Stealing Time - Joey Newman
- Hollywood Studio Symphony
- La-La Land Records
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Music history isn't exactly littered with musical great dynasties, they always seem to fizzle out quite quickly. Probably the biggest and most significant is perhaps the seemingly endless stream of Bachs, many of whom were more famous than JS at the time, yet with hindsight most are only mentioned in his shadow. The Mozart family had more than a few other talents in its ranks outside Wolfgang (notably his father and sister), but the run away film music dynasty is undoubtedly the Newmans. True, Goldsmith Jnr and Morricone Jnr have both joined the family business, but where they have an exceptionally talented father to compete with, Joey Newman has several cousins, parents, uncles and grandparents with whom he can be compared. Everything about Stealing Time suggests up and coming, from the actors to the composer, it's something of a sophomore effort. Perhaps, given the relation (cousin, or thereabouts), it seems even less surprising that Stealing Time often owes a lot to Thomas Newman's approach with a succession of fairly short, percussion based cues and a brief, but catchy piano main theme. Most of the cues feel to be leading to the film's centrepiece, The Heist, where Newman is permitted a longer musical indulgence, although many of the musical ticks bring to mind a thriller version of portions of | |
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