The People Under the Stairs
This 1991 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was composed and conducted for Wes Craven’s by Don Peake (46 minutes, 38Q’s).
This soundtrack was originally released in 1991 on Bay City, but much of composer Don Peake’s score was missing. This package includes all and only Don’s original score.
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1. Main Title (original audition)
2. Quarter Tone (original audition)
3. Chase (original audition)
4. 6M2
5. 3M4/4M1
6. 8M3
7. 8M4
8. 3M2 (with pause)
9. 3M3
10. 8M5
11. Terminator 4M2
12. Dog 5M2
13. Slide 2M5
14. Main Title (low voices) 1M1
15. 1M2
16. 7M1
17. 7M2
18. 7M3
19. 7M4
20. 8M1
21. Mom 1M4
22. 1M5
23. 10M1 (with pause)
24. 9M1
25. 9M2
26. 9M3
27. 9M3 (low)
This film score was commissioned by my friend Wes Craven in 1991. Wes called me and said that he was mixing the film at Universal, and that he needed me to come in right away. He showed me the film and said that he wanted the music to be exciting and to have a lot of movement for the chases.
Included on this CD for the very first time are the actual musical sketches that I first submitted to Wes when we started the project.
Please enjoy this music.
Thank you,
Don Peake
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http://www.wescraven.com/blog/
The Hills Have Eyes
This is the original 1977 atmospheric motion picture soundtrack by composer Don Peake, complete with live session count-off’s. If you listen carefully one can hear precursor themes that led Don to score the famous Knight Rider TV series.
Over 35 Q’s (about 40 minutes running time).
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1. M2-2
2. M3-3
3. M5-1
4. MQ
5. M1-2
6. M1-3
7. M3-4
8. M3-4, 3-5, 3-6
9. Wild Synth – Wind and Bush
10. M2-6
11. M3-7
12. M4-1
13. M4-4
14. M5-2 Re
15. Oil Can Spout
16. M5-4
17. The Rabbit
18. MQ
19. M1-1
20. M2-1a
21. M2-2 Re
22. M2-5
23. M3-3 Re
24. M3-1
25. M3-8
26. M3-9
27. M4-2
In 1977 Wes Craven hired me to score a very dark horror film entitled “The Hills Have Eyes”. I was immediately struck with the brutality of the characters, and I decided to create a sparse, and disturbing score utilizing both acoustic instruments and a few experimental electronic instruments. I used “The Beam” a long aluminum channel (About 10 feet) strung with a single wire. The Player (Craig Huntley) would slide a piece of steel up the wire string creating a long Glissando.” I also had the prop master deliver the Bone necklaces that the actors wore in the movie to the scoring stage. I used these bones as shakers for the chase scenes. The percussionists each had a necklace to play. Mike Lang played the wild piano part for the interior search of the trailer. The strange viola sound came from an old recording viola with a horn attached played by Toni Marcus.
At that time I was studying Composition with Academy Award winner Paul Glass. I decided to use the Quarter Tone string technique pioneered by Kristov Penderecki, whom Paul had studied with.
We recorded all the music “Live” with absolutely no overdubs.
The tapes had been lost for many years. I just recently came upon them in my storage. I had my friend Ron Hitchcock “bake” the tapes for 10 hours, and then transfered them into the Pro Tools digital format.
This is the very first time that this music has been available to listen to. I was struck, as was Ron with the seeds of what ended up as my style of composition when I scored and orchestrated 77 Episodes of NBC’s Knight Rider Series.
Thank You Wes and Peter. Please enjoy this score.
Best Wishes
-Don Peake
March 2009
