http://www.soundtrackcollector.com Recent news on SoundtrackCollector.com. en-us Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:55:05 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1951 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1951 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1950 <![CDATA[ Kronos Records has released the score for Aragosta A Colazione. The story: Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party catered by Enrico's wife, Matilde.&nbsp;Can this farce end happily? Piero Umiliani wrote&nbsp;a beautiful, classy, jazz swing score that was previously released only as a limited edition LP (200 copies) in 1979 and never sold commercially!&nbsp;First time ever on CD. Available from Kronos Records.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1950 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1948 <![CDATA[ MovieScore Media has released Malice In Wonderland. The music that surrounds Alice in Simon Fellows&rsquo; modern day setting of the Lewis Caroll fantasy classic is a totally unique mix of beautiful fairytale themes in waltz meter, dark and noir-ish melodies for electric guitars, cimbalom, trumpet and saxophone, infectious banjo riffs, playful Hammond organ tunes, catchy jingles, indie rock, sentimental piano music and steamy club music. Brothers Christian and Joe Henson draw inspiration from their big collection of odd instruments when they created the score for the film, resulting in an truly unusual and exciting mix of musical styles, perfect for the dreamy and sometimes nightmarish setting of the film. As a listening experience on its own, Malice in Wonderland is both interesting and entertaining &ndash; listeners will have a smile on their lips throughout the whole album, which also features two songs, &ldquo;Where Are You?&rdquo; performed by Betty Steeles and the wacked-out &ldquo;Titty Song&rdquo; featuring Bobby Chitlin. Available on CD and as download from MovieScore Media.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1948 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1946 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1946 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1947 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released Marmaduke, the story of &nbsp;the world&rsquo;s most lovable Great Dane, who&nbsp;leaps from comic strip fame (appearing in 600 newspapers in over 20 countries) to big screen stardom. In this family comedy event, the &ldquo;Duke&rdquo; is living large in Orange County, California. But fitting in with his new four-legged friends &mdash; and a potential romantic interest &mdash; isn&rsquo;t always easy for a super-sized teenage dog. Marmaduke stars Owen Wilson (Marley And Me) as the voice of Marmaduke, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, and William H. Macy, plus the voices of Kiefer Sutherland, George Lopez, Fergie, Emma Stone, Damon Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Christopher Mintz-Plasse. Composer Christopher Lennertz makes his Var&egrave;se Sarabande debut with this spirited and playful score. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1947 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1945 <![CDATA[ La-La Land Records announces three special releases, available at their booth at San Diego&rsquo;s Comic Con on July 21-25 (including preview night): Predators with a score by John Debney, and two 2CD sets: Batman: Limited Edition,&nbsp;the expanded archival collection with a score by Danny Elfman and&nbsp;James Horner's&nbsp;complete score for&nbsp;Krull.&nbsp;All three recordings will be available via www.lalalandrecords.com on July 27th but you can grab them first at THE CON! In addition to these premiere releases, there will be special appearances and great deals on La-La Land Records soundtracks at their display, housed at the Toy Hungry booth, space #429. Guest composers will be stopping by the La-La Land area to greet fans and sign CDs. Newly Emmy Award&reg; nominated composer Bear McCreary (Caprica, Battlestar Galactica, Human Target) will kick things off from 4-5PM on Thursday. Visit the La-La Land gang at Comic-Con to find out who will be appearing to sign autographs and when. Follow La-La Land on Twitter for breaking news at Comic Con, including information about special composer guests and signing times: http://twitter.com/LaLaLandRecords. La-La Land Records will be housed at the Toy Hungry booth, #429, during Comic-Con from July 21-25 (including preview night). ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1945 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1944 <![CDATA[ Tadlow Music has released&nbsp;Maurice Jarre's&nbsp;complete score,&nbsp;including alternative versions and bonus tracks,&nbsp;for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown. This 2 CD set,&nbsp;including a&nbsp;full colour booklet, contains over 2 hours of music, including&nbsp;over 50 minutes of previously unreleased music. The music is performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra&nbsp;conducted by Maurice Jarre. For more info and ordering, visit Tadlow Music. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1944 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1943 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande commemorates Alex North's 100th birthday and the film Spartacus' 50th Anniversary with the release of Robert Townson's 1,000th album. For this international celebration of one of film music's most influential and important giants, Robert Townson is joined by many welknown composers.&nbsp;The enormous boxed set includes: CD 1 with&nbsp;all surviving stereo tracks of the Spartacus recording. CD 2&nbsp;and 3 contain&nbsp;the complete original film soundtrack, in astounding monaural sound. CD 4 has&nbsp;a selection of unused and alternate cues from the original film sessions. CD 5&nbsp;and 6 contain 22 classic and newly recorded interpretations of Alex North's Spartacus Love Theme - featuring Bill Evans, Yusef Lateef, Carlos Santana, Lalo Schifrin, Dave Grusin, Mark Isham, Alexandre Desplat and many others! Also a DVD with a 96-minute feature documentary on the importance of Alex North and his score for SPARTACUS, with Alexandre Desplat, Mark Isham, David Newman, Lalo Schifrin, Robert Townson, Brian Tyler, John Williams and Christopher Young. Included are two bonus features with Mark Isham and Diego Navarro recording their own Spartacus Love Theme variations. And finally&nbsp;a 168-page, hardcover book by Robert Townson featuring detailed analysis of the SPARTACUS score, background on the film, an Alex North biography, over 100 photos and much more! For more info and ordering, visit Var&egrave;se Sarabande or (for Europe) Colosseum Records.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1943 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1942 <![CDATA[ La-La Land Records, with Sony Music and 20th Century Fox, presents the remastered and expanded release of Jerry Goldsmith&rsquo;s&nbsp;powerful orchestral score to The Edge, starring Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin and Bart The Bear, directed by Lee Tamahori. Considered by many to be one of Mr. Goldsmith&rsquo;s last great scores, his music to The Edge is at once thrilling, thoughtful and breathtakingly beautiful &ndash; managing to not only convey the film&rsquo;s majestic backdrop, but also it&rsquo;s complex struggles of Man vs. Beast, Man vs. Nature and Man vs. Man.&nbsp;This expanded CD features more than 65 minutes of pure Goldsmith, including bonus tracks. The CD booklet contains exclusive liner notes by Jeff Bond. La-La Land Records also presents the premiere release of Mark Mancina&rsquo;s powerhouse score to Speed 2, starring Sandra Bullock, Jason Patric and Willem Dafoe, directed by Jan De Bont. Orchestra and electronics combine in spectacular Mancina fashion, resulting in a full-throttle score that skillfully revisits the composer&rsquo;s classic Speed music, while also spinning off from it in exhilarating new directions.&nbsp;This dynamic album presentation includes a notable amount of music that wasn&rsquo;t used in the film (due to the picture&rsquo;s ever-changing edits right up to its release date). More than 70 minutes of pure adrenaline! Exclusive, in-depth liner notes by Daniel Schweiger feature new comments from the composer. Get them both for a special price&nbsp;from La-La Land Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1942 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1941 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1941 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1937 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1937 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1936 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1936 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1935 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1935 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1940 <![CDATA[ The mercurial talents of the late John Dankworth (1927-2010) are celebrated in this Vocalion release, comprising JD's 1974 Movies 'N' Me album, marking the only occasion on which he recorded for the RCA label. As the title suggests, it was an opportunity for Dankworth to explore his considerable back catalogue of film themes, dressing them in attractive new arrangements that took full advantage of the rhythms and sounds of the 1970s. Of course, being a Dankworth album, the all-important jazz element is to the fore, the music best described as a happy marriage between big band, funk and jazz. Remastered from the original analogue tapes. First time on CD.&nbsp;the&nbsp;themes from Modesty Blaise,&nbsp;from Darling, the&nbsp;Morgan theme from Morgan  A Suitable Case For Treatment,&nbsp;the theme from Return From The Ashes, the&nbsp;All Gone theme from The Servant, to name a few.&nbsp; Available from Amazon UK and Vocalion Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1940 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1939 <![CDATA[ Alhambra Records has presented&nbsp;the world premiere CD release of the music for the award-winning documentary Continente Perduto. This movie was in 1955 one of the most successful documentaries and also the first Italian movie in color and Cinemascope and with a four channel stereo sound. Lavagnino, who lived together with the film team in Indonesia for 6 months to study the music, composed a fascinating and exotic score with brilliant themes.&nbsp;On this CD for the first time Angelo Francesco Lavagnino's&nbsp;complete score in full stereo.This is a limited edition of 500 copies. Available from Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1939 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1938 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released the score for Mother And Child. Writer/director Rodrigo Garc&iacute;a teams with executive producer Alejandro Gonz&aacute;lez I&ntilde;&aacute;rritu to craft&nbsp;this drama, highlighting the powerful bond between a mother and her son. It's been years since Karen gave her daughter, Elizabeth, up for adoption, and the decision to abandon her child has always haunted her. Upon meeting laid-back Paco, Karen permits her anxiety and mistrust to get the best of her. On the surface it appears that Elizabeth is none the worse for never knowing her biological mother; she's a fast-talking lawyer who's just landed a high-profile job at a firm fronted by Paul, though her unsavory penchant for exploiting others is about to blow up in her face. Composer Edward Shearmur proves equally adept at providing a sympathetic and touching musical palette for Mother And Child. Score available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1938 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1934 <![CDATA[ Vocalion Records has re-released a topper from the Seventies: Mancini's Angels/The Theme Scene. This CD compiles two albums from the later part of Henry Mancini's more than twenty-year association with the RCA Victor label, and both show that he was more than able to 'get with it' in the funky 1970s. This is borne out in Mancini's Angels (1977), which, of course, is a paraphrase of 'Charlie's Angels', the massively popular US TV show that invited viewers into the glamorous world of a trio of beautiful female private detectives. In 1978 Henry Mancini and his orchestra were back in the studio to record The Theme Scene, another exploration of film and television music, namely Mancini's superb arrangements of the themes from Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Three's Company and Fantasy Island. Remastered from the original analogue tapes. First time on CD. Available from Amazon UK and Vocalion Records.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1934 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1933 <![CDATA[ Silva Screen Records has released Ennio Morricone&rsquo;s intense score to director Giuseppe Tornatore&rsquo;s autobiographical epic Baar&igrave;a.&nbsp;Darker and sadder than Morricone&rsquo;s recent work, the soundtrack for Tornatore&rsquo;s Baaria is the maestro&rsquo;s first feature film work in five years. Morricone comments on his work: &quot;Despite loving the film very much, I believe I didn&rsquo;t go overboard this time. I didn&rsquo;t shoot all the artillery toward the sky I believe, except in some moments&quot;. This is the eighth score Ennio Morricone composed for a Tornatore film. Tornatore says: &quot;I know that Ennio will give me every fibre of his musical sensibility and I know that his soundtrack will be extraordinary. I am certain of this before the project has begun&quot;. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France,&nbsp;Amazon Germany&nbsp;and Silva Screen Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1933 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1932 <![CDATA[ La-La Land Records has presented, in association with Twentieth Century Fox and Sony Music&rsquo;s Custom Marketing Group, the world premiere release of David Arnold&rsquo;s complete score from Independence Day. Arnold&rsquo;s epic, sweeping orchestral score sends the listener, along with the film&rsquo;s large scale sci-fi action and broad human drama, into the cinematic stratosphere. This 2 CD Limited Edition set features over two full hours of astounding film music, (with more than 70 minutes of previously unreleased material) including the complete score, along with a generous helping of Bonus Tracks. In-depth liner notes by Dan Goldwasser features comments from the composer, co-writer/producer Dean Devlin and others. This is a limited edition of 5000 copies. Available from La-La Land Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1932 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1930 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released a new title in their CD Club: Star Trek. It opened on May 8, 2009 and became the blockbuster film that brought STAR TREK back to life.&nbsp;The original best-selling soundtrack quickly rose to be the No. 1 album in overall sales at iTunes. The score is by Michael Giacchino, who recently won the Best Score Academy Award for his score for UP. He had just completed his work on the sixth and final season of the classic television show LOST. This special, deluxe edition from&nbsp;the CD Club presents over an hour of additional, unreleased music and sequences it into a chronological presentation of nearly 100 minutes of music from the film, including the final film version of the Main Title.&nbsp;Including a 28-page, full-color booklet. For more info and ordering, visit Var&egrave;se Sarabande and (for Europe) Colosseum Records.&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1930 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1929 <![CDATA[ Saimel Ediciones&nbsp;has released the score for Elo&iuml;se. It's&nbsp;a sensuous and ethereal story of two young women falling in love for the first time. Young, beautiful &Agrave;sia lies in a coma, her mother and boyfriend keeping constant vigil by her side. In flashbacks we see what led up to her accident, her life studying architecture at the&nbsp;university, the somewhat overbearing relationship she has with her mother and her passionless relationship with Nathaniel. &Agrave;sia seems unhappy and unsure in the world until she meets the mysterious and exotic Elo&iuml;se, an art student who asks &Agrave;sia to model for her. Elo&iuml;se is openly gay and unapologetically different from anyone else she knows, and despite her anxiety about falling in love with another woman, &Agrave;sia can't help but respond to Elo&iuml;se. The beautiful music is written by Carles Cases. For more info and ordering, visit Saimel Ediciones. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1929 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1928 <![CDATA[ MovieScore Media has released the score for Flicka 2, 20th Century Fox's sequel to the 2006 theatrical feature.&nbsp;This is Mark Thomas' third score for director Michael Damian, who is an accomplished musician himself and has a strong belief in the role of melody and the power of music in his storytelling. The Flicka 2 score features many tender moments where the solo guitar takes the lead over soft strings, but also darker orchestral music as well as big, sweeping thematic writing matching the grand vistas of the film's Wyoming setting. For more info and ordering, visit MovieScore Media. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1928 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1927 <![CDATA[ Intrada Records presents the world premiere release of the original&nbsp;score from John Frankenheimer gangster tale 99 And 44/100% Dead! Henry Mancini has written a&nbsp;tuneful score with nods to earlier Mancini-era scores (Peter Gunn, Mr. Lucky etc.).&nbsp;The score is&nbsp;presented in mono with bonus tracks in stereo, mastered fromthe &nbsp;only surviving elements available courtesy of&nbsp;both 20th Century Fox&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Henry Mancini Archives. This is a limited release of only 1200 copies and they are going fast, so hurry..! The second one in the Intrada Special Collection is also a world premiere release: the original soundtrack from the&nbsp;intense, gory Philippe Mora horror movie, The Beast Within.&nbsp;Horror score veteran Les Baxter contributes a&nbsp;vivid, graphic score late in his career.&nbsp; Presented in stereo from the complete (albeit slow-speed &amp; somewhat noisy) tape masters, courtesy of&nbsp;MGM.&nbsp;Les Baxter conducts. This is a limited&nbsp;release of&nbsp;1000 copies. For more info and ordering, visit Intrada Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1927 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1926 <![CDATA[ La-La Land Records presents the premiere retail CD release of Michael J. Lewis&rsquo; score to the 1973 cult classic United Artists&rsquo; black-comedy-horror Theater Of Blood, starring Vincent Price and Dianna Rigg, directed by Douglas Hickox. Composer Michael J. Lewis (Yes, Gorgio!, The Medusa Touch, The Passage, Baxter!)&nbsp;crafts a sumptuous orchestral score, as hauntingly beautiful as it is delightfully evil. Produced by Ford A. Thaxton and remastered by James Nelson from MGM vault elements, this new release features improved sound quality. The&nbsp;CD booklet features in-depth liner notes from film music writer Randall D. Larson. This is a limited edition of 1200 copies For more info and ordering, visit La-La Land Records. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1926 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1931 <![CDATA[ ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1931 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1925 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released the score for Lost: Season 5. The epic story of Lost twists, turns and time shifts in its brilliant fifth season. When destiny calls, the Oceanic 6 frantically race back to the island. Discover what forced them to return and find out the fate of all those who were left behind. Academy Award-winner Michael Giacchino&rsquo;s music has played a huge role in the series from the very beginning, andthis latest collection of Lost musical highlights contains over 60 minutes of Season 5&rsquo;s touching and thrilling score. The score is available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1925 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1924 <![CDATA[ From Lakeshore Records comes&nbsp; the score for Don McKay. A long time high school janitor leads a quiet life until he receives a letter from his ailing high school girlfriend for whom he has carried a torch. Returning to his hometown - and the scene of a past trauma that he inadvertently caused - the janitor reunites with the girl, but soon begins to suspect that her motives for summoning him are more nefarious than she's letting on. The music is by Steve Bramson. His score&nbsp;works in its subtlety. It's focuses on using solo instruments such as a piano, violin and some electronic drones to create atmosphere. The&nbsp;music speaks a sense of loneliness and intrigue.&nbsp; Available as download only from Amazon.com. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1924 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1923 <![CDATA[ Walt Disney Records has released the score for Prince of Persia: The Sands Of Time. Be a part of the legacy, with the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Soundtrack. Anticipation mounts for this movie that is Jerry Bruckheimer produced and directed by Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) based on the popular video game series of the same name. Enjoy the music of this epic action-adventure about a rogue prince and a mysterious princess who race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time. Original score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams; famous for his work with The Chronicles of Narnia films.&nbsp; Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany.&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1923 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1922 <![CDATA[ Lakeshore Records has released the score for B&eacute;b&eacute;(s) (Babies).&nbsp;Directed by award-winning filmmaker Thomas Balm&egrave;s, from an original idea by producer Alain Chabat, Babies simultaneously follows four babies around the world &ndash; from birth to first steps. The children are, respectively, in order of on-screen introduction: Ponijao, who lives with her family near Opuwo, Namibia; Bayarjargal, who resides with his family in Mongolia, near Bayanchandmani; Mari, who lives with her family in Tokyo, Japan; and Hattie, who resides with her family in the United States, in San Francisco. &ldquo;The music of Babies was written for a very special orchestra that included a lot of toys, a string quintet, wind orchestra, ethnic instruments, piano and percussion,&rdquo; says Bruno Coulais. &ldquo;The words of the lyrics have no meaning. The vocals sound like the beginning of human language.&rdquo; Available from Amazon.com.&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1922 http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1921 <![CDATA[ Var&egrave;se Sarabande has released the score for Robin Hood. Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as Robin Hood, whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spirit of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power. And whether thief or hero, one man from humble beginnings will become an eternal symbol of freedom for his people. Director Ridley Scott, whose Gladiator brought a contemporary spin to the world of ancient Rome, takes a similar turn with the Robin Hood legend, with a striking new score by Marc Streitenfeld. Available from Amazon.com, Amazon UK, Amazon France and Amazon Germany. ]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=1921