1.0 out of 5 stars
Unredeemable, June 14, 2007
This review is from: Star Wars - Synthesized Selections from the Movies (Audio CD)
I like orchestral synthesizer music. I like Vangelis, Jarre, Tangerine Dream, and Yanni. Some of their stuff from the 70's now sounds horribly dated, but it all sounds much better than this anemic production of Star Wars music released in 1999 and containing arrangements of what was then the "new" Star Wars film, The Phantom Menace.
This recording comes to us from programmer and arranger Gordon R Wallin, a UK musician associated with the Chicago Musical Revue, a group producing synthesizer versions of stage musicals, including Cats, Phantom, Les Miserables, and Sunset Boulevard. The Star Wars release is so far the only title under the Chicago Electronic Revue.
Which is just as well. The arrangements are by-the-book and the sound is shallow and thin, like computer game music from the 1980's.
This is a truly atrocious project with nothing to recommend it.
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