EYE OF THE DEVIL

Label: FSMCD Vol.11 No.1
Date: 1966
Tracks: 17
Time = 48:44

Original soundtrack from J. Lee Thompson horror movie with Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence. Gary McFarland offers unusual score with interesting meld of jazz influence, orchestral sensibility. Ideas are expressive in jazz manner, flow freely but timbre is full orchestra. Very striking feature: languid melodic ideas, harp figures, haunting solo woodwinds, other gentle ideas play in contrast to dissonant harmonies, jagged string figures, brass outbursts. Cool stuff! McFarland (who dies at age 38) prepares LP for Verve label in 1967 but project never happens. FSM CD now brings it alive with original LP contents plus more, presents everything in stereo from 3-channel masters. Jack Parnell conducts. Limited edition of 3000 copies.

1. Main Theme / Philippe's Study (4:49) 2. Drive to Chateau (1:00) 3. Catherine's Drive (1:30) 4. Int. Chateau Night / Jacques in Bed (3:21) 5. Odile and Children (1:21) 6. Arrow Into Tree (1:28) 7. Catherine in Chateau at Night / Children on Parapet / Catherine and Odile on Parapet / Children on Steeple (5:14) 8. Christian Galloping / Horses (0:50) 9. The Grave in the Forest (5:12) 10. Nightmare (2:34) 11. Procession (3:03) 12. Catherine to Tower (3:34) 13. You Must Help Me (5:30) 14. Parapet Pt. 1 (2:20) 15. Parapet Pt. 2 (2:32) 16. Jacques and the Eye (1:23) 17. Trailer (2:33)