Nice to see old buddies Zimmer and Harvey finally collaborating on a score, where they receive shared credit. Should have been something other than boring animation though.
I knew someone was going to bring this piece up. It is a delight, isn't it? A cross between the first movement of Respighi's PINES OF ROME and Horner's WILLOW, filtered through a British "voicing" in the string interlude.
1. Preparation 2. Suis-moi (feat. Camille) 3. The Life Plan 4. Driving 5. Equation (feat. Camille) 6. The Interview 7. Le Tour de France en Diligence (feat. Camille) 8. Plan B 9. Getting On With It 10. Amongst the Coins 11. Top Floor Please 12. Ascending 13. Parachutes 14. Draw Me A Sheep 15. Stars 16. The Fox 17. The Journey 18. The Absurd Waltz 19. Suis-moi (Reprise) (feat. Camille) 20. Recovery 21. Trapped Stars 22. Farewell 23. Escape 24. Finding the Rose 25. Growing Up
this is a really delightful CD. i love when i am caught out of the blue by something unexpected that turns out to be so great. i also particularly appreciate when it comes from a regular favorite. zimmer can still do pretty amazing things, or at least finds collaborators that can. it's got a bit of an elfman vibe which i dig, some french sounding playful vocals and the some rather 1920s iris-ish piano later one. a very nice listen, you guys should check it out.
Saw this with my eldest daughter (who's 5) and loved it. It's pretty intimate both movie and score but really beautiful. I fear however that amid all the big summer releases it will stay under the radar. That's a shame because Zimmer and Harvey did a really good job. Check it out, guys!
I'm only part way through but it seems to be a very whimsy soundtrack in the style of Bruno Coulais with gibberish vocals mixed in with the music and a few tracks with vocals in French.
I'm only part way through but it seems to be a very whimsy soundtrack in the style of Bruno Coulais with gibberish vocals mixed in with the music and a few tracks with vocals in French.
By vocals do you mean film dialogue or melodic voices?
I'm only part way through but it seems to be a very whimsy soundtrack in the style of Bruno Coulais with gibberish vocals mixed in with the music and a few tracks with vocals in French.
By vocals do you mean film dialogue or melodic voices?
Melodic voices mostly. Some with words some just making musical noises. The French song is repeated a few times in the score. Overall I wasn't very much into the music on my first listen.
I'm surprised that there hasn't been more discussion of this score. It's a beautiful, gentle score tinged with melancholy. I suppose the film's American distributor dropping the film a week before release date won't help things any. It's not absolutely revolutionary, but it's a lovely soft album to play when you need some peaceful music.
It's continuously fascinating to me that Zimmer can write something so beautiful as this and then turn around and write absolute dreck like Batman vs. Superman.
The film is now on Netflix and it is a complete and utter joy. A combination of Disney's Up and Spielberg's Hook in terms of tone and feeling. It's been a very long time since I fell in love with a film so utterly.
The score is bloody outstanding. I ordered it off Amazon before the film was half-way over. It seems that Zimmer was withholding the best of himself when he made all those crappy scores for superheroes and poured it all out in this film. A gentle, lyrical little score with one utterly beautiful cut ("Escape") that ranks among his best moments if not THE best moment.
