2LP + CD - Limited Super Deluxe Edition Sandstorm Coloured Vinyl cut at 45rpm and housed in a spot-varnished 320gsm tip-on Gatefold sleeve with Bonus CD, Poster and Certificate. Cut at London's world famous Abbey Road Studios and overseen by Grammy(R)-winning engineer Sean Magee.
"One of the most celebrated war soundtracks in British film history...composed by Academy Award-nominee Frank Cordell...comes to record stores ahead of its fiftieth anniversary.“
For the first time ever, Frank Cordell's superlative and rousing music for the epic Julian C. Blaustein Production comes to record stores. Khartoum is released in a Super-Deluxe soundtrack package by Stylotone working closely with the composer's family, The Frank Cordell Estate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Music Inc. The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed and conducted by Frank Cordell for Khartoum has been assembled, mastered and cut at London's world famous Abbey Road Studios to produce a stunning new master. The audio for this release has been overseen from start to finish by Grammy(R)-winning engineer Sean Magee, a member of the team that remastered The Beatles Catalogue in 2007 - he was also personally responsible for cutting their recent mono and stereo vinyl editions.
This Super-Deluxe Edition package has been produced to the absolute highest possible standard as if it had been released at the same time as the film, using manufacturers who are able to produce all the parts on exactly the same machines as used in the 1960s. The Khartoum Super-Deluxe soundtrack package is available in a "sandstorm" coloured vinyl edition featuring a spot-varnished 320gsm tip-on gatefold sleeve. A 'Vinyl' replica CD, housed in a spot-varnished scale-copy of the gatefold sleeve. A download card offering exclusive access to high-resolution 24-bit WAV and 320kbps CBR MP3 digital downloads of the entire deluxe soundtrack package. A 30" x 40" (762mm x 1016mm) British Quad Film Poster.
The poster has been specially printed using original 1960s production processes - matching not only the poster weight of the time but also the correct machine folds (since film posters would be machine folded and inserted into large brown envelopes before arriving in the post at cinemas - this was before digital media, kids!). A certificate of authenticity personally signed by Mrs. Anja Cordell, the composer's widow To round off this Super-Deluxe Edition package writer and director James Dearden - son of the film's director - offers a personal insight into the making of this British Empire epic.
Format Details:
⚫ 2 x 180g Heavyweight ‘Sandstorm’ coloured 12” vinyl, cut at 45RPM
⚫ Complete Album on ‘Vinyl’ Replica CD in Gatefold Sleeve
⚫ High-Definition 24-bit WAV + 320kbps MP3 download of the LP, CD and Complete Unedited Recording Sessions
⚫ 30”x 40”British Quad Film Poster
⚫ Certificate signed by Mrs Anja Cordell
⚫ Sleeve notes by writer and director James Dearden, son of ‘Khartoum’ director, Basil Dearden.
Tracklist:
A1. Overture
A2. Main Titles
A3. Prologue / Hicks’s Army
A4. The Ambush
A5. Looting Party
A6. The Hour of Prayer
A7. Gordon Meets Gladstone
A8. The Palace Chambers
B1. Zabeir’ s Curse
B2. Up The Nile
B3. Stewart Challenges Gordon
B4. Gordon Returns to Khartoum
B5. Gordon Enters the Mahdi’s Camp
B6. The Mahdi’s Tent
B7. Gordon’s Doubts
B8. Ditch Flooding
B9. Cattle Raid: Parts I and II
B10. Sandstorm
C1. Intermission / Entr’ acte
C2. The British are coming
C3. The Mahdi’ s Guns
C4. Gordon Prays
C5. Khartoum is Shelled / Siege of Khartoum
C6. Battle of Berber I
C7. Battle of Berber II
C8. Execution
C9.Dead City
D1. Wolesley’s Army
D2. The Mahdi
D3. Gordon’s Journal
D4. Severed Heads
D5. Prelude to Battle
D6. Death of Gordon / Finale