This release coincided with the momentous passing of Ornette Coleman. His hook up with film composer Howard Shore for David Cronenberg's surreal sci-fi movie Naked Lunch (1991) based on a William S. Burroughs novel is an inspired one. This is a comprehensive reissue and high quality remaster of the original soundtrack to Naked Lunch with bonus tracks compared to the original CD release. The score has a uniquely intoxicated air that enhances Cronenberg's hallucinatory world of mugwumps and freakish talking typewriters. Shore's compositions for the London Philharmonic Orchestra are an eerily, ominous backdrop and Ornette's sax weaves around and soars above them in perfect liaison. In the liner notes Ornette stresses the importance of the score and describes its relationship to Shore's score as being ‘harmolodic, meaning all parts are equal’. Ornette made a couple of forays into film previous to this one, one of them an obscure Belgian surreal comedy Who's Crazy? (1967), that's highlighted on Dick Fontaine's revealing ‘cinema vérité’ documentary based around the Coleman trio's recording session in which they played in front of the screen. ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ was a score written by Ornette that was rejected in favour of Philip Glass. But Naked Lunch stands up as a unique and significant contribution to the world of jazz on film, as well as being much more than just a footnote in Coleman's rich discography.