Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
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Composer: Michael NymanEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1992-09-25
Music Label: Venture / Caroline
Soundtracks:
- Drowning by Numbers/Trysting Fields
- Drowning by Numbers/Sheep and Tides
- Drowning by Numbers/Great Death Game
- Drowning by Numbers/Drowning by Number 3
- Drowning by Numbers/Wheelbarrow Walk
- Drowning by Numbers/Dead Man's Catch
- Drowning by Numbers/Drowning by Number 2
- Drowning by Numbers/Bees in Trees
- Drowning by Numbers/Fish Beach
- Drowning by Numbers/Wedding Tango
- Drowning by Numbers/Crematorium Conspiracy
- Drowning by Numbers/Knowing the Ropes
- Drowning by Numbers/Endgame
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Free Music Review: Drowning by nyman
Hit: 5 Stars
I first heard this when I first saw the film (go see!) and wanted to know who wrote such beautiful music, which was so in sync with the counting games and cut of the film. It's a great score: musically it carries on where Zed and Two Noughts left off, rather than take 4 bars of the Mozart piece, Nyman decided to 'rewrite' and rework the whole piece for inspiration...it turned me onto the darkness in mozart's work (the opera Don Giovanni for example) which I hadn't previously realised. Drowning by Numbers #3 is as haunting as say, 'The Garden is becoming a robe room' and very morbid, like the film...the opening up of the music and score definitely works wonders, where a lot of Z.O.O. left me cold as some academic exercise (apart from the last track, the amazing Angelfish Decay: is that a REAL human voice or a theremin? :-) whereas this is cold in a human, dark way and much more lyrical and flowing.The only thing is now I've heard Philip Glass's 'Einstein on the Beach.' I now realise what a big influence Glass was on Nyman (rather than the other way round as I'd supposed?), the fast arpegiating chords and vocal lines, even down to the use of counting in the film (although that might not have been Nyman's doing, Greenaway and Nyman did seem to work very closely together). It does seem to equally wear it's influences on (or up?) it's sleeves as much as it improves or conquers them.
But a great soundtrack, and piece in it's own right, 5 stars for feeling and evocative mood alone.
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1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 digitally remastered tracks, packaged in a digipak. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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