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Action cue sounds pretty fantastic.
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Clever idea to pre-empt complaints about more wailing woman content, by having a wailing man instead.
I imagine Horner couldn't really give a stuff what people on internet message boards think. 
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Snark duly registered. (No one says you have to listen to it.)
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I like what I heard. A couple tracks really stood out. I'll buy it when it's released
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Feb 18, 2012 - 8:36 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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This arrived today from HMV.com, a few days before it's official UK release 
The first track didn't fill me with hope. Wailing man, low-key, quite dull.
But from track 2 onwards, it gets better and better.
The Enemy At The Gates/Schindler's retread isn't as bad as I was anticipating, or been led to believe.
Sure, it shares a slight similarity, but no more than Goldsmith's Dennis The Menace theme recalls his First Great Train Robbery one.
The Wonders Of Wealth is great fun, kinda put me in mind of An American Tail and the working/construction cue from Volunteers. Fresh Water is another belter! Classic Horner.
There's also some lovely, sensitive piano passages performed by Horner himself.
It certainly evokes the desert in a quite classical style.
I think the fact it runs 55 minutes, as opposed to his usual 70-79 minute CD's, also makes the whole thing more accessible somehow.
Also, no Danger Motif!
Just cos my mind works like this, other scores it has evoked, although thankfully doesn't copy outright, are Four Feathers, Zorro, Troy and House Of Sand And Fog.
Whilst it's an unmistakable Horner score, it is also free of past works, aside from stylistic similarities.
The packaging is a slight let-down. I usually like to read a bit of 'gush' from director, composer or both, but this is just a bunch of colour stills, which is acceptable, I suppose, but notes always work better for me. The cover is quite nice though. Minor gripe over.
Great stuff overall and this will get quite a few spins this week.
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Wailing Woman is actually used brilliantly in the track The Blowing Sand as a eerie, siren-like, vocal effect, rather than the usual lament or call to prayer-like sound.
Great score, this one is (he said, Yoda-like)
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