StreamingSoundtracks.com - Elektra

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Main Title Christophe Beck	1:29	22
02	DeMarco's End Christophe Beck	2:06	16
03	Ferry Crossing Christophe Beck	3:18	12
04	Insomnia Christophe Beck	2:10	17
05	Ninjas Christophe Beck	4:02	16
06	The Hand Christophe Beck	1:20	8
07	Gnarly Gongs Christophe Beck	1:13	11
08	Stick Christophe Beck	2:03	10
09	Just Sit Quietly Christophe Beck	1:02	7
10	The Kiss Christophe Beck	1:37	8
11	Escape From McCabe's Christophe Beck	2:20	8
12	Tattoo Christophe Beck	0:49	11
13	The Forest Christophe Beck	1:47	7
14	Wolf Run Christophe Beck	1:58	10
15	Typhoid Christophe Beck	2:15	8
16	Just A Girl Christophe Beck	1:48	7
17	Homecoming Christophe Beck	1:53	8
18	Candle Trick Christophe Beck	1:39	8
19	Kirigi Christophe Beck	2:27	9
20	Hedge Maze Brawl Christophe Beck	2:34	11
21	Elektra's Second Life Christophe Beck	4:52	23

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Reviewers Rating

1 review done for this album.

Boring movie; the score is just okay.

By:	LadyInque
Date:	13 Jan 2010
Rating:

Elektra was a movie I was looking forward to that disappointed me by being very, very dull. Out of fondness for the character and a soft spot for Christophe Beck because of his days on Buffy, I picked up this score and found that it, too wasn’t very interesting. This is one of those scores that combines traditional instruments, an Asian sensibility, and electronic sound beds, so if you want to request, you need to decide if you like that kind of thing. If you’re familiar with Beck’s “Suite from ‘Restless’” on Buffy: Once More With Feeling, then you have an idea of what you’re in for with this score.

The “Main Title” sets the stage for the rest of the album. The main theme for the film, and for Elektra herself, is played on strings, with a background of soft, echoing percussion, which sounds mostly electronic to me. For a movie about a deadly ninja-for-hire, the theme is kinda soft. The last cue, “Elektra’s Second Life,” gives a fuller version of this theme, and I think it’s entirely symphonic. It gets a romantic treatment in “The Kiss.” Another soft theme, for the girl under Elektra’s care, shows up in “Just Sit Quietly” and “Just a Girl.”

There are action tracks a-plenty, especially toward the end of the album. Tracks like “Ninjas” and “Kirigi” are examples of the sound. These tracks also get a lot of the electronic distortion that is a feature of this score, and I think it gets in the way of the music. “The Hand,” which introduces the bad guys, is pretty much all electronic sounds. Though normally that kind of thing turns me off, on this track it creates a low, menacing effect quite well.

My favorites are “DeMarco’s End” and “Insomnia.” The first track underscores the first kill we see Elektra make. The strings deliver tense background, there’s a brief pause, and then the percussion and strings come in and kick butt. “Insomnia” is similar, but without the tense build-up, and with more Asian instrumentation. Perhaps this is the ninja-for-hire music I was looking for.

Request: “DeMarco’s End,” “Ninjas.” “Gnarly Gongs” is just what it sounds like; funky windchimes. It’s not bad.
Avoid: “Stick,” which spends a lot of time being boring before the percussion comes in.

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