Albert Glasser - The Albert Glasser Collection Vol. 2 '2021

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Dragon’s Domain Records, presents THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION Volume 2,
featuring the premiere releases of Albert Glasser’s music for UNMEI
(1951, aka THE INVISIBLE MR. UNMEI, aka ORIENTAL EVIL) and GEISHA GIRL (1952).
The former film is a crime thriller and the latter is a comedy drama, both
taking place and filmed in Japan, both co-directed and co-produced by C. Ray
Stahl and George P. Breakston, known for TOKYO FILE 212, JUNGLE STAMPEDE, and
the like.

Albert Glasser, known for his 1950s science fiction scores for INVASION U.S.A.,
THE INDESTRUCTIBLE MAN, THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, EARTH VS THE SPIDER, TEENAGE
CAVEMAN, and many more, scored music for more than a hundred movies from 1944 to
1973, in all manner of genres. Although his expertise and talent deserved far
better offerings than the kind of potboilers typically made by the B-movie
studios, he made the most of the resources budgets would permit, and came up
with a significant body of work which has and is being celebrated for its skill
and inventiveness.

UNMEI, which means “fate” in Japanese, is, according to legend, an
invisible supernatural entity who only appears to evil men, knowing the secret
passions hidden in their minds. This film tells the story of one such evil man,
a corrupt businessman named Roger Mansfield, whose actions threaten or provoke
the deaths of the women who love him and the men who trust him. Byron Michie
plays Roger, while Martha Hyer co-stars as Cheryl Banning, who arrives in Tokyo
to inquire about the untimely death of her brother, and falls under
Roger’s spell. Tetsu Nakamura (THE MYSTERIANS, THE H-MAN, MOTHRA) plays
Noritomu Moriaji, a local businessman and uncle of Roger’s former
mistress. Throughout the film Glasser’s symphonic score is authoritative
in engaging the drama, suspense, and revelation of the story, incorporating the
famous Japanese folk tune, “Sakura Sakura,” as both a love theme and
as a motif of irony as Roger’s crimes evolve. A theremin is used
throughout the score in a variety of treatments, its wavering tonalities
increasing as Roger’s guilt is painted in haunting musical colors. The
film also allows the composer to provide some splendid period-flavored
orchestral dance band music, and he also uniquely interpolates the Brahms
Wedding Concerto for a Japanese wedding sequence.

GEISHA GIRL is a comedy-romance movie with heavy emphasis on slapstick. Like
UNMEI, it was filmed in Japan and has a minor bit of the supernatural woven into
the film as it follows a pair of naïve G.I.s, Rocky Wilson (Steve Forrest)
and Archie McGregor (Archer MacDonald), who are on leave in Tokyo. While there,
they run into a spy ring, discover the stewardess Rocky is dating (Martha Hyer)
is a secret government agent investigating that spy ring, and happen to attract
the ire of the head of that spy ring, Tetsu Nakano (Tetsu Nakamura). Meanwhile,
the local police call in mystical hypnotist Zoro (Dekao Yokoo) to aid them in
tracking down the baddies. All ends in hilarity and love and a huge fight in a
geisha house. Glasser’s score is a mix of exciting, almost over-the-top
symphonic action music while providing the right amount of tension, inserting
bits of adventurous Japanese sight-seeing music, and keeping everything light,
rousing, and fun.

Tracklist:
1 01. Albert Glasser - Opening Titles & Intro (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(03:10)
1 02. Albert Glasser - Unmei Stops the Beggar (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(02:15)
1 03. Albert Glasser - Im in Trouble / The Wedding (From The Invisible Mr.
Unmei) (02:23)
1 04. Albert Glasser - Banning Import Company (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(02:24)
1 05. Albert Glasser - Dances (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (02:16)
1 06. Albert Glasser - Roger and Cheryl (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (00:41)
1 07. Albert Glasser - The British Club (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (02:07)
1 08. Albert Glasser - Roger Comes Home / War Flashback (From The Invisible Mr.
Unmei) (02:40)
1 09. Albert Glasser - Failed Swap (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (01:54)
1 10. Albert Glasser - The Note & Attempted Murder (From The Invisible Mr.
Unmei) (03:29)
1 11. Albert Glasser - Roger Proposes to Cheryl (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(04:23)
1 12. Albert Glasser - Betrayed and Suicide (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(03:04)
1 13. Albert Glasser - Setting the House on Fire (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei)
(03:05)
1 14. Albert Glasser - The Dance Club (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (01:38)
1 15. Albert Glasser - The Last Drink (From The Invisible Mr. Unmei) (02:28)
1 16. Albert Glasser - Final Justice for Thomas Putman / End Title (From The
Invisible Mr. Unmei) (04:37)
1 17. Albert Glasser - Als Invisible Mr. Unmei Wrap Up (From The Invisible Mr.
Unmei) (02:23)
1 18. Albert Glasser - Main Title (From Geisha Girl) (01:08)
1 19. Albert Glasser - Airport / Lots to do (From Geisha Girl) (02:52)
1 20. Albert Glasser - Hiros Haberdashery / No Style, No Taste (From Geisha
Girl) (04:20)
1 21. Albert Glasser - Ballet (From Geisha Girl) (05:58)
1 22. Albert Glasser - The Bamboo Club / Archie Mugged (From Geisha Girl)
(01:51)
1 23. Albert Glasser - Geisha School in My Home (From Geisha Girl) (02:23)
1 24. Albert Glasser - Bathing Before Dinner (From Geisha Girl) (02:11)
1 25. Albert Glasser - How About Paying A Little Attention to Me? (From Geisha
Girl) (01:29)
1 26. Albert Glasser - Sedetive in the Soup (From Geisha Girl) (02:27)
1 27. Albert Glasser - Try One of the Pills, and See What Happens (From Geisha
Girl) (02:17)
1 28. Albert Glasser - Walking Scene / I Need Your Help (From Geisha Girl)
(04:11)
1 29. Albert Glasser - Zoro Gets the Pills (From Geisha Girl) (03:31)
1 30. Albert Glasser - Stop the Archie Ambush / Sightseeing Tour (From Geisha
Girl) (04:05)
1 31. Albert Glasser - The Masquerade is Over Mr Wilson / The Chase (From Geisha
Girl) (04:48)
1 32. Albert Glasser - End Title (From Geisha Girl) (01:04)
1 33. Albert Glasser - Geisha Entertainment (From Geisha Girl) (02:03)
1 34. Albert Glasser - Tokyo Show (From Geisha Girl) (02:53)
1 35. Albert Glasser - Zoro FX (From Geisha Girl) (00:10)
1 36. Albert Glasser - Al’s Geisha Girl Wrap Up (From Geisha Girl)
(02:44)

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