Kamen is right now a composer whose style shows undeniable personal qualities, a particular and unmistakable touch between classicism and a certain quite actual language, with a dense and worked orchestration (on which, generally, he participates actively) and a peculiar rhythmic sense. Already working at a praise-to-be level, his music finds sometimes the rejection due the absence of big melodic themes in favour of a greater whole unity, and that even he widely proved his easeness for the sticky themes along his career -like showed in Don Juan De Marco (1995) or Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)-. For the unanimated remake of 101 Dalmatians Kamen develops all his usual pattern book of sound and rhythmic resources at the service of the image creating a sort of a fourteen-movement ballet, whose principal characteristic is its unity, both thematical as well stylistical. The final result is a step forward on his each time more brilliant career. M.A.F.

/ WALT DISNEY RECORDS 60911-2 / 62'