Spy Game: Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]

spy game: original motion picture score [soundtrack]

On this CD:

Spy Game, film score
Composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Performed by Gavyn Wright, London Session Orchestra
with Peter Distefano, Hugh Marsh, Patrick Cassidy, Gregory Knowles, Lisbeth Scott, Paul Clarvis
Conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams

Editorial Reviews
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Director Tony Scott's buddy pic-cum-espionage thriller shrewdly unites Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, pretty-boy box-office icons from two different generations. But its tense musical score embodies a gratifying sense of cross-cultural experimentation that seems as doggedly genre-expanding as it does dramatically tough. Young composer Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Replacement Killers, Antz, The Rock) employs haunting Eastern instrumental modalities, symphonic flourishes, and spare choral touches here but crucially weds them to driving, polyrhythmic percussion and pulsing techno club grooves. Continuing a contemporary scoring trend that largely eschews thematic melodies in favor of evocative atmospherics, the composer's studio-savvy fusion has conjured up a soundscape of surprisingly emotional twists and turns, but one that also seems to grow more determinedly electro-modern with each successive cut. This is that rare score that proves that pop trend can indeed inform classical tradition--and much to the benefit of both. --Jerry McCulley

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Spy Game: Original Motion Picture Score [Soundtrack]

Average customer rating:

A soundtrack Masterpiece
This is how a movie score should be made.
Still fresh after 6 years
A Masterpiece!
Maybe the best electronic soundtrack yet created

Spy Game: Original Motion Picture Score
Harry Gregson-William
Manufacturer: Decca U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005RIL7
Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

Su-Chou Prison
Muir Races To Work
'...He's Been Arrested For Espionage.'
Red Shirt
Training Montage
Berlin
'It's Not A Game'
'You're Going To Miss It'
Beirut, A War Zone
'My Name Is Tom'
All Hell Breaks Loose
Explosion & Aftermath
Parting Company
Harker Tracks Muir
The Long Night
Muir's In The Hot Seat
Back At Su-Chou Prison
Operation Dinner Out
Spies (Ryebot Remix)
Dinner Out [Rothrock Remix]

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Director Tony Scott's buddy pic-cum-espionage thriller shrewdly unites Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, pretty-boy box-office icons from two different generations. But its tense musical score embodies a gratifying sense of cross-cultural experimentation that seems as doggedly genre-expanding as it does dramatically tough. Young composer Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Replacement Killers, Antz, The Rock) employs haunting Eastern instrumental modalities, symphonic flourishes, and spare choral touches here but crucially weds them to driving, polyrhythmic percussion and pulsing techno club grooves. Continuing a contemporary scoring trend that largely eschews thematic melodies in favor of evocative atmospherics, the composer's studio-savvy fusion has conjured up a soundscape of surprisingly emotional twists and turns, but one that also seems to grow more determinedly electro-modern with each successive cut. This is that rare score that proves that pop trend can indeed inform classical tradition--and much to the benefit of both. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

A soundtrack Masterpiece.......2007-05-23

The movie is rgeat, the story line is mind-boggling, the action is fantastic and the score is fabulous. These are just a view small lines that come to mind when you've watched this movie "Spy Game".

A Movie soundtrack is not only adding sound to the picture, it is of utmost importance that it brings a total picture to the storyline. Composer and writer Harry Gregson Williams is known for his synthesizer orgestrated music. Normally a soundtrack to a movie would be only a hugh orchestra with string's, brass, percussion en more. But Mister Williams add's even more to that picture with his knowledge of Computer software and synthesizers.

This soundtrack is from start to finish a journey to relive the entire story of Spy game over and over again. Plus adding the two remixes as a bonus.

This is how a movie score should be made........2007-04-07

Spy Game is one of my favorite movies, and I've always been amazed by the music score. The music is incredibly well done and holds up on its own on CD. Whether or not you've seen the movie, this is good music. I'm glad I finally broke down and bought this CD!

Still fresh after 6 years.......2007-02-20

HGW is an exceptional electronic musician and a definite hero of mine, his classical training has easily transitioned to genre, and he has admitted that he is not even into computers. This may well have handicapped him until he could harness their undeniable power, and provide an additional platform for his talent. I was first introduced to him through the Metal Gear Solid series on the Playstation. I was very impressed with his musical abilities then because he can turn emotion from soft and dark to edgy and triumphant effortlessly. This soundtrack is his best work. He is not afraid to break the rules. Buy it!

A Masterpiece!.......2006-01-07

The following words describe this score perfectly: emotional, triumphant, energetic, melancholy.

This is one of Gregson-Williams' masterpieces that consists of an amazing blend of all types of emotion and excitement. Absolutely one of my favorites in the same class as "The Rock".

Maybe the best electronic soundtrack yet created.......2005-07-12

While the general job of anyone getting the "Music By" credit is to underscore the emotional context of the filmed image, electronic music is often overlooked as a tool by which this can be meaningfully achieved. Indeed, most electronically-rendered scores ARE easily forgettable, and in some cases flatly inappropriate for the action being described.

But Gregson-William here chooses precisely the right instruments and displays his absolute studio-side mastery. In part this is because the film itself, being so heavily involved with electronic surveillance, obviously calls for a more artificial musical score. But his real genius is in finding a way to give both cultural context and recognizable motifs. Whether the current action on the screen is set in Asia, Europe, America or the Middle East, the music feels like it belongs both in those locales AND in the same movie. The main theme for Redford's character doubles as the SPY GAME theme, and it's worked and reworked throughout to give a thoroughly satisfying evolution through the action.

If you've been disappointed by electronic soundtracks in the past--and who living through the 80s wasn't?--this score will show you just how expressive the genre can be, when handled by the right artist.

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