Latest album by Adam Young pays tribute to Andes Flight Disaster survivors
IN THE ongoing series of instrumental albums of imagined film scores,
Adam Young has turned his attention to the Andes Flight Disaster of
1972. Writing about 'Miracle In The Andes' Young said, "In 1972, a
chartered flight carrying 45 people, including a Uruguayan rugby team,
crashed in the Andes in an incident known as the Andes Flight
Disaster. More than two months after the crash, only 16 survivors
remained at the time of their rescue. It is an incredible story of
human perseverance and the will to survive despite immense and
immeasurable odds. I saw the 1993 movie Alive when I was seven years
old and the story the film is based upon left an enormous impression
on me which inspired a sense of awe and fasciation I still carry
today. In this score, I wanted to capture the emotions the survivors
felt: fear, shock, horror, dread, dismay and anxiety - but at the end
of a very grim story, lies an overwhelming sense of victory, relief,
triumph and elation because of the inextinguishable and undying power
of the human spirit."