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Performer: Gustavo SantaolallaPerformer: Naomi Watts
Performer: Danny Huston
Performer: Carly Nahon
Performer: Claire Pakis
Performer: Benicio Del Toro
Performer: Nick Nichols (III)
Performer: Charlotte Gainsbourg
Performer: John Rubinstein
Performer: Eddie Marsan
Performer: Loyd Keith Salter
Performer: Antef A. Harris
Performer: Melissa Leo
Performer: Marc Musso
Performer: Teresa Delgado
Performer: Trent Dee
Performer: Tony Guyton
Performer: Wayne E. Beech Jr.
Performer: Keith Lamont Johnson
Performer: Clea DuVall
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Do We Lose 21 Grams
- Can Things Be Better?
- Did This Really Happen?
- Cut Chemist Suite
- Should I Let Her Know?
- Can Emptiness Be Filled?
- Shake Rattle And Roll
- Can I Be Forgiven?
- Low Rider - War
- Is There A Way To Help Her?
- Does He Who Looks For The Truth, Deserve The Punishment For Finding It?
- You're Losing Me
- Can Dry Leaves Help Us?
- Can We Mix The Unmixable? (Remix)
- Can Light Be Found In The Darkness?
- When Our Wings Are Cut, Can We Still Fly? - The Kronos Quartet
Free Music Notes for 21 Grams
Free Music Review: 21 Grams, 16 Tracks
Hit: 5 Stars
This movie is not exactly average. And the same applies to this magnificent soundtrack.
Some of the tracks featured are very flawed. Tracks 4, 7, 9, and 12 aren't really necessary. 4,9, and 12 are songs by other artists that I guess must be in the movie, and 7 is a totally bizarre track of Benicio Del Torro just saying, "Wash your face and hands. Get in the kitchen. I'm hungry," and so forth. I don't know what exactly went on during the production of that, but it kind of sounds like a drunken rant.
The other tracks however, are wonderful. The same theme is played in several, but the music is so atmospheric and charismatic that it doesn't get mundane. The tracks are filled with beautiful, and moody melodies that echo greatly the themes and meaning of the film itself.
A great aspect of the soundtrack is that the tracks are extremely short. The longest (Del Torro's insane hypnotic track) clocks in at six minutes. Most are about 2 minutes. This makes them accessible, short and sweet.
I especially love the second to last track "Can Light Be Found in the Darkness."
Rent the film, buy the soundtrack.
21 Grams Poster
It's said all humans mysteriously lose 21 grams upon their death, a notion that inspires much hard-boiled philosophizing in Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's structurally ambitious follow-up to Amores Perros. As in that film, several characters' lives become intertwined via a tragic accident, but here told via a chronologically disjointed structure that's a masterfully wrought puzzle of editing and plot construction. Given that unusual structure, the musical soundtrack by Gustavo Santolalla by necessity carries much of the film's mood and emotional undercurrents in its spare, brooding cues and occasional songs. The composer's primary instruments here are a heavy-vibrato electric guitar (its tone reminiscent of the great Ry Cooder) and an equally altered accordion, set against a ambient wash of electronics and percussion that's so murky as to often seem impenetrable. The Kronos Quartet admirably matches the mood with their closing rendition of the haunting "When Our Wings Are Cut, Can We Still Fly." The hip-hop swing of Ozomati's "Cut Chemist Suite" and R&B of Ann Sexton help anchor it in a more familiar frame of reference, while Benicio del Toro's spooky, spoken-word take on "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (a performance recorded in Memphis' legendary Sun Studios, no less) effectively channels Tom Waits by way of David Lynch. Another fine example of the evocative, genre-free possibilities of modern film music. --Jerry McCulleyInternational Music CDs
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