Back in the 1960s, Italian director Quilci Folco created one of the early travelogues of India in a documentary of the same name. The score, by Francesco de Masi, is a relatively innocent affair as global music goes with orchestrations that hint at the musical styles of India. Famed Italian whister, Alessandro Alessandroni, even plays a sitar in this score. The Beatles later would introduce a much wider audience to the sounds of India at a time when the field of ethnomusicology and awareness of global musics outside Western culture was still quite rare. If you are a child of the 1970s, you will surely recall the rise in America of the great sitarist Ravi Shankar and the many crossover albums that brought the sound of ragas to the door of Western classical music.
Tyler Bates has had a steady career scoring low-budget films as well as
some higher profile comedies. He toured with his band Pet and opened
for a number of musical acts, and he has played guitar for the Beastie
Boys and
This French import is a must-have for fans of Maurice Jarre. It's a
collection of music from 12 of Jarre's scores for French cinema
covering the years 1954 to 1964. That includes music from his first
ful
For the younger market comes this collection of theme songs from a
variety of Disney Channel programs. Included are multiple songs from The Lizzie McGuire Show, That's So Ra
Stuart Gordon's latest film, King of
the Ants (2003), made the rounds of a few film festivals before
appearing on video in April. Gordon's most familiar film,
This video game soundtrack, produced by Nile Rodgers, uses the same
techniques as film soundtrack albums -- that is, a series of "inspired
by" works are mixed in with the material wri
After thoroughly enjoying Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998), and especially
Bill Murray's superb performance in it, I was mildly looking forward to
this awkwardly named
In his latest film, Pedro Almodóvar explores the taboo subject
of sexual abuse of young boys by priests. Almodóvar is one of
the few directors who invites you into the worlds of bizarre people who
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