Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)

Florian Fricke (1944-2001) was the genius behind the mythical German band Popul Vuh, providing music for Werner Hertzog's films, including “Aguirre, Wrath of God”, “Nosferatu The Vampyre”, “Cobra Verde” and “Fitzcarraldo”. Composer, Fricke was a master of dark, dreamy, visionary music; using analogue synthesizers in a textured, humanized style along with traditional wind and percussive instruments.
Popul Vuh presented a totally unique approach to soundtrack music, which ultimately created an often eerie and vivid soundscape to Hertzog's equally original cinematic masterpieces. A Looking-Glass Cult Digital favourite. (Double 5 Star)

Soundtracks by Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh)
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Stewart Copeland

The whizz drummer of 70's 80's pop trio The Police, harbours another talent as a highly original film composer. Stewart Copeland's unique and familiar sound of major-minor, randomized melody is his main speciality. Acclamation of Copeland's fine work includes "The Equaliser", "Rumble Fish", a slight change in musical direction with "Four Days in September", and more recently the brilliant "Dead Like Me".

Soundtracks by Stewart Copeland
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Alan Silvestri

One of the finest mainstream movie composers of recent times Alan Silvestri creates highly memorable musical passages with tactile precision. Whether incidental dynamics or flowing, thematic sequences Silvestri understands and embraces those engenious music scoring formulas pioneered by the great Bernard Herrmann. They are the ingredients that turn a great movie into an outstanding and memorable milestone in cinema. "Cast Away", "Van Helsing", "The Polar Express" and "Back to The Future" are just taster of Silvestri scores.

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Yann Tiersen
Rue Des Cascades
+ Amelie

Rue Des Cascades isn't specifically a film soundtrack album but a wonderful collection of compositions by the composer of "Amelie" and "Goodbye Lenin". The title track 'Rue Des Cascades' was the end music to the Cannes Film Festival award winning "Dream Life of Angels".
(Double 5 Star)

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2001 A Space Odyssey ... soundtrack

Director Stanley Kubrick's landmark film has been around since 1968, but its soundtrack still remains one of the most unique and groundbreaking music scores since the birth of cinema. Apart from the Strauss's now famous "Also Sprach Zarathustra" etc, popularized by this movie, the rest of the film's incidental music by György Ligeti is truly mind-blowing. Whether hearing it as part of the movie or on its own, the dream-to-nightmare drones and choral passages will transport you to worlds and universes beyond your wildest imagination ... and remember, this music was created live ... no synths and years before the invention of samplers.

2001 Soundtrack
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