Winged Migration
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Composer: Bruno CoulaisPerformer: Nick Cave
Performer: Robert Wyatt
Performer: Gabriel Yacoub
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2003-04-22
Music Label: Higher Octave
Soundtracks:
- To Be By Your Side - Nick Cave
- Masters of the Field
- Northern Bound
- Crossing
- Highest Gander
- Beating Drums
- Return of the Cranes
- Blue Thread
- Red Forest
- Like a Breath of Air
- Takeoff
- Amidst the Factory Smoke - Gabriel Yacoub
- Glider
- After the Hunt - Robert Wyatt
- Paper Parrot
- Swans Flight - Robert Wyatt
- Feathers and Stripes
- Wounded Dove - Robert Wyatt
- Off Camera
Free Music Notes for Winged Migration
Free Music Review: As inspirational and thrilling as the film
Hit: 5 Stars
The music in this album is enchanting. If you're a fan of the film, or even if you've never heard of it, this music will move you. Like the film itself, it explores the tenacity and strength of migrating birds as they travel thousands of miles, sometimes halfway around the world, to their summer and winter homes. Employing a variety of world instruments and voices, an eclectic and yet unified body of music is presented in a near flawless order.
With the amazing opening track "To by by Your Side," sung by Nick Cave, Winged Migration begins by perfectly capturing the core theme of the movie and its soundtrack: the promise of return, of the continuation of each cycle of life and death. "Across the endless wilderness where all the beasts bow down their heads. Darling I will never rest till I am by your side. Every mile and every year, Time and Distance disappear I cannot explain this. Dear No, I will not even try."
Other exceptional tracks include "Beating Drums," an intense percussion accompanied tribute to flight, "The Return of the Cranes," with it's haunting lyrics carefully sampled with birdsong, and "After the Hunt," an ambient rendition of "The Crossing," which in this more subtle form gains from its loss of human vocals. Another stand out is "The Wounded Dove," sung in French, both sad and filled with hope, an interesting parallel to Cave's "To be by Your Side."
Perhaps the only song that seems out of place in this collection is "The Highest Gander," which suffers from rather silly lyrics and a slightly nasal singer. This track was used only briefly in the film for obvious reasons; thirty seconds is more than enough.
The term 'inspirational' is thrown around a lot these days, and reviewer's apply it liberally to all sorts of films and songs, but there is no better description for this score (and the film as well). This music touches the listener because in the lives of the birds represented in these songs we see our own struggles and triumphs, our own ability to overcome distance and adversity. We see the hope of our own lives revealed anew.
This album is worth owning, if only for Cave's exceptional first track. Beyond that first triumph remains a collection of lovely world music influenced tracks that captures the same sense of wonder and beauty of flight and the birds who make it seem so effortless.
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