House Of Sand And Fog: James Horner: Amazon.ca: Music

1. An Older Life

2. The Waves of the Caspian Sea

3. Old Photos, New Memories

4. This Is No Longer Your House

5. Two People

6. Kathy's Night

7. Parallel Lives, Parallel Loves

8. Behrani's Thoughts - Long Ago

9. Break-In

10. The Dreams of Kings

11. The Shooting, A Payment for Our Sins

12. We Have Travelled So Far, It Is Time to Return to Our Path

13. A Return to the Caspian, And to the Iran of Old

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5.0 out of 5 stars Serves the Movie Well, July 16 2004

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Robert Stribley (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: House Of Sand And Fog (Audio CD)

I agree with many here who say that much of James Horner's music has sounded the same of late, but that this soundtrack is exceptional. Quiet, elegant, melancholy, moving: not words you'd use to describe a movie soundtrack, especially a wide-release flick like this, these days. I even agree that some of the pieces remind me of Gorecki. "The Waves of the Caspian Sea," for example, sounds remarkably like the Polish composer (one of my favorites, too), to the point that I almost expect to see his name in the credits. Overall, truly haunting and beautiful.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best of 2003, Mar 26 2004

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This review is from: House Of Sand And Fog (Audio CD)

James Horner has never been my favorite composer. I think he borrows heavily from himself without ever stating anything new. This isn't always a problem if the composer takes his "internal themes" and transfers in an invigorating way to new material. But for me, Horner doesn't do that. With this score for THOSF, Horner really hits one home. I actually had to look at the cd just to make sure it really said "music composed by James Horner", this is so beautiful and different for him. As others have said, all of the tracks really are beautiful. This isn't the type of score you put on as background music nor something you listen to to Not think. This score is emotive and heavily melancholic. It reminds me of Gorecki's Symphony No.2, and if you know that piece of music, you know there's no a higher compliment I can pay this score.

(BTW, if you're interested in a composer doing new and exciting things check out Danny Elfman's score for The Hulk, his score that should've been nominated over his mediocre one for Big Fish.)

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5.0 out of 5 stars James Horner's best work in a long time., Feb 15 2004

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Richard Stoehr "Idle Rich" (Bremerton, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: House Of Sand And Fog (Audio CD)

Even a diehard James Horner fan (like me) has to admit that, for the past few years, Horner has been skating by. With the scores for "Enemy at the Gates", "Radio", and "A Beautiful Mind", among others, Horner borrows heavily from himself and regurgitates old themes and progressions. Even the score for which he's perhaps best-known -- the Oscar-winning "Titanic" -- is heavily derivative of his own previous work.

Finally, with "House of Sand and Fog," Horner has given us something to treasure again: an original, moving score for a great film.

Listening to this music, I am reminded why I started following Horner's work so long ago. His subtle touch and avoidance of a "catchy" theme is evident in every track. Among my favorite pieces are "Two People," "The Dreams of Kings," and "Old Photos, New Memories"... but really, every song is a good one, and the album as a whole can be numbered as one of Horner's true masterpieces.

What I admired most about it was that Horner was able to abandon the style he has adopted for most of his recent work and just let the spirit of the film take over. Good film music is all about making music which evokes the right emotion for the film it accompanies, and the music for "House of Sand and Fog" does that perfectly, not only going along with but enhancing the feeling of each scene. The fact that the music is a joy to listen to on its own just makes it that much better.

Listening to James Horner's score for "House of Sand and Fog" reminds me of when I first listened to "Glory" and "Field of Dreams" and "Sneakers"... not because these scores are similar, but because they are all unique. They all bear the mark of James Horner, but it is Horner at his original and emotional best, and James Horner at the top of his game makes for some wonderful music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great return to form for Horner
I agree with the previous reviewer. I used to be a huge Horner fan and picked up most of his new albums until about five years ago, when I felt he lost his magic. Read more

Published on Jan 9 2004 by James Luckard

4.0 out of 5 stars OSCAR CONSTENDER!!!!
This soundtrack is deep in emotion, but extremely subtle and "underplayed"- a beautiful and very relaxing work.
Listen to it in the dark! Read more

Published on Dec 10 2003