Caldera Records is proud to present Roy Budd's score for the motion picture "Welcome to Blood City", directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar. The characters of the latter two wake up on a beach one day as part of a group of strangers. None of them can remember who they are or recognise where they are. Things don't become clearer to them as they run into two men who swiftly rape the woman and shoot one of the strangers. They are eventually rescued by sheriff Friendlander and escorted to a town that looks as if it had been built for a Hollywood western. But is Friendlander really their friend, and what reality do they now inhabit? Slowly, a grisly truth dawns on the new arrivals.--"Welcome to Blood City" is an unusual genre-mix that plays with elements of western, romance, thriller and science-fiction decades before "The Matrix" would premiere. However, the film was not a commercial or critical success, and Roy Budd's score remains the best thing about it. It is also the most unusual work in his oeuvre as already becomes clear during the opening credits with its abstract effects, a lone flute solo, and the use of the echoplex. Budd's score is more experimental and austere than any of his other compositions. Although "Welcome to Blood City" features jazz inflections and aggressive orchestral moments, it is neither a grand symphonic score nor a driving jazz composition for which the former child prodigy from Croydon, England, had become famous. In his score, Budd doesn't rely on themes and melodies but on motifs and moods instead. The lonesome, haunting flute solo at the beginning skilfully captures the deserted landscape and troubling alienation of the unwitting pawns while the echoplex (used famously in "Patton" by Jerry Goldsmith whom Budd admired and befriended) provides a sense of mystery and hints at the science fiction element of the story.--We are pleased to finally make Roy Budd's score for "Welcome to Blood City" available for the first time, thanks to the efforts of his wife Sylvia Budd. The score was long thought to be lost before we discovered it - among other tapes - in a small storage container outside a village in North Yorkshire, England, where it had been kept for a decade. As a bonus, we include the few pieces Budd wrote and recorded for the short-lived though well-reviewed British TV series "The Sandbaggers", a political thriller about undercover operations.-The 49th CD-release of Caldera Records features a detailed booklet-text by Stephan Eicke and elegant artwork by Luis Miguel Rojas. The CD was mastered by Richard Moore and produced by Stephan Eicke and John Elborg.-
「ウエストワールド」に影響されて製作された1976年のＳＦサスペンス『監獄都市ブラッド』のサウンドトラックが世界初リリース！
トラックリストこの作品は、オープニング・クレジットですでに明らかになったように、抽象的な効果、単独のフルートソロ、エコプレックスの使用など、彼の作品の中で最も珍しい作品でもある。バッドのスコアは、彼の他のどの作曲家よりも実験的で渋い。ジャズの要素を取り入れたり、アグレッシブなオーケストラを使ったりしているが、壮大なシンフォニック・スコアでもなければ、イギリスのクロイドン出身の天才少年バッドが有名になったジャズのようなドライビング・コンポジションでもない。バッドはテーマやメロディーではなく、モチーフやムードを重視した作曲をしている。冒頭の孤独で妖しいフルートソロは、荒涼とした風景と、無意識のうちの手先の厄介な疎外感を巧みに捉え、エコプレックス（バッドが敬愛し親しんだジェリー・ゴールドスミスの「パットン」で有名）は、謎の感覚と物語のSF的要素を示唆するものである。
このスコアは、妻のシルヴィア・バッドの尽力により、ついに初公開されることになりました。このスコアは長い間、失われたと思われていましたが、他のテープと一緒に、イギリス・ノースヨークシャーの村の外れにある小さな倉庫の中で発見されました。ボーナスとしてバドが作曲し、短期間ながら好評を博したイギリスのテレビシリーズ「THE SANDBAGGERSs」のために録音した数曲を収録しています。このシリーズは、潜入捜査についての政治スリラーです。
突如、砂漠に放り出された５人の男女が、保安官と思しき男に導かれてたどり着いたのは、ブラッド・シティと呼ばれる小さな町だった。そこでは殺人が合法化されているだけでなく、地位の向上や権力の掌握には殺した人間の数が大きく関与していた……。
ユル・ブリンナー同様にジャック・パランスが、かつての当たり役である「シェーン」の黒づくめのガンマンに扮している。
監督：ピーター・サスディ、出演：ジャック・パランス、ケア・デュリア、サマンサ・エッガー。1976年イギリス。
Caldera Records is proud to present Roy Budd's score for the motion picture "Welcome to Blood City", directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Jack Palance, Keir Dullea and Samantha Eggar. The characters of the latter two wake up on a beach one day as part of a group of strangers. None of them can remember who they are or recognise where they are. Things don't become clearer to them as they run into two men who swiftly rape the woman and shoot one of the strangers. They are eventually rescued by sheriff Friendlander and escorted to a town that looks as if it had been built for a Hollywood western. But is Friendlander really their friend, and what reality do they now inhabit? Slowly, a grisly truth dawns on the new arrivals.--"Welcome to Blood City" is an unusual genre-mix that plays with elements of western, romance, thriller and science-fiction decades before "The Matrix" would premiere. However, the film was not a commercial or critical success, and Roy Budd's score remains the best thing about it. It is also the most unusual work in his oeuvre as already becomes clear during the opening credits with its abstract effects, a lone flute solo, and the use of the echoplex. Budd's score is more experimental and austere than any of his other compositions. Although "Welcome to Blood City" features jazz inflections and aggressive orchestral moments, it is neither a grand symphonic score nor a driving jazz composition for which the former child prodigy from Croydon, England, had become famous. In his score, Budd doesn't rely on themes and melodies but on motifs and moods instead. The lonesome, haunting flute solo at the beginning skilfully captures the deserted landscape and troubling alienation of the unwitting pawns while the echoplex (used famously in "Patton" by Jerry Goldsmith whom Budd admired and befriended) provides a sense of mystery and hints at the science fiction element of the story.--We are pleased to finally make Roy Budd's score for "Welcome to Blood City" available for the first time, thanks to the efforts of his wife Sylvia Budd. The score was long thought to be lost before we discovered it - among other tapes - in a small storage container outside a village in North Yorkshire, England, where it had been kept for a decade. As a bonus, we include the few pieces Budd wrote and recorded for the short-lived though well-reviewed British TV series "The Sandbaggers", a political thriller about undercover operations.-The 49th CD-release of Caldera Records features a detailed booklet-text by Stephan Eicke and elegant artwork by Luis Miguel Rojas. The CD was mastered by Richard Moore and produced by Stephan Eicke and John Elborg.-
Welcome to Blood City
1. Main Titles (2:08)
2. Realisation (2:42)
3. Ride into Town (2:04)
4. Enter Friendlander (1:57)
5. Run For Your Life (0:52)
6. Fair Fight (1:53)
7. Blood City (unused) (2:53)
8. Later (0:13)
9. The Hunted (1:55)
10. Shootout (2:07)
11. Lewis and Katherine (unused) (1:29)
12. The Day Breaks (0:59)
13. Katherine and Lewis’ Argument (0:38)
14. Over My Dead Body (0:56)
15. Pinned Down (3:27)
16. Get Out (0:51)
17. Friendlander and Flint Have a Disagreement (1:23)
18. Friendlander is Upset (2:44)
19. Realisation (alternate) (2:42)
20. End Credits (2:22)
Bonus:
The Sandbaggers
21. Main Title (0:54)
22. Bumper #1* (0:08)
23. Theme alt. #1* (0:55)
24. Theme alt. #2* (0:41)
25. Bumper #2* (0:10)
26. Bumper #3* (0:09)
27. End Titles (0:53)
* unused