Track Listing

1. Summer Overture
2. Party
3. Coney Island Dreaming
4. Party
5. Chocolate Charms
6. Ghosts Of Things To Come
7. Dreams
8. Tense
9. Dr Pill
10. High On Life
11. Ghosts
12. Crimin' And Dealin'
13. Hope Hoverture
14. Tense
15. Bialy And Lux Conga
16. Cleaning Apartment
17. Ghosts Falling
18. Dreams
19. Arnold
20. Marion Barfs
21. Supermarket Sweep
22. Dreams
23. Sara Goldfarb Has Left The Building
24. Bugs Got A Devilish Grin Conga
25. Winter Overture
26. Southern Hospitality
27. Fear
28. Full Tense
29. Beginning Of The End
30. Ghosts Of A Future Lost
31. Meltdown
32. Lux Aeterna
33. Coney Island Low

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20039 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Amazon.co.uk Review
Mansell previously worked with director Darren Aronofsky on Pi where the electronica was powerfully raw. Enlisting the Kronos Quartet, this is proof of a far more intellectual process to create a through-scored piece. Both on screen and album, the music undergoes a perceivable development. Here it is given three sections ("Summer", "Fall" and "Winter"), and therefore attempts an almost symphonic form. "Summer Overture" introduces a repeatedly impressive central motif. The quartet excels in its sawing performance of it, and by the time of the first of two congas closing this initial seasonal section, you'll be prepared for the unexpected explosions of dissonance to follow. The final third ("Winter") puts a new motif through inventive stages of growth. From "Southern Hospitality" to "Meltdown" the sampled strings incessantly build in pitch until the desired unnerving effect has been well and truly achieved. This is music to match the most unshakeably nightmarish of dreams. --Paul Tonks

Customer Reviews

Original stuff
Of course the much-heard Requiem theme is absolutely brilliant, and this soundtrack centres largely upon that theme. It combines the wonderful ringing of the string quartet with electronic beats and mellower moments and this creates quite a unique soundtrack. It's highly recommended! In my opinion, it could have branched out a bit more. I ADORE the main theme of course but I think more variations on it would have been good - so much could be done with it and sometimes I felt the tracks didn't go far enough to expand on the original thematic content, but it's still a great CD.

Sooooo Disapointed
After reading the reveiws of this album / soundtrack on here I was so Dissapointed with this album when I played it, what a load of crap all arty farty sh** !!

An amazing score
Brilliant, amazing, sublime, fantastic. take your pick they all apply. Clint mansell and the kronos quartet have outdone themselves. Its so good that despite being from a low key movie this sound track is one of the most recognisable peices of music composed in the last 20 years. OK this is inpart to the reqiuem for a tower recording but credit to the composers.