The Ipcress File

by John Barry

The Ipcress File cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1965
  • Label: Decca
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 35:45
  • Community rating: 3.9/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Barry's score for the Michael Caine spy film, the actor's first leading role, leans on John Leach's cimbalom, whose eerie ring defines the album's sound. The LP Barry assembled contains roughly seventeen of the fifty minutes of music he wrote, filled out with jazz variations on the main theme.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, minimal, lounge, orchestral, retro

Tracklist

  1. Main Title Theme (4:15)
  2. Alone In Three-Quarter Time (2:31)
  3. Meeting With Grantby And Fight (3:29)
  4. Jazz Along Alone (3:14)
  5. The Death Of Carswell (3:41)
  6. A Man Alone; Part 1 (3:15)
  7. A Man Alone; Part 2 (3:21)
  8. If You're Not Clean - I'll Kill You (2:20)
  9. Alone Blues (6:18)
  10. Goodbye Harry (1:00)
  11. A Man Alone (2:21)

Credits

  • John Barry - primary artist, arranged by, composed by, conductor

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