Eaters of the Dead Track 10

This is the tenth track from the original score and rejected score for The 13th Warrior. The name of the movie was changed because the studio believed that the name "Eaters of the Dead" would prove to be to off putting for the general audience, but I digress. The original score which was composed by Graeme Revell never officially received a release but a bootleg of the score popped up almost immediately after The 13th Warrior score by Jerry Goldsmith was released. Much to the surprise of many the quality of this score and the sound quality is really amazing. The album is over an hour long and has a total of 27 tracks and none of which have any names other than the track numbers. So I simply assume that they are in order. To make any attempt to place them in the theatrical version of The 13th Warrior would be futile since Revell scored a much longer film than Goldsmith did.
The score is better than Goldsmith's when you get down to its technical merits. It's more diverse and at times can be more interesting however one draw back is that most of the score does consist of atmospheric tracks and the first nine tracks a good example of this; it isn't until the tenth track that things really do start to pick up. Several unique instruments were used for this score duduk, pan pipes, shakuhachi flute, uilleann pipes, whistles, ney, and even the use of heavy electronics. Revell really pulled out all the stops for this baby and it's probably the composers best score of his entire career so it's very unfortunate that it had to be rejected.
Crichton had his own mind made up on how the movie would be scored and who would do it. Crichton possibly didn't even listen to the entire score before throwing it aside and choosing to bring in Goldsmith. In the end I think Goldsmith did a better job but if you're looking for more originality or the use of more varied instruments you should make an attempt to seek out Revells score.

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that would be great. thanx a lot:)

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holy shit... that track is fantastic

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I could try to upload a few more tracks in the coming days.