THE FACULTY/Marco Beltrami/Intrada CDIntrada’s release of a premier 2-CD album of Marco Beltrami’s 1998 sci-fi horror score, THE FACULTY, has to do with teenage high school students discovering that their teachers are actually from an alien planet. They are mind-controlling parasites that rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the student bodies, with the few who are left gathering to save the world from alien domination. Beltrami had already been recognized as a horror genre veteran from his SCREAM and MIMIC scores. He provides here a chilling, intense composition for full orchestra that provides a striking mix of suspense and aggressive action music, which tends to dominate his musical treatment here, “from entrances at different times and pitches to uncommon bowing techniques, horn glissandi, detuned instruments, and numerous other devices,” writes the label. “Rhythms are fierce, the harmonic vernacular frightening. In balance, Beltrami also offers undercurrents of music oblivious to the alien invasion, a musical calm before the storm.” In the minor-keyed “Lounge Lizards,” Beltrami opens with a motif for hero student Casey, glides near-seamlessly into the broader student body theme, then, unraveling, works itself obdurately into the raging musical chaos and action. A slow-jam rock pulse from electric guitar provides a bit of heroic relief when it comes to the final climax. The music is mainly textural, with aggressive sonic suspense and striking scares. It’s a full orchestra score with a dazzling display of forceful action music requiring the musicians to create a creepy diversity of numerous techniques with their instruments. Having expanded the original 20-track soundtrack release in 2000, Intrada now doubles the dynamic pleasure with this 43-track/90-minute 2-CD presentation which really brings the stirring and striking mood of Beltrami’s score to its fullest rich capacity, including an alternate and a demo version of two of his main themes, Casey (an excellent, pleasing motif for Hammond Organ and acoustic guitar), and “Too Cool For School (a rich, rock anthem presented in three differing versions), although these themes are often displaced by the ongoing suspense and potential mayhem of the intense anxiety of his ferocious alien fear music. Tim Greiving provides informative booklet notes. The album is recommended, especially for those in the day who always found their teachers a bit otherworldly! For more details, or to order, see Intrada
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