THREE-TIME GRAMMY®-WINNING COMPOSER MARK MANCINA
MAKES SCORE SOAR
BRAD PAISLEY PERFORMS TWO ORIGINAL SONGS
"Award-winning composer Mark Mancina, who won a Grammy® for
Best Soundtrack Album (with Phil Collins) for his work on Disney’s 1999 feature
“Tarzan,” produced and composed the score for “Planes: Fire &
Rescue.” The Planes: Fire & Rescue original motion picture
soundtrack takes off July 15.
Composer
Mark Mancina returned to the runway to create the score for “Planes: Fire &
Rescue.” As composer for “Disney’s Planes,” Mancina was able to take themes
established in the first film and update them to reflect the unique and heroic
nature of “Planes: Fire & Rescue.” “Dusty’s more grown-up so the music
wanted to be a little more grown-up—a little bit richer. There’s an arc to his
life and the music needed to follow that arc.”
Mancina
opted for a more orchestral sound in the new score. “It comes from an earthy
direction, so there’s a lot of orchestral percussion, French horn, strings and
woodwinds,” he says. “There is added texture from other types of instruments,
but the heart of the score is an orchestra.”
The
melodic score was recorded with a 90-piece orchestra. For Dusty’s training
montage, filmmakers agreed it called for a bold acoustic piano that would stand
out from the orchestra. Says Mancina, “We were lucky enough to have Bruce
Hornsby play piano on the score, which brought a completely different color and
a much more mature feel to the score.”
Hornsby,
a multiple Grammy®-winning artist, also played a special cue that can be heard
near the end of the film, supporting the serious and emotional tone filmmakers
sought.
Brad
Paisley performs two new songs for the film, including “Runway Romance,” which
was written by director Bobs Gannaway and Danny Jacob, and “All In,” a song
Paisley signed on to write and perform after hearing of the film’s firefighting
themes. “My father’s a firefighter,” says Paisley. “He was my whole life. And
my brother-in-law and several family members are firefighters. I was really
honored to pay tribute to them. I sat down after seeing a rough cut of the
movie and it came to me very quickly.
“My
dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was walking distance
from our house,” continues Paisley. “I spent several days of each week there
with him—any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch
him lead that way. It’s a strange and wonderful mentality that these people
have. They get so excited about that opportunity to help. My favorite line in
the song is, ‘Where there’s smoke and flames, and everybody needs out, I’m all
in.’”
Paisley
also lends his voice in a cameo appearance as a pickup truck in Honkers Sports
Bar.
Newcomer/singer/songwriter
Spencer Lee performs “Still I Fly,” a song he co-composed with his writing
partners Windy Wagner and Michael “Smidi” Smith. “Still I Fly” can be heard
when Dusty, after discovering that he may never race again, leaves Propwash
Junction en route to Piston Peak to train as an aerial firefighter.
Planes:
Fire & Rescue
track list follows:
1. Still I Fly* Performed by Spencer Lee
2. Runway Romance** Performed by Brad Paisley
3. All In** Performed by Brad Paisley
4. Planes: Fire & Rescue - Main Title Score
5. Propwash Score
6. Out of
Production Score
7. Dusty Crash
Lands Score
8. Fire! Score
9. An All New Mayday Score
10. Sad Mayday Score
11. Pontoons Score
12. A Special Kind
of Plane Score
13. Training Dusty Score
14. We Got the Gear
Box Score
15. Cad Score
16. Blazin’ Blade
Mystery Score
17. Mystery of
Blaze-Lightning Score
18. Lightning Storm
Fire Score
19. (It's) Hip to Be
Cad Score
20. Harvey &
Winnie Score
21. Cheers Score
22. Nobody Has
Your Gear Box Score
23. Fire by
the Lodge Score
24. Behind
Enemy Lines Score
25. Evacuation Score
26. Blade Is
Down Score
27. Loopin’
Lopez Score
28. Tourist
Trapped Score
29. Fire
Heroes Score
30. Rescue
Harvey & Winnie Score
31. Dusty Saves the
Day Score
32. Saving Dusty Score
33. You Had Us Worried Score
The
Planes: Fire & Rescue soundtrack is available for pre-order at both
iTunes and Amazon.com and will be available nationwide tomorrow, July 15.
For more
information on Walt Disney Records’ releases, please visit Disney.com/music,
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THE MOVIE:
“Planes:
Fire & Rescue” is a new adventure-comedy about second chances, featuring a
dynamic crew of elite firefighting aircraft devoted to protecting historic
Piston Peak National Park from raging wildfire. When world famous air
racer Dusty (voice of Dane Cook) learns that his engine is damaged and he may
never race again, he must shift gears and is launched into the world of aerial
firefighting. Dusty joins forces with veteran fire-and-rescue helicopter
Blade Ranger (voice of Ed Harris) and his courageous team, including spirited
air tanker Dipper (voice of Julie Bowen), heavy-lift helicopter Windlifter
(voice of Wes Studi), ex-military transport Cabbie (voice of Captain Dale Dye)
and a lively bunch of brave all-terrain vehicles known as The Smokejumpers.
Together, the fearless team battles a massive wildfire and Dusty learns what it
takes to become a true hero. Directed by Bobs Gannaway (“Secret of the Wings”)
and produced by Ferrell Barron (“The Fox and the Hound 2”), “Planes: Fire &
Rescue” hits theaters in 3D on July 18, 2014. For more information, visit www.Disney.com/Planes, like us on Facebook
www.facebook.com/DisneyPlanes,
and follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/DisneyPictures."
--GIVEAWAY--
To celebrate the release of the new Planes Fire and Rescue soundtrack, Walt Disney Records is offering two prize packages for me to give away to two (2) lucky readers. One winner will be chosen for the grand prize, and another reader will win the second prize pack.
The grand prize package will include:
1) The Planes Fire and Rescue soundtrack
2) A Planes backpack
3) Dusty's Big Job book
4) Turbo Dusty toy plane
The Second Place prize will include:
1) Planes Fire and Rescue CD
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