Graeme Revell was born in New Zealand in 1955. He graduated from The University of Auckland with degrees in economics and politics. He is a classically trained pianist and French horn player. Revell worked for as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Graeme Revell was a member of SPK, a 1970's music group, for which he played keyboards and percussion. Their single "In Flagrante Delicto" was the basis for his score for the film Dead Calm. This was his first score and won him an Australian Film Industry award. Since then he's done a number of film soundtracks including Ghost in the MachineThe Crow, The Crow: City of Angels, The Craft, The Saint, Street FighterDaredevil, Chinese Box, The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl, and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... The horn is a brass instrument consisting of tubing wrapped into a coiled form. ... SPK, formed in 1978 in Germany, but later based in Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music act once featuring Graeme Revell who later went on to compose soundtracks for film and television, most notably, the incidental music for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Percussion instruments are music instruments played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped, hence the percussive name. ... Dead Calm is a 1989 thriller film starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane. ... Ghost in the Machine (a. ... The Crow is a comic book series created by James OBarr. ... The Crow: City of Angels is the 1996 sequel to cult movie and comic The Crow by James OBarr. ... The Craft can refer to several things: The Craft is the ancient and traditional name of Freemasonry. ... The Saint refers to the fictional character created by Leslie Charteris in one of the following contexts: Simon Templar, the character also known as The Saint (main article on this topic) The Saint (TV series), a TV series that ran from 1962 to 1969, starring Roger Moore as Simon Templar. ... Street Fighter is a 1994 action movie based on the hugely popular fighting game Street Fighter II by Capcom. ... Daredevil is a 2003 movie directed by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the screenplay. ... Chinese Box is a 1997 movie directed by Wayne Wang and starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li, Maggie Cheung and Michael Hui. ... The Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl is a 2005 film, directed by Robert RodrÃguez. ... Categories: Movie stubs | Action films | Adventure films | 2001 films | Films based on video games ...
GraemeRevell fans have gotten their wishes, once again, as Sci-Fi label extraordinaire, GNP Crescendo Records, comes to the rescue.
With Toto's heavy electronic influence in the 1984 score, the selection of GraemeRevell as the composer for this new millennial rendition of the story, and the fact that this is a made-for-tv-event (granted a six hour, $20 million, tv-event) it seems reasonable to have expected another strong electronic score.
As Revell depicts the middle portion of the saga, where the downtrodden, Fremen are developed, his music becomes a bit more aggressive and leads the listener to the climactic Part 3.
Revell was given only ten days to score and record Tomb Raider (though some reports place that number at 12, but in either case, it was an insanely short amount of time for any project with an orchestra).
Revell shouldn't be apologizing as much because the music is intolerably bad, but rather because it is simply as non-descript as ten days of composing would entail.
Revell has been known to take underdeveloped ideas from previous scores which did not receive the best of treatment, and incorporate them into his larger and better scores at a later date.
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