Here's a perennial favorite, A Charlie Brown Christmas [Expanded TV Soundtrack] (1965).
The soundtrack was composed by jazz piano impresario genius Vince Guaraldi,
along with Fred Marshall on double bass and the great Jerry Granelli on drums. Christmas Time Is Here and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing were sung by
a choir of children, culled from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in San Rafael.
This complete soundtrack contains all of the Vince Guaraldi songs, including "Surfing Snoopy" , "Charlie Brown Theme" and "Fredia", some which have been omitted from the various "Charlie Brown Christmas" incarnations over the years.
01. Christmas Time Is Here (vocal) (02:48)
02. Christmas Time Is Here (instrumental, new-extended) (06:09)
03. Skating (new-extended) (02:42)
04. Christmas Time Is Here2 (01:45)
05. Surfin' Snoopy (originally Air Music) (01:13)
06. Christmas Time Is Here3 (00:58)
07. Christmas Is Coming (03:27)
08. Charlie Brown Theme (04:25)
09. Linus and Lucy (2nd break matches TV) (03:09)
10. Charlie Brown Theme2 (00:36)
11. Charlie Brown Theme3 (01:01)
12. Linus and Lucy2 (00:09)
13. Freida (with the Naturally Curly Hair) (00:42)
14. Happiness Is (03:42)
15. Charlie Brown Theme5 (00:38)
16. Linus and Lucy3 (00:16)
17. Linus and Lucy4 (00:11)
18. Oh, Tannenbaum (new-extended) (05:13)
19. Fur Elise (Beethoven, arr. by Guaraldi) (01:06)
20. Linus and Lucy5 (00:27)
21. Jingle Bells (traditional, arranged by Guaraldi; three arrangements) (00:25)
22. Christmas Time Is Here4 (00:37)
23. Oh, Tannenbaum2 (01:47)
24. Oh, Tannenbaum3 (00:41)
25. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing (humming, singing) (01:55)
Tracklist
A Fistful Of Dollars
A1 A Fistful Of Dollars
A2 Almost Dead
A3 The Chase
A4 The Result
A5 Without Pity
A6 Titoli
For A Few Dollars More
B1 Sixty Seconds To What?
B2 The Watcher Watched
B3 Vice Of Killing
B4 The Showdown
B5 Goodbye Colonel
B6 For A Few Dollars More
Tracklist
1 Ocean 11– Hong Kong Low Rider
2 New York Ska Jazz Ensemble – Elegy
3 The Slackers– Run Away
4 The Skunks– Dubz 57 Sauce
5 Dr. Sauce– Barret Yall's Ride
6 The Toasters– Brixton Beat
7 Los Pies Negros– Pesadilla
8 Let's Go Bowling– Cumbia Del Sol
9 The Toasters– Toast On The Coast
10 Isaac Green– Don't Count
11 House of Rhythm– Sign Of The Times
12 Dr. Ring-Ding And H.P. Setter– Louis Gone A Foreign
13 Skavoovie & the Epitones – Riversion
14 Dr. Ring-Ding And H.P. Setter– Emergency Case
15 Isaac Green– Don't Count Dub
16 The Articles (Take 2)– Ska's the Limit
17 Dr. Ring-Ding And H.P. Setter– Trombone Sound
Himalaya is RICH--with a range of male and female voices singing/chanting in the Tibetan language--and fluidly blended against a background of traditional instruments plus a western orchestra. One of the female vocalists is particularly amazing. The overall result is a very enthralling, lullaby-type of melody. Buddhist-inspired music, without the tedious repetition. Meditate to it. Do yoga. Relax and imagine yourself lost in the Himalayas. This music will put you in the mood.
The Death Of Lhakpa 3:40
Norbu 2:38
The Salt 2:08
Tinle & The Child 2:56
The Crossing 2:45
The Night 2:13
The Council 2:19
The Walk 1:46
The Songs 1:14
Norbu & Karma 1:31
Karma 2:49
The Lake 3:07
Norbu (Cordes) 1:40
The Ceremony 0:30
Karma's Anger 1:43
The Exhaustion 1:50
Péma's Tears 1:11
The Caravan 2:41
The Tracks 2:10
Tinlé's Death 2:25
Opéra 4:08
1 One Little Soldier by Regina Spektor 3:41
2 Clear and Simple (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 2:43
3 Problems with Women by Theodore Shapiro 1:05
4 Breaking (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 2:32
5 The Tour by Theodore Shapiro 2:16
6 Fox News Apologies (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 2:13
7 Deposition by Theodore Shapiro 4:13
8 The End Times by Theodore Shapiro 1:29
9 Elevator Trio (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 3:11
10 Chills and Fevers by Theodore Shapiro 2:13
11 Accusers' Waltz (feat. Caroline Shaw) by Theodore Shapiro 3:10
12 Roger Is Out by Theodore Shapiro 2:31
13 Dressing Room (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 1:54
14 Text Messages by Theodore Shapiro 1:29
15 How Do I Play This by Theodore Shapiro 1:05
16 Roger Roger Roger by Theodore Shapiro 0:40
17 The Murdoch Boys by Theodore Shapiro 1:57
18 The Questions (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 2:25
19 Talking Points (feat. Caroline Shaw, Petra Haden & Susanna Hoffs) by Theodore Shapiro 3:13
20 Explode (feat. Caroline Shaw) by Theodore Shapiro
Hans Zimmer's score to Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is very understated and minimalistic yet is integral to the overall sound and feel of the movie. It is dark, atmospheric and tense with dramatic tones that are essential to the story line and the visuals.
Tracklist
1 Hans Zimmer– The Mole 5:28
2 Hans Zimmer– We Need Our Army Back 6:03
3 Hans Zimmer– Shivering Soldier 2:50
4 Hans Zimmer– Supermarine 7:58
5 Hans Zimmer– The Tide 3:49
6 Hans Zimmer And Lorne Balfe– Regimental Brothers 5:01
7 Hans Zimmer– Impulse 2:34
8 Hans Zimmer And Benjamin Wallfisch– Home 6:00
9 Hans Zimmer– The Oil 6:09
10 Benjamin Wallfisch– Variation 15 (Dunkirk) 5:51
11 Benjamin Wallfisch, Lorne Balfe And Hans Zimmer– End Titles 7:12
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a 2015 spy film directed by Guy Ritchie and written by Ritchie and Lionel Wigram. It is based on the 1964 MGM television series of the same name, which was created by Norman Felton and Sam Rolfe. The film stars Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki and Hugh Grant.
The musical score for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was composed by Daniel Pemberton. The soundtrack album was released by WaterTower Music on August 7, 2015. The musical score received many glowing reviews with the LA Times noting "it is composer Daniel Pemberton who in some ways seems to understand the idea of the movie even better than Ritchie, his score featuring breathy flutes, twangy guitar, spooky harpsichord and pounding drums and organ capturing the mixture of pastiche, homage and a twist of the new in a way the rest of the film rarely matches."
-Roberta Flack Compared To What
–Daniel Pemberton Out Of The Garage
–Daniel Pemberton His Name Is Napoleon Solo
–Daniel Pemberton Escape From East Berlin
–Tom Zé And Valdez* Jimmy, Renda-Se
–Daniel Pemberton Mission: Rome
–Daniel Pemberton The Vinciguerra Affair
–Daniel Pemberton Bugs, Beats And Bowties
–Solomon Burke Cry To Me
–Louis Prima Five Month, Two Weeks, Two Days
–Daniel Pemberton Signori Toileto Italiano
–Daniel Pemberton Breaking In (Searching The Factory)
–Daniel Pemberton Breaking Out (The Cowboy Escapes)
–Peppino Gagliardi Che Vuole Questa Musica Stasera
–Daniel Pemberton Into The Lair (Betrayal Part I)
–Daniel Pemberton Laced Drinks (Betrayal Part II)
–Luigi Tenco Il Mio Regno
–Daniel Pemberton Circular Story
–Daniel Pemberton The Drums Of War
–Daniel Pemberton Take You Down
–Daniel Pemberton We Have Location
–Daniel Pemberton A Last Drink
–Nina Simone Take Care Of Business
–Daniel Pemberton The Unfinished Kiss
Morning of the Earth is a 1971 classic surf film by Alby Falzon and David Elfick.
The film's soundtrack was produced by G. Wayne Thomas and included music and songs by noted Australian music acts Tamam Shud, John J. Francis, Brian Cadd, Mike Rudd and G. Wayne Thomas. The record became the first Australian Gold soundtrack album. In October 2010, the soundtrack for Morning of the Earth (1971) was listed in the book, 100 Best Australian Albums.
The film portrays surfers living in spiritual harmony with nature, making their own boards (and homes) as they travelled in search of the perfect wave across Australia's north-east coast, Bali and Hawaii. The movie is regarded as one of the finest of its genre and noted as recording the first surfers to ride the waves at Uluwatu on the very southern tip of Bali and so bringing Bali to the attention of surfers around the world and so the beginnings of Bali as a major tourist destination.
-G. Wayne Thomas Morning Of The Earth 5:06
–Terry Hannagan I'll Be Alright 4:05
–Tamam Shud First Things First 4:06
–Brian Cadd Sure Feels Good 3:44
–Ticket Awake 5:21
–G. Wayne Thomas Getting Back 4:59
–G. Wayne Thomas Open Up Your Heart 3:40
–Ticket Dream Chant 8:13
–John J. Francis Simple Ben 7:42
–Tamam Shud Bali Waters 6:12
–Brian Cadd Making It On Your Own 5:56
–Peter Howe Ullawatu 2:46
–G. Wayne Thomas Day Comes 2:51
–Tamam Shud Sea The Swells 6:14
–Peter Howe I'm Alive 3:42
–Brian Cadd Come With Me 4:54
–Mick Turner & Xylouris Ensemble With Vocals By Oliver Mann Morning Of The Earth 5:31
–Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang I'll Be Alright 4:25
–Matt Corby First Things First 3:46
–Tom Curren Sure Feels Good 3:59
–Goons Of Doom Awake 4:02
–Busby Marou Getting Back 5:41
–Jack River Open Up Your Heart 3:41
–The Sand Pebbles Dream Chant 4:14
–Machine Translations Simple Ben 5:32
–Pond Bali Waters 4:31
–The Autumn Defense Making It On Your Own 3:59
–Blake Mills Ullawatu 3:11
–Xavier Rudd Day Comes 2:38
–Andrew Kidman & The Windy Hills Sea The Swells 7:49
–Andrew Vanwyngarden I'm Alive 4:23
–Andrew Kidman Come With Me 4:17
Tracklist
1 Jim Sturgess– All My Loving
2 T.V. Carpio– I Want To Hold Your Hand
3 Evan Rachel Wood– It Won't Be Long
4 Jim Sturgess– I've Just Seen A Face
5 Carol Woods And Timothy T. Mitchum– Let It Be
6 Joe Cocker– Come Together
7 Bono And Secret Machines– I Am The Walrus
8 Jim Sturgess– Something
9 Dana Fuchs And Martin Luther McCoy– Oh! Darling
10 Jim Sturgess And Joe Anderson – Strawberry Fields Forever
11 Jim Sturgess– Across The Universe
12 Dana Fuchs– Helter Skelter
13 Joe Anderson Featuring Salma Hayek– Happiness Is A Warm Gun
14 Evan Rachel Wood– Blackbird
15 Joe Anderson – Hey Jude
16 Bono– Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
We Bought a Zoo is a 2011 American family comedy-drama film loosely based on the 2008 memoir of the same name by Benjamin Mee. It was co-written and directed by Cameron Crowe and stars Matt Damon as widowed father Benjamin Mee, who purchases a dilapidated zoo with his family and takes on the challenge of preparing the zoo for its reopening to the public. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Thomas Haden Church, Patrick Fugit, Elle Fanning, Colin Ford, and John Michael Higgins.
In August 2011, it was announced that Icelandic musician Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson, the lead singer of the band Sigur Rós, would be composing the music scores for We Bought a Zoo. Director Crowe described the choice as "only natural", since "Jónsi has been a part of the making of We Bought A Zoo from the very beginning".
The song Gathering Stories was on the shortlist of 39 songs that had a chance of being nominated for Best Original Song Oscar at the 84th Academy Awards. This song was co-written by Jonsi Birgisson and Cameron Crowe.
While the official CD release of the movie soundtrack only includes music by Jón Þór "Jónsi" Birgisson and Sigur Rós, the complete soundtrack of the film included a variety of artists.
Tracklist
–Jónsi Why Not? 4:49
–Jónsi Ævin Endar 3:32
–Jónsi Boy Lilikoi 4:29
–Jónsi Sun 1:50
–Jónsi Brambles 2:24
–Jónsi Sinking Friendships 4:42
–Jónsi We Bought A Zoo 4:20
–Sigur Rós Hoppípolla 4:29
–Jónsi Snærisendar 2:43
–Jónsi Sink Ships 2:21
–Jónsi Go Do 4:40
–Jónsi Whole Made Of Pieces 2:46
–Jónsi Humming 2:32
–Jónsi First Day 1:39
–Jónsi Gathering Stories 3:56
Disc: 1
1. Johnny Remember Me - John Leyton
2. Night Train - James Brown
3. When The Lovelight Starts Shining Thru His Eyes - Dusty Springfield
4. Somebody Help Me - The Spencer Davis Group
5. Grow Your Own - Small Faces
6. Yeh Yeh - Georgie Fame
7. The Cat - Jimmy Smith, Lalo Schifrin
8. Too Many Fish In The Sea - The Marvelettes
9. I'll Give It Five - Janice Nicholls
10. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Andrew Oldham Orchestra
11. Vaba-ba-boom - Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra
12. Embraceable You - Judy Garland, Victor Young & His Orchestra
13. I Want Candy - Brian Poole & The Tremeloes
14. Wooly Bully - Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs
15. Wild Thing - The Troggs
16. Bend It! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
17. Blues On Purpose - Nina Simone, Hal Mooney
18. The First Cut Is The Deepest - Cat Stevens, Phil Dennys, Orchestra
19. Is This What I Get For Loving You? - Marianne Faithfull
20. The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - Walker Brothers
21. Sorrow - The Merseys
22. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
Disc: 2
1. Out Of Sight - James Brown
2. Make Her Mine - Hipster Image
3. All Or Nothing - Small Faces
4. Sixteen Tons - Tom Jones, Les Reed
5. Telstar - The Tornadoes
6. We Don't Know - The Attack
7. Keep On Running - The Spencer Davis Group
8. The London Boys - David Bowie
9. Tell Him - Billie Davis
10. Do Re Mi - Dusty Springfield
11. The Witch - The Rattles
12. All Right Now - Free
13. Hot Love - T. Rex
14. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff
15. Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
16. Something In The Air - Thunderclap Newman
17. Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
18. There's A Ghost In My House - R. Dean Taylor
19. Reason To Believe - Rod Stewart
20. Blues For The Night Owl - Ramsey Lewis Trio
21. Thick As Thieves - The Jam
22. The Last Time - Andrew Oldham Orchestra
The Mind's Eye series consists of several art films rendered using computer-generated imagery of varying levels of sophistication, with original music scored note-to-frame. The series was conceived by Steven Churchill of Odyssey Productions in 1990. It was produced, directed, conceptualized and edited by Jan Nickman of Miramar Productions and produced by Churchill.
The Gate to the Mind's Eye was released on June 30, 1994, featured music by Thomas Dolby and also continued the trend of vocal tracks, with five of its nine segments including vocals: "Armageddon", a sequence depicting massive devastation; "Neo", an astronomy-themed song; "Valley of the Mind's Eye", a song about the progress of human technology; "Nuvogue", the first jazz track in the series; and "Quantum Mechanic", starring guest vocalist Dr. Fiorella Terenzi.
Tracklist
1 Armageddon
2 Planet Of Lost Souls
3 Big Bang Backwards
4 N.E.O.
The Ascent Of Man, Parts I-VI
5a Iceflow
5b Harpmonic
5c The Power Of Dreams
5d The Ancients
5e Cluny
5f Mosaic
6 Valley Of The Mind's Eye
7 Nuvogue
8 Quantum Mechanic
9 Moonbase
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers. Glass describes himself as a composer of "music with repetitive structures", which he has helped evolve stylistically.
Glass founded the Philip Glass Ensemble, with which he still performs on keyboards. He has written numerous operas and musical theatre works, twelve symphonies, eleven concertos, eight string quartets and various other chamber music and film scores. Three of his film scores have been nominated for Academy Awards.
The Qatsi trilogy is the informal name given to a series of non-narrative films produced by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass:
Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance (1982)
Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation (1988)
Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)
The titles of all three motion pictures are words from the Hopi language, in which the word qatsi translates to "life". The series was produced by the Institute For Regional Education, who also created the Fund For Change.
Tracklist:
1-01 –John Lunn Hoof
1-02 –Ocean Colour Scene July (Single Version)
1-03 –Ike Turner & His Kings Of Rhythm Prancing
1-04 –The Gliders Snakes And Ladders
1-05 –Barry Adamson The Big Bamboozle
1-06 –Tom Browne Funkin' For Jamaica
1-07 –The Skatalites Confucius
1-08 –Jimmy McCracklin The Walk
1-09 –Julie London Sway
1-10 –The Saints This Perfect Day
1-11 –Suede Shades These Boots Are Made For Walking
1-12 –Blondie Rapture
1-13 –Fun Lovin' Criminals The Fun Lovin' Criminal
1-14 –The Paramounts Pride And Joy
1-15 –The Ruts Babylon's Burning
1-16 –Dr. Feelgood No Mo Do Yakomo
1-17 –Link Wray The Wild One
1-18 –Ian Dury & The Blockheads What A Waste
1-19 –John Lunn Three Feet
1-20 –JTQ Outta Sight
1-21 –Juno Reactor Hule Lam
1-22 –Augustus Pablo King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown
1-23 –Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Red Right Hand
2-01 –Stereo MC's Fever (Steve Hillage Remix)
2-02 –Isaac Hayes Southern Breeze
2-03 –D*Note Iniquity Worker
2-04 –Barry White Love's Theme
2-05 –Talvin Singh Traveller (Kid Loco's Once Upon A Time In The East Mix)
2-06 –John Lunn Chorizo
2-07 –Barry Adamson What It Means
2-08 –Supergrass Caught By The Fuzz
2-09 –Plas Johnson Tanya
2-10 –Lou Donaldson Funky Mama
2-11 –Bob & Earl Harlem Shuffle
2-12 –Phil Upchurch Combo You Can't Sit Down (Pts 1 & 2)
2-13 –Well Red Jungle Life
2-14 –Feeder Insomnia
2-15 –Pink Fairies Do It
2-16 –Ike & Tina Turner Doin' It
2-17 –George McRae Rock Your Baby
2-18 –Shara Nelson I Fell
2-19 –Quivver She Does (Manfat 4's Remix)
Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch have created a modern masterpiece and a more than worthy successor to the classic original.
The fact that the shadow of Vangelis' legendary, groundbreaking score hangs over this soundtrack should mean certain retirement for anyone attempting to replicate the original's achievement and yet, against the odds, Zimmer and Wallfisch actually manage it. And then some. The boys dusted off the Yamaha CS-80 and by returning to the past they've created a stunning new audio landscape of the future.
The electronic soundscapes of 2049 glide and soar majestically with all the epic scale and beauty of the original Blade Runner but this time there's an industrial edge. This Blade Runner has teeth. Throughout the score there is a ferocious energy surging up in the music matched only by the moments when it becomes almost overwhelmingly beautiful.
Unlike the soundtracks for the original 1982 Blade Runner, this OST for the 2017 sequel actually contains the music from the film. So Hans and Ben are one up on Vangelis already. None of the tracks have annoying dialogue excerpts or sound effects over them either. That's two up.
The composers could have paid the ultimate tribute to Vangelis and left the opening title music for 2049 off the album. But no, it's there in all its glory. That's 3 - 0!
Tracklist:
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch 2049 3:37
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Sapper's Tree 1:36
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Flight To LAPD 1:47
–Frank Sinatra Summer Wind 2:54
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Rain 2:26
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Wallace 5:23
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Memory 2:32
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Mesa 3:10
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Orphanage 1:13
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Furnace 3:41
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Someone Lived This 3:13
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Joi 3:51
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Pilot 2:17
–Elvis Presley Suspicious Minds 4:22
–Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires Can't Help Falling In Love 3:02
–Frank Sinatra One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 4:24
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Hijack 5:32
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch That's Why We Believe 3:36
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Her Eyes Were Green 6:17
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Sea Wall 9:53
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch All The Best Memories Are Hers 3:22
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Tears In The Rain 2:10
–Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 10:05
–Lauren Daigle Almost Human 3:22
Samsara is a 2001 independent film directed and co-written by Pan Nalin. An international co-production of India, Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland, the film tells the story of a Buddhist monk's quest to find Enlightenment. It stars Shawn Ku as the monk Tashi, and Christy Chung as Pema.
Cyril Morin is a multi-faceted artist. Variety hails him as "a successful film composer, producer and musician...." He has scored over 80 soundtracks and done orchestration for other artists.
His score for the critically acclaimed "Samsara" (directed by Pan Nalin with Christy Chung), won honors at AFI and fests in Santa Barbara and Melbourne. The soundtrack continues to sell internationally, garnering many dedicated fans, and has made Morin something of a cult composer.
Tracklist
1 –Garry Bell Churchill's Mistake 1:59
2 –Ghostland And Kirsty MacColl Sail Away 3:13
3 –Ghostland She's Beautiful 3:15
4 –Outback Dance The Devil Away 7:20
5 –Marta Sebestyen* Gold, Silver Or Love 6:27
6 –Gary Bell Pero's Walkman 1:03
7 –Garry Bell Talkin' 'bout Life 2:40
8 –Ghostland Enemy Lullaby 2:04
9 –Ghostland This Is War My Friend 2:06
10 –Garry Bell Jag Jag, Sleepy Sleepy 1:27
11 –Garry Bell The Three Gurneys 0:33
12 –The Wedding Present Davni Chasy 2:55
13 –Roy Henley Ancino Kolo Dance 2:07
14 –Garry Bell Churchill's Last Mistake 4:27
Sorcerer (1977) was the first soundtrack album by the German band Tangerine Dream. It reached No.25 on the UK Albums Chart in a 7-week run, to become Tangerine Dream's third highest-charting album in the UK.
Sorcerer, the movie, is a 1977 American thriller directed and produced by William Friedkin and starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, and Amidou. The second adaptation of Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel Le Salaire de la peur, it has been widely considered a remake of the 1953 film The Wages of Fear, although Friedkin disagreed with this assessment. The plot depicts four outcasts from varied backgrounds meeting in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of aged, poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is 'sweating' its dangerous basic ingredient, nitroglycerin.
Sorcerer marked the first Hollywood film score for the German krautrock and electronic band Tangerine Dream. William Friedkin, during his visit in Germany, attended their concert in a derelict church in the Black Forest. The band seemed to him "on the cutting edge of the electronic synthesizer sound" that soon would become a staple in mainstream culture. He assessed their music as a mixture of classical music played on synthesizers and "the new pop sound", and described the experience as "mesmerizing".
The Proposition soundtrack was recorded by Nick Cave in collaboration with Warren Ellis, and was produced for the film The Proposition, released in October 2005. At the 2005 AFI Awards it won Best Original Music Score for Cave and Ellis.
The album is instrumentally focused, and is a departure from Cave's band-oriented compositions. All tracks are directly reproduced from the musical interludes in the film, and feature little alteration from the film score. Many songs on the album are slow-tempo and ballad-like, and the violin work of Warren Ellis becomes the central voice of the album for much of the time. Cave's unusual vocal performances on the "Rider" trilogy of songs brings a particularly haunting and uneasy tone to the album.
Mark Isham's muted trumpet provides a first rate soundtrack for this compelling film. The music is atmospheric and truly haunting. It has a calming, nostalgic sound to it and brings a sense of longing for simple, yet emotionally fulfilling times. It reminds us that nothing worth having is gained without some kind of loss.
Another great score from Yann Tiersen, and, unlike Amelie, this is entirely new music composed just for the film. Tiersen sounds even more like Michael Nyman here, and, like Nyman, he shows the best that minimalism has to offer film scoring.
The music gently massages each scene, conveying the emotions at the core without bothering to hit every action onscreen like cartoon mickey-mousing. Instead, the music finds something deeper and mines it deftly and beautifully.
More sombre and subdued than his usual work, Yann Tiersen's score makes the perfect audio counterpart for the film's bittersweet but often funny story, which revolves around a family living in Communist Germany and is told from the viewpoint of the son, Alex. Most of the score is dominated by thoughtful, rippling piano that conjures up rainy days, as well as strings, woodwinds and brass that add to the airs of urgency and madcap humor that dominate the film and its music.
Tiersen's subtle but significantly shifting compositions are almost always quite moving, and Good Bye Lenin! is no exception. This is one of those rare scores that is just as affecting and cohesive outside of the movie theater as it is inside of it.
Various – The Human Stain (Motion Picture Soundtrack: Coleman's Collection)
Label: Lakeshore Records – LKS 33784
Country: US
Released: 2003
Genre: Jazz, Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack
Tracklist
1 –Jess Stacy Honeysuckle Rose
2 –Woody Herman Woodchopper's Ball
3 –Tommy Dorsey Sleepy Lagoon
4 –Fred Astaire Cheek To Cheek
5 –The Oscar Peterson Trio I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good
6 –Marian McPartland Day Dream
7 –Ken Peplowski Cry Me A River
8 –Teddy Wilson Embraceable You
9 –Johnny Hodges & Orchestra* Day Dream
10 –Gunter Weiss* And The Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet* Schubert String Quintet In C, Opus 163 D956
In the mid to late '70s, director Francis Ford Coppola put his career on the line to complete Apocalypse Now, his quixotic attempt to variously document, deconstruct, and mythologize America's military involvement in Vietnam. The end result was a troubling masterpiece and technical tour de force whose use of sound and music influenced films for decades. As originally released, the soundtrack album was equally groundbreaking: an intriguing, dreamlike collage of dialogue, sound effects, and music that both evoked the film's artistic sensibility and underscored the innovative, Academy Award®-winning efforts of sound designer Walter Murch.
Two decades later, Coppola revisited the project, adding nearly an hour of previously unseen footage and revamping its soundtrack release as well. But while the film may have taken on fresh new dimensions, the new soundtrack album seems stripped of virtually all of Murch's key contributions. What remains is primarily music--and a telling argument for the notion that the whole is considerably more than the sum of its parts. Inspired by synthesist Isao Tomita's '70s classical adaptations, Coppola hired father Carmine to write an orchestra score, and then set about synthesizing it. The Doors' "The End" remains an iconic touchstone, but removed from the context of the film (and its original album release), much of the Coppola music all too clearly reveals its inspirations (Tomita, Holst, Wagner, Stravinsky) and the technical limitations of the relatively primitive synth technology involved (mirrored in a pair of newly recorded tracks as well). --Jerry McCulley (Amazon review)
