完美原声专辑寄语

Robotech Perfect Soundtrack Album

作曲家乌皮欧·米努奇(Ulpio Minucci)同阿隆·欧伯(Arlon Ober)对专辑的寄语
译: kiki

为太空堡垒谱写音乐, 并不需要莫扎特的天才. 但是同莫扎特和其他人一样, 我们希望我们所写的能够与主题密切相关, 不论是在地球还是在宇宙. 我希望我为明美和她的伙伴们工作的尽职尽责.

- 乌皮欧·米努奇 作曲/制作人


一年前, 汤姆·贝特曼为FilmScore月刊的一片关于太空堡垒音乐的文章采访我. 在我们的讨论中, 谈到了1995年是太空堡垒的10周年纪念, 而且仍然有很多人对此很有兴趣. 这张双CD的原声专辑基本上代表了为85集半小时长的太空堡垒电视连续剧全部的音乐. 在太空堡垒播映以来的10年中, 很多音乐的元素, 包括曲谱, 已经丢失或者找不到了. 光是搜寻原始材料就花费了好几个月. 应该归功于汤姆·贝特曼和丹尼斯·贝特曼, 他们定位和恢复了剩下的原始磁带. 有一些原始磁带已经解体, 需要恢复, 如果不是这个项目, 这些资料就将永远的失去了. 非常感谢那些帮助制作音乐专辑的人们, 包括乌皮欧·米努奇, 是他将我带入了太空堡垒的工作; 金合声的弗兰克和吉吉·阿格玛; 卡尔·梅塞克, 他将太空堡垒从几部日本作品中设计出来, 是整个项目背后的驱动源; 托玛斯·A·怀特(音乐监督制作), 监管音乐制作的方方面面; 彼得·凯尔塞(录音工程师, 混音); 布拉德·迪切特和弗兰克·贝内特(编曲/转谱) ; 约翰·莫塔罗迪(音乐剪辑), 他的才能将音乐材料剪辑到片中使用, 流畅而没有缝隙; 还有很多未具名的音乐家, 他们的技巧和努力由于这张唱片而将被人们聆听, 欣赏直到下一个千年. 当然, 我也感谢你们, 众多的爱好者们, 一直保持太空堡垒的精神, 即使是到这么多年之后.

- 阿隆·欧伯 作曲/管弦配乐



附原文:

Composing music for subjects such as ROBOTECH does not require the genius of Mozart. But like Mozart and others, we hope that what we write is pertinent to the given subject, be it terrestrial or astral. I hope I did my part for Minmei and company!

Ulpio Minucci Composer/Producer


A year ago, Tom Bateman interviewed me for an article on the music of ROBOTECH for FilmScore Monthly. During our discussion, it came up that 1995 would be the 10th anniversary of the show and that there was still a great deal of continued interest in it. This double CD soundtrack album represents virtually all of the music created for the 85 half-hour episodes of the ROBOTECH TV series. In the ten years since the show first aired, many elements of the music - including the actual score - had been lost or misplaced. Just finding the materials took months of sleuthing. Much credit must be given to Tom and Dennis Bateman for locating and saving the remaining original tapes. Several of the original tapes were disintegrating and needed to be restored and would have been lost forever if not for this soundtrack project. Thanks are also long overdue to all those who helped to create the original soundtracks including: Ulpio Minucci, who first brought me in to work on ROBOTECH. Frank and Gigi Agrama of Harmony Gold; Carl Macek, who conceived ROBOTECH from the various Japanese elements and was the driving force behind the project. Thomas A. White (Music Supervising Producer), who oversaw all aspects of the music production; Peter Kelsey (Recording Engineer, Mixer); Brad Dechter and Frank Bennett (Arrangers, Copyists); John Mortarotti (Music Editor), whose considerable skills contributed to the tasteful and seamless usage of the score materials within the show; and not least to the many un-named musicians whose skills and efforts will continue to be heard, enjoyed and admired into the next millennium thanks to this CD compilation. And of course, my thanks to you -the many fans, for keeping the spirit of ROBOTECH alive and well after these many years.

Arlon Ober Composer/Orchestrator