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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20. Deception Revealed - Night in Romania 3 (1:33) - Cuza ascends into the courtyard of the keep with Molasar following behind. Eva tries to stop Cuza from taking the talisman outside, and he strikes her down. Molasar commands Cuza to kill her, which awakens him from Molasar's enchantment. He now realizes that Molasar is simply another evil, no different from the German soldiers. Cuza demands that Molasar take talisman out of the keep himself, to prove himself. Molasar strikes him down, returning him to the diseased state he was found in, and the talisman falls to the ground, hidden in the smoky mist.
This is the third of three versions of TD's Night in Romania music heard in the film, including an approximation of the vocoder voices heard in the actual motion picture (no clean source exists of the actual vocoder version). Used in the scene where Cuza defies Molasar. Includes some of the same music as The Night in Romania track from the official TDI release in 1997.
21. Confrontation (2:05) - Previously unreleased. Glaeken, now partially healed, arrives in the keep. As Molasar descends upon Eva and Cuza to consume them, Glaeken picks up the talisman and assembles it to his staff. The device emits machine-like sounds and changes shape, drawing energy from all of the crosses, which burn away their nickel silver covering and glow. Glaeken is instantly fully healed. His eyes and body are transformed, his features now resembling Molasar. He sends a powerful beam of energy from his staff into Molasar, pushing his body into the hole in the keep wall that he was originally released from. The hole is leads back to the underground abyss below the keep.
If you listen to this (and the original film soundtrack loudly) you can hear the same sound effects TD used used a year later for the track Between Realities on the 1984 Firestarter soundtrack. This is mostly atmospheric music and sounds used for the final confrontation between Molasar and Glaeken. In the film sound mix the music was obscured somewhat by sound effects, and a bit jarring in places because there seems to be some bad film edits and bad music cue edits.
22. It Ends - TD arrangement of Walking In the Air by Howard Blake (7:40) - The energy released from Glaeken's staff continues to grow and pulls Glaeken into the same hole Molasar was sucked into. Cuza and Eva flee through the main entrance of the keep and make it to the bridge outside where the villagers help them. Eva turns and looks back to the keep where Glaeken has disapperaed... And the film ends. But the original film did not end here. This is a longer version of the end music track which includes music from one of the the original extended endings. Glaeken is shown falling through black space in the cavern below the keep. She walks back into the keep, down into the cavern below (it is not shown how she actually gets inside) and finds Glaeken's dead and smoking body by an underground lake, where her touch revives him. Glaeken awakens and sees his reflection in the water, seeming to indicate that he is now a mortal man (he had no reflection in the mirror at the inn).
The first part of this track is similar to the previous bootleg tracks recorded from the VHS or Laser Disk of the film, called End Title, The Keep Theme, The Keep End Theme, and Walking In The Air (End Titles), et cetera, which are all much shorter. Then for several minutes a longer section plays, only heard in one of the alternate endings used for television broadcasts. As with previous versions, this bootleg betrays the source recording, as wind noise sound effects from the film can be heard in several places, although voices have been removed. Strangely, this version incorporates part of track The 31st Floor, by Edgar Froese from his 1982 soundtrack to the film Kamikazee 1989, onto the end of Walking In the Air. While it was written around the same period as The Keep music and blends well with the track, that music was not actually heard in the extended ending of the film, nor does it have anything to do with The Keep music.
BONUS TRACKS
23. The Journey - Alternate Version (5:54) - The intro to this version is similar to the sequencer/drum version called Dinu Pass from previous bootlegs, combined with The Keep (Main Title) from the First Mix bootleg, but the Dinu Pass section here is different. There are additional sounds and instruments that bridge and build into the main title rhythm track, as in the film. The latter half of this track is basically the music heard in the opening credits of The Keep, with the same whisper effects used on previous TD works.
24. Woermann Enters the Keep - Alternate Version (1:05) - Barely different than the Woermann Enters the Keep track, just a slightly different synth and drum sound.
25. Consuming Lives - Alternate Version (2:37) - Same as the Consuming Lives track above but with additional strings synth sounds and some different instruments in middle section.
26. Death of Glaeken - Alternate Version (5:09) - Much longer version of the Death of Glaeken track. Similar to Arrival in Romanian Village and Evil Spreads into the Village tracks. Sound quality is very clipped in places.
27. Savior - Alternate Version (3:46) - This version includes the first minute of the Gloria film music, then cross fades into the TDI version, with more cathedral reverb than the original. It gives a more complete version of this excerpt of Gloria and is a nice ending to CD2.
The Keep film photos copyright Paramount Pictures.
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