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| | The Last Samurai | | | Music Artist : | | Hans Zimmer | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Elektra / Wea | | Release Date : | | 2003-11-25 | | Store Price : | | $18.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $14.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Way of Life
2. Spectres in the Fog
3. Taken
4. Hard Teacher
5. To Know My Enemy
6. Idyll's End
7. Safe Passage
8. Ronin
9. Red Warrior
10. Way of the Sword
11. Small Measure of Peace
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Unbelievable Arrangement of moving music
Submitted on: 2009-06-18 |
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| I can't get enough of this CD. Such an array of moving movements that seem to bring out the depths of peace and passionate motivation. |
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 Haven't recieved it yet
Submitted on: 2009-05-23 |
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| I already know I like some of the tracks but being that my order has not arrived yet (a month in waiting) I cannot not critique on the entire track. |
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Samurai Music
Submitted on: 2009-04-29 |
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| Excellent soundtrack! I loved it in the movie. Even better on the CD. |
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 Shallow, derivative and for undemanding listeners who don't know Asian/Japanese music
Submitted on: 2009-04-01 |
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Much like the movie the music was made for, this score is for people who don't know about Asian/Japanese culture. For a movie for Western audiences, the light, hollow-sounding "Japanese" sounds will sound Asian enough.
And most people will likewise give this review a negative as they have to every other review that critiques this score from a truly musical standpoint. The typical, sweeping, swooning orchestral score that marks many Hollywood "epics" is present here, and it does fine enough within the context of a movie.
But listened to without the imagery, the music doesn't do much new. It sounds like a typical Westerner's score with a slight Asian sound to it. It's not as bad as, say, having a GONG banging in the background, but just one listen to such scores as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Hero" will reveal the derivative and pseudo-Asian influence of "Last Samurai."
Those who like the "Last Samurai" probably won't care that the music here is ultimately superficial, as they've also accepted the utterly absurd, utterly Hollywood fantasy in "Last Samurai." |
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 Subtle but powerful
Submitted on: 2008-12-03 |
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| Subtle, not loud and exciting until final tracks. Good mood music, not as "Oriental" as I remembered from the movie. You can't lose with Zimmer. |
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