Jerry Goldsmith – The Omen OST

Description

The Omen (1976) was a smash success, starring Gregory Peck as an American ambassador who learns that his adopted son is, in fact, the Antichrist. With its grisly accidents befalling those who would stand in the boys path, cult of Satanic worshippers and protectors, and fascinating End Times mythology, the film captured the publics imagination and led to a long-running franchise.

The Omen was a special project for Jerry Goldsmith: the only time he won an Oscar in his long career, for Best Original Score. He was also nominated for Best Original Song, for Ave Satanihis chilling Black Mass that inverted the Latin Mass into a dark, chilling paean to the Devil.

The score is one of Goldsmiths best: not just the Ave Satani chants, but the way he incorporates them into his modernist, thrilling action music in tracks like Killers Storm, The Demise of Mrs. Baylock and The Dogs Attack.

But Goldsmith was always attuned to the human warmth behind the chills and thrillsand the score features hopeful, loving moments for the ambassadors family, including a song version of the love theme, The Piper Dreams, with lyrics and vocals by the composers wife, Carol.

This special LP reissue of The Omen features the original, 12-track 1976 soundtrack album on red vinyl with black splatter.

Tracklist:

1. Ave Satani
2. The New Ambassador
3. The Killer Storm
4. A Sad Message
5. The Demise Of Mrs. Baylock
6. Don’t Let Him
7. The Piper Dreams
8. The Fall
9. Safari Park
10. The Dogs Attack
11. The Homecoming
12. The Altar