21 Grams by Alejandro Gonzales is actually one of the best movies that I have ever seen. It has everything it is dramatic, it has a bit of hope, lots of thinking, it has the vibe of great independent movies and it is filmed in indescribable manner when the storylines are ripped to pieces and you are basically collecting a puzzle for the first half hour of the movie. And of course it has great music.
Burial
Burial is definitely the next step of music evolution, labeled dubstep, his latest work Untrue has not much in common with this genre. It is poetry, it is life, it is imagination, it’s really hard to describe. The whole mood of the record is like Japanese ambient cyberpunk, with dusk megacity soundscapes, samurai training and biotechnology.
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Worrytrain
One of the beautiful things about the modern post-rock ambient scene is that some of the bands are very close to modern neo-classic. Like Worrytrain with its last album “Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom”, which is a wonderful piece of depressive melancholic neo classical music with experimental electronic influences.
Lots of strings and a piano build the carcass of this album. Professionally arranged and very dramatic, it is like Clint Mancell meeting School of Emotional Engineering with a twist of Danny Elfmans vision. The sound is very cinematic and even if you have no imagination the music is building for you great pictures. The whole mood is a dystopian noir movie street with some big steampunk machinery seen between the grey rooftops.
Each song is like a part of this movie. A chase, a mystery, a murder… the sound is a reflection of a lonely soul caught in blank mechanic society. Very similar to a recent noir movie La Antena. The track For Auschwitz is I think the best part of the album. Still the whole work is a very touching piece of music especially in modern music that has mostly lost its soul somewhere between labels and contracts.
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School of Emotional Engineering
School Of Emotional Engineering is a project by Australian electronic musician Ben Frost. After the release of first two ambient albums that were critically acclaimed by the press Frost focused on a bit more different sound switching from ambient to post-rock. As a result the album “School Of Emotional Engineering” was released in 2005.
He is awesome at creating amazing soundscapes but this work is like watching a small slow-motion movie. The music is very gentle with mostly a piano leading the melody, sometimes supported by violin guitar, bass and drums. But mostly it is melted with Frost’s trade mark gentle electronic ambient. Two songs have vocal lines but as for me it was not necessary.
In one of the interviews Frost said that the instrumental part was recorded in few days but he spent a year with his notebook deepening the sound and giving this plate more feeling.
Well the only thing that I can say, this year was worth it!
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The Fountain OST
The Fountain is a great movie. I can compare it to like the grads of the intellectual cinema. But for me this movie will always be the music.
The author of the soundtrack is Clint Mansell this is the guy who wrote the famous Requiem for a Dream soundtrack, everyone who hears it gets like really shocked. In this movie Clint again collaborated with Kronos Quartet and for the first time with Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.
The soundtrack is a combination of mimalistic neo-classical themes, ambient stuff and bit of a post-rock. Really it is very hard to describe this. It gives you all the thoughts presented in the movie but also brings its own ideas and atmosphere.
This is the soundtrack of sad and calm nights or maybe of cold rainy days, or sometimes you can even see the music falling like snow. In one word – spectacular.
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