Having just listened to the whole of the Trunk Records Wickerman soundtrack complete with aeroplanes motorboats and seagulls l must say that this recording is brilliant. Whoever put it together has captured the essence in sound of what the film is all about.I also own the Later CD of the soundtrack which is undeniably a better 'recording' but lacks the feel and atmosphere of the Trunk Records version.As I was cooking whilst listeneing I consigned the chard to the the boiling water at the penulitmate track. My meal had become a journey alongside that poor misguided Christian Copper who was never going to get back on that boat.

This was, I believe, the first release of the wonderful soundtrack to this cult film - a film which it's own director described as being something of a "folk-horror musical." Unfortunately, in my opinion, this was a disappointing release because they clearly had no access to the original master recordings - so what's on this disc is literally just taken from the film's final mix, complete with sound effects and dialog. In other words, it's nothing you couldn't do yourself by sampling the film and burning the result to CD.Happily, there have been better releases since this one, which - with a few exceptions, like "Willow's Song" for which the multi-tracks sadly could not be found - have been taken direct from the original masters, offering beautifully clean recordings of the music with much better sound quality than you'll find here. The Silva Screen release (cat. FILMCD330) gets my nod as it also includes all of the little incidental musical "stings" in addition to the score and songs.