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CD: Ghosts of Girlfreiends Past (2009)
 
 
Review Rating:   Very Good
   
     
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Label:

Silva Screen Records

Catalog #:

SILCD-1295

 
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Released:

November 9, 2009

Tracks / Album Length:

24 tracks / (43:29)

 

 
   
Composer: Rolfe Kent
   

Special Notes:

6-page colour booklet with composer liner notes, and *rare photos* with McConaughey still wearing his shirt.

 
 
Comments :    

Part of Rolphe Kent’s style includes unlikely instrumental combinations, and flipping between and fusing idioms with a smoothness that hides any transition seams. There’s also his gift for writing music that’s deceptively light and simple, and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is a fine example of writing comedic music outside of the familiar feel-good realm with which most studio comedies tend to be saturated.

The score’s main theme (“Why Do When We Can Woo?”) is grounded in a loopy lounge piece that’s part late-sixties Barryesque, with lovely low brass, buoyant strings, and marimba. The score’s specific mood swings – pensive, danger, absurd – come from changes in instrumentation, such as the large orchestral sound (with heavy strings and occasional theremin) for things creepy (“Uncle Wayne’s Apparition”). The theremin isn’t overused, and often appears for added effect as well as an in-joke for those familiar with its prior clichéd use in B-movies during the forties and fifties.

More humorous material resides in a bassy groove taken from the main theme, with guitar, vibes, and light percussion, and a weird twang (“Jenny & Connor Meet and Spar,” and “Jenny & Connor; Wedding Sex”). Lighter theme variations are performed on high woodwinds, strings, and gentle piano, giving cues like “Pauly’s Theme” warm nostalgia. The album eventually changes tone, moving from whimsy and light spookiness to more serious terrain, and Kent makes use of the full orchestra before a few semi-grand theme restatements. Most of the cues vary between 1-2 mins., but there are enough theme variations to give the album decent musical diversity.

This CD was released in tandem with Kent’s other 2009 score, 17 Again.

 

© 2006 Mark R. Hasan

 
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