Ry Cooder – Paris Texas
Two more releases from the
Acoustic Sounds 40th Anniversary Series
Cooder’s soul-stirring soundtrack to the 1985 film
Part of the Acoustic Sounds 40 Series
Releasing 40 titles to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Acoustic Sounds
180-gram 45 RPM double LP
Mastered from the original master tape
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings
Tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jacket by Stoughton Printing
Released in 1985, the Paris, Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder blends slide guitar and minimalist music to reflect the film’s emotional depth.
The iconic track “Paris, Texas” helped the album earn critical acclaim, including a BAFTA for Best Film Music. Cooder’s score perfectly captured the film’s themes of isolation and redemption.
It’s been more than four decades since the film was awarded the 1984 Palme d’Or at its acclaimed Cannes Film Festival debut.
The film’s mystifying personae and desolate neo-western vistas have lost none of their original intrigue, thanks in large part to Ry Cooder’s iconic soundtrack — a defining showpiece by a slide guitar savant.
Recorded over three days, his music plays a pivotal mood-setting role, providing a plangent underpinning for German director Wim Wenders’ postcard renderings of Americana.
Track List: Ry Cooder – Paris, Texas
LP 1 Side A
1. Paris, Texas
2. Brothers
3. Nothing Out There
LP 1 Side B
1. Cancion Mixteca
2. No Safety Zone
3. Houston In Two Seconds
LP 2 Side A
1. She’s Leaving The Bank
2. On The Couch
LP 2 Side B
1. I Knew These People
2. Dark Was The Night
Brand
Acoustic Sounds
Headquartered in Salina, Kansas, Acoustic Sounds, Inc. is the world leader in audiophile music. Owned by CEO Chad Kassem, who founded the company in 1986, Acoustic Sounds is a global leader of the largest selection of highest-quality music in a variety of formats. Along with LPs, SACDs, reel-to-reel tape and other forms of high-quality audio recordings, all designed to exceed the expectations of audiophiles.
The company owns its own record pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings, and its own vinyl reissue label (Analogue Productions), an original production label (APO Records), its own print shop (Acoustic Sounds Printing), its own recording studio (Blue Heaven Studios), and its own LP mastering business (The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios).
Analogue Productions
Analogue Productions
It was in 1992 that Acoustic Sounds owner Chad Kassem reissued his first Analogue Productions title, Virgil Thompson's The Plow That Broke The Plains, originally on Vanguard.
Analogue Productions began as a vehicle for Kassem to license his favorite all-time recordings and reissue them as remastered and as a superior version to the original release.
Since its inception AP has reissued hundreds of titles, ranging from classical to folk, pop, rock, blues and jazz.
Included in the many highlights of Analogue Productions' history are the Fantasy 45 Jazz Reissues, the Blue Note Reissues, and premium box sets of the music of such legendary acts as The Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nat "King" Cole and Norah Jones.
True to its name, Analogue Productions works with the original analogue master tapes - more than any other reissue label! The result is superior sound - richer, warmer and more lifelike, than digital.
