Straight Story Soundtrack

BUYSOUNDTRAX Records present HIGH ROAD TO CHINA, featuring music composed and conducted by John Barry for the 1983 action adventure film directed by Brian G. Hutton (SOL MADRID, WHERE EAGLES DARE, KELLY’S HEROES), based on a book by Jon Cleary, starring Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong, Jack Weston, Wilford Brimley, Robert Morley, Cassandra Gava and the great Brian Blessed as the Suleman Khan.

A return look and listen to this historical and breathtaking collaboration between two of the great figures of modern music should naturally be prefaced by a few key facts. Although this album presents itself as the soundtrack to the film The Hot Spot, like many such releases it bares little relation to the music that was actually used in the film — not that much of this music was actually used. All one really needs to know about the film itself, other than the fact that it was directed by Dennis Hopper, is that it is awful, even by bad film standards. That it was the impetus for this marvelous music to be made is something listeners should be thankful for, particularly fans of either Miles Davis or John Lee Hooker

Loch Ness was originally composed as a soundtrack for a - never finished - 2012 Commodore 64 Loch Ness ‘Spotter Simulator’ videogame. An adventure / simulator / RPG in which the player takes the role of a cryptozoologist trying to proof the existence of the Loch Ness Monster. The sounds on this soundtrack come from the mighty Commodore 64 itself. This computer, released in 1982, came with a state of the art soundchip - the MOS technologies SID. Far ahead of its competition it sported advanced functions like waveforms with Pulse Width Modulation, envelope generators and a filter. With this chip the commodore 64 had a real 3 voice synthesizer build in - lightyears removed from the spartan primitive unmusical blips and beeps of the Ataris or Apple II’s…

Joseph Trapanese (Oblivion, Straight Outta Compton, Insurgent) has recently recorded his score for the upcoming action adventure Robin Hood. The film is directed by Otto Barhurst (Peaky Blinders) and stars Taron Egerton in the title role, Jamie Foxx as Little John, Eve Hewson as Maid Marian, Ben Mendelsohn as the as well as the Sheriff of Nottingham, as well as Jamie Dornan, Paul Anderson and Tim Minchin. The movie tells the origin story of Robin Hood being a war-hardened crusader and joining with a Moorish commander in an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown. Joby Harold (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Awake) wrote the screenplay and is also producing the Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Davisson (The Revenant, Out of the Furnace), Basil Iwanyk (The Town, John Wick, Sicario) and Tory Tunnell (Underground). Robin Hood is set to be released on November 21, 2018 by Summit Entertainment/Lionsgate.