Artist : VA
Album : Infamous-OST
Label : Warner
Genre : Soundtrack
Bitrate : 170 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 00:48:56 (63.7MB)
Rls date : 2007-05-31
Store date : 2007-06-01
[Track List]
1. Gwyneth Paltrow And Mark Rubin Band - What Is 4:04
This Thing Called Love
2. Mark Rubin Band - Heartaches 3:28
3. Rachel Portman - La Cote Basque 1:18
4. Sarah Vaughan - Broken Hearted Melody 2:27
5. Rachel Portman - Truman's Mother 2:14
6. Rachel Portman - Safe Place 1:14
7. Rachel Portman - Truman Tries Out Lines 0:53
8. Johnny Bond - There I Go Dreamin' Again 2:20
9. Rachel Portman - Perry's Story 4:23
10.Rachel Portman - Truman & Perry Kiss 1:36
11.Rachel Portman - Clutter Home 2:00
12.Rachel Portman - Truman Decides To Open Up / 5:05
The Killings
13.Johnny Bond - How About You 2:01
14.Rachel Portman - Porn Magazines 1:45
15.Rachel Portman - Friend Truman / End Titles 5:55
16.Daniel Craig - There's A Goldmine In The Sky 1:54
17.Dusty Springfield - Yesterday When I Was Young 3:42
18.Hank Ballard - The Twist 2:37
Truman Capote was certainly an intriguing enough
individual to warrant several cinematic insights, but the
pressure was on this year's Infamous in being compared to
last year's multi-nominated Capote, which covered the same
events and featured Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar winning
portrayal of the idiosyncratic writer. Of course, a
different set of cast and crew can ably filter the events
through different faces and lenses, while in the case of
the score, Rachel Portman's musical sensibilities draw
little comparison to Michael Danna's approach. One obvious
change is in the presentation of the score on disc.
Danna's music was still relegated to play beneath dialogue
on the Capote album, but at least Portman receives more
than half of the running time on the Infamous release.
The album also features a fair number of songs endemic to
period and thus opens with a swinging jazz version of
"What Is This Thing Called Love", with the Mark Rubin Band
backing up the vocals of actress Gwyneth Paltrow. If
memory serves, this is the second film in which she has
sang and with her voice displaying quite a pleasant tone,
it is surprising she has yet to cut a full album herself.
"Heartache" follows on its heels, this time with the Mark
Rubin Band taking center stage in a 50's style jazz
instrumental, heavy on the piano, bongos and vibraphone.
This continues into the first score cue from Portman, "La
Cote Basque", which keeps the same perky flavor but with
acoustic guitar and upright bass in a sound somewhat
inspired by Django Reinhardt. Another period-centric,
innocent rock & roll number is heard in "Broken Hearted
Melody", performed by Sarah Vaughan.
A string of short score selections follow, the
instrumental colors shifting dramatically to solo oboe and
clarinet set against strings in "Truman's Mother" and a
lonely piano in "Safe Place", but in "Truman Tries Out
Lines" returning to the easygoing Reinhardt-esque tempo of
"La Cote Basque". After a break for the first of two songs
by Johnny Bond, Portman's music resumes, led by the
lengthy "Perry's Story". This is a subtle, pensive piece
for clarinet solo backed by a repeating, arpeggiating
figure for harp and piano. An oboe hesitantly dominates
"Truman and Perry Kiss" while a dark pedal drone anchors
the ominous "Clutter Home" and its tragic clarinet and
violin duo. The murkier hues bleed into the five minute
"Truman Decides To Open Up / The Killings" in which the
strings are much weightier in an effective, inexorable
climb of regret and tragedy.
Johnny Bond offers his second ditty, breaking the tension,
before the final two score cues are presented. "Porn
Magazines" returns once more to the infectious style heard
in "La Cote Basque" and finally in "Friend Truman / End
Titles" Portman initially revisits the thematic material
from "Perry's Story" before a solo piano recalls the
melancholy "Safe Place". This melody is soon joined by
small string section as the track then closes with
variations on the "Perry's Story" material. There are
three more vocal selections to cap off the album, the
first surprisingly featuring a humble, sweet performance
by Daniel Craig, who plays Perry in the film and of course
everyone now knows as the new James Bond, and then a lush
offering by Dusty Springfield and the 50's standard "The
Twist" by Hank Ballard.
Overall, the release successfully covers the musical map
of the film, from when the understated score highlights
the specific drama or culls the sounds from the era to the
songs crafted at that time to fully envelop the audience
in the time and place of Infamous.