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:: Star Wars Theme (Luke's Theme) ::

:: The Tatooine Desert ::

:: Death Star ::

:: Star Wars Cantina Music ::

:: Princess Leia's Theme ::

:: Droids ::

:: Ben Kenobi's Theme ::


It was 30 years ago this week that Star Wars premiered on screens, so let’s commemorate with this Patrick Gleeson artifact from the same year. Gleeson, an early pioneer in electronic music, was the man responsible for giving Herbie Hancock’s music a spacey edge by contributing wild moog effects and electronic decoration to Hancock’s acclaimed early 70’s albums, Crossings and Sextant. He later lent his synthesizer skills to television and film compositions, notably recreating sinister helicopter chops with his moog for Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. For this record, Gleeson employs the E-mu systems synthesizer, proclaimed on the 1977 album copy as “the world’s most advanced sythesizer” in that it was computer-driven and could play up to 16 notes simultaneously. For the most part, Gleeson wields that awesome power by setting John Williams’ score to a funky disco beat adorned in all sorts of Atari-like flourishes, making this an incredibly amusing little relic of the good ol’ days.


Phil

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