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Monday, December 30, 2024

L' Accompagnatrice - Bande Originale Du Film - Alain Jomy / Orchestre symphonique de Budapest

 


1 Richard Strauss– Wiegenlied 3:52

2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart– Vespers Solemn : Laudate Dominum 5:03

3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart– Missa Solemnis K 139: Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus 2:20

4 Richard Strauss– Zueignung 1:38

5 Hector Berlioz– Nuits d'Ete: Villanelle 2:06

6 Hector Berlioz– Nuits d'Ete: Spectre de la Rose 6:48

7 Jules Massenet– Thaïs: Dis-moi Que Je Serai Belle Eternellement 7:26

8 Franz Schubert– Trio: Le Patre Sur Le Rocher 12:09

9 Robert Schumann– Scenes D'enfants : Des Pays Lointains 1:12

10 Robert Schumann– Scenes de la Foret : Fleurs Solitaires 2:25

11 Sablon-Seyder– Cœur De Parisienne 1:52

12 Alain Jomy– L'eteve 1:55

13 Alain Jomy– Tzigane 2:36

14 Alain Jomy– Valse 2:04

15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart– Noces de Figaro: Air De Barberine 1:47

16 Alain Jomy– Generique Fin 1:20


Wednesday, April 3, 2024

The Last Kiss (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 


1 Snow Patrol– Chocolate 3:11

2 Joshua Radin– Star Mile 4:01

3 Turin Brakes– Pain Killer 3:55

4 Coldplay– Warning Sign 5:29

5 Cary Brothers– Ride 3:12

6 Athlete– El Salvador 3:25

7 Imogen Heap– Hide And Seek 4:22

8 Rachael Yamagata – Reason Why 5:05

9 Ray LaMontagne – Hold You In My Arms 5:05

10 Remy Zero– Prophecy 3:24

11 Fiona Apple– Paper Bag 3:39

12 Aimee Mann– Today's The Day 4:43

13 Amos Lee– Arms Of A Woman 4:10

14 Rufus Wainwright– Cigarettes And Chocolate (Reprise) 3:58

15 Joshua Radin And Schuyler Fisk– Paperweight 3:30


Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su – The Last Emperor

 

The Last Emperor is the soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It features nine pieces composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, five by David Byrne, one from Cong Su, and a few incidental pieces of source music. The album won the Best Original Score award at the 1987 Academy Awards, and won the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media award at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in 1989.

1 Ryuichi Sakamoto– First Coronation

2 Ryuichi Sakamoto– Open The Door

3 Ryuichi Sakamoto– Where Is Armo?

4 Ryuichi Sakamoto– Picking Up Brides

5 Ryuichi Sakamoto– The Last Emperor (Theme Variation 1)

6 Ryuichi Sakamoto– Rain (I Want A Divorce)

7 Ryuichi Sakamoto– The Baby (Was Born Dead)

8 Ryuichi Sakamoto– The Last Emperor (Theme Variation II)

9 Ryuichi Sakamoto– The Last Emperor (Theme)

10 David Byrne– Main Title Theme (The Last Emperor)

11 David Byrne– Picking A Bride

12 David Byrne– Bed

13 David Byrne– Wind, Rain And Water

14 David Byrne– Paper Emperor

15 Cong Su– Lunch

16 The Red Guard Accordion Band– Red Guard

17 The Ball Orchestra Of Vienna– The Emperor's Waltz

18 The Girls Red Guard Dancers– The Red Guard Dance



The Last Emperor

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The Lost City (Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture) - music by Andy Garcia and various artists

 


1-1 Chocolate*– Beautiful Cuba (Instrumental)

1-2 Cachao– Mambo

1-3 The Lost City Orchestra– A La Antigua

1-4 The Lost City Orchestra– Danza Lucumi

1-5 The Lost City Orchestra– La Comparsa

1-6 Orquesta Sensación– Macorina

1-7 Conjunto Guaguanco Matancero– Los Munequitos

1-8 The Lost City Orchestra– Ricardo's Theme

1-9 The Lost City Orchestra– Fico Meets Che

1-10 Rubén González– Si Te Contara

1-11 The Lost City Orchestra– Ricardo Meets Che

1-12 Lázaro Galarraga & The Cineson All Stars– Avisale A Mi Contrario

1-13 Cachao & The Cineson All Stars– Goza Mi Mambo Cubano

1-14 Andy Garcia & The Cineson All Stars– Solitude / Leonela's Death

1-15 Chappottin Y Sus Estrellas– Yo Si Como Candela

1-16 Lázaro Galarraga & The Cineson All Stars– Attack On Palace

1-17 Andy Garcia & The Cineson All Stars– Sugar Cane Fields

1-18 Lázaro Galarraga & The Cineson All Stars– Rumba For Luis

1-19 Cachao– A Gozar Con Mi Combo

1-20 Omar Sosa– Otra Cosa

1-21 Cachao– Mariano Social Club

1-22 Nohema Fernandez– Berceuse Campseina

1-23 Beny More*– Que Bueno Baila Usted

1-24 Septeto Nacional De Ignacio Pinerio*– Suavecito

1-25 Cachao– Cachao's Guirro


2-1 Rolando La Serie– Amalia Batista

2-2 Rolando Laserie*– Tenia Que Ser Asi

2-3 Lázaro Galarraga & The Cineson All Stars– Eleggua

2-4 Cachao & The Cineson All Stars– Si Me Pudieras Querer

2-5 The Cineson All Stars– Fidel Arrives / El Mayoral

2-6 Andy Garcia & The Lost City Orchestra– Fico Watts / Pidgeon / Aurora

2-7 Lázaro Galarraga & The Cineson All Stars– Consuelate Como Yo

2-8 The Lost City Orchestra– La Bella Cubana

2-9 Trio Matamoros– Te Pico La Abeja

2-10 Andy Garcia & The Lost City Orchestra– Donoso's Death

2-11 Cachao & The Cineson All Stars– Guajira Clasica

2-12 María Teresa Vera– Veinte Anos

2-13 Justo Almario– Fico Decides

2-14 The Lost City Orchestra– The Lost City

2-15 Bola De Nieve– Si Me Pudieras Querer

2-16 Marco Rizo– Adios A Cuba

2-17 Duke Ellington / Coleman Hawkins– Limbo Jazz

2-18 Andy Garcia & Danilo Lozano– Lansky Returns

2-19 Cachao & The Cineson All Stars– Cuba Linda

2-20 Andy Garcia & The Cineson All Stars– La Ciudad Perdida



The Lost City 


Wednesday, June 8, 2022

David Byrne ‎– Lead Us Not Into Temptation - Music From The Film Young Adam

 


Mostly composed of obliquely lyrical chamber music, “Lead Us Not Into Temptation” is the album realization of David Byrne’s score to David Mackenzie’s film “Young Adam” (starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton). And by any judge, this is lovely chamber music indeed; the intimate, blue-hued arrangements are abstractly evocative, with aching, then arching string melodies. The urbane cover of jazz titan Charles Mingus’ raucous “Haitian Fight Song” seems incongruous here, even if it’s ideal for the film. But the main cues have a nicely haunting quality, and the hymn-like vocal tracks “Speechless” and, especially, “The Great Western Road” will please fans of the erstwhile Talking Head’s more pensive side. An Academy Award winner for his contribution to the score to “The Last Emperor,” Byrne obviously has his soundtrack bona fides. This disc’s instrumental invention does surprise. (Billboard review)

Body In A River 2:52

Mnemonic Discordance 2:43

Seaside Smokes 3:08

Canal Life 2:28

Locks & Barges 2:00

Haitian Fight Song 2:50

Sex On The Docks 4:25

Inexorable 2:20

Warm Sheets 3:01

Dirty Hair 4:48

Bastard 2:57

The Lodger 4:16

Ineluctable 4:20

Speechless 4:04

The Great Western Road 4:43


Lead Us Not Into Temptation


Thursday, July 22, 2021

Lock, Stock...the TV series....various artists compilation

 

 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)  


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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Lovely and Amazing..music from the motion picture...original score composed and produce by Craig Richey

 

 
Tracklist
1     –Deb Talan     Forgiven    
2     –Elwood     Slow    
3     –Josh Rouse     Parts and Accessories    
4     –
Craig Richey     Opening    
5     –
Craig Richey     Elizabeth And Paul Argue    
6     –
Craig Richeys     Elizabeth At Kevin's Part I    
7     –
Craig Richey     Baldasaro    
8     –Pillbox      I Must Be Crazy    
9     –Poetized     The Microphone Song    
10     –
Craig Richey     One Hour Photo    
11     –
Craig Richey     Paul Has No Sympathy    
12     –
Craig Richey     Annie Gets Ready At Mirror    
13     –Eszter Balint     Almost Gone    
14     –
Craig Richey     Elizabeth at Kevin's Part II    
15     –
Craig Richey     Annie At Restaurant    
16     –
Craig Richey    He Looked Lost    
17     –
Craig Richey     Ending    
18     –Craig Richey     Coulda Beena Logger 
 

Friday, March 27, 2020

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou..original soundtrack..music by Mark Mothersbaugh and various artists







Tracklist:
1     –Sven Libaek     Shark Attack Theme     0:57
2     –Mark Mothersbaugh     Loquasto International Film Festival     4:40
3     –David Bowie     Life On Mars?     3:43
4     –Seu Jorge     Starman     3:21
5     –Mark Mothersbaugh     Let Me Tell You About My Boat     1:38
6     –Seu Jorge     Rebel Rebel     2:24
7     –Mark Mothersbaugh   Zissou Society Blue Star Cadets/Ned's Theme Take 1 8     –Devo     Gut Feeling     4:07
9     –Sven Libaek     Open Sea Theme     2:01
10     –Seu Jorge     Rock N' Roll Suicide     3:12
11     –Joan Baez     Here's To You     3:07
12     –Mark Mothersbaugh     We Call Them Pirates Out Here     3:56
13     –Iggy And The Stooges*     Search And Destroy     3:27
14     –Paco De Lucia*     La Nina De Puerta Oscura     2:58
15     –Seu Jorge     Life On Mars?     3:24
16     –Mark Mothersbaugh     Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op     4:15
17     –Seu Jorge     Five Years     3:41
18     –Scott Walker     30 Century Man     1:27
19     –The Zombies     The Way I Feel Inside     1:33
20     –David Bowie     Queen Bitch     3:17


Saturday, August 24, 2019

The Ladykillers...music from the motion picture....produced by T-Bone Burnett


The soundtrack to this Coen brothers movie from 2004 is a collection of old time spirituals, gospel hymns and quartet songs done by a mix of classic and contemporary artists including Pastor Donnie McClurkin, Rosie Stone(of the Sly and the Family Stone), Blind Willie Johnson, The Soul Stirrers and The Swan Silvertones. A real treat for lovers of roots music and deftly produced by the legendary T-Bone Burnett.

–The Soul Stirrers Come, Let Us Go Back To God 2:50
–Nappy Roots Trouble Of This World (Coming Home) 3:48
–The Venice Four With Rose Stone And The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir Let Your Light Shine On Me 6:43
–Nappy Roots Another Day, Another Dollar 3:48
–The Soul Stirrers Jesus I'll Never Forget 2:36
–Nappy Roots Trouble In, Trouble Out 4:04
–Bill Landford & The Landfordaires Trouble Of This World 2:45
–Donnie McClurkin Come, Let Us Go Back To God 4:33
–Rosewell Sacred Harp Quartet* Weeping Mary 2:41
–Little Brother Sinner 4:25
–Bill Landford & The Landfordaires Trouble, Lord I'm Troubled 2:58
–Donnie McClurkin You Can't Hurry God 2:26
–The Soul Stirrers Any Day Now 2:28
–Rose Stone With The Venice Four And The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir Trouble Of This World 2:55
–Claude Jeter* And The Swan Silvertones A Christian's Plea 2:23
–Blind Willie Johnson Let Your Light Shine On Me 3:07
–The Venice Four With Rose Stone And The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir Let The Light From The Lighthouse Shine On Me 1:42

–The Abbot Kinney Lighthouse Choir Yes 5:29









Saturday, March 30, 2019

The Last Time I Committed Suicide...1997 film..soundtrack album...various jazz artists


The beginning of everything self indulgent and timeless in the post WWII era of the USA. The music was be-bop jazz, the poetry and prose the written word.

This album, much like the movie that it accompanies, is a brilliant assessment of the Beat Jazz movement of the late 1950's. It draws on a selection of landmark jazz recordings, arranged in an intelligent and enjoyable progression. 

From the beginning of the album, you feel it. The music that shaped a generation and continues to shape generations to come. With the first track, which opens the film, we see a young Neal Cassidy and then from track to track, we see the definition of what the Big Beat really was, not one person and not one philosophy. It was like many things in the 1950's, an explosion of sound and color and possibilities.

Anyone whose ever even heard of Jack Kerouac or Neal Cassidy will dig this one.

  1. Better Get It In Your Soul - Charles Mingus
  2. Straight No Chaser - Max Roach Quartet
  3. Move - Miles Davis
  4. It's A Metaphor - Miles Davis
  5. Sugar Blues - Dianne Reeves
  6. Shaw 'Nuff - Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
  7. Right Back Where I Started - Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
  8. A Tisket, A Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald
  9. Sixteen - Thelonious Monk
  10. The Thin Man - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
  11. Woody Wagon - Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
  12. Country Girl - Javon Jackson
  13. He May Be Your Man - Dianne Reeves
  14. The Wild Stuff - Dianne Reeves
  15. Heartbreaker - The Andrews Sisters
  16. Budism - Jacky Terrasson
  17. The Suicide Suite (Original Score From The Movie) - Red Fish Blue Fish
  18. Carry On, My Brother - Red Fish Blue Fish
  19. Ride My Heart - Pet

  20. Who Is This? - Pet






Wednesday, November 21, 2018

official soundtrack release to the movie LONDON FIELDS with music by Adam Barber


Ingrooves Music Group recently released the official soundtrack to the 2018 film LONDON FIELDS. Based on the international best-seller by Martin Amis, the film stars Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Jim Sturgess, Theo James and Cara Delevingne.


LONDON FIELDS is a tantalizing, ultra-modern murder mystery about a murder that hasn't taken place yet, a darkly comic vision of a world on the brink of collapse in which every character--and society itself--has a rendezvous with death.  



The LONDON FIELDS score is written and produced by Adam Barber. Currently living in Los Angeles, his work ranges from film and television, to concert works and collaborations with Indy Artists such as Meghan Toohey from The Cold and Lovely and performing in the Doom Metal group, The Stoning. Other current work includes original music work for the technology not-for-profit MOBI consortium and an independent horror film titled, Extremity. In addition to scoring LONDON FIELDS, Adam is the executive music producer, music supervisor and music editor of the film. From beginning to end, LONDON FIELDS is punctuated by his hybrid use of traditional orchestral elements juxtaposed with electronica and traditional jazz quartet. 

For London Fields, Adam tracked strings in Budapest with Budapest Scoring and recorded the film’s smaller jazz-influenced ensemble in Los Angeles between his home studio and Grammy Artist Jeff Lorber’s Enchanted Way Studio’s in Pacific Palisades. The score mixer is Brad Haehnel. Throughout the score, Adam creates lush synth textures, rich with orchestral strings and performs on various instruments including electric bass, piano, Wurlitzer, marimba and vibes. Some of the score’s electronic and keyboard textures feature music software by the company Arturia, in particular, the Filters, Buchla Easel V and authentic sounding Wurli V. 

While recording, Adam tracked as much as possible, the featured instrumentalists, his Rhodes Mark II Stage piano and Rhodes Bass Piano, through Ruper Neve Design’s Shelford Channel Strips; his favorite pre-amp and DI. Featured instrumentalists are: Paul Morin on double bass, Wes Smith on tenor,  baritone saxaphone and clarinet, Perice Pope on flugelhorn and trumpet with harmon mute and Gary Novak on drums.




Marty's review: the soundtrack to London Fields is a very powerful and creative mix of various musical genres from jazz to classical to electronica. Composer Adam Barber has used an array of instruments and musicians to convey multiple images in a soundscape that is highly listenable as a standout album.

Saturday, July 14, 2018

The Last Picture Show...original recordings featured in the soundtrack...by various artists


Released in 1971 and hailed as the most impressive work by a young American director since Citizen Kane, Peter Bogdanovich's Last Picture Show is an elegiac study of life amid the dust and loneliness of a dying town. An account of adolescents coming of age filmed under a vast, empty Texas sky. The film has no conventional score. All of the music is from the period between November 1951 and October 1952 when the film is set and linked to each scene. It is played on home radios, car radios, truck radios, 45 rpm players, jukeboxes, and at a community Christmas dance. The Hank Williams song, heard on the radio in Sonny's old truck in the opening scene, 'Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?' sets the tone for the music as well as the movie. All of the songs featured in the film are collected together in this edition.


  1. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)-Hank Williams
  2. Cold, Cold Heart -Hank Williams
  3. Bouquet of Roses -Eddy Arnold
  4. Hey, Good Lookin' -Hank Williams
  5. Rose, Rose, I Love You -Frankie Laine
  6. Slow Poke -Pee Wee King
  7. Anything That's Part of You -Eddy Arnold
  8. A Fool Such As I -Hank Snow
  9. Shrimp Boats -Jo Stafford
  10. Cold, Cold Heart -Tony Bennett
  11. The Thing -Phil Harris
  12. Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
  13. The Wild Side of Life -Hank Thompson
  14. Kaw-Liga - Hank Williams
  15. Please, Mr. Sun -Johnnie Ray
  16. Give Me More, More of Your Kisses -Lefty Frizzell
  17. Half As Much - Hank Williams
  18. Wish You Were Here -Eddie Fisher
  19. Solitaire -Tony Bennett
  20. Wheel of Fortune -Kay Starr
  21. Blue Velvet -Tony Bennett
  22. You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford
  23. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy -Hank Williams
  24. Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You) -Hank Williams
  25. Back Street Affair - Webb Pierce
  26. Faded Love - Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
  27. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) -Hank Williams
  28. It's in the Book -Johnny Standley






Thursday, August 3, 2017

Madredeus...Ainda..original soundtrack from the film Lisbon Story



Director Wim Wenders has a terrific ear for the kind of music that defines and sustains a mood, be it Nick Cave, Buena Vista Social Club or in this case, his most original choice yet, Madredeus. Ainda is this sublime band's most sublime album. Never has melancholy sounded this beautiful. Salgueiro's emotionally loaded voice and the precise instrumental accompaniment of the musicians that fit so well they seem inseparable, take the listener on a beautiful trip. The excellent recording renders perfectly the particular lyric atmosphere.

The gorgeous acoustic chamber music of this veteran Portuguese composer will make this soundtrack appeal to fans of director Wim Wenders, who is renowned for his impeccable musical taste and first-rate soundtracks. If this isn't the music of the spheres, it's a close approximation. --Jeff Bateman








                 

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Friday, May 19, 2017

Liquid Bridge music from and inspired by the motion picture



Soundtrack to the 2003 Australian movie about Nick McCallum who dreams of turning pro surfer but his father, wheelchair bound after a surfing accident, stands in his way - as does his own fear of the big waves. He defies his dad but is framed in a drug bust and jailed. With the help of his French girlfriend he has to find a way to face the waves he fears most. 

A various artists eclectic mix of 12 tracks on this one featuring 2 by legendary Australian surf-rock band The Atlantics with a re-mix of their hit "Bombora".







Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Last Samurai...Original Motion Picture Score...Music by Hans Zimmer



This was Hans Zimmer's 100th score since beginning his film career in 1988. A pioneer of fusing both the electronic and orchestral and the Westernized with the indigenous, Zimmer does both here with skill, drawing heavily on samples of the traditional Taiko (a massive Japanese drum) for its rhythmic action sequences, while constructing a melodic Western motif for Tom Cruise's character that's both centerpiece and counterpoint for the score's trans-cultural intent. Aside from the brief, ominous thunder of the expected action/suspense boilerplate, Zimmer has constructed passages of gentle, Asian-inflected pastoralism that have parallels with much of his evocative work on The Thin Red Line. Those cues are the score's very soul, a canvas against which his more traditional themes reverberate all the stronger.





                                     

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

The Last Butterfly (1990 Film) Original Soundtrack...music by Alex North and Milan Svoboda



"The Last Butterfly" is the final film score written by the great Alex North in a career that began nearly forty years earlier with the inestimable score he provided for Elia Kazan's "A Streetcar Named Desire". His work remained, to the end, as precious as a fine rare jewel. The title of this film could have been a tribute to the composer himself. The album consists of about 20 minutes of music written by the Maestro, interspersed with music by Milan Svoboda.

1. Main Title - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
2. Antonie's New Digs - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
3. Foxtrot In Cabaret - Stepan Konicek
4. Mr. Grondin Pantomime - Milan Svoboda
5. Antonie's Payoff Music - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
6. Michelle's Demise - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
7. The Flashback - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
8. The Nightmare Begins - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
9. The Gordian Knot - Stepan Konicek
10. Afternoon Coffee - Alex North/Jazzfonic Orchestra
11. Things Don't, People Do - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
12. Avinu Malkenu - Alex North/Jewish Chorus
13. Snow White Ballet - Stepan Konicek
14. Signs Of Spring - Hana Hegerova
15. The Hit - Alex North/Jazzfonic Orchestra
16. Butterfly - Ivan Zeaty
17. The Red Umbrella - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
18. Ocarina Yiddish Dance - Vaclav Sykora
19. Save Stella - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
20. The Last Preformance - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra
21. Hansel & Gretel Ballet - Stepan Konicek
22. Lulinka - Vida Skalska

23. End Title - Marlo Klemens/The Prague Film Symphony Orchestra

The musical landscape of this album drifts by seamlessly from one vignette to the other. North's more studious compositions dance a charming pas de duex with Svoboda's folk-inspired pieces, and the chamber pieces harmonized gracefully with the cafe waltzes. For Alex North this is a beautiful elegy derived from the soul of a man obviously at peace with himself and his years. In his own typically unique and self-effacing way, the Maestro, with this work, bid a final and affectionate farewell to us all. 






Sunday, January 19, 2014

Leap Of Faith: Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack


This was a rare occasion where Hollywood put out a movie with a great gospel soundtrack. If you haven't seen the film, you're missing out on a special treat. It's about a man who loses faith and finds it again. Steve Martin stars as a burned-out charlatan evangelist who comes to a town that hasn't had rain in a long time. Martin finds his own faith throughout the course of the plot.

The highlight is the music though. Cliff Eidelman did a great job of putting this soundtrack together. All the music is upbeat and heartening, and it will have you up and singing from the first track. Whether you are one of the faithful or not, these gospel sounds will put a smile on your face and a bright note in your day.

1. Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat - Don Henley
2. Ready For A Miracle - Patti Labelle
3. Change In My Life - John Pagano
4. Stones Throw From Hurtin' - Wynonna
5. King Of Sin Medley: (Lord Will Make A Way (Somehow)/God Said He Would See You Through/God Will... - Angels Of Mercy
6. Pass Me Not - Lyle Lovett
7. Rain Celebration: (Jesus On The Mainline/Ready For A Mircale/It's A Highway To Heaven) - Angels Of Mercy
8. Blessed Assurance - Albertina Walker
9. Paradise By The Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf