Intense Records

Walkabout Soundtrack

The Roundtable
PM001LP
Record Store Day, Soundtracks
12"

£28.33 (£33.99 incl. VAT)

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The premiere soundtrack release to Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 New Wave Masterpiece. Lost hallucinogenic score from acclaimed film composer John Barry. 12-track LP sourced from the original stereo master tapes. 180g vinyl and deluxe packaging including archival film stills and original press material. A lost paradise, a lost innocence, and a lost culture; these are the dominant themes presented in Nicolas Roeg’s 1971 masterpiece Walkabout, a survival story of two children lost in the scorched Australian wilderness. Together with other seminal Australian surrealistic outback films, (e.g. Wake In Fright) Walkabout was a film that reshaped the Australian film industry and defined the country’s New Wave. On the cusp of the film’s 45t h anniversary it is pertinent to observe that for decades the film’s original soundtrack has also been considered lost. Composed and conducted by the acclaimed British film composer John Barry, the score is a hallucinogenic mix of exotic romanticism, children’s nursery rhyme and potent psychedelic experimentation. For decades, the consensus among soundtrack circles was that the master tapes were officially missing with little chance that the music would ever see a legitimate release, but The Roundtable is pleased to announce that this is no longer the case. The complete soundtrack to one of cinema history’s most visually spellbinding films has now finally been re-discovered, sourced from the original stereo master tapes and prepared to the guidelines of the original ill-fated 1970s LP release. The Walkabout soundtrack is released in conjunction with the lost film music to Peter Weir’s 1977 existential eco-horror The Last Wave, composed by Charles Wain. Track Listing A1. Walkabout A2. The Children A3. Stranded A4. Survival Test A5. Electronic Dance A6. The Journey B1. The Three Of Us B2. Together At Sunset B3. Los Angeles B4. Night In The Outback B5. Professional Crumble B6. Back To Nature