For some soundtrack fans, it was a bit of surprise to learn the composer of pioneering synth scores had begun his career with
large orchestral scores for John Boorman's Excalibur (1981) and Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal (1982)...
Each Blade composer has had to balance his scoring chores with songs cemented to key scenes and montages: Mark Isham went for a brooding synth and orchestral blend that managed to smoothly weave in and out of the pumping songs laid over the main battle sequences; and Marco Beltrami's
large orchestral score was tweaked by Danny Saber and buoyed by a similar number of songs.
Not exact matches
The first film in the enduring franchise gave John Powell the perfect opportunity to write what remains both his definitive action sound, and the definitive action
score of that decade, blending
large orchestral sounds with layers upon layers of electronics...