Michael Kamen's "THE IRON GIANT" in Full Score

The Iron Giant is a much beloved movie that some would call a “cult classic”. Whilst it failed to find a big audience during its theatrical release run in 1999, it was loved by critics and those who saw it. The movie was nominated for, and won multiple awards including nine Annie Awards (the animation equivalent of the Oscars). With recommendations spreading by word-of-mouth The Iron Giant began to find its audience at last and in 2015 received a remastered Blu-Ray “Signature Edition” release. To this day it still has a 96% critics score and 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Iron Giant would be Michael Kamen’s first score for an animated movie. Director Brad Bird was aware of his previous work on scores such as Brazil and Die Hard, and was excited by the vision which Michael had for this project.

Michael hired the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra to record the score, which was recorded in their concert hall: the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic. This helped to give this magical and emotional score a deep richness. Recording engineer Steve McLaughlin placed additional microphones at the back of the concert hall to capture the ambient sound during the recording sessions. That ambient sound was placed in the rear of the surround sound mix so the audience would really experience what it was like to hear the music in that awesome space.

228 pages, 9x12 inches. Paperbound, printed in the U.K.

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Contents

1M0R Intro
1M1 The Arrival
1M2 Hogarth on Bike
1M5/6 Monster Brain
1M7/8 In the Forest
1M9 The Giant Wakes
1M10 Hogarth in the Car
1MX Duck & Cover
2M1 Sting for FBI Man
2M2 Back in the Woods
2M3 Shut Off Switch
2M4 "Rock...Tree"
2M4A Cat and Mouse
2M5 Train Wreck
2M6/7 Magic Rebuild
2M8 Hand Under Foot
2M9 "Chew Your Food"
2M9A Amerika
2M10 Great Ride
3M1 "Oh No, Hide!"
3M3R "Did You Hear That?"
3M4R "He Can Stay"
3M6 Eating Art
3M8 Space Car
4M1R "Souls Don't Die"
4M2/3 In the Barn/Contest of Wills
4M4 Army Arrives
4M4A Annie & Dean
4M5 "I'm Superman"
4M6 Big Guy Eyes
5M1R Giant is Discovered
5M2R Transformer
5M2A Kent Stopped
5M3R Goodbye
5M6R Magic End

Appendices

1M0 Intro (Early Version)
1MX Duck & Cover (Early Version)
3M3 Dean & Bongo (Unused)
3M4 "He Can Stay" (Early Version)
4M1 "Souls Don't Die" (Early Version)
4M4A Annie & Dean (Early Version)
4M5 "I'm Superman" (Early Version)
5M1 Giant Discovered (Early Version)
5M2 Transformer (Early Version)
5M3 Goodbye (Early Version)
5M4 Buy the Farm (Unused)
5M5 Hogarth Leaves (Unused)
5M6 Puttin' Myself Together (Unused)

Foreword by Zoe Kamen