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monkey
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Having recently purchased Peter Gabriel`s Passion (music for the last temptation of Christ) and noticing how influential it has been in generating the `sound` used nowadays in scores with ethnic influences, I`ve become curiosu of what scores (possibly foreign) use this type of approach in scoring. Examples of this would be Zimmer`s Gladiator and Black Hawk Down and quite a bit of Revell`s scores like The Crow and the rejected 13th Warrior (parts of which sound identical to Gabriel`s Passion).
Suggestions please!NP: Passion ****/*****
posted 02-22-2002 04:45 AM PT (US) joan hue
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Welcome to our board, monkey. (Hey Timmer, please help out your fellow
countryman with his question.
)I hesitate to answer your question because I’ve not heard Gabriel’s music
to The Last Temptation of Christ; however, it is on my rental list. Noting your
other references, it seems like you are asking about Media Ventures type music
that often employs the use of synthesizers. For that ethnic type of influence
you might note the music in Spy Game by Harry Gregson Williams.Lots of Middle Eastern influence and techno rock. (And at times, orchestrated themes...an odd mishmash of a score.) Also, Nick Glennie Smith's Attila is similar IMHO to Gladiator. Going back to the use of orchestra,
I’d recommend two older superb scores that have ethnic influences without
techno rock or synthesizers-Goldsmith’s The Wind and the Lion and The
Sand Pebbles. Also note scores to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.NP Night Crossings
posted 02-23-2002 01:33 PM PT (US) HadrianD
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Peter Gabriel's stuff for the the Christ flick is something special. I saw the film several time, weird since I'm not a Christian or a Catholic or Jewish, and the music had always stood out as VERY EVOCATIVE. Especially that scene Jesus is in chains, bearing cross, filmed in smooth slow motion photography. THe music just SHINED
posted 02-24-2002 03:01 AM PT (US) HadrianD
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Ohh and The Insider uses this worldly approach also.
I think that with Gladiator, it came down to just having a fresh approach to the old sword/sandal epic. "New Age" approach seems like something that was up Ridley's alley (ooh, it rhymed!!) given Vangelis's work on 1492.
posted 02-24-2002 03:05 AM PT (US) monkey
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Cheers for the suggestions, though i do have all of those scores....
some of lisa gerrard`s stuff with dead can dance is quite similar to the approach used by zimmer, revell et al. especially her collaboration with pieter bourke on their `duality` album.
though i haven`t seen `the last temptation of christ` the music on the cd is indeed very `evocative` as hadrianD put it. it is a very odd mixture and feels similarly structured as HGW`s spy game score with loadsd of vocal solists and even a choir.NP: 13 ghosts (frizzell) ***/*****
posted 02-24-2002 07:30 AM PT (US) Bozman
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Hey Monkey,If you liked Last Temptation of Christ, be sure to check out "Passion: Sources." It's source music--some of which appears in the film--that inspired Gabriel to write the score that he did.
Cheers!
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