Guest Post By: Brendan The 1997 soundtrack to James Cameron's Titanic became the highest-selling primarily orchestral soundtrack ever. A remastered "Anniversary Edition" of the soundtrack has been released to coincide with this week's Titanic 3D movie release. Two versions of the Titanic: Anniversary Edition are now available: the 2-disc package contains James Horner's original score [...]
Filed under: News , Movies With the Oscar nominations released this morning, a few surprises came within the musical categories. Only two types of music are honored: Best Score and Best Original Song, with past winners of the latter including the Swell Season and Bob Dylan . This year, Randy Newman leads the charge with two nominations in the category for 'Almost There' and 'Down in New Orleans,' both from the animated film, ' The Princess and the Frog .' If [...]
Filed under: News , Movies Songwriters Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett won Best Original Song at the 67th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night for 'The Weary Kind,' the theme song from the film ' Crazy Heart ' starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal . Burnett accepted the award on behalf of both songwriters. This is the first Golden Globe win for both musicians. The song was nominated alongside Sir Paul McCartney 's 'I Want To Come Home' from ' Everybody's Fine [...]
Era da tempo che non provavo simili emozioni all'ascolto di una ballad ed il merito in questo caso va attribuito al nuovo pezzo di Leona Lewis "I See You", canzone che appartiene alla colonna sonora del nuovo film " Avatar ". Le sensazioni che induce questa canzone sono magnifiche e riescono a rendere di più soprattutto in questo periodo natalizio. Ed il merito va tutto a James Horner , compositore che molti artisti del momento dovrebbero prendere in considerazioni nel momento in cui hanno l'intenzione di cimentarsi con i brani lenti. Quello che [...]
I patiti di cinema lo aspettano da tempo, ora anche gli amanti del bel canto avranno un motivo valido per correre in sala a guardare Avatar : la pellicola diretta da James Cameron (in Italia da gennaio 2010) oltre che di effetti speciali pazzeschi godrà di una colonna sonora memorabile. Stella tra le stelle sarà Leona Lewis , che presterà l'ugola al tema portante intitolato I See You . La Atlantic Records commercializzerà Avatar: Music from the Motion Picture dal mese prossimo, a curare la composizione [...]
When it comes to big budget holiday season popcorn movies that need a theme song, apparently Avatar director James Cameron feels the 2009 equivalent of Celine Dion is Leona Lewis. The BBC reports that Lewis, whose new album Echo is out tomorrow, will sing Avatar tune "I See You." And Cameron isn't taking any chances—James Horner and Simon Franglen, two of the producers who struck gold with Celine Dion's Titanic theme "My Heart Will Go On," are doing the twiddling. (For the song , at least. Not [...]
" When ships to sail the void between the stars have been invented, there will also be men who come forward to sail those ships ." -Johannes Kepler Tonight, NASA will launch the Kepler Satellite, the first satellite that will be able of detecting earth-like planets in other solar systems in the Milky Way. Opening - James Horner Hype - Look - About
As a dedication to yesterday's Oscars, I thought I'd help spread this video of Elliott Smith performing "Miss Misery" at the 1997 Academy Awards. As many would agree, it's one of the most beautifully written songs ever created, and it lost "Original Song" to James Horner's "My Heart Will Go On" (Will Jennings provided the lyrics famously sung by Celine Dion). You can listen to the two songs, and decide for yourself, but as far as I'm concerned this award was stolen from Smith. I was going to make a lame, tasteless joke about how "My Heart Will [...]
So once upon a time I was interested in all kinds of mythology and would collect songs and build whole playlists with that mythological thread, and now it's paying off! (A lot of these are instrumentals, actually.) The Appleseed Cast - Poseidon A pretty mellow instrumental track (even though it has about two lines of vocals in there in the middle). It almost sounds like there are waves in the background for a bit in the beginning. Way Out West - Apollo [...]
Unlike many of the films I have written about in the past, A Beautiful Mind is not some quirky indie flick. It's the intense biographical story of John Forbes Nash, a brilliant mathematician who struggles with the madness that comes along with his intelligence. The music is composed by James Horner, who has scored an absurd amount of films in the last thirty years -- an upwards of 80 films. So I guess if his name is attached to that many films, some of them are bound to be good, right? Well, A [...]
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