhythmic punctuation in low brass, melded with busy percussion figures, creates incredibly terse, aggressive foundation for melodic ideas in strings, upper brass. Another cool idea has heroic musical signature for Schwarzenegger anchoring score yet almost all motifs, ideas are rooted in minor harmonies, not the expected major. Resulting music remains grim, tough, violent throughout! Intrada MAF series release with modest enhancement to original graphic design by Joe Sikoryak plus reprise of informative liner notes from Julie Kirgo. Alan Silvestri conducts.

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Reviews Ok! You spoke... we listened! Completely re-mastered release of complete Alan Silvestri soundtrack for John McTiernan alien action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger comes as both licensor (20th Century Fox) and composer seek re-release of wildly popular score to wider market. You asked for every drop of blood, we now give it to you. New CD restores tiny bits edited from earlier issue, removes select crossfades, includes brief cue "The Aftermath" prior to "End Credits". CD plays in chronological order as originally scored by composer. Silvestri's incredibly muscular score is dynamite example of scoring via small motifs. Rhythmic punctuation in low brass, melded with busy percussion figures, creates incredibly terse, aggressive foundation for melodic ideas in strings, upper brass. Another cool idea has heroic musical signature for Schwarzenegger anchoring score yet almost all motifs, ideas are rooted in minor harmonies, not the expected major. Resulting music remains grim, tough, violent throughout! Intrada MAF series release with modest enhancement to original graphic design by Joe Sikoryak plus reprise of informative liner notes from Julie Kirgo. Alan Silvestri conducts.

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01. Fox Logo (Alfred Newman/Arranged by Elliot Goldenthal 1992) (0:26)

02. Main Title (3:52)

03. Something Else/Cut 'Em Down/Payback Time (7:37)

04. The Truck (4:23)

05. Jungle Trek (1:48)

06. Girl's Escape (5:59)

07. Blain's Death (0:47)

08. What Happened? (2:01)

09. He's My Friend (1:26)

10. We're Gonna Die (3:29) 11. Building The Trap (3:06)

12. The Waiting (3:27)

13. Can You See Him? (4:52)

14. Dillon's Death (2:05)

15. Billy And Predator (2:36)

16. Dutch Builds Trap (9:29)

17. Predator Injured (4:15)

18. Hand To Hand Combat (3:10)

19. Predator's Death (3:43)

20. The Aftermath/The Pick-Up And End Credits (7:01)

Tech Talk From The Producer…



The powerhouse score Alan Silvestri wrote for Predator in 1987 quickly became a sought-after fan favorite. It also became a highly influential work that served as inspiration for numerous subsequent action film scores. Ironically, no soundtrack album was made available until Nick Redman gave it a spectacular world premiere in 2003 for the Varese Sarabande label using the best master elements available at the time. That limited edition CD sold out quickly and soon became a high-priced collector’s item.



For this brand new presentation of the soundtrack for Predator , producers Nick Redman and Douglass Fake have turned to DAT (digital audio tape) transfers of the original stereo scoring session mixes made by Dennis Sands, re-mastering the entire score for improved sonics, especially regarding tape noise levels. As the detailed booklet notes by Julie Kirgo illuminate, numerous postproduction changes on the film included altering the placement and duration of several cues. Every cue on this CD is presented chronologically—in its original, intended picture sequence.



So sit back and enjoy one of Alan Silvestri’s most dynamic and thrilling creations. If ever there was a score best played at pumped-up volumes… this is it!



—Douglass Fake









Composed and Conducted by Alan Silvestri .

Recorded on May 13-20, 1987, at Twentieth Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles, California.

This soundtrack was produced in cooperation with the

American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

VIOLIN

Anatol Kaminsky

Erno Neufeld

Eudice Shapiro

Byron Williams

Thelma Beach

David Frisina

Felix Slatkin

Nathan Kaproff

Alex Murray

Marvin Limonick

George Kast

Sam Freed

Herman Clebanoff

Benny Gill

Irma Neumann

Joseph Stepansky

Saundra Berkova

Ralph Schaeffer

Bernard Gerrard

Ambrose Russo

Mort Herbert

Manuel Compinsky

Leon Trebacz

Joachim Chassman



VIOLA

Virginia Majewski

Alvin Dinkin

Robert Ostrowski

Joseph Reilich

Louis Kievman

Joseph DiFiore

Dorothy Colton

G. R. Menhennick



CELLO

Armand Kaproff

Edgar Lustgarten

Raphael Kramer

Eleanor Slatkin

Justin DiTullio

Emmet Sargeant

Anne Goodman

Kurt Reher



BASS

Abe Luboff

Peter Mercurio

Harold Brown

Milton Kestenbaum

Meyer Rubin

Ray Siegel



FLUTE

Martin Ruderman

Sylvia Ruderman

June Russo

Arthur Smith



CLARINET

Mitchell Lurie

John Neufeld

Dominick Fera



OBOE

Arnold Koblentz

William Criss



BASSOON

Jack Marsh

Norman Herzberg



FRENCH HORN

Vincent DeRosa

Richard Perissi

John Cave

Gale Robinson

Herman Lebow



TRUMPET

Uan Rasey

Emanuel Klein

Maurice Harris



TROMBONE

Lloyd Ulyate

Richard Noel

Seymour Zeldin



TUBA

Sam Rice



PIANO/

KEYBOARDS

Raymond Turner

Pearl Kaufman



HARP

Dorothy Remsen



DRUMS/

PERCUSSION

Louis Singer

Lee Perrin

Hubert Anderson

Shelly Manne

Milton Holland



ARRANGER/

ORCHESTRATOR

Leo Shuken

Jack Hayes



COPYIST

Lloyd Basham

W. D. Garlock

Jack McTaggart

Paul Sprosty

Percival Goldenson

Wally Heglin

Paul Van Loan

Arthur Grier

Dominic Fidelibus

Wolfgang Fraenkel

Howard Drew

Charles Adams

Michael Andersen

Larry Cramer

Roman Maciejewski

