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One of the worst cases of commercial rip-off is e.g. the "soundtrack" of the movie "9 1/2 weeks".
Not a single track on the CD is by the composer of the movie, Jack Nitzsche! That does not mean that the music isn't good. It's just NOT the soundtrack.
There are quite a number of filmmusics (that is music really being used in movies and
not only "inspired by") worth to be heard - even without being commercially exploited.
Many good filmmusic has been sunk, due to commerce thinking, into the vaults of the "industry".
One example: The soundtrack of the wonderful Cinemiracle movie "WINDJAMMER" once appeared on an LP, but still no CD has been re-released. The many thousands of visitors of the windjammer-meeting at the Sail 2000 at Bremerhaven, Germany, would surely have appreciated this one.
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The intend of these pages is to lead to more attention One of the most important composers is the presented MARTIN BÖTTCHER, who now for half an century has crucially marked the German filmmusic. His abilities reach from Jazz on to Swing and Blues, from classical piano-pieces to elegiac orchestral works. |
 Martin Böttcher conducting. (Foto taken from double-LP "Portrait in Musik") |
I have heard by different sides that his music sounds always the same. Well, that of course is
wrong - on the other hand, to some extend, right.
Filmmusic, the "soundtrack", has many purposes. One, is to identify a movie the other to to
increase the tension in a movie and another just accompanying the specific scenes.
Only the homogeneity of the music makes a good soundtrack - as is with the story of a movie.
And MARTIN BÖTTCHER was a master to do this for all the movies he worked on.
Therefore the music of a specific movie he worked on sounds, within this movie,
homogeneous but differs, of course, from other movies.
Although for the music of a series, as the Edgar-Wallace-movies or the Karl-May-movies (only whose success made the launching the so-called "Italo-western" possible), intentionally to some
degree the same style-elements were used. | ||
To our great luck, through the great efforts of some fans, many compositions of MARTIN BÖTTCHER are still obtainable at music stores
(that is in Germany, at least). And also older pieces are reissued from time to time (have a
look at the CD-discography: "Die Halbstarken" = "Teenage Wolfpack".)
Just have a walk to the next record-store and look for yourself - but especially hear for
yourself. (-?Shall I really believe that shops in foreign countries have music from Martin Böttcher in stock?-) Wilfried Wittkowsky | |||
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• To the homepage of the author • | Movies with the music of Martin Böttcher on DVD  |
The filmmusic-scene in Germany is still asleep. There are quite a lot of "soundtracks" available,
but when looking close, they are mostly any popmusic put together to a sampler and been sold
under the name of a successful movie or TV-series for making quick money.
From the work of the real composer there is often nothing to be heard on the soundtracks.
