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Buy it... if you are anxious to hear Eidelman return to strong form and extend the style you heard in Free Willy 3: The Rescue. Avoid it... if the higher price of an import deters you from half an hour of good, though not outstanding, music from Eidelman. Filmtracks Editorial Review:
Writing music for nearly every moment in the film, Eidelman's work for Ocean Men clocks in at about 32 minutes in length. It is substantiated by a strong presence of strings performing a lengthy, epic scale theme. Unlike most IMAX scores you hear for waterlevel subject matter, Eidelman has tailored this score specifically for the depths. Thus, the theme is very slow in tempo and haunting in style. He employs the voice of Francine Poitras once again (as with Free Willy 3: The Rescue) to provide the necessary female vocals to represent the sea in several cues. While the score never becomes grand in scope --except, perhaps for its primary statements of theme-- Eidelman maintains a consistent feeling of awe for the depths with the string section of the orchestra. Brass seem to play an accompanying role occasionally, and woodwinds and a rumbling piano are used to puctuate certain shots in the film. A traditional guitar performs the necessary, faster tempo cues for the two men and their preparations for diving. The overall result of the score may not be one of the same dynamic level as Free Willy 3: The Rescue, but Eidelman more than compensates with his variation on that style. Harmonious at every turn, the music for Ocean Men is a consistently pleasant and steady listen. Perhaps the score's weakness is an element of restraint to the music. Eidelman may have restrained his thematic potential and instrumental choices due to a professionalism of the two divers portrayed. Therefore absent, however, is any creative instrumentation that often accompanies super large-screen short films. The last thing this score makes you want to do, interestingly, is go diving. But Eidelman stays conservatively beautiful for the score, and in doing so, reminds listeners of his own large scale talents that burst onto the scoring scene more than ten years earlier. The album for Ocean Men exists only on one of Warner's many European branches, out of Germany. It features a very generous 32 minutes of score and a better than usual array of popular new age and rock songs, many of which with a distinctly European tilt (and not coincidentally, owned by Warner) and some of which appeared in the film. Selections from score regulars Enya and Vangelis highlight the first 10 songs tracks of the album, and Eidelman's portion is presented uninterrupted. A very strong and easily listenable album, Ocean Men is available to Americans as an import through soundtrack specialty outlets in early 2003, though copies have been reportedly selling out quickly. For score fans frustrated with Eidelman's recent lack of production on a large scale, Ocean Men will begin to serve, though not entirely quench, your thirst for that continued sound. ****
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