Review Summary: Immediate offer some theatrical music for your day to day life.
I’m sure many of us have watched movies via home viewing or theater that featured that “epic” background music accenting the action happening on screen. Such themes and compositions usually encourage the viewer to feel the urgency or emotion of the visualized moment, whether that be in the forms of excitement, sadness, anger, or happiness. Angelic choirs, digitalized drums, orchestras, and in some cases, distortion, are now a staple in any given Hollywood thriller.
Immediate Music is a music creation company that is well known for creating soundtracks for movie trailers advertising films such as
Harry Potter,
Ironman, and
Pirates of the Carribean. The company has released a number of albums, most of which are not commercially available--oddly enough. However, the company created its own “band” per say, in the form of Globus which released their first debut titled
Epicon in 2006 across the seas. For this album the company took many of their more famous themes--such as "Preliator", "Lacrimose", and "Lucious Dei--remixed them, pressure-washed the edges with a clean production, and threw them all into an album that was commercially released in 2008 under the title of
Trailerhead.
Essentially, what you have here is an album of--likely enough--trailer music fit for movie advertising. Some might find this appealing, and some may see no use for it at all. As far as the tracks themselves go, opener "Prometheus Rising" proves to be one of the best cuts to be found here. A gentle set of strings invites the listener in before a driving drum beat instantaneouly pushes the listener into a wave of rhythm and expectancy for what is to come next. The track quickly builds before louder strings and an angelic choir enter into the mix, giving the listener that epic and driving feeling that is often felt when witnessing a movie’s climatic chase or fight scene. Unfortunately, the track accomplishes all of this in under three minutes and would have greatly benefited with a more drawn-out build up and subsequent climax. This brings up a sad fact in that all of the company’s remixes featured here are quite short in length; none of which ever surpass the four minute mark.
There are a number of songs that are slower than the opener for a more brooding and peaceful experience--"Serenata Immortale", "The Reluctant Warrior", "Fides En Lucious Dei", "Age of Discovery" just to name a few. While they still carry the drums, strings, and angelic vocals of "Prometheus Rising", these tracks evoke more of a sad or somber tone for a peaceful, albeit uneventful listen. Others such songs as "Lacrimosa Dominae", "Shield of Faith", and "Imperitum" follow the more exciting nature of the exhilarating and driving style of the aforementioned opener; the latter of which contains an orchestrated riff that many listeners will probably recognize as it used in many various films.
In all honesty the music to be on
Trailerhead is really great stuff. The only problem I really have with it is that it’s only made for certain types of people--particularly those making movies. Also, the tracks themselves are quite short in length, causing the listener to blow through a theme or "emotion" in merely a couple of minutes. The common listener may find the sound of this “cool” at first, I suppose, but after a while the appeal wears off, leaving the listener to quickly disregard it as nothing more than a gimmick that's better left to the films themselves.
Trailerhead is possibly an album that I would recommend for a person bored with life and looking for something to make him feel like he is living in a movie in day to day affairs. Either that or this album could be ideal for people looking to make their own private action-thriller movies for Youtube. Whatever the case in which it is used, Immediate's
Trailerhead delivers just what the listener is probably purchasing the record for. The music is theatrical, orchestrated, angelic, and relatively short, all of which combine to form a buffer for many of Hollywood's most explosive and emotional scenes featured on the big screen.
