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| | Winged Migration | | | Music Artist : | | Various Artists | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Higher Octave | | Release Date : | | 2003-04-22 | | Store Price : | | $17.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $17.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. To Be By Your Side - Nick Cave
2. Masters of the Field
3. Northern Bound
4. Crossing
5. Highest Gander
6. Beating Drums
7. Return of the Cranes
8. Blue Thread
9. Red Forest
10. Like a Breath of Air
11. Takeoff
12. Amidst the Factory Smoke - Gabriel Yacoub
13. Glider
14. After the Hunt - Robert Wyatt
15. Paper Parrot
16. Swans Flight - Robert Wyatt
17. Feathers and Stripes
18. Wounded Dove - Robert Wyatt
19. Off Camera
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 A Very Special Film Score
Submitted on: 2009-09-10 |
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| One is at first reluctant to write yet another user review given the extremely high accolades already contained in the many fine reviews. But the score of Winged Migration is so outstanding that it almost compels one to share thoughts and, most importantly, express gratitude to the composers and artists. If there is anything more beautiful than the film's cinematography it is indeed the spiritual, uplifting, and poignantly melodic score that moves the listener to a very emotional place each time the music is heard. Though not exclusively so, the score has a special focus on choral, chant, and other vocal music with many tones and melodies both contemporary and traditional. The film's composer comments in one of the DVD's special features that some of his vocalists could sing the phone book and make it sound moving. The score is so extraordinary that it truly belongs alongside much more widely recognized masterpieces such as Dances With Wolves. As with Dances, the score of Winged Migration separates itself from the film and stands alone as an amazing symphony that no appreciator of music should miss hearing in his lifetime. Though this music is timeless, we are not. |
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As inspirational and thrilling as the film
Submitted on: 2008-08-24 |
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The music in this album is enchanting. If you're a fan of the film, or even if you've never heard of it, this music will move you. Like the film itself, it explores the tenacity and strength of migrating birds as they travel thousands of miles, sometimes halfway around the world, to their summer and winter homes. Employing a variety of world instruments and voices, an eclectic and yet unified body of music is presented in a near flawless order.
With the amazing opening track "To by by Your Side," sung by Nick Cave, Winged Migration begins by perfectly capturing the core theme of the movie and its soundtrack: the promise of return, of the continuation of each cycle of life and death. "Across the endless wilderness where all the beasts bow down their heads. Darling I will never rest till I am by your side. Every mile and every year, Time and Distance disappear I cannot explain this. Dear No, I will not even try."
Other exceptional tracks include "Beating Drums," an intense percussion accompanied tribute to flight, "The Return of the Cranes," with it's haunting lyrics carefully sampled with birdsong, and "After the Hunt," an ambient rendition of "The Crossing," which in this more subtle form gains from its loss of human vocals. Another stand out is "The Wounded Dove," sung in French, both sad and filled with hope, an interesting parallel to Cave's "To be by Your Side."
Perhaps the only song that seems out of place in this collection is "The Highest Gander," which suffers from rather silly lyrics and a slightly nasal singer. This track was used only briefly in the film for obvious reasons; thirty seconds is more than enough.
The term 'inspirational' is thrown around a lot these days, and reviewer's apply it liberally to all sorts of films and songs, but there is no better description for this score (and the film as well). This music touches the listener because in the lives of the birds represented in these songs we see our own struggles and triumphs, our own ability to overcome distance and adversity. We see the hope of our own lives revealed anew.
This album is worth owning, if only for Cave's exceptional first track. Beyond that first triumph remains a collection of lovely world music influenced tracks that captures the same sense of wonder and beauty of flight and the birds who make it seem so effortless.
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Inventive World Music
Submitted on: 2008-04-03 |
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This soundtrack is really beautiful. The composer, Bruno Coulais has effectively combined the rhythms and sounds of various lands around the globe with the natural sounds of beating wings and calls of the birds that star in this masterpiece of a film.
My favorite performances are vocalized by a group called A Filetta. They are a bunch of men with vocal talents like Bobby McFerrin's that have banded together into an a cappella orchestra of sorts. Coulais' direction of these vocal masters is documented in one of the "making of" extras in the DVD.
GET THE DVD TOO. Although the soundtrack stands quite well on its own, hearing the music in the context it was created for is a Bonus. |
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 Problems with getting to the soundtrack music
Submitted on: 2007-10-31 |
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| The music was fine once I found the non apparent means of access. When the disc is inserted, the flash preview program comes up and there is no apparent way to the soundtrack music. I was about to give up when I brought up explore, right clicked on the disc title and clicked on run. The Real Player came up and I was able to listen to the soundtrack. Not nice. |
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Beautiful!
Submitted on: 2007-04-24 |
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| I've owned this CD for several years now, and it definitely remains on my short, short list of favorites! The music is beautiful and contemplative, drawing the listener into the journey of migration undertaken by the birds who inspired it. Everything is amazing on it: the writing, the instrumentation, the vocals. This albumn is definitely not just for fans of the movie, but for anyone who loves slow, calming, thoughtful music. |
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