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Thin Red Line: Original Soundtrack [SOUNDTRACK]

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from: RCA

Release Date March 01, 1999
Tuve el "privilegio" de visionar en un gran cine de Tarragona (el ya desaparecido Oscar 1) esta obra maestra en el año 1999, con el sistema de sonido DTS.

Comentar que este film esta muy por encima de las películas estrenadas durante ese año (recordemos que fué la gran perdedora de la edición de los oscar -7 nominaciones y ninguno ganado-).

Merecía mucha, muchísima mejor suerte este film de Malick, del cual espero con muchísima espectación que edite una versión extendida del film (recordar que la duración total del film llega a las 6 horas).

Dejando a un lado el film, al que considero ya directamente UN CLASICO, la banda sonora de Hans Zimmer merece una mención aparte. Es de las mejores partituras ... Read More:

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At the Movies

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by: Ennio Morricone

Release Date April 22, 2000
Almost any (but not quite all) CD by Ennio Morricone deserves 5 stars but what makes this one great is that it includes Per Amore, a wonderful melody, which is rarely to be found.

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Antarctica

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by: Vangelis

Release Date March 18, 1996
A beuatiful album by Vangelis - the title track is seven minutes of sheer perfection, and its haunting melody is repeated several times during the subsueqent tracks, which are lush, melodic and superbly atmospheric. One of the greatest 'ambient' style albums I've ever heard - put this one on after a long hard day and just let the music dissolve away all stresses and tensions.

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Drowning By Numbers

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from: Venture

Release Date March 22, 2004
I find it difficult to believe that no one has taken it upon themselves to review this extraordinary work and consider it a privilige to be the first person invited to do so.
I first became aware of Michael Nyman having been to see Peter Greenaway's Draughtsman Contract for which Nyman also composed the score. Although the film impressed me it was Drowning by Numbers that really moved me,both film and music. The film is excellent in its own right,but it is the music that makes it a masterpeice , and no doubt, some would argue vice versa. Invariably, soundtracks pale into insignificance when listened to without the film they were intended to accompany, not so this one, each track is a belter. It is debateable as to whether it is best to listen to the ... Read More:

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Rapsodies

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by: Vangelis

Release Date July 30, 2007
I find it difficult to believe that no one has taken it upon themselves to review this extraordinary work and consider it a privilige to be the first person invited to do so.
I first became aware of Michael Nyman having been to see Peter Greenaway's Draughtsman Contract for which Nyman also composed the score. Although the film impressed me it was Drowning by Numbers that really moved me,both film and music. The film is excellent in its own right,but it is the music that makes it a masterpeice , and no doubt, some would argue vice versa. Invariably, soundtracks pale into insignificance when listened to without the film they were intended to accompany, not so this one, each track is a belter. It is debateable as to whether it is best to listen to the ... Read More:

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Gloryland

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by: Anonymous 4

Release Date September 04, 2006
I find it difficult to believe that no one has taken it upon themselves to review this extraordinary work and consider it a privilige to be the first person invited to do so.
I first became aware of Michael Nyman having been to see Peter Greenaway's Draughtsman Contract for which Nyman also composed the score. Although the film impressed me it was Drowning by Numbers that really moved me,both film and music. The film is excellent in its own right,but it is the music that makes it a masterpeice , and no doubt, some would argue vice versa. Invariably, soundtracks pale into insignificance when listened to without the film they were intended to accompany, not so this one, each track is a belter. It is debateable as to whether it is best to listen to the ... Read More:

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Albedo 0.39

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by: Vangelis

Release Date September 16, 1989
Produced in the 70's before he really hit the big time, this is a slice of what made Vangelis the master of synth rock. This is up there against Tomita and J.M. Jarre, and comes out very well. We all gasped that only one man was making such wonderful music, remember this was before PCs and samples took over the world. There are complex and melodic pieces alongside percussion. There is an other worldly feel to the pieces which explains why this music was used in Carl Sagans "Cosmos". The spoken title track is quite haunting and ethereal, the sound effects of the speaking clock and telephone dialling a little twee. A great introduction to synthesizers and the template for many a late night session staring at the clear night sky as a callow youth, dreaming about the ... Read More:

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The Essential Michael Nyman Band

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from: Argo

Release Date November 10, 1992
Michael Nyman is a composer for our time. He's as valid to us as Bach must have been to his 18th century audience. Think about words that sum-up how we live our modern lives and they apply to Nyman's music: Immediate, brash, vibrant, pulsing, gimmicky, superficial, quick, surreal, humorous, accessible, severe, and very slightly pretentious... Nyman's music is as enjoyable as a walk through the city in the middle of Summer. It's modern life in sonic form.

Nyman heard how our modern brains work and produced music to match. I hesitate to say for fear of offence but there's an autistic quality about Nyman's work. I suspect future historians will record that autism and especially Asperger's Syndrome are (were) the illnesses that somehow best characterised our time, ... Read More:

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Luciano Pavarotti - The Best

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by: London Symphony Orchestra, Covent Garden Royal Opera House Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestra, Antonella Pepe, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rob Mathes, Veris Giannetti, Bulgaria Symphony Orchestra, Stefano Nanni

Release Date March 17, 2008
Michael Nyman is a composer for our time. He's as valid to us as Bach must have been to his 18th century audience. Think about words that sum-up how we live our modern lives and they apply to Nyman's music: Immediate, brash, vibrant, pulsing, gimmicky, superficial, quick, surreal, humorous, accessible, severe, and very slightly pretentious... Nyman's music is as enjoyable as a walk through the city in the middle of Summer. It's modern life in sonic form.

Nyman heard how our modern brains work and produced music to match. I hesitate to say for fear of offence but there's an autistic quality about Nyman's work. I suspect future historians will record that autism and especially Asperger's Syndrome are (were) the illnesses that somehow best characterised our time, ... Read More:

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Oceanic

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by: Vangelis

Release Date October 25, 1996
I find Oceanic as good as anything Vangelis has done. This is wonderful and adventureous music. I like how the music is not so clearly defined but flushes back and forth like ocean waves. There may not be grand melodic ideas here and some sounds are a bit midi-like but it all works together to paint a picture of a hidden water world. This could be a game soundtrack. This CD can take many listens.