Back from the listening to tapes session and the news is fantastic! Two years ago, another film music label wanted to do this score. They got these same nine tapes. They could only find one side of the album (this was released on LP) in stereo - there were a LOT of mono album masters, none in stereo - the only stereo marked on a box was side two of the album and that was the original three-track recording pre-album master (where some rather ugly reverb, typical for the time) was added. There was one box among the nine that was confusingly marked and that box was my hope - it was side one, but didn't have stereo marked on it - that was because someone had put a sticker over that part of the box - so, we put up that reel and voila, it was the side one three-track recording. Hoo and ray, is all I can say. I was so happy I danced a rather pathetic jig. So, not only do we get to put out my holy grail soundtrack (and no, Rio was not my all-time holy grail that's never been on CD), it will be remixed directly from the original three-track masters, and I can put a nice, clean reverb on (the recording is, naturally, completely dry and doesn't sound good without some sort of room ambience added), and it should be spectacular. Oh, boy! Oh, joy! It's on the fast track and will be announced two weeks after Illya is officially announced.
