Soundtrack / Broken Flowers – CD

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Author: Various Artists

Format: Soundtrack

Release Date: 16-08-2005

Details: Amazon.ca Will this soundtrack do for Ethiopian composer and musician Mulatu Astatke what Titanic did for Celine Dion? Well…maybe on a much, much smaller scale. Astatke’s circle of Western fans has already expanded thanks to the compilation Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974, and Jim Jarmusch’s movie puts his hypnotic instrumentals to great use. This isn’t surprising, since Jarmusch is a filmmaker with a natural affinity for music and its use onscreen. Here, a three-minute excerpt from stoner-rock legend Sleep’s titanic « Dopesmoker » only offers a sample of the song (it actually lasts an hour) but it still sounds awesome, especially stuck between an Astatke track and Gabriel Faur’s « Requiem, Op. 48 (Pie Jesu). » Garage vets the Greenhornes and Holly Golightly contribute tracks together and separately, while indie-rockers Brian Jonestown Massacres « Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth » (an answer song to the Dandy Warhols’ « Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth ») sounds as bilious now as it did in 1997. This is a rare case of a soundtrack that pulls together a broad range of artists yet remains oddly consistent–no doubt because it was assembled by a director with vision instead of a focus group. –Elisabeth Vincentelli

UPC: 602498837818

EAN: 0602498837818

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition:New