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well... i have to sheepishly admit that i never listened to "warriors of heaven and earth" soundtrack well enough..
all this time. i always considered ARR a genius. but this album seems to elevate him far beyond that "genius" status as well... i dont know.. i m just speechless. to have been able to compose this kind of music that is so much intune with native chinese musical traditions... that really gives us an image of china and mongolia... is above brilliance, intelligence and genius... i dont know what to call him now...
an "elementary" reproduction of feelings that i had when listening to the album....
"blue light" - ethereal as the name suggests... same chorus towards the end as that of "horses"
"buddhas remains" -- it makes you feel a great awakening inside you.. fills you with a feeling like the soul being stirred... maybe fill with buddha's spirit!
"horses" - awesome chorus, i just kept on listening to it on a forever loop
"lai chi theme" gives a huge power surge deep inside..
"monk" - close ur eyes... and u would really see monks sitting atop rocky ledges and meditating in the thin mountain air.. reminds me of a NatGeo program about Monastries of Wudang Mountain....
"escape" -- makes you imagine people really running away, hiding from prying eyes, just managing things in the nick of time.. u know.. all the fast camera stuff!
"mountains" -- if i had been listening to this song while driving up into the shenandoah (mountains in virginia state), the songs would have absolutely fit the occasion....
"dacoit duel" -- i m spellbound.. i can really see 2 men baying for each other's blood, measuring each others paces and making lethal advances....
& now.. which one of these was the theme song? and what is the song ordering... i would like to listen to these songs in proper sequence.. i think "blue light" precedes "horses" because of the tune match. i might be wrong...
i kinda didnt appreciate that jolin tsai's song. considering the above, this pop song faded below my recognition.... and so was that "lords..." song.
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I wonder how Roger Hall wrote that review. Maybe he is a good reviewer for western sounds. Unfortunately, he seems to be prejudiced towards that half of the world alone. I somehow felt that he exhitbited more of contempt than respect. Had he really delved deeper into sounds and the space that they provided and the relation of the songs to the movie, I do not think he would have written such an insensitive review. Take nothing... just sample the "Monk" song. If you have seen the program on monks at Wudang Mountains telecast on Nat Geo channel, you will fully agree how well the song picturises monks meditating upon various truths of life.
There is another one such song by Yanni called "After The Sunrise". Great visual appeal. Close your eyes and you can really imagine the sun rising from the horizon and casting its golden rays upon the land. I remember the "monk" song and the above song in the same breath. Both were instrumental. For vocal, take "Dheemi Dheemi" sung by Hariharan in the movie "1947 Earth". ARR is the MD for that movie. Close your eyes and listen to this song, and tell me what it reminds you of. Infact I was so inspired by the song that I wrote a poem on what I felt after listening to this song. Maybe I would share it some other time....
- G
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