Gladiator 2001

On the first day of the Intifada, a concert was recorded in front of a six people crowd. This date gave a special meaning to the music that was played, and took it into a different state of mind and atmosphere. This made this special encounter - between the Armenian spirit of Djivan Gasparyan with his unique voice, and the ethnical Mediterranean music of Amir Perelman - the true quest for serenity, not only in the studio, living room or concert hall, but in the hard and hostile environment that man is too often responsible for. We truly believe that music in general, and this album in particular, are true messengers of the power and beauty of music, to give hope and light to all and, unlike any other way, to make a difference in the heart of people.

EBX is the title given to retrospective box sets from Erasure, released in the UK by Mute Records in 1999 and 2001. Four volumes of EBX have been released : both EBX 1 and EBX 2 were released in 1999, then EBX 3 and EBX 4 were out in 2001. Each set presents, in chronological order, five singles released by Erasure, beginning with their debut in 1986 up to 1992 (twenty singles in all). Although cover art was altered (specifically for the sets), the track listings represent all music originally found on the UK versions of their singles (including all remixes and B-sides, found on cassette and CD singles, as well as 12 inch singles).

After the success of Gladiator, it wasn't unusual to see director Ridley Scott turn to Hans Zimmer again for the score to Black Hawk Down, his fierce adaptation of Mark Bowden's account of the tragic 1993 American military intervention in Somalia. What was more surprising was the schedule Scott imposed on the German-born composer: 15 days to write, arrange, and record the film's nearly two hours of music. The results of Zimmer's miraculous two-week musical campaign not only belie those constraints; they instantly take their place alongside The Thin Red Line as some of the most compelling music he's produced. The gambit here is simple–portray the combatants as two warring tribes, with their native musics locked in a tense dance for domination.