Hans Zimmer - The Last Samurai
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Artist: Hans ZimmerEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-11-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
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Free Music Review: This music has made me a new fan to orchestrated music
Hit: 5 Stars
I am a medical student and this soundtrack was on my Zune so I started listening to it since it doesn't have words that distract me. However, now after listening to it about 40 times I decided to look it up to try and find more music like it. I listen to it just to relax and am a new fan of orchestrated music (coming from the likes of hard rock). Also, I get emotional and have even teared up (Spectres in the Fog). My description of the composition entailed here is it is a breath of fresh air while it moves and motivates you or relaxes the mind. Funny since that is what the movie pretty much entails.
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Whether Tom Cruise's portrayal of a 19th century American soldier cum samurai warrior will be remembered with the same pangs of pop-cultural bemusement that befell John Wayne playing Genghis Khan remains to be seen. But its musical soundtrack does mark an auspicious occasion: pop musician-turned-composer Hans Zimmer's 100th score since beginning his film career in 1988. A pioneer of fusing both the electronic and orchestral and the Westernized with the indigenous, Zimmer does both here with skill, drawing heavily on samples of the traditional Taiko (a massive Japanese drum) for its rhythmic action sequences, while constructing a melodic Western motif for Cruise's character that's both centerpiece and counterpoint for the score's transcultural intent. Aside from the brief, ominous thunder of the expected action/suspense boilerplate, Zimmer has constructed passages of gentle, Asian-inflected pastoralism that have parallels with much of his evocative work on The Thin Red Line. Those cues are the score's very soul, a canvas against which his more traditional themes reverberate all the stronger. --Jerry McCulleySoundtracks Music CDs
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