Richard Band - The Day Time Ended (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '1980; 2020

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THE DAY TIME ENDED features music composed by Richard Band (RE-ANIMATOR, FROM
BEYOND, GHOST WARRIOR, TROLL) for the 1979 science fiction/adventure film
directed by John ‘Bud’ Cardos, written by Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry
Carroll and David Schmoeller, starring Jim Davis, Bentley Mitchum, Dorothy
Malone, Marcy Lafferty, Natasha Ryan and Scott Kolden. 

Composer Richard Band emerged in the late 1970s as a horror music specialist. It
was an appropriate legacy, being the son of prolific filmmaker Albert Band and
the younger brother of Empire Pictures/Full Moon Entertainment’s genre
specialist Charles Band. Richard began his association with film music in 1978
with the unique electronic score to LASERBLAST. The score was composed in
collaboration with Joel Goldsmith, son of movie maestro Jerry Goldsmith.
Band’s second score was for Charles’ production of THE DAY TIME
ENDED, produced in 1978 but not released until 1980 by Compass International
Pictures.

The film’s small cast of just six people make up a kind of extended
nuclear family whose escape from city life for the high desert becomes a
struggle against the strange and bizarre situations they encounter. As their
remote ranch home is invaded by a miniature gremlin, a compact, heat-ray-armed
spaceship the size of a large toaster, buzzed by glowing flying saucers, and
threatened by pudgy, battling monsters, they are finally transported through a
space/time warp into another planet or perhaps dimension, gathering together to
perhaps share a bright new future in a shining city of light.

Because LASERBLAST had pleased both Compass International and Charles Band
Productions, Richard was brought in to the production, but not initially as its
composer. His function was more as a line producer. Having done LASERBLAST,
Band’s compositional credit was good, even with a credit of just one
score, and he got along well with director Bud Cardos. They would work together
again a few years later on MUTANT. Cardos was willing to have him write the
film’s music and to record it with an orchestra. Remarkably, Band was
able to get a 35 piece orchestra in London to record the score. Band had worked
with music producer Don Perry on several projects previously, and it was Perry
who set up the session at the Music Center in Wembley, London. Perry brought in
British music contractor John Watson, who put together the musicians and also
conducted the orchestra for two three-hour recording sessions. Joel Goldsmith
served as the score’s sound mixer.

A challenge Band faced on this score was figuring out how to make a small
orchestra sound big, knowing he was restricted to just 35 players. The answer
was in the way he orchestrated the music. Band kept the orchestration relatively
simple, mainly because he knew he had a lot of music to record in those two
three-hour sessions, so it couldn’t be too complicated. He also
orchestrated it in a way that the keys and instrumentations were a little bit
thicker than they would be in certain other keys, making the sound a bit richer.
Band took composing the music for the film very seriously, focusing on the
emotional resonance of the characters and their situation to serve the
storyline, such as it was. He creates a very structured score, essentially
allowing his music to speak for what the final shooting script does not.

For this new remix of Richard Band’s THE DAY TIME ENDED, Dragon’s
Domain Records has gone back to the original 24-track master from CTS in London,
offering for the first time the unparalleled depth of sound remixing the score
from that original master could achieve, digitally remastered by James Nelson at
Digital Outland, including liner notes written by author Randall Larson, with
the participation of the composer.

Tracklisting:
01. Richard Band - Nova and Main Title (4:59)
02. Richard Band - The Family Arrives (1:20)
03. Richard Band - Jenny in the Corral (1:27)
04. Richard Band - The Pyramid (3:22)
05. Richard Band - Anna and the Mirror (1:28)
06. Richard Band - The Gremlin (4:29)
07. Richard Band - Grant Checks the Barn (3:29)
08. Richard Band - The Probe (5:32)
09. Richard Band - The Wolf Lizard (1:36)
10. Richard Band - Graveyard of Ships (2:00)
11. Richard Band - The Vortex (1:34)
12. Richard Band - The Horse (0:56)
13. Richard Band - I Left Hours Ago (1:00)
14. Richard Band - Three Suns (1:21)
15. Richard Band - Arrivederci, Earth (6:21)
16. Richard Band - End Credits (3:56)
17. Richard Band - Beyond the Time Warp (1:39)
18. Richard Band - Into the Vortex (Outtake Suite) (4:53)

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