David Byrne - Big Love: Hymnal
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Artist: David ByrneEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Music Label: SUMA RECORDS
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David Byrne's "Big Love Hymnal" is an innovative soundtrack for HBO's series about a Mormon polygamist family in suburban Salt Lake City. Byrne,of course,won an Oscar for his "Last Emperor" soundtrack... and an interesting coincidence,his music accompanied the wedding night of Pu Yi with his Empress and his concubine. "Big Love Hymnal" is the fruit of Byrne's study of Mormon hymns. It's got a little bit of Americana,some ambient music,trance, and folk.
"Big Love" opens with the evocative hymn "Art thou greater than He?" "A Hill in Ontario County" sounds like a folk song,with dulcimer. "Deep Water" is a surrealistic,dreamlike piece. "A Building in the Air" and "A House on Sand" evoke the deserts of the Southwest. One can imagine the mesas, and Cohab Canyon,where polygamists fled in the 19th century. "Mouth of Malachi" and "Angel Moroni" are a study in contrasts. The former has a seductive electric guitar,the latter has a majestic horn,resounding like a hymn. "Murmur Not" and "Unclean Spirits" are breezy, trancelike pieces. The closing song is Byrne's amazing cover of Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii."
"Big Love Hymnal" is a spiritual and sonic delight.
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