Basil Poledouris, compositor de soundtracks tan maravillosos como los de "Conan The Barbarian" (mi favorito de todos los tiempos), "Conan The Destroyer", "Flesh & Blood", "Starship Troopers" y "Robocop", falleció ayer en Los Angeles.Sólo tenía 61.
El estilo grandilocuente y épico de Poledouris dejó una marca imposible de ignorar, tanto en la historia de las bandas de sonido dentro de los ramales del género fantástico como en lo que al power metal y el metal bombástico en general respecta. Grupos como Rhapsody básicamente basaron (y limitaron) su carrera a (tratar de) imitar el estilo de Poledouris. Ningún otro compositor hollywoodense consiguió orfebrar tan memorablemente riqueza y belleza melódica junto a descargas de pura fuerza y grandiosidad que hasta el mismísimo Wagner admiraría. Los inmortales leit-motifs de "Conan The Barbarian" constituyen el caso más notorio. Para el tema "Riders Of Doom", por ejemplo, Poledouris se inspiró en parte en "O Fortuna" del "Carmina Burana" de Carl Orff, pero en muchos aspectos incluso superó a aquel clásico, tan solicitado a la hora de musicalizar trailers de películas. Los que vinieron después (Hanz Zimmer, por ejemplo, a quien la gente de Epica tanto le roba) representan meras copias de la gloria apoteótica que Poledouris nos regaló.
Que Crom te de la bienvenida, donde quiera que estés.
"I sing to them. On nights, when they wish, I sing of the tales of battles, heroes, witches and women. Nobody bothers me down here. Not even... Thulsa Doom."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Emmy-winning composer Basil Poledouris, best known for his powerful music for action-adventure films of the 1980s and '90s, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Wednesday, a spokeswoman said. He was 61.
Poledouris worked on the scores for the early Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicles "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) and "Conan the Destroyer" (1984), and his orchestral-and-choral compositions came to be considered high points in the genre of music for fantasy films.
His other feature credits included "The Blue Lagoon" (1980), "Robocop" (1987), "The Hunt for Red October" (1990), and "Free Willy" (1993). He won an Emmy in 1989 for his folk-based Western score for the miniseries "Lonesome Dove."
The Kansas City, Mo., native is survived by his mother and two daughters. No services are planned.
http://basil.poledouris.com/
"It has been surmised that, perhaps, my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever... freedom... so long an unremembered dream, was his. "
"It has been surmised that, perhaps, my lord had become like a wild animal that had been kept too long. Perhaps, but whatever... freedom... so long an unremembered dream, was his. "
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