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Kundun

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Favorite Original Soundtracks (64 items)
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Published 8 years, 3 months ago 2 comments
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The Scorsese Soundtracks (21 items)
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Published 8 years, 3 months ago 2 comments
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Philip Glass Discography (140 items)
list by *saipal
Published 14 years, 3 months ago 1 comment
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Film Soundtracks: 1997 (91 items)
list by Agent Kermit D. Fonz
Published 7 years ago 1 comment
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Philip Glass Film Music (29 items)
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Description: For the second of 1997's dueling Buddhist epics (the other being Seven Days in Tibet, scored by John Williams), director Martin Scorsese made a wise--if commercially challenging--choice in tapping noted minimalist composer Philip Glass to score Kundun. Glass (who's previously scored the avant garde documentary Koyaanisqatsi trilogy, Mishima, and the strange Candyman horror series), is the perfect choice here; his own Buddhist beliefs play a key role in meshing image and music. Glass's familiar compositional techniques are wedded on Kundun to a sensitive use of ethnic instruments and the voices of the Gyuto Monks, adding an au ... (more)
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Release date: 9 March 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0075597946024 UPC: 075597946024
Tags: Ambient (1), Avant-Garde (1), Atmospheric (1), American (1), Chill (1), 20th Century (1), Beautiful (1), Avantgarde (1), Ambience (1), Ambient Music (1)
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Agent Kermit D. Fonz added this to a list 7 years ago
Film Soundtracks: 1997 (91 music items)
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