Mysterious Skin [Soundtrack]

mysterious skin [soundtrack]

Editorial Reviews
Variety, September 3, 2004
"...shaped nicely by a seductive underlay of ambient music from Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie..."

Product Description
Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie and legendary composer Harold Budd team to create a soundtrack of lush and atmospheric soundscapes to award-winning writer-director Gregg Araki's critically-acclaimed new drama MYSTERIOUS SKIN. Guthrie and Budd's sparse, tonal music reflects the contemplative journey of troubled boyhood friends Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Brian (Brady Corbet), whose lives as young adults weave them down a slippery and dangerous path of self-discovery in MYSTERIOUS SKIN. The film, based on the Scott Heim novel, has been hailed by critics as writer-director Gregg Araki's finest film to date, and has been selected for the Sundance, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. Araki's career spans nearly 20 years, during which he has written, directed, and produced many controversial and edgy films, exploring and dissecting the strange currencies of sexual relationships. His credits include SPLENDOR, THE DOOM GENERATION and NOWHERE.

Mysterious Skin [Soundtrack]

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Mysterious Skin [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

Wonderfully mysterious
Shimmering
Never gets old
Mysterious Skin - Great Music
An Ambient Masterpiece

Mysterious Skin

Manufacturer: Commotion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0009HLC0G
Release Date: 2005-05-24

Tracks:

Neils Theme
The Memories Returning
Snowfall
Neils Farewell
Childhood Lost
Halloween
A Silhouette Approaches
Goodbye To Wendy
Brians Nightmare/ The Unknown, Part One
Twilight
The Unknown, Part Two
The Discovery
Loitering
The Writing On The Wall
One True Love

Album Description

Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie and legendary composer Harold Budd team to create a soundtrack of lush and atmospheric soundscapes to award-winning writer-director Gregg Araki's critically-acclaimed new drama MYSTERIOUS SKIN. Guthrie and Budd's sparse, tonal music reflects the contemplative journey of troubled boyhood friends Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Brian (Brady Corbet), whose lives as young adults weave them down a slippery and dangerous path of self-discovery in MYSTERIOUS SKIN. The film, based on the Scott Heim novel, has been hailed by critics as writer-director Gregg Araki's finest film to date, and has been selected for the Sundance, Venice and Toronto Film Festivals. Araki's career spans nearly 20 years, during which he has written, directed, and produced many controversial and edgy films, exploring and dissecting the strange currencies of sexual relationships. His credits include SPLENDOR, THE DOOM GENERATION and NOWHERE.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderfully mysterious.......2007-03-18

Something is missing from this soundtrack leaving me feel a little empty at the end, but what this ablum does have is just wonderfully composed music which is mesmerizing.

Shimmering.......2007-03-17

With Harold Budd no longer composing, I had to purchase this CD and it did not disappoint. The same shimmering, where-does-it-begin-and-end? kind of music was what I expected from Mr. Budd. If you have his other forays into ambience and simple aural joy, then this is a good CD to add to your collection.

Never gets old.......2007-03-04

When I started paying attention to the body of works that Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins fame) had put together after his Twins years, I ran into this masterpiece. For the soundtrack of the movie "Mysterious Skin", Guthrie teamed up with ambient minimalist legend Harold Budd (who has worked with Brian Eno in numerous projects), to produce an album that with or without the movie is meant to never get old.

Loaded with moment after moment of ethereal beauty that will keep you going back to it, this soundtrack ranks up there among the best ambient albums to have been produced in a very long time.

Mysterious Skin - Great Music.......2006-11-10

The etheral sounds on this cd are as haunting as the film. I highly recommend this cd.

An Ambient Masterpiece.......2006-03-05

The movie Mysterious Skin is often a harsh unflinching look at male prostitution and child molestation but it was so well made and offset by such a beautiful score it worked.Here on it's own the score by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd turns out to be extremely good on it's own.Back in the 80's Harold Budd and Brian Eno turned ambient music into an art and this is a welcome return for Budd which will hopefully introduce a whole new generation to his music.The soundtrack not only works as soothing background music but if you listen to it in it's entirety it's hypnotically satisfying.It's a measure of greatness of ambient music if it's as interesting in the foreground as it is in the background and Mysterious Skin succeeds in that aspect.Also because there are no big John Williams type numbers that totally belong to certain movie scenes you can enjoy this soundtrack without ever having to see the movie.(though you ought to see the great film)

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