The Keep Score by Tangerine Dream
Written by Kit Rae and Geoff Andrews. Screen caps by Geoff. Last update June 2013.
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06. Consuming Lives (3:03) - Otto is jerked against the wall as he tries to hang in to the belt straps attached to Lutz jerking body deep in the passage. All becomes still and Otto pulls the belt straps, revealing nothing left but the wrecked lower torso of Lutz' dead and burned body. Molasar's spirit, imprisoned in the cavern below the keep for hundreds of years, has now been released into the keep above. Materializing as a form of energy, he blasts through the opening as light and smoke, causing the stone foundations of the keep to move and shake. He kills and consumes Otto.
Previously unreleased. All of the sounds in this track were used in various places throughout the film. The middle section was used when Lutz's mutilated body is being pulled from the hole behind the silver cross by Otto, the siren and machine sounds were used when the foundation stones of the keep move as Molasar awakens, then destroys and consumes Otto. Then his energy escapes from underground and into the keep with a loud pulsating sound, awakening the German soldiers inside. The high pitched sound throughout the end of the track was used many times throughout the film when Molasar appears. The core track sounds similar to the end section of Brothers in Death from the First Mix bootleg and Brothers in Death (Alternative Theme) which first appeared on the Event Horizon bootleg.
07. Awakening / Sailing to Romania (2:19) - As Molasar is awakened in the bowels of the keep in Romania, far away in Greece a stranger named Glaeken is simultaneously awakened via some link to Molasar or the keep. We realize there is something supernatural about him by the white glow of his eyes as he awakens, and his strange eye color. This is the person who has been paying for the caretakers who live in the keep. He packs a bag along with a strange wood case, and charters a ship from Greece to Romania. A deleted scene shows the boat captain and crew attempting to unsuccessfully kill Glaeken.
This is a shorter version of the three minute film track, and halfway through this version the keyboards vary slightly. With the exception of a few artifacts that can be heard at loud volume, there are no film sound effects in this version other than Glaeken's 'glowing eyes' sound effect. Similar to the previous bootleg tracks named Glaeken Awakes / Awakening / Crossing Saver / Sailing to Romania tracks from previous bootlegs (all recorded from the VHS or Laser Disk with sound effects). The original film composition was a reworked later in 1983 for TD's 1983 single Daydream/Moorland.
Each night Woermann's soldiers are being killed one-by-one by some mysterious force inside the keep, so he asks Berlin command to relocate them. Instead, Berlin sends Major Kaempffer and his SS Einsatzkommando squad to take charge of the outpost and relieve Woermann of command. Thinking local partisans are killing the men, upon entering the village Kaempffer orders a group of villagers to be executed as an example. Woermann protests the executions, arguing with Kaempffer that there are no partisans ...something else is killing his men, something that has been released. A soldier arrives with news that another soldier has been killed during the night.
Part of the track 2 music plays in this scene.
Kaempffer and Woermann look over the burnt body of the recently killed soldier in a deep passageway of the keep, and some strange writing on the wall. Thinking this the work of partisan rebels, Kaempffer interrogates a villager who cannot read the writing. Father Mihail intervenes saying the villagers know nothing, and that the writing is not modern Romanian. He tells Kaempffer of a Jewish professor of history nearby who may be able to decipher it. The recommendation is actually a ruse by Mihail to save his friend Cuza, a Jew, from being sent to a concentration camp.
Part of track 17 (Molasar Stirs / Death of Woermann - at the 47 second mark) plays in this scene.
Dr. Theodore Cuza, a wheelchair bound historian, and his daughter Eva are are shown in waiting in a concentration camp talking with other Jews. There is no music in this scene.
On his way to the keep by motorcycle, Glaeken is stopped by a German checkpoint. They attempt to look in Glaeken's wood case, but his eyes flare at the soldiers and they back away in fear, letting him pass. There is no music in this scene.
Cuza and Eva are diverted from the Jewish camp to the keep (off screen). There Kaempffer tells Cuza the Jews in the camps are burned in ovens, and that the same will happen to him if he does not cooperate. Cuza translates the writing as 'I Shall Be Free', written in a language that has not been used in 500 years.
Part of track 17 (Molasar Stirs / Death of Woermann - at the 47 second mark) plays in this scene.
08. Reunion of Old Friends - Night in Romania 1 (2:32) - Later in the keep chamber assigned to Cuza and Eva, father Mihail reunites with his old friend in a scene where this music plays. Cuza asks who made the writing on the keep wall, but Mihail does not know. He tells Cuza of a plan to help him and Eva escape, and gives Cuza a cross for protection from the evil in the keep. Cuza, being an atheist and a Jew, does not believe in what the cross represents.
This is the first of three versions of TD's Night in Romania music heard in the film. This one closely matches the film music, including the different ending, but it is missing the vocoder voices heard in the film version. The keyboard melody section of this track was originally used by Edgar Froese for the track Flying Kamikazee, from his 1982 soundtrack to the film Kamikazee 1989. Similar to Night in Romania from the official TDI release, and Reunion (Cuza's Theme)/Renewed Purpose/Leave Taking/Cuza's Theme from previous bootlegs.
09. German Soldiers Enter the Keep / Trailer Music (6:34) - This track is made up of music heard at various points in the film, and not in chronological order with the other tracks. Around the 3:18 mark, the pounding drum section of this track is briefly heard earlier in the film when Woermann's Wehrmacht soldiers are unloading gear inside the Keep, and again later when Kaempffer and his S. S. Einsatzkommandos cross the bridge into the keep after executing a group of villagers in an attempt to stop the partisans he thinks are murdering the German soldiers. Following music cue is the vocoder music heard when Mihail prays (with his dog nearby) then smokes a cigarette in the church, contemplating the arrival of the Germans in the keep. The music continues as the caretaker gives Woermann a tour of the keep, through the scene where Woermann confronts Lutz, who is attempting to steal one of the crosses mounted in the wall, which he thinks is silver.
The reverse sound effects heard in this track appear in several places in the film, and also appear in the track Supernatural Accomplice from the TDI release. The same vocoder music also appears in Supernatural Accomplice. Sections of this track were also used as the soundtrack for the trailers promoting the film, but some music from this track never appears in the film. The music originated from the first set of Tangerine Dream's 1982 live concerts, in a section often named Mirage on the bootlegs. Similar music appears in the bootleg tracks named Deadly Silver Crosses / Glaeken's Death / Final Conflict / Mirage.
10. Savior -TD arrangement of Puer Natus Est Nobis by T. Tallis [1505-1585] (3:15) - After getting food in the mess hall of the keep and being harassed by the German soldiers, Eva is trapped and raped by two S. S. soldiers in one of the stone hallways. Molasar appears as a smoky entity with bare hints of a physical body materializing. He kills and consumes the soldiers, then carries an unconscious Eva back to Dr. Cuza's room. Cuza realizes this being is the one killing the soldiers. The scene ends with Molasar touching Cuza with his hand, knocking unconscious.
Over this scene plays TD's version of an excerpt of the first few verses from the Gloria section of Puer Natus Est Nobis, a Christmas mass composed by Thomas Tallis in 1554. This is the film version of the Gloria music, not the one from the TDI release, and not the same as the previous bootleg recordings from the Laser Disk which include sound effects. The sound quality is a bit uneven (so was the actual film track), but this is the entire music cue from that scene, with no sound effects.
Glaeken races through the forest of the Dinu Pass on his way to the keep. There is no music in this scene.
The Keep film photos copyright Paramount Pictures.
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