![]() When the group reissued The Keep in 1999 (in another scarce run, this time of 300), no answers were forthcoming. Based around a Christmas mass composed by Thomas Tallis, the album’s opener, ‘Puer Natus Est Nobis’, is one of the more beautiful moments on the collection – but it wasn’t the track chosen for the opening credits of the film. The likes of ‘Sign In The Dark’ is an ominous passage that, with its initial electro bursts, approximates the sound of a Blitz, while the spectral keyboards and tangled guitar lines of ‘Weird Village’ are suitably haunting. However, what was labelled the “TDI Special Edition” of the soundtrack was largely a 16-track collection of instrumentals that didn’t appear on the film. With covers of Brian Eno and David Byrne’s ‘Mea Culpa’, and Howard Blake’s ‘Walking In The Air’, among the original instrumentals (of which multiple versions were laid down in the studio), the group were fast embarking on their own unwieldy epic.īootleg copies of The Keep soundtrack stick to the film’s original score Meanwhile, Tangerine Dream had amassed more than enough music for the film, much of which resembled less a traditional score than it did a series of brooding electronica passages. Mann struggled on, emerging with a 200-plus minute cut that was, unsurprisingly, rejected by his backers, Paramount. Numerous re-shoots and the director’s own indecision compounded problems, and when the crew’s special-effects supervisor, Wally Veevers, died during filming, The Keep appeared all but done for. Froese and co initially had to start recording instrumental passages before shooting had even begun, and, when Mann finally did start to roll film, the production stretched out way beyond its planned three-month schedule. Fresh off the back of their 1982 White Eagle LP, and with the soundtrack for Michael Mann’s 1981 debut film, Thief, under their belt, Edgar Froese, Christopher Franke and Johannes Schmoelling were enlisted to turn their hand to the soundtrack for Mann’s next project: a period horror set during World War II, in which the Nazis have to fight an evil spirit.īefore long, both Mann and Tangerine Dream found themselves battling forces beyond their control. ![]() Even by the standards of Tangerine Dream’s discography, the history of The Keep is a convoluted one.
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