The music was great, the film a flop – this is how Francis Ford Coppola’s musical film “One from the Heart” and the accompanying soundtrack were received by the audience in 1982. In the choice of the technical means, the use of color, the montage and the set design, Coppola’s love film was far ahead of its time, but the result seemed too artificial and the story too banal, so that the film fell through with the audience.
Only the background music from the pen of Tom Waits was able to convince: While the film flopped at the box office and turned out to be a disastrous commercial failure for the director, the film music was nominated for an Oscar. But the collaboration with Coppola also turned out to be a stroke of luck for Waits in other respects: During his work on the soundtrack for “One from the Heart” he met and fell in love with Kathleen Brennan, who worked as a script assistant for the director. The two married in August 1980 and have been partners in artistic matters ever since.
The score for “One from the Heart” itself was Waits’ first commissioned work. Directly entrusted with this task by Coppola, he wrote the music and played the soundtrack together with country singer Crystal Gale, supported by some West Coast jazz veterans. Arranged for a small jazz combo, a big band or symphonic for an entire orchestra, the compositions, which are extraordinarily pleasing by Waits ‘standards, range between jazz, lounge pop and downbeat blues. But the sad, beautiful songs have the emotional depth to sound out the emotional world of a breaking love and especially the four duets by Waits and Gayle unfold their own magic.
Re-mastered from the original tapes by Krieg Wunderlich and Rob LoVerde for Mobile Fidelity and pressed by RTI, “One from the Heart” will be released as a 180g vinyl LP in a limited edition with a consecutive serial number.
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