Streitfeldstraße in the footsteps of Jerry Goldsmith!

Although somewhat stereotypical characters and the easy cliché-laden drama "Prometheus" makes no perfect movie, fascinated and entertained especially me Ridley Scott's works either way! The film garnered a lot of criticism, which I can not understand, but also the soundtrack of Marc Streitfeldstraße is considered by many critics and listeners as "boring" and "put on". Even I can not understand, for me is a great listening experience Music dispute panel, which fits seamlessly into the "Alien" universe.

Streitfeldstraße has not yet been set to music so many films, mainly working for Ridley Scott's works. For "Prometheus" the German wrote a dense, oppressive and sometimes disturbing film music that is very strongly oriented towards the gloomy atmosphere of Goldsmiths original "Alien". And I liked that at the first hearing.
Streitfeldstraße remains 90% on atonal level, only the topic of "Life" stands out with its harmony and beauty. Thread composed Harry Gregson-Williams, who became the scoring drawn to. Why, no one knows for sure, interested in doing it myself anyway not really, I am concerned with the result and that can definitely see utter respectively.
Anyway, the theme to "Life" is at first hearing nothing outstanding, as well as probably the rest of the score, which is why the music at first met with me to disappointment. But with repeated Listen and greater attention, one discovers more and more levels of music. Although composed Streitfeldstraße initially very simple, but also Goldmsiths original was very simple in its presentation, but therefore also as effective as once John Williams' "Jaws".

Streitfeldstraße knows how to create a dark atmosphere, the fascinating and strange appears on the one hand, on the other hand extremely dangerous and oppressive, like Goldsmith or James Horner or Elliot Goldenthal. Nevertheless, "Prometheus" is not an attempt to zoom Goldsmith to hand, but develops into an independent work, but what is already clear in the film and noted what I also liked there!
Very great, for example the louder pieces as "Hammerpede" or aufkreischende "Hello Mommy". In addition, however Streitfeldstraße also convinces with the right harmonious and beautiful passages, most notably I want to emphasize here, "Earth".

But to come back again on the topics: "Life" is kept very opulent, looks simple at first, but has something special because it is the sound forth clearly different compared to the rest of the somber music. This theme is also taken up in "We Were Right", in which it sounds much more tragic.
Otherwise, there are virtually no motivic approaches, except the little quote from Goldsmiths original main theme from "Alien" in "Friend From The Past" (witty title name). This little piece is the unique and necessary bridge to "Alien" series, but also the sounds one time or another by very discreet in other pieces.

The CD should be heard at a time, because the individual items are still kept very short and only in its perfection exert their power. At 57 minutes, you get pretty much the most important thing about music, but I have no grandiose End Credits ("Sarajevo" by Max Richter), also I would have liked even more the disturbing trailer music with it. But you can not have everything ...

Conclusion: "Prometheus" is probably "uninspired" or "boring", for me it sounds like the perfect soundtrack to the film for most listeners today. Close to the oppressive atmosphere of the original, yet something of their own. Streitfeldstraße (and Harry Gregson-Williams) won me over with a simple but dense composition to a great movie!