StreamingSoundtracks.com - Les Ailes Pourpres: Le Mystere Des Flamants

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Opening Titles Jason Swinscoe	2:48	73
02	Arrival Of The Birds Jason Swinscoe	2:34	240
03	The Dance Jason Swinscoe	3:17	46
04	Soda Jason Swinscoe	3:08	53
05	Hatching Jason Swinscoe	5:09	46
06	Marabou Jason Swinscoe	3:53	21
07	Exodus Jason Swinscoe	7:14	118
08	Transformation Jason Swinscoe	5:13	186
09	Hyena Jason Swinscoe	1:46	20
10	Life Of The Bird Jason Swinscoe	3:29	47
11	First Light Jason Swinscoe	4:00	77
12	Crimson Skies (Lou Rhodes) Jason Swinscoe	3:20	35

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Beautiful Music to a Documentary on African Flamingos

By:	jadedtitan
Date:	9 Nov 2009
Rating:

This is the score to a British documentary about the Flamingos of Tanzania who breed at Lake Natron and migrate up and down the Rift Valley in Africa. The Cinematic Orchestra is a British group who uses their regular small band members along with the London Metropolitan Orchestra to create a vast intricate scoring that moves the listener and lends to the beauty of the subject.

Opening Titles being the first track of the score lends itself to creating the atmosphere and mood of the score. It starts with the, soon to be familiar, piano and guitar duo with background strings growing louder as the scene opens. Though it uses long drawn out string notes to start, it then goes to the main theme played out on the keyboard in a soft delicate manner. Simplistic yet moving, this theme can define the score even though it is full of intricate variances and changes in other tracks. Arrival of the Birds is my favorite track because it is simply gorgeous. The piano again starts the track but this time the harp plays along as accompaniment. Back and forth they play together until they crescendo with the strings bringing in the fullness and beauty of this track. The strings take over the track with piano as the core theme player still. The track ends with the piano and harp duo playing again, just as it started.

The Dance is a truly unique in this score. It plays out exactly as one would hear a dance, with playful moody drums dominating the track in almost a Latin styled rhythm. Strings provide the main melody for the track, along with some guitar. But drums dominate the track making it a playful tune on this score. Soda goes back to the soft emotion of the other tracks before. It begins with keyboard notes moving into the grand strings bringing in the fullness of the music. Again, simple long notes but they convey the emotion and feeling from the images on the film.

Hatching begins with simple chords on the piano, with soft strings in the background. It is a very emotional song, the beginning of new life. The main theme from the first track is played out on a clarinet, simple notes that then fade back out with the piano again leading the track. Near the end the piano plays out the theme as well, leading to the end of the track crescendo where it finally hatches. Marabou is one of two danger tracks you could say. Every story has its tragedy, animals are never safe from danger permanently. Marabou are a breed of stork that feed on the baby flamingos and this track does a perfect job of creating a sinister atmosphere and a feeling of danger. A bassoon is the lead instrument in creating the danger and scared feeling in the track.

Exodus is another gorgeous track, starting with the solo piano and guitar duo then opening up with the fuller strings in the background. The piano plays out the melody, a cheerful variation of the main theme. Mid way it goes to a simplistic piano chord melody, breaking out into the full orchestra soon after with the beginning melody replayed. Then the piano solo chords are visited again with then ending of the track a grand finale, large orchestra sound with the feeling of happiness and success. Transformation opens with strings playing, giving me the feeling of seeing water move. The piano joins the group playing out the melody, with the main theme being played along in the background by the strings. The piano and strings then crescendos into the Arrival music, giving that feeling of grand purpose and deep beauty that was played out previously. The track then ends with the main theme in all its glorious beauty, grand and epic if it could be called that.

Hyena has a dissonant guitar leading the music, again creating a feeling of danger. Strings in the background create a feeling of tension and hurry lending the listener to know something is not right, the track then crescendos into a dissonant chord. Life of the Bird takes the listener back to the soft quiet melodies of the strings and piano. Strings carry the melody, simple long notes but beautiful in their simplicity. First Light has guitar as the main instrument leading the melody. The strings play softly in the background but the guitar plays in a rough but melodic way building with its simple chords to bring the track to its crescendo then ending with strings playing out the simple melody. Crimson Skies is the Opening Titles track but with Lou Rhodes singing to the music. The lyrics were written by the Cinematic Orchestra and say those things felt through the music in the previous eleven tracks.

I love this score, it is simple but gorgeous. I do not think my words can portray the beauty within, but I hope I at least helped. Highly recommend hearing every track, none disappoints in this reviewer’s opinion.

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