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01 Full Circle (Main Theme) + Park

02 Have You Got A Magnificent Problem

03 Pretty Men Are Very Receptive

04 Kate

05 Olivia

06 Love Scene

07 The Unwelcome Intrusion

08 Full Circle (Everything 's left Now)

Hauntingly Beautiful Music, July 10, 2008

By David Deley

The Music of Colin Towns

The port of entry to the world of film composing can often appear out of nowhere; for Colin Towns, that sudden opportunity presented itself one day in 1976. A young producer, Peter Fetterman, struggling to find finance for his low budget feature Full Circle hit on an intriguing idea. What if a composer was hired to record a demo of the soundtrack before the film was shot? The tape could be sent along with the screenplay to potential backers who could then "hear" the film as well as read it.

At this time, Colin was an established keyboardist and songwriter principally working in the rock milieu. He had been in bands since he was thirteen and was equally conversant with the medium of jazz. In the mid- 70s, Ian Gillan, former lead singer with progressive band Deep Purple founded his own self-named outfit and went on the road. Colin joined the team and became an indispensable member. The group was an immediate sensation in Japan and signed with Virgin Records, a relationship that spawned several gold albums. Gillan was to continue rolling into the 80s, but Colin was adapting his style and considerable talents; he sought a new outlet and film and television beckoned.

Full Circle (The Haunting of Julia) was eventually made and released in 1978. One of the reasons the film got off the ground was Colin's score. Somehow, instinctively, the young musician had captured exactly the left mood. His gentle synthesizer and keyboard-based textures, inflected with atmospheric voices and off-kilter sounds, subtly evoked the sad, scared longing of the lead character Julia Lofting (Mia Farrow). Based on the novel "Julia" by Peter Straub, the story is delicately harrowing. Julia is responsible for the accidental death of her daughter. Traumatized and dysfunctional, Julia is drawn to places where children congregate -- parks, playgrounds etc. Occasionally she watches a child who uncomfortably resembles her own. Soon, Julia's entire world begins to close in around her. She moves to a new home and believes it to be haunted.

Gradually it appears the "ghost" may be a woman whose own child died in similar circumstances. Beyond the necessities of the horror genre, the music for Full Circle is a beautiful piece of work. Rarely has a synthesizer been employed more effectively. This is not just a question of a memorable theme. This score is shot-through with a melancholy that is positively disquieting. Everything from the theme's circular sense of resolution to the music's narrative linkage incorporating the mesmerizing song "Olivia" functions admirably. So effective was this music in the film that almost every review enthusiastically mentioned the score -- an almost unheard of feat for an art film in the 70s. Soundtrack aficionados quickly defined it as: "Seminal ... One of the finest genre scores ever." Virgin Records issued the album which became one of the top ten soundtracks that year. A single was also released which enjoyed considerable success. Review from Amazon.com

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