They sound very like Tangerine Dream

Hi,

As much as there is a lot of stuff that EF and TD did for many films, in the end, it is a bit lacking in the satisfaction side of things, mostly because the music can not "fit" the film, and the director of each film was not a very good one when it came to music ... compare this to how RIDLEY SCOTT used music in a lot of his films, and it explains how a musician can help a film ... other than some bits and pieces in SORCERER, I don't think for a SECOND that any of the music was properly fit to the film, but listening to the hour and a half concert of the SORCERER music by TD (some of the last concerts in EF's days), gives the film (in your mind!!!) a completely different feeling that the film did not have ... too much Hollywood for me, and the music (supposedly) to make this moment better and more emotional to your experience ... AND TD went on to do this way better than the actual film!

The best example of how bad and stupid film studios can be, is how Ridley Scott made the music enhance the film so beautifully ... only for the "sequel" to destroy the use of the music, almost all of which was strictly done in the conventional Hollywood movie detail, rather than the music enhance the film, which adds so much to the original ... and is completely gone from the sequel ... as such the sequel was horribly designed and thought out ... and it was obvious ... it had no art whatsoever in it!

There are/were very FEW film makers that know how to use music ... Ridley Scott is one. I would say Peter Greenaway is another, although is use of music defies your imagination or mine, but he is not afraid to "trip" out (and does several times!) and let the music also go ... as you can see in his Mozart piece ... totally insane, although you have to give credit to the dance designs of the whole thing that make it work! David Lean was not afraid of using music correctly, and he made us cry in Dr. Zhivago, and several other times ... but he was a lover of long shots and extended shots that gave your idea/vision a more "complete" feeling about the scene ... you don't see things in snippets like you do in dreams ... in real life you see things extended for a long time, sometimes to the horror of it all! 

Of special interest in film music, would be how some of the Chinese folks have used music ... Zhang Yimou is not afraid of the long tracking shots and uses music to help them along, and when you see the film about the father and mother ... it is just awesome, and it takes you away, but in many ways, his visualization of the whole thing is probably way better than the music ... although the differences in Eastern and Western music is very obvious, but to me, it just gives me a better sense of another world ... 

Bernardo Bertolucci is good with music and has used it many times to color the film ... and help himself ... hear Vittorio Storaro talk about these films in "color" ... as how Bertolucci "defined them" ... and then how the music made it better ... and he used young/modern folks ... Ryuichi Sakamoto (more than once and Sheltering Sky's music is awesome) and David Byrne, and both of them "switched" places to do their music ... David did the Eastern music and Ryuichi did the Western music ... and IT STILL WORKED!

Some also think that Nino Rota deserves a mention here, but to me, Federico Fellini is not very good "visually" when it comes to the music, and he gets too bored when the shot is longer than a few seconds, which takes away a lot of music. But once in a while you go ... wow ... that was neat!

One other ... his name fails me now ... but he did music for a lot of spaghetti westerns and ... well I've been to some of those places, and I don't hear that music at all ... and while the effect is nice and neat for some of these films, it really makes for a romantic thing, and not a real thing, and this is something that I am not a fan of ... in film, with great music, it is more about the real reality, not some kind of idea of this or that ... and this is the great difference between the awesome ones and the rest in film!