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Just Visiting
Varese Sarabande (302 066 239 2)
Release Date: April 10, 2001
Conducted by Adam Stern
Formats: CD, Digital
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Track Listing
1. | Thibault Goes To England | 2:39 |
2. | The Hag's Hut | 2:28 |
3. | Bosaline & Thibault | 1:32 |
4. | Hallucination And Execution | 1:10 |
5. | To Chicago | 0:40 |
6. | Kill The Car | 2:00 |
7. | Thibault Sees Julia | 1:16 |
8. | My Cousin, My Descendant | 1:29 |
9. | Ode de Toilet | 0:27 |
10. | Tub For Two | 1:03 |
11. | So Many Descendants | 0:21 |
12. | Kissing Cousins | 0:39 |
13. | Searching For A Wizard | 0:50 |
14. | Another Visitor | 0:44 |
15. | On The Bridge | 1:55 |
16. | Feel Like A Lady | 1:04 |
17. | Andre Can't Ask | 0:35 |
18. | The Wizard Pulls Himself Together | 1:03 |
19. | The HIzard Cooks | 0:40 |
20. | Andre Asks To Stay | 0:57 |
21. | Not A Bunny | 1:04 |
22. | The Big Chase | 2:02 |
23. | What Will I Do Without You | 1:46 |
24. | Thibault And The Wizard Return Home | 1:56 |
25. | In The Icehall | 1:09 |
26. | Hunter Gets It / Julia Sees The Castle | 1:44 |
27. | Your Time Will Come | 2:57 |
Total Album Time: | 36:10 |
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Review: Just Visiting
3 / 5 Stars
While working at a company housed in the Lantana Building in Santa Monica, I kept passing by a suite of rooms devoted to post-production on a Gaumont-produced film called The Visitor. As it turns out, it was the English-language remake of the 1993 French hit Les Visiteurs. Starring Jean Reno as a medieval French knight who (along with his serf) has been whisked away (via a sorcerer) to modern Chicago (accidentally), Just Visiting contained an appropriately medieval themed score by John Powell (and a few others).
Beginning with an optimistic, thematically heavy cue, "Thibault Goes To England", Powell's distinctive style is immediately recognizable. Mixing strings, orchestra, choir, and a bit of percussion. There are moments of classical influence, most notably in the string work, which about halfway suddenly take a turn towards Gladiator. The obvious comparisons aside though, the cue is rather exciting, and a good taste of the score on the album. Powell has always had a knack for themes, and this score is loaded with them.
The cue "To Chicago" features a more mystical edge to it - no doubt some magic is at work here. Again, the use of choir is prominent throughout the score, and adds a real large sense of power to it. But don't let that fool you - there are some softer moments. The use of acoustic guitar mixed with orchestra works wonderfully, and even a more whimsical cue like "Tub For Two" (featuring whistling, guitar, and percussion) doesn't seem completely out of place.
Nick Glennie-Smith, James McKee Smith, and Geoff Zanelli scored additional music on this album, but you wouldn't know that unless you were told - it really does hold together. If I had to sum it up in a few words, I would say it was Antz meets Chicken Run meets Gladiator. The album is capped off with a pop song "Your Time Will Come" that didn't really seem to fit, but upon further examination, I discovered that it was because it's more of a club-dance mix song, and that's what bugged me. But it actually uses themes from the film, and was co-written by Powell with Gavin Greenaway and Jeff Pescetto (a few other Media Ventures buddies). The song works on it's own; just not with the rest of the music. (And yet it does thematically, which makes it so strange.) Running about 36-minutes long, Just Visiting is a rather enjoyable album that I think you'll get a kick out of if you can overlook the debt it owes to Gladiator, and deal with the complete change of style with the pop song at the end.
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