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Kris Standard Userer	A week or two ago I received my copy of MONGOL by the unknown Tuomas Kantelinen. Unknown to me that is. I was actually expecting something in the line of NOMAD by Carlo Siliotto, in my opnion, one of the best scores of the decade. Boy, was I wrong. I've listened to the CD once ... and that probably was the last time. All I remember is that I didn't really enjoy the music. There are a few enjoyable tracks. The funny thing is, is that those tracks are composed by the film's "other composer" Altan Urag. He's mentioned on the disc, but not on the Varese website. Here a quote from the website: "Newcomer Tuomas Kantelinen's score for Mongol is a grand, barbaric symphonic onslaught." The score is not grand, it is symphonic but sounds small scale. Furthermore, the sound quality is pretty poor. You can actually hear the difference in recording quality for the various tracks. All in all a bad purchase if you ask me. [Message edited by Kris on 09-02-2008]
posted 09-02-2008 04:05 AM PT (US)

TimT Standard Userer	Yeah you gotta love Varese's over the top marketing to get stuff out the door. Everything to them is of grand gladiator like proportions! But notice that they spend more time talking about the movie rather than the product their selling, and then notice that they never post sound clips to back up what they say. I had planned to get Mongol also weeks before it was released, but I heard some comments about it, saying that it's a mostly ethnic score, and then I got a chance to find my own "preview" of the score and I didn't like it at all. It was boring for more than half the disc before something interesting happened. So I passed and bouoght Nomad instead! [Message edited by TimT on 09-02-2008]
posted 09-02-2008 09:25 AM PT (US)

sean Standard Userer	Showed Mongol at where I work earlier this summer: Not only is the film a waste of time, but the score is unmemorable and boring; that orchestral/heavy metal RC thing at the end is atrocious (used in the trailer, too, I believe), same with that song in the end credits. Bad memories.
posted 09-02-2008 11:16 AM PT (US)

franz_conrad Standard Userer	Goodness, if NOMAD is better, this one must be pretty bad.
posted 09-02-2008 06:35 PM PT (US)

Dinko Standard Userer	quote: Originally posted by franz_conrad: Goodness, if NOMAD is better, this one must be pretty bad. Hate to disagree twin, but they're both good. Except the sound on Mongol sucks. That's what you get when you record in more than 3 locations with second rate mobile equipment. Best score ever? Hardly. But it's still quite decent.
posted 09-02-2008 08:50 PM PT (US)

franz_conrad Standard Userer	I like Kantelinen's music, so I've got hopes for this one. I did find NOMAD to be a pretty repetitive album, in the spirit of THE PROMISE and other 'too little butter scraped over too much bread' scores.
posted 09-02-2008 08:57 PM PT (US)

Demetris Christodoulides Standard Userer	Give Tuomas Kantelinen a chance and don't rush to throw it out of the window yet. I can't believe THIS is the time Varese's bull has offended you? They have described the snoozfest that is AMERICAN GANGSTER as " a sprawling score that is at turns both aggressive and beautiful", just to name an example..! Anyway, MONGOL is one of those scores you have to listen a lot in order to appreciate and it'll help greatly if you're also familiar with some of the composer's other material, the majority of it admittedly superior to Mongol. Kantelinen's a very gifted composer and he deserves all the attention he might get. I know MONGOL might probably not convince you but i am sure these will: ARN MINDHUNTERS HOTET MOTHER OF MINE THE PROMISE (LUPAUS) YEAR OF THE WOLF AMBUSH as there's some excellent music to be heard in there.
posted 09-03-2008 01:28 AM PT (US)

sakman Standard Userer	I'll put my good word in that MOTHER OF MINE is really worth tracking down. More info about the composer: http://www.kantelinen.net/index.html. MINDHUNTERS is also pretty good--two different sides of the same composer.
posted 09-08-2008 05:23 PM PT (US)

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