Amistad: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

amistad: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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Director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams have forged a remarkable partnership over the past 20 years, one that's evolved in recent years into a very practical balance of art and commerce. The Spielberg/Williams team followed the blockbuster Jurassic Park with the risk-taking Schindler's List, the bloated Jurassic sequel The Lost World with the moralistic Amistad. Williams admirably rises to the challenge again, underplaying the volatile emotions involved and utilizing African rhythmic and modal influences with surprising subtlety. The choral touches of the title and wordless aria of "Cinque's Theme" bring to mind similar stylistic flourishes by Morricone--and that's high praise. --Jerry McCulley

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Amistad: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

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Best overall soundtrack and production quality!
Haunting and powerful Williams score
A good African score
A nice laid back score
Another Winning Williams Film Score

Amistad: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Williams
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000005AME
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Tracks:

Dry Your Tears, Afrika
Sierra Leone, 1839 And The Capture Of Cinque
Crossing The Atlantic
Cinque's Theme
Cinque's Memories Of Home
Middle Passage
The Long Road To Justice
July 4, 1839
Mr. Adams Takes The Case
La Amistad Remembered
The Liberation Of Lomboko
Adams' Summation
Going Home
Dry Your Tears, Afrika (Reprise)

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Director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams have forged a remarkable partnership over the past 20 years, one that's evolved in recent years into a very practical balance of art and commerce. The Spielberg/Williams team followed the blockbuster Jurassic Park with the risk-taking Schindler's List, the bloated Jurassic sequel The Lost World with the moralistic Amistad. Williams admirably rises to the challenge again, underplaying the volatile emotions involved and utilizing African rhythmic and modal influences with surprising subtlety. The choral touches of the title and wordless aria of "Cinque's Theme" bring to mind similar stylistic flourishes by Morricone--and that's high praise. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Best overall soundtrack and production quality!.......2007-03-15

Absolutely one of the top soundtrack scores that can stand alone apart from the film!!!The John Williams AMISTAD is one enormous evoking of the Spielberg film,and from "Dry Your Tears,Afrika" to "Cinque's Theme" every track is a winner.Your speakers will be "Woofing" and "Tweeting".An absolute must have.

Haunting and powerful Williams score.......2005-05-02

The score to Amistad is a powerful and haunting score. The Spielberg/Williams collaboration has been fruitfull but rarely has it yielded a more powerful score than Amistad. From the african chorus to the triumphant finale, there are few moments that do not impress. After the mediocrity of The Lost World, Amistad is a beautiful score.

A good African score.......2003-01-08

John Williams gives an effective and listenable African sounding score to Amistad which contains a wonderful African chorus, ethnic percussion, and great horn passages. The main theme is really good and really stands out in the first and last tracks. It utilizes the African chorus to great effect with the words "U yama mu yay, Afrika" repeatedly, which translates to "Dry Your Tears, Afrika", the title of the first and last tracks. This theme is repeated a few times in the middle tracks, such as in "Middle Passage" and "The Liberation of Lomboko". Another theme is found in "Cinque's Theme" which is a quiet and wonderfully played flute and string passage. The remainder of the tracks contain slow and more laid back music as in "Crossing the Atlantic", "Cinque's Memories of Home", and "July 4, 1839". Some other tracks contain bold horn solos such as in "The Long Road to Justice", "Mr. Adams Takes the Case", and "Adams' Summation". Overall, a good ethnic score that while it is not as good as some of Williams' other works, it still is worth listening to more than once. I think you will enjoy this.

A nice laid back score.......2001-02-14

Amistad is another collabiration between one of the most famous director-composer combos of cinema, Steven Spielburg and John Williams. And once again, Williams does not disappoint as the second half of this combo

Thbe soundtrack opens with "Dry Your Tears, Africa", which is a wonderful choral piece that sounds like it's right out of Africa. It's quite tuneful, grand, and is pure Williams. It's reprised at the end in a slightly different, even better form. This is definatly a worthwhile main theme comparible to Jurrasic Park, ET, Indy, Star Wars, and so on.

Most of the rest of the soundtrack, however, is quite laid back. Lots of lush harmonies and colorful orchestrations abound, but there really isn't much energy to it. It's the kind of music that makes your emotions turn but doesn't get your heart pumping. The music also has a very overall patriotic feel to it, with lots of slow trumpet and horn fanfares.

So there really isn't too much to say about Amistad's music. Four stars sums it up nicely -- not a must have, but still a worthy buy for any Williams and general score fan.

Another Winning Williams Film Score.......2000-09-08

Although he had written a number of film scores prior, John Williams really began to score as a film composer with Star Wars. Since then he has composed a number of winning film scores, this score from Amistad certainly being no exception. As good as the film is, this music is good enough to stand on its own and is worth the listen, even if one has not seen the film.

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