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"127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture" Soundtrack Album to Be Released in November 2010
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posted Oct 29, 2010, 06:04
New Song, "If I Rise" First Collaboration by Rahman and Dido.
"127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture" Soundtrack Album
to Be Released Digitally on November 2nd and in Physical Format on November
22 on Interscope, Featuring New Original Music by Oscar-Winning Film Composer
A.R. Rahman
New Song, "If I Rise" First Collaboration by Rahman and
Dido
127 HOURS is being released in U.S. select cities on November 5th by FOX Searchlight
Pictures, reuniting the Slumdog Millionaire team of A.R. Rahman, director Danny
Boyle, writer Simon Beaufoy, and producer Christian Colson. Soundtrack includes
a collaboration with composer A.R. Rahman and Dido as well as other instrumental
score themes by Rahman, plus classics by Esther Phillips, Plastic Bertrand,
and Bill Withers, plus new music from Sigur Ros and Free Blood.
The atmospheric and transcendent music score of Academy Award-winning composer
A.R. Rahman is at the heart and soul of the inspiring new 127 Hours (FOX Searchlight
Pictures), the true story of Aron Ralston, a trapped mountain climber and his
ordeal in the Utah wilderness, opening in the U.S. in limited release on November
5th in New York and Los Angeles.
On November 2nd, three days before the film's opening, Interscope Records will
release "127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture", featuring the song "If
I Rise," the first collaboration between internationally renowned Grammy,
Golden Globe and Oscar winner A.R. Rahman and Dido, the mega-platinum two-time
Grammy Award-nominated and 4-time BRIT Award-winning British singer and songwriter.
In addition to "If I Rise," the soundtrack for 127 HOURS will also
feature several original score written for the movie by Rahman. Titles include
"Canyon," "Liberation Begins," "Touch of Sun,"
"Liberation In A Dream," "R.I.P.," "Acid Darbari,"
and "Liberation."
127 HOURS marks the second collaboration for A.R. Rahman and Danny Boyle. In
a 180-degree turn, they went from capturing the sounds and propulsive rhythms
of the "Maximum City" Mumbai, India in Slumdog Millionaire to shooting
in a claustrophobic canyon in the middle of nowhere, barely large enough to
squeeze in just one man. Boyle needed the right music to capture the film's
exploration of one man's extraordinary triumph over incomparable circumstances.
For that, he turned to A.R. Rahman to inhabit the unique world of '127 Hours'
and to capture the transcendent beauty of Aron Ralston's escape. Rahman's superbly
eclectic score succeeds by balancing ambient sound, silence and driving rhythms
that deliver an emotionally powerful and uplifting score. As Peter Travers notes
in his review of the film for Rolling Stone "Like the A.R. Rahman score
that drives the movie, the triumphant, enthralling 127 Hours pays fitting tribute
to Aron by being thrillingly alive."
The 127 HOURS soundtrack will also include a number of eclectic tracks ranging
from soul-jazz singer Esther Phillips' version of the Edith Piaf gem "If
You Love Me" to Plastic Bertrand's new wave anthem, "Ca Plane Pour
Moi," and Bill Withers' "Lovely Day." From Iceland's Sigur Ros
comes "Festival," while Brooklyn dance-punk duo Free Blood contributes
"Never Hear Surf Music Again." The album is rounded out by Chopin's
Nocturnes – No. 2 in E flat.
127 HOURS reunites the Slumdog Millionaire team of Oscar winners A.R. Rahman
(Best Original Score and Best Original Song), Danny Boyle (Best Director), producer
Christian Colson (Best Picture), writer Simon Beaufoy (Best Adapted Screenplay),
and Anthony Dod Mantle (Best Cinematography). An official Selection at the London
Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival, the movie
tells the remarkable adventure of mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco),
who saves himself after a boulder falls on his arm and traps him in an isolated
Utah canyon. For five days he examines his life, recalling friends, lovers (Clemence
Poesy), family, and two hikers (Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara), the last people
he met before his accident. Ralston ultimately survives the elements, discovering
he has the courage and wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary,
overcoming obstacles until he is finally rescued.
"127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture" – track listing:
1. Never Hear Surf Music Again – Free Blood
2. The Canyon – A.R. Rahman
3. Liberation Begins – A.R. Rahman
4. Touch of the Sun – A.R. Rahman
5. Lovely Day – Bill Withers
6. Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9 No. 2
7. Ca Plane Pour Moi – Plastic Bertrand
8. Liberation In A Dream – A.R. Rahman
9. If You Love Me (Really Love Me) – Esther Phillips
10. Acid Darbari – A.R. Rahman
11. R.I.P. – A.R. Rahman
12. Liberation – A.R. Rahman
13. Festival – Sigur Ros
14. If I Rise – Dido / A.R. Rahman
( Interscope Records)
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