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Jocelyn Pook & VA - Eyes Wide Shut: Music From The Motion Picture (1999) [Re-Up] Music

Posted by Efgrapha at Sept. 30, 2021

Stanley Kubrick made his own musical choices for his films, many of them existing pieces that were forever redefined by their use. (Remember "Thus Spake Zarathustra" in 2001: A Space Odyssey?) For his final work, Eyes Wide Shut, he employed composer Jocelyn Pook to compose some evocative string-filled music (including one track, "Masked Ball," eerily featuring backwards vocals), but his score also included works by Liszt and Shostakovich, syrupy versions of "When I Fall in Love," "If I Had You," and "Strangers in the Night," a jazzy rendition of "Blame It on My Youth" by Brad Mehldau, Chris Isaak's cross between John Lee Hooker and Roy Orbison on his 1995 song "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing," and, opening and closing the disc, a simple but intense solo piano piece by Gyogy Ligeti, whose work also had been used in 2001 and another Kubrick film, The Shining. The result was an eclectic soundtrack album that primarily was of interest to fans of the film who were in need of an aural souvenir.

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Jocelyn Pook - Flood (1999) Music

Posted by aasana at June 24, 2019

Jocelyn Pook - Flood (1999)
XLD | FLAC (tracks+.cue) | 00:54:14 | 241,98 MB
Avant-Garde, Classical, Soundtracks, Ethnic Fusion, Ambient | Label: Virgin Records America

This is one of those discs that more than just crosses over. Jocelyn Pook is no operatic diva crooning Gershwin and no pop star with classical pretensions. Instead, she is a Guildhall-trained composer and performer (voice, keyboards, strings) who has written music that doesn't fit easily into a single genre, but that has captured the attention of all sorts of folks nonetheless. One of these folks was director Stanley Kubrick, who included Pook's music in "Eyes Wide Shut," his final film.

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Jocelyn Pook & VA - Desh (2012) Music

Posted by Efgrapha at July 28, 2017

Famed for her film score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, Jocelyn Pook is a highly versatile composer who has written extensively for film, television, the theatre, and the concert hall. She has worked with some of the world's leading directors, musicians, artists and arts institutions including Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, the Royal Opera House, BBC Proms, Andrew Motion, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, and Laurie Anderson. DESH was composed to accompany Akram Khan's theatre work of the same name. The music translates into sound the sights, energy and colour Pook experienced into fragile pieces scored for chamber ensemble as well as pieces harnessing the power of full orchestra.

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