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| Moving Documentary Accompanied by Masterful Music |
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| By: | jadedtitan |
| Date: | 7 Aug 2009 |
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I am not sure what attracts french composer Armand Amar to documentaries about nature, but in this latest score by Amar, Home, Amar again pulls musical talents from all over the world. He uses the different region's unique styles and composes a very moving score that cannot help but stir the listener. The documentary is free to watch on YouTube, which i highly recommend, and uses visually stunning images of our planet coupled along with a narrative about its origins, about our origins on the planet and what we have done to upset the balance.
The first track, Home part 1, starts the documentary, quiet at first then quickly moves into wonderful female vocals, his native voices that he often uses. Whales also has the lone female voice, almost as if she was the voice of the whales, beautiful in its simple elegance. Epi is another vocal track and uses the mongolian style of vocals, rough guttural sounding, used to showcase that location during the documentary. The last track, Cum Dederit is the last vocal track and is an actual song composed by Amar.
The other three Home tracks are slow moving string pieces that lend to the introduction historical narrative given at this point of the film. The four tracks build on each other, reaching the segment's peak at the end of track 4. O is taken from a previous Amar score, <i>Les Loups</i> but is a slight variation from what is found in that score.
Life, a guitar dominated track, which feeds emotion into this point of the score, where life began, building up as more instruments add in, creating a more complex fabric as life grows. Take the Earth, has South American sounds, the guitar with the slow drums and native flute. Toll of Toil in another string dominated track, similar to Life, slow to begin and gradually builds over the track length.
Black Gold, my favorite of the score, uses wonderful taiko drums throughout the track. String accompany to add more depth, giving a hurried rush feeling, to go with the dire situation occurring during this point in the film. Chemical Food is altogether different, slow piano begins the track, with a solo violin coming in to accompany and background synth adding to the slow sad feeling of the track. Feed Lots, sounds almost silly in this tuba dominated and circus sounding track, quick but fun on the surface, only the strings give away the deep sadness felt behind.
Overproduction, isnt very significant, its a slow emotive string piece that builds as it goes, gets quicker and more rushed feeling, again leading to the feelings of this part of the film. Murderous Catch has the clarinet as the main instrument, another slow sorrowful song. Piano and strings accompany, adding more mood to the track. Dubai is another taiko dominated track, solo drum to start then more join in.
The Dead Seas, more emotive scoring, wind instrument solo with strings to accompany. So much emotion is given by these instruments, it would be impossible not to feel your heart being pulled. Faster and Faster, the other upbeat track, quick with brass coming in to play, but still having the strings int he background. Life 2 goes back to the guitar feel as played before in the previous Life track. I love how Amar uses guitars to convey his emotion, some of my favorite music by him.
Wasteland is played out by a solo trumpet with strings in the background again, the feelings and emotions are poured out through the trumpets slow mournful sound. Rake the Forest uses a native Australian didgeridoo as background music, with strings coming in and out in this slow, minimalistic styled track. The Desert goes back to the clarinet solo style, slow and emotive, as with everything else, a simple but moving track. Fire, the last track, is very Asian sounding, the taiko drums come back, along with bells as if in a Buddhist monastery. Simple, but effective in its emotion.
I guess i wrote a lot about this score, what can i say, I love this Amar score. I think it is a documentary well worth watching and Amar's music does a wonderful job, as always, in creating emotion and feeling using musical styles from all over the world. This score is well worth a listen, one of his greater scores i think.
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