{"id":4952,"date":"2012-05-24T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4952"},"modified":"2012-05-24T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T04:53:13","slug":"cd-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-the-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4952","title":{"rendered":"CD: Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The (2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=9\">Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews<\/a> \/ <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=1479\">B<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BestExoticMarigoldHotel_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4961\" title=\"BestExoticMarigoldHotel_s\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/BestExoticMarigoldHotel_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n<p>Label: Sony Classical\/ Released: May 1, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Tracks &amp; Album Length: 21 tracks \/ (46:54)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Composer: Thomas Newman<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Newman\u2019s score for the film version of Deborah Moggach\u2019s novel blends  Indian and Western conventions for a punchy, upbeat score while paying small  homages to the \u2018mystical\u2019 nature of India (or as evoked by Western filmmakers  with a nostalgia for the culture\u2019s inherently colourful exoticism).<\/p>\n<p>The opening cut clearly sets up the immersion of \u2018white into brown,\u2019 as  Indian instruments are linked with western rock rhythms, while more sedate cues  \u2013 \u201cThe Chimes at Midnight\u201d \u2013 gently carry Indian harmonics. Even with ethnic  infusion, Newman\u2019s style is easily identifiable: little rhythmic mobiles that  loop and overlap, and the composer\u2019s love of sounds which twang, rattle and  rebound with fat bassy resonance (\u201cRoad to Jaipur\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Percussive highlights include \u201cTuk Tuks\u201d with its crazy fusion of Indian,  jazz, and prog rock (all conveyed through a handful of instruments), or the slow  unfurling of rhythms in cues like \u201cCricket Spell,\u201d somewhat evoking Newman\u2019s  1992 score for the TV movie <strong>Those Secrets <\/strong>(particularly the use  of circular keyboard figures and sleek synth chords).<\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s album features a solid collection of cues, with lengths varying  between a 1-4 mins. Newman\u2019s approach tends to favour less is more, and while  the shorter cues are clearly transitional and bridge material, they manage to  form a fairly complete portrait of the cultural immersion within the story.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2012 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>External References:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002353\/\">IMDB <\/a>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtrackcollector.com\/title\/95228\/Best+Exotic+Marigold+Hotel,+The\">Soundtrack Album<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtrackcollector.com\/composer\/188\/Thomas+Newman\">Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=9\">Soundtrack Reviews<\/a> <\/em>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=1479\">B<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to:\u00a0Home \/\u00a0Soundtrack \u00a0Reviews \/ B . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical\/ Released: May 1, 2012 Tracks &amp; Album Length: 21 tracks \/ (46:54) . Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet. . Composer: Thomas Newman . . Review: Thomas Newman\u2019s score for the film version of Deborah Moggach\u2019s novel blends Indian and Western conventions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1hS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}