This is the soundtrack for The Last Temptation of Christ. I saw the movie when it was in the theatres, and I originally bought the soundtrack when it was first released, then sold it eventually to a used CD store.
I recently came across it by chance at the public library and decided to give it another listen. Perhaps after all these years I would like it more?
The verdict? It's "ok, I guess". A lot of moaning and banging on drums. I can see why I got rid of it all those years ago. Will I rip it to my laptop? I haven't decided yet. I'm going to listen to it again today.
Wonderful, amazing, brilliant score! Perfect for the 'challenging' film and a great stand alone listen. 'Lazarus raised' always give me chills and the power of the 'Passion' track is something else!
"Passion" has had an outsize influence on many soundtracks that followed, particularly in the Zimmer school of composing. "Last Temptation" took a novel approach to music for biblical/historical subjects by using current world music influences instead of the traditional epic symphonic approach and you can hear the impact on many similar films since then. It's a classic.
Man. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Just a gorgeous compendium of world music by one of the great musicians of our time scoring one of the great films about Jesus of Nazareth. I hate hearing people can't get behind it but to each their own.
I think "Zaar" is my favorite track. There is a lot of loveliness, rhythm, and melody in that track.
"Passion" has had an outsize influence on many soundtracks that followed, particularly in the Zimmer school of composing. "Last Temptation" took a novel approach to music for biblical/historical subjects by using current world music influences instead of the traditional epic symphonic approach and you can hear the impact on many similar films since then. It's a classic.
Agreed. I was introduced to it by a class fellow in College and I was hooked. . And this was in the mid 90's when I first heard it. Some mesmerizing rhythms and ambient scoring. The fact it featured indigenous Qawwali Legend Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan rang high marks with me.
Its the first world music influenced film soundtrack score that I knew at that time long before Hans Zimmer did GLADIATOR. To say the least this inspired a more organic/ orchestral and in the same vein for John Debney's PASSION OF THE CHRIST score.
I would love to see an actual film version cues or a more definitive release of the complete score along with the source music used (subsequently issued separately on cd titled PASSION: SOURCES)
I loved Debney's score for The Passion of the Christ but man is it temp track city if you are familiar with the Gabriel score for Last Temptation. Does anyone remember the period where it was expected that Lisa Gerrard would score the film? While obviously that didn't happen I did quite love the album she released with Patrick Cassidy, Immortal Memory, in 2004. Two of the songs are in Aramaic, the language of Jesus of Nazareth; and another song is in Latin. Both languages are used in The Passion of the Christ and all three of these songs reference the Christian God and the teachings of Jesus.
Back in 1982, a various artists compilation was released called "Music & Rhythm". Excellent album, full of fantastic African music (and some merely inspired by Africa). I played it a TON back then and I was listening to it tonight. Gabriel, who was one of the main motivators in putting the LP out, contributed a track called "Across The River". It's a great piece of music and a lot of what he did for TLTOC can trace its lineage back to it.
“The Feeling Begins.” The score’s opener is what grabbed me when I first bought the disc back in ‘89. One of my first soundtracks on CD. The track begins subdued and mysteriously, then builds and builds. Like a wave rising from the desert floor and churning into an epic sandstorm. The notion of being Touched by the Hand of God. I live in Phoenix, and in the summers we experience haboobs. I hear this track and am moved, reminded of these phenomena.
