Between the most imaginative musical experiments and the most classic orchestral handling, the career of newzelander Graeme Revell goes reaching a level and popularity more agreable with his undoubtful talent, barely recognized for the common fan. Three works mark, maybe, this ascent now culminated with comissions of more span: his first success Dead Calm (1989), the sinister but moving The Crow (1994), and the stupendous The Saint (1997). In The Siege, Revell mixes different elements again (electronic and ethnic instruments, a great orchestra and single vocalists) along the twelve themes that compose the disk which accompanies this history about the Arab terrorism and the abuse of authority, creating a varied and powerful score that moves between the action gender, the suspense and the ethnic drawing. Revell's ability, and with it its great value, resides in avoiding that so different elements creak and finish working like a perfectly greased machine. M.A.F.

/ VARESE SARABANDE VSD-5989 / 30'

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