Issued in LP in the moment of their premiere, almost twenty years ago, and unfindable since then, these two juvenile works of the now very famous and awarded James Horner are perfect examples of his learning and filming phase in the media, alternating moments and musical gestures that, with the step of the years, have been converted into a trademark, along with passages and harmonizations excessively mimetichal with the works of other composers; both movies were productions of small budget of the Roger Corman "factory", and went through two genders so dispare as Horror and Science-Fiction. Of the first is Humanoids from the Deep (1980), a too much overdone review of the premises created in The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) by the directress Barbara Peters, and for which Horner composed an efectist score, fills with mysterious and athonal passages, with multiple orchestral blows; Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) results a work that, with the pass of time, seems more shaped in the style of his author, and whose fanfares and heroic and adventurer type passages approach it close to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Horner's first great success. The sound of the CD shows certain dynamic limitations, and though results cleaner than that generated by the original LPs, it is a little bit far from the current standards. A.L.

BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) - 42:30
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980) - 34:05
/ PRIVATE EDITION SCD-98427 / 77'

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