SOUNDTRACK | BABEL
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.
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