STEWART COPELAND

stewart-

thanks for the sudden "release" of all this stuff...i'm an old real-time police fan, and i've just recently (last few years) begun to seriously delve into and collect your varied and rather hard to acquire back catalog.

of course, the police derangement was the show-stopper...i really love those. i picked up all the others "available" out here in the ether in a trade last year and was blown away. it was wondeful to have new police music...i wish someone else were equally excited about the prospect, but we won't go there...

i _really_ wish you'd get the orchestralli album and dvd released here in the states (if i've somehow missed that, shame and scorn on me)...i was impressed by the clips and bits that i've heard.

a NEW album? that would be swell...how about a klark kent sequel, a new police album and tour, a klark kent rarities anthology and a soundtracks collection box set? no? ok, an equalizer and other cliffhangers reissue will do.
i keed.
thanks again-
john

I think Stewart should do a techno/trance type of project based on the Spyro track and his more recent scores like Dead Like Me.

I really liked the old Equalizer track. I can't wait to hear more of this great stuff in the future.

On the whole, I think this was even better than Stewart's From Rumblefish to Gridlock'd collection a few years ago.

WOW this is really great to listen to some unreleased tracks by Stewart.
Thank you so much Stewart for doing this and given us these pieces. They are great.
You mention at the bottom if there are any other needs for unreleased music I was wondering if you have some more stuff available from the television series "The Equalizer" in one of your boxes or closets.
I own several episodes of this series and I enjoy it every time I look at them and listen to your score.
It is a pitty that so many scores never where released on CD as they sound so good with typical great Copeland sounds. like "she is having a baby" or "Hear no evil, see no evil". These scores where composed in the same time you did the Equalizer and they are great. This is the music I really loved and started to become a great fan of you.
I not only love the way you use drums, but as said before in one of my other replies, the way you play the piano, that sound, it is amazing.
It sounds so simple but it is really beautiful.

Keep on going and stay ok
Take care
Frans

It seems I hadn´t log in whe I wrote my reply, but to complete my comments I loved the Priest Clobbered music piece on the Copeland Vault. Great stuff.
You know what I always hate when Stewart composed a soundtrack is that when you find out that the score is available, and after a long and difficult search it always has a compilation on it from tracks used in the movie, but hardly any tracks from Stewart himself or nothing at all.
I don´t understand why the record companies do these things. I believe this is not fair to the real musician.

Anyway, I do hope more is available soon on the Vault.

Cheers
Frans

I agree Conroy, a techno/trance project would be great, it'd be cool if he should delve more into genres like acid, electronica, progressive trance, and ambience. Lately I've been litsening to JonathanVanatom's music on acidplanet.com which is why I'm all for the trance music and the other genre's that I mentioned above. (by the way try litsening to his Dream Conjecture and Summer Sun songs, you'd find that you'd like them) So Stewart, up with the acid music. It's the wave of the future!

Frans i have so often found myself in that scenario, especially with She's Having A Baby. I had it specially ordered for me waaaay back in the day, but when it arrived, there was no material from Stewart on it! I couldn't even bring myself to actually purchase it when it arrived, i was so disappointed!

For years i had to content myself picking up entire albums for the one song he actually did have on them. Things are different now, since i've met bunches of people on the 'net who i've traded around with to build up my Copeland colleciton. There's still a lot of soundtrack stuff that eludes me since so little has actually been released. I even had to make my own First Power soundtrack from bits i captured from the movie! But i hope now that he's much more in the limelight that there might be a bit more motivation on the record companies' part to get some of this material out there. Weird to think that as extensive as my collection has become that it's still amounts to the tip of the iceberg More, i say!

John, the orchestralli set isn't hard to find. i got mine off amazon just a few months back. Not only is the set incredible, but Stewart's personality really shows thru on the dvd as well, just an all-around entertaining package. And you can put me down for a full-tilt Equalizer box set!

I'm having trouble finding some of the Ken Loach stuff on DVD. Mostly it was VHS-only...And then there's the TV work. I'd really like to see that made-for-TV special Stew worked on with Angelica Huston and describes over in Dinner Tales.

I am only missing Ken Loach's Riff-Raff on dvd. They really need to come out with a Ken Loach box set. All his movies are great and thought provoking, even the ones not scored by Stewart.