Can I get CDs of unreleased scores (such as No Country for Old Men, The Spanish Prisoner, The Jackal, etc)?
I don’t have time to press promotional CD’s. My agent, Vasi Vangelos, can provide demo copies of my film work for business or promotional purposes (for instance to filmmakers and journalists). I’d like to make otherwise unavailable work available on this web site, so I’ve been posting demo samples of many of the unreleased scores in the section called projects. I cannot provide anything beyond what you find on the web site. There are a number of reasons scores don’t get released on CD. The primary one is that the release on CD of a film score that was recorded by a union orchestra requires the musicians to be paid “new use” fees (because this is a new use of music that was originally intended for film). For an orchestra these fees can be quite large, dwarfing any other expenses, and making it difficult to recoup a CD’s costs. These problems have caused many composers and producers to record their scores non-union, and in response to this “runaway” production the union (the AFM) has cha
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