| Code Name: Wild Geese (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
| Type: | Film score |
| Artist: | Eloy |
| Cover: | Eloy - Code Name Wild Geese front cover.jpg |
| Released: | 5 October 1984[1] |
| Recorded: | 1984 |
| Genre: | Ambient, Berlin School, Hard rock, Blues Rock, Experimental[2] |
| Length: | 36:17 |
| Label: | Milan |
| Producer: | Jan Nemec |
| Prev Title: | Metromania |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Ra |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
Code Name: Wild Geese (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the film of the same name, composed by members of the German rock band Eloy, and their fellow audio engineer Jan Nemec. It was released in 1984.
It is the only album released under the Eloy brand name to not feature the band's leader and core member Frank Bornemann. At the time of its creation, Bornemann was working on the final mixing of Metromania[3] and was not interested on being part of Code Name: Wild Geese even after Metromania was released in June 1984.
The album has never been reissued since its original 1984 release,[2] and the available information surrounding it is very little. Hannes Arkona, Klaus-Peter Matziol and Hannes Folberth are the Eloy members credited with writing it and playing in it, but it is not specified what kind of instrument(s) each of them played.[2] Code Name: Wild Geese is almost entirely instrumental, except for "Queen of Rock 'n Roll", but the singer of that song is not credited either.[2]
Shortly after the album's release, near the end of 1984, Eloy disbanded after failing to find a common ground regarding artistic positions and the band's future.[3]
Music and lyrics by Eloy and Jan Nemec
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