MIKE OLDFIELD: THE KILLING FIELDS [ESP 1984] LP/RE EN GIRONA

MIKE OLDFIELD: THE KILLING FIELDS [ESP 1984] LP/RE MIKE OLDFIELD: THE KILLING FIELDS [ESP 1984] LP/RE Mike Oldfield   "The Killing Fields"  LP (Virgin)   1984   made in Spain cat. num.  E 206 707 #progressive rock  #pop rock  #soundtrack   Pran's Theme 0:45 Requiem For A City 1:45 Evacuation 5:10 Pran's Theme - 2 1:40 Capture 2:01 Execution 4:10 Bad News 1:10 Pran's Departure 2:03 Worksite 1:18 The Year Zero 0:27 Blood Sucking 1:18 The Year Zero - 2 0:36 Pran's Escape / The Killing Fields 3:11 The Trek 1:58 The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees The Red Cross 2:40 Good News 1:44 Etude 4:38   Crack all the jokes you want about  Mike Oldfield  and his Tubular Bells becoming the hit theme song for The Exorcist. While  Oldfield  is an amazing guitarist who could play with the best of them, with a lithe synth touch that became a trademark, the bottom line is that the man is a serious composer. All the proof one needs apart from his own records like  Incantations  and  Hergest Ridge  is this killer movie score. While  Oldfield  used a purely Western and neo-classical formal approach to write the music for  Roland Joffé 's dramatization of true events, his musical mates were among the best in the business at helping him to bring it off:  David Bedford  wrote arrangements and directed the choir, while  Eberhard Schoener  helped to conduct and direct another choir (!) and master percussionist  Morris Pert  lent his talents to the mix as well. While many scores written during the 1980s come off as laughable fluff in the 21st century,  Oldfield 's score for The Killing Fields is in many ways far more memorable than the film itself. The music here is full of drama, dynamic, textures, and unexpected twists and turns even in the smallest of the incidental pieces, and carries within it a certain majesty that lacks pomp and remains graceful throughout.