Part of the soundtrack to the eponymously named film, which is a remake of the classic Henri-Georges Clouzot movie ‘Le Salaire de la Peur’ or ‘The Wages Of Fear’. The film tells the story of the deadly transportation of nitro glycerine across rough, rural terrain. The Friedkin version was also very well received and Tangerine Dream’s soundtrack equally so. And it took me a long time to come around to this. When it was released it was often advertised on full back page spreads of the music press in the summer of 1977, the precise time when I started buying the papers to keep up with what was happening. This piece is particularly evocative. A piece of creepy synth work whish may not have enjoyed the same commercial success as what Jean-Michelle Jarre was having, but is just as influential and vital.
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