Powaqqatsi (1988 Film) Music

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by: Philip Glass, Jon Gibson, Foday Musa Suso, Sanford Allen, Neil Balm, Seymour Barab, Laura Flax, Martin Goldray, Lauren Goldstein

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Average Rating: Rating: - Beyond Film Music This is some of Philip Glass' best work. Less hypnotically repetitive than Canyon music or Thin Blue Line and capable of standing alone as a concert piece. The Anthem motif has been heard time and again: including multiple movie trailers where they haven't figured out the final score to Truman Show and TV ads. It builds to a wonderful climax with a Moazzin calling the faithful to prayer. Stunning! They should release the DVD. The VHS is [bad] Rating: - Glass at his best: a must-have album Towering and anthemic, reflective and pondering, confused, outraged, humbled, empathetic, impressed. This is some of the most intriguing music to come out of the modernist genre, let alone movie sountracks. The movie is worth watching- it's as provocative as the music is evocative, but the film relies on the music much more so than the other way around. Anyone could listen to this music, instantaly recognize it as foreign, strange, and still find something familiar and understandable in it. This music is fairly well sampled, and I've heard it in movie trailers and on PBS. National Public Radio's Ira Glass, host of "This American Life, (who happens to be obliquely related to the composer) often uses cousin Phillip's music on his radio show, although I believe it is from the Soundtrack of Eroll Morris' masterpiece "The Thin Blue Line" (That's a must-see film too, by the way, with a great Phillip glass score). Definately check this CD out. Rating: - Real good lis'nin music. Stunning, humane and eerie This is the soundtrack to Godfrey Reggio's film of the same name; a sorta-sequel to "Koyaanisqatsi." Incredibly pretty films with ideas best appreciated by the Unabomber in all of us. (Well, not in me, but diff'rent strokes . . .) They REALLY deserve to be on DVD. I first heard this soundtrack, uncut, on public radio, via John Scheaffer's amazing New Sounds program. Go listen to the sample tracks and imagine hearing this stuff, without commercials, while cruising down the Long Island Expressway at 11:00 PM on a steamy summer night. Utterly mind blowing. The tracks alternate, roughly, between sweet and sincere ethnic themes, and variants of the the monstrous, awe-some, terrible, profound and beautiful "Anthem." As other reviewers have mentioned, bits of this score are beginning to turn up in films. I feel so utterly damn cool and avant-garde when the freakish music I listen to ends up in movie and commercial scores. Buy it.

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