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Cat. No.: 477 6552 |
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ARTISTS Lang Lang, piano (1-5, 7-10, 12, 14, 16, 19)
TRACK LISTING DESPLAT: The Painted Veil From the award-winning composer of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, and The Queen. The Painted Veil is a touching love story that unfolds in early 20th-century China and stars Hollywood actors Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. The soundtrack, set and arranged by composer Alexandre Desplant, features celebrated pianist Lang Lang. The score's mellow, melodic stream of sound helps illustrate the complex relationship between Walter and Kitty. Alexandre Desplat won a Golden Globe nomination in 2004 for his acclaimed score for Girl with a Pearl Earring, which also earned him BAFTA and European Film Academy nominations. Other recent works include Birth, Syriana, Hostage and The Upside of Anger. Earlier this year, Desplat - a two-time nominee for the Cesar Award - won the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear prize for his music for the French film The Beat That My Heart Skipped. The Story: Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920s that portrays the complex relationship of a young English couple. Walter (Edward Norton), a middle-class doctor, and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter uncovers her infidelity, he takes revenge by accepting a job in a remote village in China that has been ravaged by a deadly epidemic, bringing Kitty with him. The couple's journey infuses their relationship with meaning and purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. Also starring: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Liev Schreiber, and Sally Hawkins.
Starring: Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (II), Liev Schreiber, Sally Hawkins Directed by: John Curran, Caroline Link Produced by: Mark R. Gordon, Bob Yari, Sara Colleton |
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Cat. No.: 170 8418 |
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TRACK LISTING Disc 1 1. "Hong Kong Garden" - Siouxsie & The Banshees 2. "Aphrodisiac" - Bow Wow Wow 3. "What Ever Happened" - The Strokes 4. "Pulling Our Weight" - The Radio Dept. 5. "Ceremony" - New Order 6. "Natural's Not In It" - Gang Of Four 7. "I Want Candy (Kevin Shields Remix)" - Bow Wow Wow 8. "Kings Of The Wild Frontier" - Adam & The Ants 9. "Concerto in G" * - Antonio Vivaldi / Reitzell 10. "The Melody Of A Fallen Tree" - Windsor For The Derby 11. "I Don't Like It Like This" - The Radio Dept. 12. "Plainsong" - The Cure Disc 2 1. "Intro Versailles"* - Reitzell / Beggs 2. "Jynweythek Ylow" - Aphex Twin 3. "Opus 17" - Dustin O'Halloran 4. "Il Secondo Giorno (Instrumental)" - Air 5. "Keen On Boys" - The Radio Dept. 6. "Opus 23" *- Dustin O'Halloran 7. "Les Baricades Misterieuses"* - Francois Couperin / Reitzell 8. "Fools Rush In (Kevin Shields Remix") - Bow Wow Wow 9. "Avril 14th" - Aphex Twin 10. "K. 213" * - Domenico Scarlatti / Reitzell 11. "Tommib Help Buss" - Squarepusher 12. "Tristes Apprets.." - Jean Philippe Rameau /W. Christie 13. "Opus 36" *- Dustin O'Halloran 14. "All Cats Are Grey" - The Cure Marie Antoinette is the new Sony Pictures film by Sofia Coppola. This two-CD set matches Coppola's modern take on the story of this 18th Century leader with a mix of '80s new wave, electronica, and classical works from artists ranging from Siouxsie and the Banshees ("Hong Kong Garden") and The Cure ("Plainsong," "All Cats Are Grey") to Antonio Vivaldi ("Concerto in G"). The music reflects Coppola's intention to tell the story in a modern way. While writing the script, she found inspiration from the New Romantic pop music movement of the 1980s -- which was itself heavily influenced by 18th century ideals of extravagance. New Romantic artists such as Bow Wow Wow ("I Want Candy) and Adam Ant ("Kings of the Wild Frontier") celebrated glamour, luxurious fashion, and hedonistic fun during that period as a kind of counterpoint to both the boredom of classic rock and the primal anger of punk music. Coppola saw the music as a modern lens through which to view Marie Antoinette - and songs such as "I Want Candy" seemed to serve as a perfect, modern expression of Marie Antoinette's impulses to find fulfillment through pleasure. Coppola turned to music supervisor Brian Reitzell (who worked on her previous films, Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides) to discuss music in the tone she was thinking of while writing. Reitzell mixed "Versailles CDs" that included such artists as Bow Wow Wow, New Order ("Ceremony"), Adam Ant, and other post-punk romantic music." "It was all very organic," he continues. "The story dictated the music, which follows the dramatic arc. We set it all up in the opening credits with the Gang of Four song "Natural's Not in It" -- which prepares you musically and lyrically for what's going to happen. Later, there is an Aphex Twin piece, "Jynweythek Ylow," which is played when Marie Antoinette first enters Versailles, which actually sounds like that place. What I love about it is that you can't tell if it's a harpsichord or string instrument that's playing." Also included on the soundtrack are even more modern groups such as The Strokes ("What Ever Happened"), Squarepusher ("Tommib Help Buss"), Air ("Il Secondo Giorno [Instrumental]"), The Radio Dept. ("Pulling Our Weight," "Keen on Boys"), and Windsor for the Derby ("The Melody Of A Fallen Tree"). The eclectic blend of sounds, Reitzell maintains, "makes it a lot easier to put yourself in the movie. The music resonates because it shows how these people really were. For most of the movie, Marie Antoinette is an adolescent and it would have been a lot harder to get across her teen angst with a Masterpiece Theater type of soundtrack." The result is this double disc Verve Forecast release, "a post-punk-pre-new-romantic-rock- opera odyssey with some 18th century music and some very new contemporary music," as Reitzell calls it. Oscar® winner Sofia Coppola brings to the screen an imaginative interpretation of the life of France's legendary teenage queen Marie Antoinette. When betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) enters the opulent French court which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Without guidance, adrift in a dangerous world, the young girl rebels against the isolated atmosphere at Versailles and becomes France's most misunderstood monarch. Marie Antoinette opens in Australia on December 26, 2006.
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Cat. No.: 7230191 |
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TRACK LISTING CD1 1 Tazarine - Gustavo Santaolalla 2 Tu Me Acostumbraste - Chavela Vargas 3 September - Earth, Wind & Fire / The Joker - Fatboy Slim (ATFC's Aces High Remix) - Shinichi Osawa Remix 4 Deportation/Iguazu - Gustavo Santaolalla 5 World Citizen - I won't be disappointed/Looped piano, David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Amadeo Pace, Keigo Oyamada & Sketch Show 6 Cumbia Sobre El Rio - Blanquito Man, Control Machete & Celso Peña Y Su Ronda Bogotá 7 Hiding It - Gustavo Santaolalla 8 Masterpiece - Rip Slyme 9 Desert Bus Ride - Gustavo Santaolalla 10 Bibo no Aozora - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Everton Nelson/ Endless Flight - Gustavo Santaolalla/ Babel - Gustavo Santaolalla 11 Tribal - Gustavo Santaolalla 12 Para Ques Regreses - El Chapo de Sinaloa 13 Babel - Nortec Collective 14 Amelia Desert Morning - Gustavo Santaolalla 15 Jugo A La Vida - Las Tucanes de Tijuana 16 Breathing Soul - Gustavo Santaolalla 17 The Blinding Sun - Gustavo Santaolalla
CD2 1 Only love can conquer hate - Ryuichi Sakamoto 2 El Panchangon - Los Incomparables 3 Two Worlds, One Heart - Gustavo Santaolalla 4 The Phone Call - Gustavo Santaolalla 5 Gekkoh - Susumu Yokota 6 The Catch - Gustavo Santaolalla 7 Mujer Hermosa - Los Incomparables 8 Into The Wild - Gustavo Santaolalla 9 Look Inside - Gustavo Santaolalla 10 The Master - Gustavo Santaolalla 11 Oh My Juliet! - Takashi Fujii 12 Prayer - Gustavo Santaolalla 13 El Besito Cachichurris - Daniel Luna 14 Walking in Tokyo - Gustavo Santaolalla 15 The Visitors - Hamza El Din 16 Morning Pray - Gustavo Santaolalla 17 Mi Adoracion - Agua Caliente 18 The Skin Of The Earth - Gustavo Santaolalla 19 Bibo no Aozora/04 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Yuichiro Gotoh
Babel , the last film by Alejandro González Iñárritu that completes his trilogy which began with Amores Perros and 21 Grams, weaves together three compelling stories united by something stronger than fate. The soundtrack Iñárritu assembled for Babel is as magical as the movie itself. "My films are symphonies," the director explains. "I listen to and accumulate music that will be an inspiration during the writing of the script, pre-production, filming and editing. I assimilate the music and create scenes that have a pulse and internal rhythm." Iñárritu makes mix CDs for the cast and crew so they can "synchronize" themselves to the work. The music on these CDs isn't only the soundtrack to the film, but the soundtrack of the whole creative process, from inception to final cut. "The first thing that I did in film was a score to a short film 23 years ago," the director says, "and since Amores Perros, which was our first feature together, having had the opportunity to work with Gustavo Santaolalla has been a blessing and a privilege, and the best part in the process of making this film. He's a genius." Gustavo Santaolalla, who wrote the score for Babel, won the 2005 Academy Award for Best Score for Brokeback Mountain, which sold 165,000 copies in the U.S. alone. He also composed the score for Iñárritu's Amores Perros and 21 Grams , as well as Niki Caro's North Country . To give his music for Babel an authentic Middle Eastern feel, Santaolalla taught himself to play the oud, an Arab lute with a distinct, percussive sound. His work for the soundtrack album includes solo oud meditations, folkloric recordings of the Gnawa brotherhoods of Morocco and orchestrated pieces that combine electronic percussion with the sounds of classical Arab music. A global story needed a global soundtrack, but Alejandro González Iñárritu didn't want a hodge podge of folk music or songs that sounded like incidental music for a National Geographic special. Iñárritu, Santaolalla, Anibal Kerpel (Composer and Music Editor) and Lynn Fainchtein (Music Supervisor) locked themselves up in a recording studio both in Marrakech and Tijuana, where they listened to and recorded the music of the Gnawa and other traditional Arab musicians in Morocco, and delved into various Norteño sounds in Tijuana. In Japan, musician, producer and DJ Shinichi Osawa and musician, producer Cornelius guided Iñárritu and his collaborators through the sights and sounds of Tokyo at night. The resulting soundtrack takes us on a journey with no beginning or end, with music that illuminates the film as well as the creative process behind it. "Gustavo found the musical and spiritual DNA of the film playing the oud with his sensitive fingertips, producing the mesmerizing sounds of the scored tracks in these CDs," Iñárritu says. "I hope when you listen you can feel the distant winds of the planet caressing your skin." Santaolalla's evocative score for Babel is complimented by tracks from some of the best-known artists in the world of Japanese, Tex-Mex and North African music including music composed by Gustavo Santaolalla ["Brokeback Mountain"] with additional music by such esteemed artists as Fat Boy Slim (The Joker), Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian and more MOVIE SYNOPSIS The lives of four separate families on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accidental shooting that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager (Rinko Kikuchi) and her father (Koji Yakusho), a Mexican nanny (Adrianna Barraza) who, without permission, takes the American couples two children across the border. In the course of just a few days they will each face the dizzying sensation of becoming profoundly lost as they are pushed to the farthest edges of confusion and fear as well as the very depths of connection and love. This mesmerizing film was shot in three continents and four languages. Early Buzz: Earlier this year at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu won the Best Director Award for Babel. The film has received tremendous reviews after it was shown at the Toronto, Telluride and Cannes Film Festivals. Early predictions about Academy Award nominations attached to this film. Babel opens in Australia on December 26, 2006. |
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