Wind

Review by Thomas Glorieux:

In a whisper he captures the most emotional side of nature, Basil Poledouris may be a great composer and he may have a soft spot for sailing, but combining the two in a musical environment is something to accomplish for sure. And as we all know, only the best of the best can do it, the ones that compose film music from their heart, make the melody such an enchanting piece that it touches the heaven at any standard. I can only say that this piece of music, Wind must be a terrific score to listen to when your sailing, when you witness the will of the water, combined with a summer breeze, or a mother storm of epic proportions. Either way, The Perfect Storm is your bet for the second circumstance, Wind undoubtedly captures the first in all its glory. In The Hunt for Red October he controlled the sea with a suspenseful mood, a thrill. Free Willy captured the innocence and the beauty of the creatures living in the water (and has a lot in common with Wind), but Wind has the spirituality, the feel and the environment of a place where your imagination takes a rest, where you live in a world surrounded by beauty, a relaxing place of paradise.

And Basil Poledouris all captures it in one way or another. The calm, relaxing breeze in the first track 'Prologue' probably describes it all. If you're not relaxed then, put yourself to sleep. Sailing in competition offers the excitement with the relaxing feel of a sailboat touching the water, and 'The Dinghy Race' and 'Windward Work' offer the pure thrill of excitement. Basil also captures the enchanting melody of winning, losing and love. All moments encompass the true feel of the movie and the circumstances, and it is best described as a score that generates a response, it feels the way you would suspect it. It is light, yet a heavy burden in 'Defeat'. It is uplifting and exiting in 'Windward Work', Basil describes his own emotions in pure musical language. The short tracks in the middle are good but somewhat disappoint, because in a way they can not develop the theme or motif they carry, and the motifs they carry are extremely light and good. Basil really flies with the tone of the score.

The end, meaning the two highlights 'Dead Air' and 'Winning' offer more enticing moments of victory, of the thrill of sailing through the water, in a way that it listens like the best music on earth. Competitive but beautiful, perfect yet the light accompaniment. Especially 'Dead Air' is great, it starts calm, subdued, nothing happens until the wind starts blowing again and the race becomes the challenging contest it had to be from start to finish. The middle portion perhaps disappoints a little, the begin and end offer the thrill and the excitement we all need, the feel is restored in any musical moment of score. The end song, 5 minutes long isn't bad and uses portions or variations of Poledouris' score but nothing I will keep returning at for days to come. Wind, this time around is the difficult candidate to find these days, my version, a bootleg copy of the Chinese or Japanese commercial CD is indeed hard to find. And while it listens extremely good, I would never pay prices mounting up to $75, instead I hope you receive your bootleg version as I did. Sailing scores (White Squall and Wind offer the beauty never witnessed before and both are highly recommended by the fans). Sound and material are perfect, they add the special feeling of gliding through the water, they bring glory to Basil Poledouris' score. They make Wind the powerful thunderstorm of a soundtrack.

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Tracks

Single Disc

1. Prologue (3.28)

2. Love In The Sewer (1.44)

3. The Dinghy Race (Senta) (3.11) Excellent Track

4. The Break-Up (3.16)

5. Windward Work (3.36) Excellent Track

6. Downwind (5.19)

7. Defeat (5.13)

8. The Glider (1.29)

9. Sail Locker (1.01)

10. The Petroglyph (1.20)

11. Contest (3.10)

12. Windshadow (1.11)

13. Whomper Trials (1.15)

14. The Bike Ride (2.28)

15. To Australia (2.17)

16. Dead Air (4.47) Excellent Track

17. Winning (3.00) Excellent Track

18. Irolita (1.31)

19. Born On The Wind: The Amazons (5.25)

Total Length: 54.50

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=== Link to Composer Site: Basil Poledouris ===