DAS BOOT Film Soundtrack OST LP Klaus Doldinger Jurgen Prochnow WW2 U-Boats War

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	$		40

German import 1st release of the original soundtrack LP to the classic WW2 film 'Das Boot' (1981, dir. Wolfgang Petersen). Music by Klaus Doldinger.
The movie starred Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, and Klaus Wennemann.

Klaus Doldinger ?– Das Boot (Die Original Filmmusik) (1981)

Condition (refer also to notes at bottom):
Vinyl: VG-EX. Wonderfully clean on visual inspection. Played just pre-listing and sound clarity is superb throughout. A fantastic listening experience!
Outer sleeve (Cover): EX. Colours are unfaded. Superbly clean front cover. Minor corner damage and some very light wear on spine. Aperture and edges are clean and unworn. One or two tiny vein-like creases in from the edges. Light disc showthrough outline evident on front and reverse. Back side is clean, with no marks or dents. Warner stamp in bottom right corner. Overall, very fine.
Inner sleeve: VG-EX. Original. White paper with window and angled corners. Catalogue sticker on one edge overlapping both sides. A few minor creases/folds.

Label: Warner WEA ?– WEA 58366
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Import
Country: Germany
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic, Stage & Screen, Instrumental, Score, Vocal
Style: Modern Classical, Soundtrack, Theme, Contemporary

Tracklist
A1. Das Boot. 1:05
A2. Mon Gars (Vocals – Rita Cadillac). 1:45
A3. Muss I Denn. 0:45
A4. Das Boot. 3:41
A5. Appell. 0:50
A6. U 96. 2:28
A7. Auslaufen. 1:06
A8. J'attendrai (Vocals – Rina Ketty). 1:20
A9. Erinnerung. 3:02
A10. Heimkehr. 2:29

B1. Angriff. 2:07
B2. Bedrohung. 1:16
B3. Erinnerung. 1:06
B4. Gibraltar. 2:56
B5. Warten. 1:08
B6. Eingeschlossen. 2:21
B7. Rettung. 2:13
B8. Rückzug. 1:20
B9. Ende. 3:20

Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA Musik GmbH
Copyright (c) – WEA Musik GmbH
Published By – Bavaria Sonor Musikverlag
Recorded At – Soundport Studio
Published By – Pathé Marconi

Producer, Conductor, Arranged By, Composed By – Klaus Doldinger
Recorded By – Tommy Klemt

1981 WEA Musik GmbH.
Made in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH

All tracks published by Bavaria-Sonor Musikverlag,
except Track A8, published by Pathé Marconi - EMI, France

Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, stamped): STRAWBERRY (0) R/S Alsdorf 58366 A4
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched): A6
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, stamped): STRAWBERRY (0) R/S Alsdorf 58366 B2
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched): 20 D


Review:
It was a good thing Klaus Doldinger was offered this opportunity: to write a score for a German film utilizing all the various forms of his musical training. His groundbreaking jazz-rock fusion band Passport had become mired in the muck of schlocky feel-good instrumentals that didn't even register with his most ardent fans anymore, and he had lost his music direction.

Enter director Wolfgang Peterson who was a Doldinger fan and recruited him to write a score for his WWII epoch about the war in the ocean. Doldinger apparently felt it was a gift from the heavens because he put everything he'd forgotten into creating a soundtrack that was every bit as fine a piece of work as the film it accompanied. Utilizing a few key players, such as Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennermann, and Jurgen Prochnow, old mates from the fuzak days, Doldinger fashioned a score that felt more like a symphony than a soundtrack.

In his episodic moments where merely incidental music was called for, Doldinger composed mini-epochs of motion and emotion. His subtle yet profound use of synthesizers as well as a symphony orchestra and the classical guitar created an atmosphere that made the footage under the sea tense and suffocating, full of the kind of adrenaline-pumping wonder Peterson's narrative called for.

In the more driven parts of the score where battle is to be engaged, Doldinger offers simultaneous portraits of horror and grandeur as his strings become the pulse of approaching death and his horns and synths become the courageous, fearless, steely eyed gaze into its face.



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