{"id":1547,"date":"2010-11-18T03:08:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T08:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2010-12-20T21:51:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T02:51:20","slug":"cd-tamara-drewe-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"CD: Tamara Drewe (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Good<\/p>\n

Label: Silva Screen\/ Released: September 20, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length: 19 tracks \/ (48:07)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet with liner notes by director Stephen Frears and song composers Benjamin Todd and Nathan Cooper.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Alexandre Desplat<\/p>\n

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Rather than opting for multiple themes, Alexandre Desplat\u2019s singular effort focuses on the causal effects stemming from the film\u2019s eponymous character as she returns to a sleepy English village, and the rippling chaos it creates among eccentric characters.<\/p>\n

To capture all that energy, he created a kinetic musical motor with an unstoppable tempo. Centered on an elliptical motif, Desplat uses marimba, vibes, fluttering flutes, and wooden taps, and the compact pattern allows Desplat to keep spiraling up and down, affecting the tempo of scenes as well as conveying a sense of news, gossip and rumours flowing from cottages to homes and farms.<\/p>\n

Some of the chord progressions \u2013 notably the breathy ascending flutes in \u201cBiggest Shagging\u201d \u2013 are Barryesque, and whether deliberate or unconscious, they add to the comedy\/drama\u2019s fixation on quirky British archetypes.<\/p>\n

Desplat\u2019s handful of variations manage to break up what could\u2019ve been a rather monotonous album experience. \u201cDogs and Cows\u201d is a great m\u00e9lange of a bossa nova beat with timpani and marimba dominating the small orchestra, and \u201cBeth\u2019s Monologue\u201d is filled with shimmering, woody tones, string accompaniment, and harmonics that sometimes recall Maurice Jarre\u2019s quirky theme structure.<\/p>\n

Most of the cues hover around 2 mins., and while there are longer thematic explorations, the short variations ten to offer more inventive material. Silva\u2019s album is crisply mastered and although the liner notes state three source songs at the CD\u2019s end, the first song, \u201cWhere Are You Now?\u201d seems to have been replaced with the first + second score cues with a quick fadout. (The downloadable album features all 3 songs, so perhaps it\u2019s merely an issue with early review copies.).<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2010 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album<\/a> — Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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