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The Moderns: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Description: Trumpeter/composer Mark Isham's seductive, sinewy tone is the perfect accompaniment to the quirky romantic world of Alan Rudolph's movies. The director has used Isham's music ever since 1985's Trouble in Mind, but The Moderns is their mutual masterpiece. Set in the Paris of the '20s (or at least a modern, faux-French re-imagining of it) populated by fictional characters who rub shoulders with "Ernest Hemingway" and "Gertrude Stein," it's a movie about the nature of art--what is real, and what is counterfeit? Isham's score, mostly performed by a sort of hotel cocktail ensemble dubbed "L'Orchestre Moderne, ... (more)
Manufacturer: Virgin Records
Release date: 28 June 1992
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0077778605928 UPC: 077778605928
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