FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LALO SCHIFRIN SOARS WITH SKY RIDERS!

Aleph Records To Release The Beloved Soundtrack From The 1976 Film

(June 25, 2009- Los Angeles, CA) – Aleph Records will release the soundtrack for
Sky Riders on July 28. Composer Lalo Schifrin wrote the score, which features
breathtaking sequences of music underscoring hang-gliders soaring through the
skies.

The 1976 film Sky Riders starred Robert Culp and Susannah York as Jonas and
Ellen Bracken. The life of the international industrialist and his family seems
perfect until Ellen and the kids are kidnapped by terrorists in Greece and are
held in an abandoned monastery. Inspector Nicholas (Charles Aznavour)
unsuccessfully attempts to free them leading Ellen's ex-husband (played by James
Coburn) to plan a rescue attempt of his own. He hires a group of professional
mountain gliders to help rescue the Brackens from the mountain lair where they
are being held.

Composer Lalo Schifrin is a true Renaissance man. As a pianist, composer and
conductor, he is equally at home conducting a symphony orchestra, performing at
an international jazz festival, scoring a film or television show, or creating
works for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic and even
The Sultan of Oman.

He has written more than 100 scores for films and television including the
classic scores for Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Fox, Cool Hand Luke,
Bullitt, Dirty Harry, The Cincinnati Kid, and The Amityville Horror. Schifrin's
recent film scores include Tango, all 3 films from the Rush Hour trilogy,
Bringing Down The House, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, After the Sunset, and
Abominable. To date, Lalo Schifrin has won four Grammy™ Awards (with twenty-one
nominations), one Cable ACE Award, and received six Oscar™ nominations.

Schifrin's score for Sky Riders incorporates many flavors. He utilizes the
bouzouki and touches of a traditional Greek folk piece in "Climbers", eerie
suspenseful power cues like "The Terrorists", and traditional circus
instrumentation (brass, percussion, and glockenspiel) to achieve a lightness
underscoring the first appearance of the hang-gliders in "Flying Circus".

As described in the liner notes, by Julie Kirgo, Sky Riders is an interesting
score in the career of composer Schifrin. Recorded in February of 1976, a year
that would see his Academy Award™ nomination for the more conventional
orchestral Voyage of the Damned, Sky Riders "would prove to be the last, for a
time, in that long, innovative line of jazz/funk-dominated scores with which
Schifrin made his reputation." It would be over twenty years before Schifrin
would revisit that style, when asked by Brett Ratner to resurrect the funky
sound of Enter the Dragon for his 1997 film Money Talks.

Sky Riders will be available in stores and via iTunes July 28, 2009.

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