Escape from New York (soundtrack)

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Escape from New York: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Film score by
John Carpenter
Released1981 (1981)
StudioPi West Studios, Glendale, California
Genre
Length37:22
Label Varèse Sarabande
Producer John Carpenter, Alan Howarth
John Carpenter chronology
Dark Star
(1980)		Escape from New York: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1981)		 Halloween II
(1981)
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2000 remastered edition
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Escape from New York: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album composed and performed by John Carpenter, featuring the score to the 1981 film Escape from New York . [1]

Contents

Recording

Sound designer Alan Howarth was introduced to John Carpenter by the picture editor of the film, Todd Ramsay, who had worked with Howarth on Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Howarth used equipment including ARP and Prophet-5 synthesizers and a Linn LM-1 drum machine, as well as an acoustic piano and Fender guitars, to create the palette of sounds used in the score, while Carpenter composed the melodies on the synthesizer keyboards. As the MIDI standard had yet to be invented, Howarth manually synchronized the equipment to picture while listening to a copy of the film's dialogue. Initial inspirational directions which Carpenter shared with Howarth included albums by Tangerine Dream and The Police. [2]

Release

The original release included a contractual obligation to provide a written musical score, which Howarth manually transcribed after recording was completed. The soundtrack was released in 1981 through Varèse Sarabande (originally on vinyl, then CD in 1982); a remastered and remixed edition was reissued in 2000 through Silva Screen Records, containing an extra fifteen tracks not included on the original version (eight of them being short extracts of dialogue from the film), as well as expanded liner notes.

Track listing

All tracks are written by John Carpenter, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Main Title"3:51
2."Up the Wall/Airforce #1"2:27
3."Orientation #2"1:47
4."Engulfed Cathedral" (Claude Debussy)3:32
5."Back to the Pod/The Crazies Come Out"3:01
6."Arrival at the Library"1:05
7."Everyone's Coming to New York" (Nick Castle)2:52
8."The Duke Arrives/The Barricade"3:35
9."Police State/Romero and the President"3:21
10."The President at the Train"2:53
11."The President Is Gone"2:30
12."Chase Across the 69th Street Bridge"2:46
13."Over the Wall"3:42
Total length:37:22

2000 remastered edition

No.TitleLength
1."Main Title"3:53
2."The Bank Robbery"3:30
3.""Prison Introduction"" (dialogue)0:20
4."Over the Wall/Airforce One"2:23
5."He's Still Alive/Romero"2:12
6.""'Snake' Plissken"" (dialogue)1:41
7."Orientation"1:47
8.""Tell Him"" (dialogue)1:46
9."Engulfed Cathedral" (writer: Claude Debussy)3:33
10."Across the Roof"1:17
11."Descent into New York"3:37
12."Back to the Pod – Version #1"1:34
13."Everyone's Coming to New York" (writer: Nick Castle)2:24
14.""Don't Go Down There!"" (dialogue)0:19
15."Back To The Pod – Version #2/The Crazies Come Out"2:09
16.""I Heard You Were Dead!"" (dialogue)0:08
17."Arrival at the Library"1:06
18.""You Are the Duke of New York"" (dialogue)0:16
19."The Duke Arrives/Barricade"3:35
20."President at the Train"2:28
21.""Who Are You?"" (dialogue)0:27
22."Police Action"2:27
23."Romero and the President"1:43
24."The President Is Gone"1:53
25."69th Street Bridge"2:44
26."Over the Wall"3:42
27.""The Name Is Plissken"" (dialogue)0:25
28."Snake Shake"3:58
Total length:57:17

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Ruhlmann, William. "Escape from New York [Original Film Soundtrack] - John Carpenter, Alan Howarth". AllMusic . All Media Network. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Ball, Alex. "How the Escape From New York music was made (feat. Alan Howarth)". YouTube. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
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