The Primevals represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fueled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation.
Award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band outlines his approach to the music and the inspiration that lies behind it -
"I've always been a firm believer in the importance of themes in film scoring and this score cried out for an epic theme perhaps in the classical manner of a Steiner, Herrmann or Rozsa, or perhaps even a Goldsmith, Williams, Jarre or Shore. It was movies from my childhood like 'Lost Horizon' and 'Jason and the Argonauts' as well as epics like 'Dr. Zhivago' and 'Ben-Hur' that had the import I was searching for. This film was a true joy to score and well worth the roughly 20 odd years I waited to do it."
1 The Gale and Mountain Shack / Battling the Yeti / Main Title
2 Dr. Collier's Announcement
3 Unveiling the Yeti
4 Matt and Dr. Collier
5 They Talk / the Expedition
6 Rondo Agrees to the Expedition
7 Meeting Cathleen / Kiku
8 Pushing on / Yeti Tracks
9 Awakened By a Yeti / Kiku
10 The Tower / Earthquake
11 The Cave / a New Land
12 Rafting Down the River
13 The Hominid Village
14 Matt Hears Villagers Screaming
15 The Hominid Confrontation
16 The Wrecked Village / Onwards
17 Entering the Caves
18 Huge Spaceship Discovery
19 The Spaceship / Inside the Spaceship
20 The Abduction
21 In the Cages
22 Taken to "The Arena"
23 The Lizard Arena Show
24 The Yeti Is Released
25 Escaping the Cages / the Yeti Helps the Escape Part 1
26 The Yeti Helps the Escape Part 2 / Matt Has a Plan
27 Dr. Collier Dies & Finale
28 End Titles
The Primevals represents a glorious hark back to the classic scores that fueled so many of the Harryhausen films of the 1950s and 1960s. A delirious thrill-ride through the joys of monsters, ray-guns, spaceships and good old-fashioned stop motion animation.
Award winning and Emmy nominated composer Richard Band outlines his approach to the music and the inspiration that lies behind it -
"I've always been a firm believer in the importance of themes in film scoring and this score cried out for an epic theme perhaps in the classical manner of a Steiner, Herrmann or Rozsa, or perhaps even a Goldsmith, Williams, Jarre or Shore. It was movies from my childhood like 'Lost Horizon' and 'Jason and the Argonauts' as well as epics like 'Dr. Zhivago' and 'Ben-Hur' that had the import I was searching for. This film was a true joy to score and well worth the roughly 20 odd years I waited to do it."
