Product Code: WET30281158
Original price was: $57.00.$28.50Current price is: $28.50.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.
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.
A1 Main Title
A2 The Bank Robbery
A3 "Prison Introduction"
A4 Over The Wall / Airforce One
A5 He'S Still Alive / Romero
A6 "'Snake' Plissken"
B1 Orientation
B2 "Tell Him"
B3 Engulfed Cathedral
B4 Across The Roof
B5 Descent Into New York
B6 Back To The Pod - Version #1
B7 Everyone'S Coming To New York
C1 "Don'T Go Down There!"
C2 Back To The Pod - Version #2 / The Crazies Come Out
C3 "I Heard You Were Dead!"
C4 Arrival At The Library
C5 "You Are The Duke Of New York"
C6 The Duke Arrives / Barricade
C7 President At The Train
C8 "Who Are You?"
C9 Police Action
C10 Romero And The President
D1 The President Is Gone
D2 69Th Street Bridge
D3 Over The Wall
D4 "The Name Is Plissken"
D5 Snake Shake
