I�m changing my tune: I now offer mp3! :D

Thanks to scorepranos I�m now able to offer this. And, just like with 'Avatar' (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/avatar-deluxe-edition-james-horner-2-cd-176419/#post2712292) I never thought about doing a Deluxe Edition for 'The Ghost and the Darkness'. I didn�t like the movie, I didn�t like the score. For a long time I regarded it as one of Jerry's failures... certain parts of the music feel so completely out of place that I couldn�t help thinking if he composed it for another movie. There certainly is a strong connection to 'Star Trek', judging by quotes of 'ST:TMP' and 'First Contact' (thinking of the Borg-synth). I also thought that the sampled choir sounds tacky and therefore ineffective. But each to his own. Furthermore, it will come out officially in expanded form by Intrada soon, there have been lots of rumours regarding this over the years. Apparently, Intrada has been impeded by rights issues. Let�s hope, they sort them out... I guess they will manage to do so, why else would this score have been allowed to be shared? Only if it cannot be used for trading anymore which only happens when it�ll be succeeded by an official version. All of this makes my Deluxe Edition fairly pointless.

Still, it�s a Goldsmith and maybe, just like other scores composed by him, 'The Ghost and the Darkness' too would profit from being complete. So I decided to improve the expanded version. There was a lot to be repaired; some tracks were surprisingly noisy, the gain was all wrong, some tracks feature loads of reverb while others lack it. Other tracks contain long pauses inbetween musical pieces... in short: the expanded version wasn�t enjoyable.

I got rid of the noise, balanced out the gain, erased the pauses and combined several tracks into longer suites. As you know, my goal always is a coherent listening experience. To achieve that, I erased some parts. For example, Track 11 from the expanded version started with 'Strong Wind' which was nothing else than the 'Opening Titles' tacked to the beginning. Ergo: gone it is, redundancy isn�t my style. For 'The Hunt Is On' I used what on the expanded version was called the alternate, it just felt better to me. The version used in the movie now is the alternate instead, note the awful crossfade the moment the sample choir comes in... must be tracked from somewhere else. Talking about crossfades: the horrible one in 'Welcome To Africa & The Bridge' at 1:51 isn�t by me. My approach at coherency caused me to compress dynamics, soft parts are louder now and audible. I also changed the stage slightly and EQ'd it differently.

Why am I offering mp3s now? For one, people will do it anyway and by offering them myself, I can control their quality. People don�t care about sound so they don�t make sure to use the best encoding settings. I however do and I hope that all will profit from it (I actually researched how to create the best mp3... which had the (unintended) effect that I now know several things I didn�t know before).

Because of that, there are some distinct differences between the FLAC/mp3 versions:

FLAC: 3 dB louder, brickwall limited, some would call it an example of the 'Loudness War' - to my ears, it still sounds very well regarding how awful the expanded version sounds
MP3: directly derived from my 24/96 HiRes files - if you know how, you�re able to extract a 24/48 version (I didn�t know that mp3 is capable of HiRes). Burning to CD isn�t possible without a resampler, the mp3 version is at 48 kHz which will work well with any portable player or smartphone but won�t work with CDs. If you plan on archiving it to CD, take the FLAC version.

Have fun! :)

AND NOW A WARNING:

Once the links expire, I won�t upload it again, someone else has to do that (maybe by creating mirrors?)

Tracklist:

1. Overture 2:12
2. Opening Titles 1:04
3. Goodbye 2:02
4. Welcome To Africa & The Bridge 3:07
5. Killing A Lion & Bridge Building Montage 4:00
6. The Ghost & The Nightmare 1:48
7. Building A Fence 0:54
8. Letters & The Darkness 5:52
9. Beaumont�s Arrival 2:34
10. The Contraption 1:19
11. A New Hospital & The Hunt Is On 4:34
12. Face To Face 2:05
13. The Trap 4:30
14. Feeding Time! 5:18
15. Into The Cave 4:45
16. Darkness Illuminated & Another Nightmare 3:54
17. Remington�s Funeral 2:29
18. Killing The Ghost 2:48
19. Reunited 3:11
20. Tsavo (Suite from `The Ghost And The Darkness�) 4:57
21. The Hunt Is On (Alternate) 3:16


FLAC:

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/15JZGQIB/TsavoManeaters.part1.rar_links
http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/WXNSWTTK/TsavoManeaters.part2.rar_links

MP3:

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/ZGQCGRJB/TsavoManeatersLR.rar_links

Pass:

Uganda-Mombasa-1996

scorepranos

Wow, thank you so much for this. Can't wait to listen to your efforts.

Thank you, Sonic!

Thank you!!

Oh man, its fantastic to hear from you again and you�ve choosen the right one to make your special version of it! THANK YOU!

Thanks a lot!

Thank you for your effort. We all greatly appreciate it.

Very nice, thanks very much.

Hey SonicAdventure! I, among many others, greatly appreciate you hosting this score up here for us! I seem to be having trouble with the encryption password on the MP3 download. Has anyone else voiced this concern to you? Any ideas?

Could you possibly post a link for that Deluxe Edition cover here? Looks GREAT! :D

Hey SonicAdventure! I, among many others, greatly appreciate you hosting this score up here for us! I seem to be having trouble with the encryption password on the MP3 download. Has anyone else voiced this concern to you? Any ideas?

I�ve downloaded it too... and it unpacks without errors. Which program do you use for unpacking?

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Could you possibly post a link for that Deluxe Edition cover here? Looks GREAT! :D

You mean the front?

imgur: the simple image sharer (http://imgur.com/Ju1u6N7)
imgur: the simple image sharer (http://imgur.com/5aQknXh)

thanks sonic

Yes Sonic, thanks!! Those are the best GatD covers I've seen

Many thanks for posting this, Sonic!

:D Can't rep you again, but Ghostly man eating rep for you. I have never seen the movie nor have I heard the score. I know sessions were posted, but I have limited room. But you.....your stuff is worth the space. Perhaps I shall enjoy it now...:awsm:

:D Can't rep you again, but Ghostly man eating rep for you. I have never seen the movie nor have I heard the score. I know sessions were posted, but I have limited room. But you.....your stuff is worth the space. Perhaps I shall enjoy it now...:awsm:

Well, the music is like 'Avatar'. But not in space, this time it�s actually in Africa :awsm:

Thanks so much, as always! Can't wait to give this a listen.

Thank you share!

Great work. Looking forward to it. :)

Love this score - Thank-you !

Thanks, Sonic!

Thanks Sonic. :)

WOW...thanks!

Thanks again!!

Thanks!

Thanks :)

thank you sonic :)

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Thanks!

Thank you :-)

Thank you!! I didn't even new that there was an expanded score of this one!

THANK you for sharing a memorable score!

Much appreciated!

Thanks again for your fine work, Sonic !

Many thanks for your fine work on this and all the Goldsmith expansions in particular!

Thanks, Sonic! Man this recent trove of riches is embarrassing! :)

Thank you for your work!!

Thank you Sonic! Unlike you, I really enjoy this score and I hope what you say about Intrada is true, I'd love an official release. Yours will do great until then, I always love you work!

Thanks a lot

Thanks a bunch Sonic! This may not be Jerry's greatest achievement, but it does have a great theme and compared to most of the crap being written today, any Goldsmith (even a more minor title) comes off as a masterpiece, like Deep Rising for example, which I'm enjoying a lot more now that it got re-released than when I bought it originally in 1998. :)

I�ve downloaded it too... and it unpacks without errors. Which program do you use for unpacking?

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I use StuffIt on my MacBook.

I use StuffIt on my MacBook.

That might be the problem. Are there other unpackers for MacOS? Because you�re not the first on a Mac to report a problem when unpacking.

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Thanks a bunch Sonic! This may not be Jerry's greatest achievement, but it does have a great theme and compared to most of the crap being written today, any Goldsmith (even a more minor title) comes off as a masterpiece, like Deep Rising for example, which I'm enjoying a lot more now that it got re-released than when I bought it originally in 1998. :)

Same here. But it�s also because Jerry sometimes made odd choices when it came to assembling the album cut and left off the better or more interesting pieces. Though I hope that 'The Ghost and the Darkness' will be re-released in expanded official form too. And I hope that they will remix it (perhaps they even ask Bruce Botnick) - because it would profit extremely from a new and consistent mix.

Many, Many Thanks for this, Sonic!

Thanks Sonic!

Thanks for your work on this project and for sharing it.

Thanks, SonicAdventure!

I'm on a Mac. No problems for me decompressing the files.

Re: unpacking apps, I have been binging on your delicious deluxe editions lately and I did have problems with Perfect Storm and Desolation of Smaug; 7z and The Unarchiver both ran into errors with the tracks that were split across the archive files (e.g. "Inside Information" on Smaug, "To the Flemish Cap" on PF). I was able to unpack everything finally with Unrarx on my Mac-- however I did have to rename the second archive file. For some reason the second archive file was not named what Unrarx was expecting, so I copied the file name from the unrar error message ("unable to locate [filename].rar") and renamed the second archive accordingly. Then it worked. This tactic did not work with 7z or The Unarchiver.

Thank you.

Sonic, I'd just like to say that I now download your edits on principle, even if, in some cases, I haven't seen the movie. They're that good. This may not be your favourite score, but it's as close as anyone has come to actually polishing a turd.

Also, thank you for your amazing work on 'Signs', one of my favourite scores ever.

.

Thank you.
NOw, no excuses to watch the film.

BTW, you are now able to vote for a score I then shall turn into a Deluxe Edition. Do it here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/f2/%5Bpoll%5D-ask-sonicadventure-deluxe-edition-your-favorite-179037/#post2758074

good one, thanks for the share! ;)

Thank you for this!

Can anyone reup please?
Thanks

solid files Flac links still work.

ty :)

Thanks for the heads up, no idea why I didn't try the flac links

thanks!! :)

Anyone got a FLAC reupload? Thanks :)

Rumors are looking pretty good that "The Ghost and the Darkness" will be one of the 4/28 titles from Intrada, going to be a 2CD set! Can't wait! Love Sonic's work but, I'm always excited when things get official releases!

Wow, thank you so much for this. Can't wait to listen to your efforts. http://financehotela.com/yellow/images/59.gifhttp://financehotela.com/yellow/images/30.gif

i can't believe I missed this one. Can anyone re-up this in flac? All the links are dead, even the mp3 ones... I tired them all. Much appreciated :-)

Rumors are looking pretty good that "The Ghost and the Darkness" will be one of the 4/28 titles from Intrada, going to be a 2CD set! Can't wait! Love Sonic's work but, I'm always excited when things get official releases!

Yep. It's in the Intrada Store.

Yep. It's in the Intrada Store.
Indeed.
GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, THE - Original Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith (http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/ghanddaorsob.html)

Indeed.
GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, THE - Original Soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith (http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/ghanddaorsob.html)

Shame the Euro is so bad against the dollar.... would buy it in a heartbeat....15euro for delivery.... gonna have to pass ;(

Shame the Euro is so bad against the dollar.... would buy it in a heartbeat....15euro for delivery.... gonna have to pass ;(

Tarantula already offers it (though one would probably have to wait a month until it arrives): Tarantula Records - Soundtracks und mehr (http://www.tarantula-records.com/shop/artikeldetails.php?z=1&kat=NEUHEITEN%2C%20DEMN%C3%84CHST%20%C2%B7%20NEW%2 0RELEASES%2C%20COMING%20SOON%2C%20BACK%20IN%20STOC K~%C2%B7%20ARTIKEL%20%2F%20ITEM&bez=GOLDSMITH%2C+JERRY%3Cbr%3EGHOST+AND+THE+DARKNE SS++%282+CD-SET+%21%21%29%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3ELimited+Edition)

And then there�s always Chris' Soundtrackcorner (http://soundtrackcorner.de/) which - just as Tarantual - delivers to the whole of Europe :)

BTW, it looks as if my version is now superseded - thank God!

Please, someone!
I've been waiting for that score for years!!!
Can't wait to hear this incredible Intrada's album.
GOD BLESS THAT NOBLE MAN WHO WILL UPLOAD TG&TD FROM INTRADA!!!