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#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Swept From The Sea John Barry	3:13	101
02	To America John Barry	3:02	31
03	The Storm Came John Barry	1:42	9
04	Sea Of Death John Barry	4:12	10
05	Search For Yanko / Night Meeting John Barry	5:41	10
06	Yanko Asks Amy Out John Barry	2:08	9
07	The Sea, The Memorial, The Cave John Barry	6:54	58
08	Try To Kill Yanko / Kennedy Speaks Of Things John Barry	2:45	8
09	Yanko's Dance John Barry	1:53	10
10	Love In The Pool John Barry	2:33	112
11	He's Your Half Brother John Barry	3:35	8
12	Jump On Board To The Cottage John Barry	1:57	7
13	The Wedding John Barry	3:50	11
14	Yanko And Son Dance John Barry	1:37	8
15	Yanko's Delirium John Barry	2:51	8
16	Yanko About To Die John Barry	4:21	7
17	You Came From The Sea John Barry	4:49	149
18	To Love And Be Loved John Barry	4:15	43

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A review by James Southall found on movie-wave.net

By:	Angel
Date:	4 Jul 2010
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Barry takes his inspiration from the sea, with the orchestration sweeping in and out like the waves, the tone darkening and brightening subtly but frequently, and the music constantly suggesting a timeless and constant yearning. The opening cue introduces two main themes, the romantic main theme and the Slavic-sounding Yanko's theme. A third follows immediately in "To America", this one absolutely full of romantic longing and beauty; it segues into a very different, more dramatic, take on Yanko's theme. Finally, the most obviously ocean-inspired theme in "The Storm Came", swirling around and around, cautiously enticing with its powerful undertones but retaining that distinct beauty that John Barry probably couldn't avoid no matter how hard he tried (and thank God he didn't often try very hard).

"Sea of Death" introduces what is referred to by the director rather unpromisingly as the "death theme", and even here it's beauty that is the driving force - the music turns darker and darker, but as the distant synth chorus joins in it is just impossible not to feel the deeply human aspect Barry is trying to emphasise. This core of five themes introduced in the opening four cues goes on to dominate the score, but even though some of them aren't developed all that much it is easily enough material from which to fashion a 60-minute album which never feels too long.

This is helped by the occasional set-piece - the summery, awkwardly-titled "Yanko Asks Amy Out" is simply delightful, and the source piece "Yanko's Dance" breaks things up but doesn't feel out of place - and this is so expertly-crafted it is often just a joy to behold. Barry's music isn't for everyone but his better scores go about their business with such a singular purpose his place as one of the film music masters will never be in doubt. Because it is for such a little-known film, this score is not often spoken about, but it should be - the album plays like a very carefully-considered tone poem to the sea, and listening from start to end it so envelops the listener it is simply enormously impressive. The disc concludes with a fine song ("To Love and Be Loved") based on the main theme, Tim Rice's lyrics beautifully sung by Corina Brouder, rounding off an album which should be in all Barry fans' collections.

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