I just saw The Fountain and the first thing I did after I stopped crying was buy the soundtrack. Then I started crying again while listening to it. Hopelessly beautiful and poignant, such music will break your heart.Clint Mansell composed the score and it was performed by Kronos Quartet and Mogwai. Listen "here":http://www.nonesuch.com/thefountain/ and "here":http://www.thefountainremixed....
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Unearthly, spooky playing here by the Kronos Quartet.Arvo Pärt is a modern composer who has become enamored of the sounds and procedures of the earliest composers in the Western tradition. The English translation of the Latin title is "brothers" and is probably meant to evoke the sound and spirit of monastic times.Fratres starts ultraquietly with a quiet low drone that lasts from the piece's be..
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Back when Kronos Quartet released their cover - if you can call it that, given the context - of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," I was excited. Raised on classical music, in a household where my father didn't want me to play rock on his turntable because the beat would "hurt the needle," I welcomed the opportunity to declare, "If it's good enough for a world-famous string quartet, it should be goo...
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I just saw The Fountain and the first thing I did after I stopped crying was buy the soundtrack. Then I started crying again while listening to it. Hopelessly beautiful and poignant, such music will break your heart.Clint Mansell composed the score and it was performed by Kronos Quartet and Mogwai. Listen "here":http://www.nonesuch.com/thefountain/ and "here":http://www.thefountainremixed....
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