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- Artist(s): Steve Shill
- Summary: The soundtrack for the 1970s European children's TV series made in 1982 by Graeme Miller and Steve Shill is finally released.
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- Record Label: Finders Keepers
- Genre(s): Soundtracks, Stage & Screen, TV Soundtracks, TV Music
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Mar 28, 2017The leitmotifs of The Moomins Theme and Woodland Band will give anyone who saw the series as a child a Proustian rush, but amazingly, it’s the first time this remarkable soundtrack has been issued.
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Mar 28, 2017Growing up watching this, it’s no wonder we all ended up in dark rooms marching to repetitive beats.
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The WireJun 2, 2017The pair’s soundtrack is trippy and foreboding, swaying between melancholy cosmic laments on slo-mo keyboards (“Leaving Moomin Valley”), mysterious Middle Eastern whines (“Hobgoblin’s Hat”), extraterrestrial dream sequences on thumb piano and wooden glockenspiel (“Most Unusual”) and a giddy blast of what sounds like computerised rodents squeaking with speeded-up glee (“Party Time”). [Mar 2017, p.65]
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Mar 28, 2017Although micro-melody whimsy is at its heart, there’s a Tangs/Radiophonic Workshop slant that gives tracks such as Midwinter Rites a spooky Kill List/Children Of The Stones edge.
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MojoMar 28, 2017Woodwind, thumb piano, ocarina and analogue synths uncannily evokes the funny, sad fairytale world of Sniff, Toft, Moominpappa and gang. [Apr 2017, p.93]