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THE COVER STORY:
The Dirty Harry soundtracks have been on many people's wish-lists for many years and up until recently remained unreleased. Schifrin's wife Donna setup Aleph Records in 1997 to showcase the work of her composer, arranger and conductor husband, Lalo Schifrin. The Name "Aleph" derives from a Louis Borges short story of the same name, which symbolizes all points in the universe coming together in one space. Although the labels intention is to make available the work of Lalo Schifrin, an exception was made for composer Jerry Fielding so that the complete Dirty Harry scores could be released by the label (Schifrin wasn't available to score The Enforcer.)
Regular visitors will know that I previously designed a set of custom covers for this series which included a bootleg score for The Dead Pool (it hadn't had an official release at the time.) Now, with the eventual release of the score by Aleph, we have the "complete" Dirty Harry collection available for the first time ever!
This re-ignited my interest in revisiting those previous customs, which I had never been very happy with. I decided to go down the route of designing them as if I worked for the Aleph artwork department, trying to give them the type of covers I would like as a customer buying them. The finished products (featured below) will, I hope, be worthy of replacing the originals with. I've tried to be as respectful to Aleph as I can by keeping all logo's and release numbers, even recreating barcodes!
All information from the original booklets has been reproduced in full! There is also some additional text included to hopefully improve overall reading enjoyment. The original lacklustre images have been replaced with a collection of more dynamic and interesting pictures courtesy of the vast Ennioman archives, so a big thanks to him for helping out with those.
Regular visitors will know that I previously designed a set of custom covers for this series which included a bootleg score for The Dead Pool (it hadn't had an official release at the time.) Now, with the eventual release of the score by Aleph, we have the "complete" Dirty Harry collection available for the first time ever!
This re-ignited my interest in revisiting those previous customs, which I had never been very happy with. I decided to go down the route of designing them as if I worked for the Aleph artwork department, trying to give them the type of covers I would like as a customer buying them. The finished products (featured below) will, I hope, be worthy of replacing the originals with. I've tried to be as respectful to Aleph as I can by keeping all logo's and release numbers, even recreating barcodes!
All information from the original booklets has been reproduced in full! There is also some additional text included to hopefully improve overall reading enjoyment. The original lacklustre images have been replaced with a collection of more dynamic and interesting pictures courtesy of the vast Ennioman archives, so a big thanks to him for helping out with those.
THE DISC STORY:
The "Dirty Harry Definitive Collection" includes all six official releases from Aleph Records (Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, The Dead Pool and The Dirty Harry Anthology) plus two bonus discs. The first entitled "Sudden Impact and the best of Dirty Harry" contains the complete recording of the 1983 vinyl only release of the same name. This was originally released on Clint Eastwood's short-lived "Viva" label. The second bonus disc includes film versions of the themes as extracted from the DVD tracks for this collection by Dimich, as well as a few more surprises!I hope this collection lives up to its "definitive" title because as far as I'm aware, it contains everything that is currently available from every release!
"I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING!".....
If you already have the Aleph releases and just want the new artwork, you can get all six of them by clicking the above "Make Your Day!" image
