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Music : OST:BLACK HAWK DOWNby: Various Artists
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Black Hawk Down is the fifth collaboration between composer Hans Zimmer and director Ridley Scott, and following Gladiator (2000) and Hannibal (2001), their third in fewer than two years. Though set two millennia after Gladiator, Black Hawk Down's unrelenting African warfare has much in common with the former blockbuster. Zimmer opens with comparable Arabic flavoured atmospherics leading to his trademark pulsating percussion and razor-sharp digital production values. The Andalusian colours of his Mission: Impossible 2 inflect the catchy world music/dance ballad "Barra Barra" before the score diversifies through textures that blend moody American (blues) and African folk elements with passages of programmed suspense underscore and electronic, sequenced fury. With so many elements fused into polished, perfectly organised musical landscapes, the result is occasionally like a compilation of elements from all Zimmer's recent hit scores. In battle cues such as "Tribal War", relentless rhythm takes over, but it is for the hymnal "Gortoz a ran", the haunted pure beauty of "Still", and the lament of "Mogadishu Blues" that this release is more likely to be remembered. As with Pearl Harbor, Zimmer concentrates on emotion over action, though here his work is influenced by the real folk music of the people involved, and hence the more moving for it.--Gary S Dalkin Average Rating:
 Rating: - Excellent stuffI have a big passion for the part of the world this music alludes to. I have of course watched the film and it is excellent. However, this music stands alone. It does a superb job on the film as background for warfare, guns and, well, death. But listening to it away from the films influence and it paints a different story. It is an amazing blend of arabic vocals, musical score and sometimes, thrashing drum beats. It is both haunting, melodic and sometimes strangely whimsical. I love this cd, becuase ... Read More Rating: - "They don't understand"This is a very Hans Zimmer soundtrack. It's similar in some ways to Gladiator but in other ways completely different. The tribal music is catchy - Barra Barra is a toe tapping tune. But the track is varied, which is good, of course. J'Attends by Lisa Gerrard is beautiful and moving, sung in a French-African, and captures the sentimentality of the film very well as the end credits start to roll up. The Minstrel Boy is a song about a boy who goes off to war to die but I can't perceive a word of what is ... Read More Rating:  - Moving & Haunting Background to a True StoryI bought the CD after watching the film Black Hawk Down - a film that I have to admit I wasn't attracted to on its original release. I cannot say that I usually notice music tracks in the background on films, but Hans Zimmerman's music is so extraordinary that it cannot be marginalised. There were 2 or 3 tracks that stood out from the film and so I was immediately drawn to these once I played the CD. However, once you listen to all the tracks on the CD in context you can see how Zimmerman has woven ... Read More Rating: - Intruigingly peaceful, yet dark.The music makes me feel like I'm right there in the movie. The composer captures the moods of the country the movie takes place in, also the characteristics of the actors. It shows a sense of contemporary style that is unique to the world around us now. Hans Zimmer has done an excellent job, bringing the past alive in music. Rating: - Haunting memoriesHans Zimmer has created a beautiful soundtrack for a film that represented human fear, sacrifice, pain and courage. From the first moment of listening I was moved and immersed completely in the music. From my living room I was pulled into the very land where the action took place. I could almost hear the cries, the gunfire and the helicopters crashing around me. He was able to create a very contemporary and at the same time exquisite ethnic soundtrack, that really represented the recent warfare it was depicting. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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