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│ James Horner - House Of Sand And Fog OST │
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│ Ripper.......: TEAM SRN │ Source.......: CDDA │
│ Release Date.: 14-12-2003 │ Album Year...: 2003 │
│ Grabber......: EAC V0.9b4 Win32 │ Music Genre..: Soundtrack │
│ Encoder......: LAME V3.93.1 Win32 │ Record Label.: Varese Sarabande │
│ Bitrate......: 192kbps @ 44,1kHz │ │
│ Quality......: Full Stereo │ Internet URL.: varesesarabande.com │
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│ Pushed by Dreamworks to a release date as late in 2003 as possible, │
│ House of Sand and Fog has always been a project with high Oscar hopes. │
│ The debut of television commercial director Vadim Perelman, the film │
│ closely follows the bestselling novel of the same name by Andre Dubus │
│ III (an Oprah Winfrey Book Club entry). Its premise is one of highly │
│ internalized cultural drama, with no clear cut good and bad characters; │
│ Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingley's primary roles square off in a clash │
│ of dreams and culture over the possession of a singularly loved house in │
│ the hills of California. With the American owner (Connelly) wrongfully │
│ thrown out of the home due to a taxation error, an exiled Iranian │
│ colonel from the Shah's elite inner circle (Kingsley) moves into the │
│ home to start a new life (of the American dream) with his family. The │
│ battle of wills between the two main characters occupies the heart of │
│ the story, making it one of the more intensely personal stories of the │
│ year. Several cast and crew members have carried over to House of Sand │
│ and Fog from the Academy Award-winning A Beautiful Mind, including │
│ composer James Horner. The year 2003 has been one exclusively dominated │
│ by dramatic efforts of all sizes by Horner, for whom House of Sand and │
│ Fog is the fourth and final score of the year. The close nature of the │
│ story, as well as undoubtedly some budgetary constraints for a $16 │
│ million film production, caused Horner to scale back his usual recording │
│ standard to a more intimate level than heard by fans of the composer in │
│ several years. Horner orchestrated his own moderate composition and │
│ removed the brass section from the Hollywood Studio Symphony, causing │
│ the score to immediately take on a different personality than his other │
│ three scores of 2003. It has been many years since Horner has held this │
│ level of restraint in his music, and another sign that House of Sand and │
│ Fog is a subtle effort is realized with the lack of any notable solo │
│ performances for voice or specialty instrument. │
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│ For a composer seemingly in love with the flourishing romance of his own │
│ broad strokes of orchestral beauty, Horner impressively resists of the │
│ possibly overbearing role that his score could have taken in House of │
│ Sand and Fog. As many composers do, Horner bases the heart of the score │
│ around the piano, which is, more than any other instrument for another │
│ setting, the pure and wholesome representative of the warm, suburban │
│ American home. Several cues, heard mainly in "Two People" and "Parallel │
│ Lives, Parallel Loves," offer meandering piano solos without an overt │
│ rhythm or direction. The feel of the piano's harmonious performances, │
│ even without a dominant thematic development, suffice in maintaining the │
│ tender underscore for scenes of dialogue. Horner can't resist at least │
│ one title theme, of course, and the string theme heard first in "The │
│ Waves of the Caspian Sea" and throughout the climax at the end serves a │
│ fair share of good-natured loveliness in its simplistic construction. │
│ Only in the final cue, "A Return to the Caspian...," does the theme have │
│ a truly redeeming attitude, almost bordering on Horner's aim for │
│ sincerity that you heard in his children's scores of the early 1990's. │
│ The most typical (and maybe a tad tiresome) use of instrumentation in │
│ House of Sand and Fog is the rumbling of the piano and woodwinds on bass │
│ notes accentuated by a tolling chime or bell. This rolling technique │
│ that Horner has utilized throughout his career is his signature method │
│ of providing importance to a scene in a film, and this time around, it's │
│ used in abundance. As in A Beautiful Mind, a slight touch of electronics │
│ are to be heard; the majority of unusual sounds are employed in the │
│ opening cue, while a light choir provides depth to only few short cues │
│ midway through the score. For Horner collectors, the most interesting │
│ music in the score will be the tension heard in the latter half, │
│ beginning with "Break-In" and concluding in "We Have Traveled so │
│ Far...." The cue "The Shooting" presents the first sense of urgency in │
│ the score, with a dramatic rhythm established by timpani and string │
│ plucking and reaching a crescendo of heavier strings at 10 minutes into │
│ the cue. Overall, House of Sand and Fog is an easy score to appreciate, │
│ but a more difficult one to enjoy on album. Its dramatic weight is │
│ sometimes compromised by its own sparse construct, but it likely serves │
│ its purpose with class. │
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│ Enjoy another GREAT release from SRN!!! │
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│ 01 - An Older Life [01:54] │
│ 02 - The Waves Of The Caspian Sea [04:00] │
│ 03 - Old Photos, New Memories [03:23] │
│ 04 - This Is No Longer Your House [03:34] │
│ 05 - Two People [03:49] │
│ 06 - Kathys Night [02:18] │
│ 07 - Parallel Lives, Parallel Loves [05:22] │
│ 08 - Behranis Thoughts / Long Ago [04:49] │
│ 09 - Break-In [02:35] │
│ 10 - The Dreams Of Kings [06:58] │
│ 11 - The Shooting / A Payment For Our Sins [15:18] │
│ 12 - We Have Travelled So Far [09:05] │
│ 13 - Return To The Caspian / To The Iran Of Old [06:37] │
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│ ToTaL TRaCKS: [ 13 ] · SiZe: [ 95,9 MB ] · ToTaL TiMe: [ 69:42 ] │
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