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Coolangatta Gold, The (1984)
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 Coolangatta Gold is Best Conti
by a soundtrack collector (July 5, 2006)
This release is the long awaited Bill Conti gem. Previously only available on an LP given over to rock and pop songs, finally the orchestral tracks from that album are now on CD, plus another 20 or so Bill Conti cues. The action cues are amongst the most exciting of Conti's career, and the love theme, not featured in the film, is breathtakingly beautiful.
This little known film has hardly been seen outside of its country of origin, and little seen even in it. Hired to write the score to Australia's biggest budget film ever, after winning the Oscar for 'The Right Stuff', this masterpiece has been hardly heard around the world and is easily Conti's most little known score.
This is extraordinary as it is one of his 5 best scores, and features arguably his most exciting, triumphant and regal piece of music, which is Track 1 of the CD.
Although there is heavy percussive drumming in some of the tracks, the blazing horns and trumpets and racing strings set the heart pumping. The 100-piece orchestra brings to life some of Conti's best classical writing, in a style meeting somewhere between Baroque and Romanticism.
Even if I only had the first track, it would be essential for my collection, and certainly that piece is 'If-I-was-stranded-on-a-desert-island-and-I-could-only have....' material.
A must for any classic film music fan. and more than a must for Bill Conti fans.
reviewed by William ONiel
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