Mark Snow - The Mark Snow Collection, Vol. 3 '2021

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Dragon’s Domain Records presents THE MARK SNOW COLLECTION, VOLUME 3,
featuring two scores composed by Mark Snow (THE X FILES, SMALLVILLE, GHOST
WHISPERER) for two television movies from 1994, while Snow was working on THE X
FILES. With this collection we celebrate a pair of dramatic scores that Mark
Snow (THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM, THE GHOST WHISPERER) composed for television in
1994. The first is a murder mystery based on a true story, set in New Orleans.
The second is a melodrama about two brothers competing for the same woman in a
south Texas town. Both scores show how the composer can wield his versatile
array of Synclaviers and digital samplers, mixed with the occasional live
instrument, constructing exceptional melodies along with energetic and
convincing simulated orchestral textures into effective and affecting dramatic
musical storytelling.

MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS premiered on NBC on January 10, 1994. Stephen Lang and
Martin Kemp play best friends Kerry Meyers and Bill Fontannille in a suburban
New Orleans neighborhood. After an argument in which both have stabbed and
beaten each other, and during which Meyers’ wife Janet has been murdered,
detectives try to piece together what happened and prosecutors prepare a trial
in which Fontannille is charged as the murderer of Janet. But the trial ends in
a hung jury and Fontannille is freed. After the proceeding ends in a mistrial,
the prosecuting attorney continues to search out the truth and is able to bring
about a conviction in a new trial using the then-new forensic science of blood
spatter analysis. Snow’s music immediately conveys the setting with a
stylish New Orleans male baritone vocalise sample, out of which exudes a bluesy,
humid electric guitar solo, played over menacing Synclavier pads and low drones.

SHADOWS OF DESIRE, broadcast by CBS on September 20th, 1994, was directed by Sam
Pillsbury, New York born and Massachusetts-raised, whose film career began in
New Zealand. His long pedigree as screenwriter (THE QUIET EARTH) and director
(WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS, FREE WILLY 3) generated work on numerous television
movies throughout the ‘90s and ‘2000s. Set in Utah (but filmed in
Texas), this film stars Nicollette Sheridan as Rowena Ecklund, who returns to
her hometown for the funeral of her estranged mother, owner of the local
café. Adrian Pasdar (NEAR DARK) plays the timid Jude Snow, who carries around
a leg injury from a hunting accident as a youth and soon takes up with Rowena,
despite the objections of the town’s official busybody, his mother Ellis.
Jude and Rowena’s bond is threatened when bad-boy brother Sonny (Joe
Lando) returns to the farm. He and Rowena had a fling back in high-school, one
Sonny is eager to renew, despite any protestations from the lady, resulting in a
dangerous amount of sibling rivalry. Snow’s music features an abundance
of folksy acoustic guitar and digital violin melodies, which lay down a very
likeable harmonic texture that nicely fits the film’s environment and
characters.

Mark Snow is primarily known for his work in the medium of television, including
many seasons of music scoring for shows such as THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM,
SMALLVILLE, GHOST WHISPERER, BLUE BLOODS, NOWHERE MAN and many others. In 1993,
composer Mark Snow began a fruitful creative collaboration with producer Chris
Carter on THE X-FILES, which culminated in a unique marriage of music and
macabre storytelling. Snow’s work on THE X-FILES put him on the Hollywood
scoring map, offering up a unique mix of atmospheric sound design and affecting
layers of ambient melody on a weekly basis and this sound became very much in
demand in the industry. Mark is considered one of television’s most
capable composers. The large percentage of his musical output has centered
around the subjects of the supernatural, the macabre and outright science
fiction or dark fantasy but there have been occasions for him to break out and
work on other projects, such as PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES and WILD GRASS
for Alain Resnais, the legendary French director.

Mark Snow has worked on more than two hundred television movies and series, PC
games and feature films including THE X-FILES, MILLENNIUM, SMALLVILLE, GHOST
WHISPERER, BLUE BLOODS, and NOWHERE MAN, among others, returning to THE X FILES
recently when the series made its triumphant return to television in 2016. Mark
has been nominated for 14 Primetime Emmy awards since 1984 and won at least 19
ASCAP awards. The composer is also a founding member of the legendary New York
RocknRoll ensemble, along with fellow composer Michael Kamen. The band was
signed to Atlantic Records and Mark toured and recorded with them for 5 years
before turning his focus to writing music for film and television.

Tracklist: 
1.01 - Mark Snow - Opening Titles (From Murder Between Friends) (1:25) 
1.02 - Mark Snow - New Orleans 1984 (From Murder Between Friends) (8:05) 
1.03 - Mark Snow - We Played Ball Together (From Murder Between Friends) (0:53) 
1.04 - Mark Snow - The Baby and Billy’s Return (From Murder Between
Friends) (4:02) 
1.05 - Mark Snow - One Side of the Story (From Murder Between Friends) (4:40) 
1.06 - Mark Snow - Ill Kill You Billy! (From Murder Between Friends) (5:15) 
1.07 - Mark Snow - Erotic Interlude (From Murder Between Friends) (1:10) 
1.08 - Mark Snow - Billy Goes Back to the House (From Murder Between Friends)
(3:48) 
1.09 - Mark Snow - Billy Gets Stabbed / Going Back Over the Evidence (From
Murder Between Friends) (3:37) 
1.10 - Mark Snow - Legwork (From Murder Between Friends) (5:06) 
1.11 - Mark Snow - Epilogue / Final Justice (From Murder Between Friends) (4:00)

1.12 - Mark Snow - Closing Credits (From Murder Between Friends) (0:50) 
1.13 - Mark Snow - Main Title (From Shadows of Desire) (2:29) 
1.14 - Mark Snow - After the Funeral (From Shadows of Desire) (1:52) 
1.15 - Mark Snow - Were Open (From Shadows of Desire) (1:01) 
1.16 - Mark Snow - Cafe Closed (From Shadows of Desire) (0:59) 
1.17 - Mark Snow - Deer Hunting Story (From Shadows of Desire) (1:33) 
1.18 - Mark Snow - First Kiss (From Shadows of Desire) (1:17) 
1.19 - Mark Snow - Montage & Bedroom Scene (From Shadows of Desire) (2:06) 
1.20 - Mark Snow - Brothers (From Shadows of Desire) (0:41) 
1.21 - Mark Snow - Rowena and Sonny (From Shadows of Desire) (2:19) 
1.22 - Mark Snow - Asked Him if He Was My Daddy (From Shadows of Desire) (2:03) 
1.23 - Mark Snow - Visiting Her Mothers Grave (From Shadows of Desire) (1:14) 
1.24 - Mark Snow - Cafe Confrontation & Sonny’s Death (From Shadows of
Desire) (1:24) 
1.25 - Mark Snow - You Aint Cain (From Shadows of Desire) (1:49) 
1.26 - Mark Snow - Family Pain (From Shadows of Desire) (1:58) 
1.27 - Mark Snow - A Sad Farewell and The Cafe Is Open (From Shadows of Desire)
(2:34) 
1.28 - Mark Snow - Closing Credits (From Shadows of Desire) (0:53)

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