Category: Soundtrack Reviews
Running over an hour, John Debney’s score for Broken Horses has three specific recurring moods: a gentle waltz that’s heartwarming and simultaneously tragic; a grungy, grinding string motif that’s deliberately ugly, often functioning as a portent of danger…
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Based on the life of Iranian dance choreographer Afshin Ghaffarian, the music for Desert Dancer functions as a discrete, almost ambient sonic work. Most of the cues are performed by strings and hints of Persian instruments and harmonics, and while not abstract…
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Jon Ekstrand’s palette for this period thriller is largely locked onto a modest string orchestra with slight percussion accompaniment, evoking a grim, grey, emotionally dead world – no coincidence, since the child murder plot takes place in Stalinist Soviet Russia…
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Michael Brook is no stranger to the large film format IMAX, having previously scored Fires of Kuwait (1992) and India: Kingdom of the Tiger (2002), and his latest work features a gentle, highly introspective score on the city of Jerusalem (2013)…
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Intrada’s expanded CD release of The Last Starfighter marks the third time Craig Safan’s landmark score appears on disc, and this time the producers went back to the original 24 track 2” tape master to present the definitive edition of this special work…
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