Tracklisting

1. Main Title [2:20]
2. Alethea [1:09]
3. Supper [5:42]
4. U.N.S.S.U. [1:39]
5. Red Tide Pimple [1:01]
6. Ghost and Indoctrination [1:48]
7. Humiliation of Alethea [1:58]
8. Ride to the Bothel/Helmut and Alethea [2:13]
9. Devlin's Return [5:10]
10. All Prisoners [2:30]
11. Squatters (Homeless) [1:52]
12. Milford Morning [2:04]
13. Ancestor's Strength [4:21]
14. Omaha Morning/Helmut Intervenes [2:40]
15. The Dance Beings [2:36]
16. Dieter's View [3:29]
17. I'm an American [3:28]
18. The Homeless March [4:40]
19. Burial [3:49]
20. Ceremony Montage [2:55]
21. Train to Vladivostock [4:24]
22. Terrorists Arrive/Capital Means [1:55]
23. Andrei's View [3:58]
24. We're All Prisoners Now [2:40]
25. The Meaning [5:16]




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Can you send me the link please? Thanks!

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Thanks for sharing this score in flac; may I request the link?

Thanks for sharing this score in flac; may I request the link?

I would like the music for this controversial series please Erich.

Thanks for the share. Could I get the link as well?

I would like the music for this controversial series please Erich.

I would like to have link to mini

I would like the music for this controversial series please Erich.

I don`t know the series, but the score sure looks good please a link :)

Wow! This brings back memories! I'd love a link! Thanks! :D

Hello. I would like the links to this score. I thought Poledouris did some excellent and memorable scores like the Conan movies and Robocop. I remember this series was considered quite controversial at the time due the notion that the USA could be taken over by the Soviets. Many thanks.

Thank you for giving me a information, erich.gold.

Thank you so much. I'd love a link

Review ~ Filmtracks


Amerika: (Basil Poledouris) Given such a paranoid premise that was extremely controversial for its time, it is difficult to look back upon Amerika and imagine that a considerable portion of the American public viewed the 1987 ABC network mini-series as one of realistic possibilities. Running over seven nights for a mammoth fourteen hours total, Amerika was a (yet another) "what if" novel about how individuals (representing the American spirit through their actions and reactions) would respond to a Soviet invasion and occupation of the United States. Despite the sensationalism applied to the reputation of the production at the time, Amerika was never a film meant to depict the actual military attack and siege to open such a conflict. Rather, the point of the series was to concentrate on how average Americans might react to the post-war occupation a full ten years after the initial invasion. Thus, the series is a character study rather than a massive political statement or action film. The somber spirit of the film (including the execution of primary characters and, not to be forgotten, the entire American legislative body) is tempered by the slow but determined rebellion of the Americans through their heartland values and stubborn will. Composer Basil Poledouris was a veteran of this topic, having provided a stylistically defiant score for the movie Red Dawn a few years earlier. He would extend both the Americana spirit of that score and his collaboration with director Donald Wrye into Amerika by writing essentially the equivalent of seven feature films-worth of music. Those seven different chapters of Amerika are slow to develop and don't always offer exact continuity from one chapter to the next. Thus, in adding to the noted cinematography of the series, one of Poledouris' objectives was to provide a score that would maintain an element of consistency between the chapters. With the production of the film protested and lengthened due to the scope of its magnitude, Poledouris had enough time in 1987 to compose an untold number of hours of music, all of which written for and performed by a full orchestral ensemble. While the title theme of two minutes in length would be best recognized because of its multiple appearances throughout the series, Poledouris' score is better remembered by film score collectors as one of highly personalized and dramatic character themes for individual threads in the narrative.





Despite Poledouris' reputation for writing some of the most masculine war-related music in Hollywood between 1982 and 1990, Amerika should not be confused with that body of work. There are two or three such militaristic cues in the series, often driven by the accompaniment of tapping snares, tingling synth samples, and electronic bass, but do not expect the score to have any relation to the robust, bombastic Russian material that would eventually become Poledouris' calling card in The Hunt for Red October just a couple of years later. The tone of the military material is just as stark in execution here as it was in Red Dawn. Hints of Poledouris' maturing rhythmic synthetics that debuted in his career at roughly the same time in Cherry 2000 can be heard in "Humiliation of Alethea," but not significantly elsewhere. In fact, Poledouris chose not to provide much of a Soviet influence on the music whatsoever, restraining his slight employment of stereotypical Russian note progressions to cues such as "U.N.S.S.U." and "The Dance Begins," the latter maxing out with a single barrage of timpani after an eloquent yet ominous string motif. Instead, Poledouris chose the purely Americana approach for his music, bordering at times between his own heavily dramatic brass-accompanied woodwind themes and the occasional John Barry-like expanse of strings in simplistic performances of melody. Such themes were a staple of Poledouris' character scores going back as far as Big Wednesday in the prior decade. The flow of the music is quite slow, sometimes anchored by a level of weighty drama that would foreshadow Les Miserables but without the immense power of bass or resolution of focus. Outside of context, the score meanders through its first third before its gripping material begins to develop, mirroring the slow evolution of the series. With the overall movement of Amerika restrained in pace, cues of more extroverted tempo such as "Ceremony Montage," featuring one of Poledouris' more inspired string and woodwind rhythms building in momentum to a fully orchestral statement, are the highlights. The generic sensitivity of the majority of character themes, while rotated nicely through the different sections of the orchestra, doesn't offer a really true or diverse taste of American character, an odd miss of the target for Poledouris. Rather than instilling his score with the weight and power of the American spirit in sum, Poledouris hoped that the smaller, sectional performances of his themes create that whole through their common threads of decency and patriotism.








Overall, once you've heard Poledouris tackle the sounds of war, rebellion, and peace with much greater orchestral depth in subsequent compositions, Amerika's score, despite the obvious strengths inherent in its impressive length, doesn't seem to resonate as well in retrospect. Its adherence to many of the rules he established in Red Dawn make it a redundant effort in many places as well. The application of electronics is not as polished at it would be shortly thereafter for the composer. Apart from the film, the music for Amerika has never been commercially released, though it has always been actively sought by Poledouris collectors in search of his larger orchestral works. A five-minute suite of music from the series was included on Poledouris' own promotional compilations of the 1990's, and that material was long redistributed on bootlegged copies of that album. A 44-minute bootleg with good sound quality but no track names was leaked at the end of the 1990's and was also a common target for collectors during its circulation on the secondary market. In the early 2000's, Prometheus Records released several Poledouris scores of the 1980's that had only been released in previous limited editions or never at all. In August of 2004, Amerika was one of these scores, offered as the first of Prometheus' club series of albums in a long time and adding another half hour of music to the total sum released for this soundtrack. Despite advance word of Amerika's official debut on album an entire year before its release date, the 3,000-copy product, the 19th of their series, pulled the Prometheus club series out of a deep coma that had lasted more than a year after the release of John Barry's uncharacteristic (and for many, unlistenable) score for The White Buffalo. A generous and well-balanced product, the 76-minute Prometheus album features sound quality that is not quite as good as one would hope for a 1987 recording but nevertheless absolved the earlier bootlegs of all responsibility and served as the definitive representation of Poledouris' score despite obviously lacking a wealth of material that remains unreleased. It stayed available and relatively affordable in the decade to follow, a solid entry in Poledouris' career but lacking the thickness and depth that many probably recalled incorrectly from watching the series. If you had limited funds, the far wiser buys were Prometheus' previous releases of Flesh + Blood and Cherry 2000, both of which better meeting expectations. Still, for collectors of the composer, the fine treatment of Amerika on the 2004 product should not be easily dismissed.

Thank you in advance for sharing

Would love a link to this. Been searching for the actual series for years, but only found a few parts online. They shot part of this in my hometown when Kris Kristofferson was on tour. One of those classic 80's series that's haunted me for years! Thanks!

Could you send the link? Thank you very much!

Many thanks for the lossless.

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please send me the link.
thanks.

hi beleive it or not i have whole mini series downloaded

i would also link appreciate! thank you much!

very nice indeed!

Would sure love the links!

As usual, I don't agree with the Filmtracks Review. I remember that when I bought this score I was hoping a kind of "Robocop" muscular and powerful score, instead I got what I consider one of the finest achievements in Poledouris career, at first I was confused, I thought that I was listening a Delerue score, in fact if you close your eyes and play this, you'll feel the same I felt when I first played it. Beautiful music, almost all the instruments got the chance to play a solo. A materpiece in my opinion.

Thanks Erich for sending the link for one of Poledouris' finest scores, Copland-esq in places.

Thanks Erich! Much appreciated!!

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hi beleive it or not i have whole mini series downloaded

Really? Where did you find it? Been searching for years!

Thank you!

Thank you for the post and for the link!

Thank you for the link my friend !

Thank-you for this score Erich, I've been looking for it for ages! And in FLAC too, wonderful!

Thank-you very much for this very rare score!

You are quite welcome my friends, enjoy it!

Thank you very much for my compatriot, Eric!

Thank you very much for my compatriot, Eric!


Your compatriot was a great composer my friend, he will be forever missed.

Thank you for the lossless upload, would I please be able to have the link :)

Thank you for the lossless upload, would I please be able to have the link :)


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Ouh, wanty!

Ouh, wanty!


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thanks for the link erich

Thank you! by chance have the Amazon Bootleg [1984] by Basil Poledouris?

Hi erich,the link is dead,could you send me the new link? many thanks

Please send me a link for this, awesome, thanks in advance!

Could you send me a Link ?

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A link would be cool (if still convenient). Thx, eg!!

Can you send me the link, please? Thanks you very much in advanced!

Thanks!

Could you send me the link, please? Thanks you very much in advanced!