Thomas Newman - The Salton Sea

Thomas Newman - The Salton Sea
Label: Varèse Sarabande VSD-6351
Format: CD, Soundtrack
Country: Germany
Released: Apr 30, 2002
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Film Music, Original Score, Soundtracks
Tracklist
1 Perpetual Night Party Newman Thomas 3:02
2 Tweaker Crash Newman Thomas 1:44
3 Undress Revised [Revised] Newman Thomas 2:11
4 First Wife Newman Thomas 1:54
5 Iforgiv Newman Thomas 1:22
6 Glock Semi-Automatic Newman Thomas 1:19
7 Gun Cemetery Newman Thomas 1:17
8 Queen Elizabeth Newman Thomas 0:26
9 School Teacher Newman Thomas 0:55
10 Palmdale Monty Newman Thomas 2:51
11 Night Vision Newman Thomas 2:00
12 Salton Sea Newman Thomas 2:25
13 One Red Hair Newman Thomas 5:12
14 Dead Bobby Newman Thomas 1:44
15 Saeta Evans 2:01
16 Colombian Necktie Newman Thomas 1:23
17 Badger Newman Thomas 1:07
18 Undress Original [Original Version] Newman Thomas 2:08
19 Hole in the Head Newman Thomas 1:35
20 Last Wife Newman Thomas 2:49
21 Gutshot Newman Thomas 2:35
22 Linoleum/Walk to Black Newman Thomas 4:40
23 Learn to Yodel Newman Thomas 0:41
Notes
Thomas Newman's patient score for the revenge drama The Salton Sea is filled with such an honest sense of noir that one can't help wondering if the man moonlights as a P.I. As a whole, the soft pianos and long string cues resonate like a chillier version of his excellent work on 1994's The Shawshank Redemption. His deep understanding of the human condition is evident during the dreamy "Gun Cemetery." With it's atonal piano notes falling like misled raindrops, it resembles an instrumental rendering of the image-laden "9th and Hennepin" off of Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album. The spooky solo trumpet on the atmospheric "First Wife" and "Saeta" closely mirrors the protagonist's lonely vigilantism, causing the sultry Rhodes-led groove on "Glock Semi-Automatic" to sound like an out of control freight train. Newman's mastery of the organic and the processed world of sounds has a great deal to do with his talent for seamlessness -- the gritty backwards guitar loop that opens "Palmdale Monty" simply sounds like an instrument in the composers repertoire -- and his otherworldly restraint. By refusing to fill the space between each breath, car chase, and gunfight, he unleashes a much more effective beast, a quiet and elegant bombast.
Credits
Nico Abondolo: Bass
Bob Adcock: Cello
Eun Mee Ahn: Violin
Ann Atkinson: Bass
Marilyn Baker: Viola
John Beasley: Drum Programming, Organ (Hammond), Soloist, Wurlitzer
Bill Bernstein: Guitar (Electric), Music Editor, Piano, Producer, Soloist
Terence Blanchard: Soloist, Trumpet
Dmitri Boviard: Viola
Jacqueline Brand: Violin
Julian Bratolyubov: Music Preparation
George Budd: Amplifiers, Gong, Soloist
Denyse Buffum: Viola
Becky Bunnell: Violin
Eve Butler: Violin
Darius Campo: Violin
Carole Castillo: Viola
Ronald Clark: Violin
Larry Corbett: Cello
Rick Cox: Guitar (Electric), Mouthpiece, Soloist
Robert Decker: Viola
Mario Diaz de Leon: Violin
Brian Dembow: Viola
Joel Derouin: Violin
George Doering: Guitar, Mandolin, Sitar, Soloist
Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick: Cello
Stephen Erdody: Cello
Christine Ermacoff: Cello
Richard Feves: Bass
Michael Fisher: Drum Loop, Drums, Soloist, Tabla, Tamboura, Tympani [Timpani]
Matt Funes: Viola
Berj Garabedian: Violin
Robert Gerry: Violin
Harris Goldman: Violin
Endre Granat: Violin
Alan Grunfeld: Violin
Vahe Hayrikyan: Cello
Al Hershberger: Violin
Oscar Hidalgo: Bass
Tiffiany Yi Hu: Violin
Norman Hughes: Violin
Joel Iwataki: Engineer, Mixing, Remixing
Karen Jones: Violin
Dennis Karmazyn: Cello
Suzie Katayama: Cello
Ok Hee Kim: Assistant Engineer
Christian Kollgaard: Bass
Aimee Kreston: Violin
Steve Kujala: Drones, Flute, Soloist
Gary Kuo: Violin
Razdan Kuyumjian: Violin
Janet Lakatos: Viola
Natalie Leggett: Violin
Kathleen Lenski: Violin
Brian Leonard: Violin
Phillipe Levy: Violin
Linda Lipsett: Viola
Frances Liu Wu: Bass
Norman Ludwin: Bass
Earl Madison: Cello
Michael Markman: Violin
Robert Matsuda: Violin
Liane Mautner: Violin
Ed Meares: Bass
Vicki Miskolczy: Viola
Frances Moore: Violin
Jorge Moraga: Viola
Bruce Morgenthaler: Bass
Horia Moroaica: Violin
Leslie Morris: Music Contractor
Carole Mukogawa: Viola
Dan Neufeld: Viola
Robin Olson: Violin
Carolyn Osborn: Violin
Simon Oswell: Viola
Sid Page: Violin
Thomas Pasatieri: Orchestration
Katia Popov: Violin
Barbara Porter: Violin
Karie Prescott: Viola
Rachel Purkin: Violin
Sue Raney: Bass
Steve Richards: Cello
Rafael Rishik: Violin
Susan Rishik: Violin
Guillermo Romero: Violin
Anatoly Rosinsky: Violin
Mark Sazer: Violin
John Scanlon: Viola
Danny Seidenberg: Violin
Harry Shirinian: Viola
Haim Shtrum: Violin
Chas Smith: Pedal Steel, Resonator, Soloist
Tina Soule: Cello
David Speltz: Cello
Dave Stone: Bass
Patricia Sullivan: Mastering
Steve Tavaglione: EWI, Sample Voices, Sax (Baritone), Soloist
Raymond Tischer: Viola
Robert Townson: Executive Producer
Richard Treat: Cello
Mari Tsumura: Violin
Ian Walker: Bass
Roger Wilkie: Violin
Ken Yerke: Violin
Mike Zainer: Assistant Engineer

Price: 12.- €