I'm gonna be cheeky and throw this out there as an un-official, "bootleg" Deep Cut contribution....
ZOO STORY OST - Steven Brown
1984
(Soundwork – 12004, Eden Cie – EDS 0001)
I picked this up knowing absolutely nothing, based on it being very cheap and having a cool title (and really nice/intriguing sleeve...)
It's a soundtrack to a play by Edward Albee, from a production in 1983. The composer Steven Brown is a member of avant-garde rock band Tuxedomoon. There's plenty of saxophone on this OST, both real and fake, along with sound effects and ambience, Stewart Copeland-style percussion and synths.
In some ways you could say it's very dated -- but that's exactly what I'm enjoying about it actually. I get a real sense of time and place from the music, it takes me back to a lot of great and unusual 80s scores/films that I've always loved such as Rumblefish, River's Edge, Union City, The Kill-Off, Moon in the Gutter and other stuff by composers like Gabriel Yared, even some of that awesome C.H.U.D/Xtro synth-sound, believe it or not!
By turns sparse, complex, rhythmic, primitive, evocative and nostalgic...I'm really pleased that this record found me. And if you're intrigued, you can pick it up for next to nothing:
http://www.discogs.com/Steven-Brown-Zoo ... ase/356652
Sample the full OST here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1GXWhzjQVA
and there's even a film of the theatre production here, which looks really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1325&v=2KDM7yAWpMc