Search - Iain Ballamy, Stuart Hall, Martin Sharp :: Mirrormask

Excellent film, excellent soundtrack

Jason G. Renzi | San Diego, CA United States | 08/27/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this is a very unique and complex collection of music. it's very hard to sum up in a pithy phrase or two. it's quirky, eclectic, humorous, and never grows tiresome. you can listen to it over and over and continue to be astonished by its sublime, hypnotic, extroardinarily beautiful passages.

iain ballamy is a gifted young man with a bright future ahead of him. i will keep my eye out for his work in the years ahead and you should too.

in the meantime do yourself a favor and pick this collection up. you will not regret it."

Great collection of unusual music

C. Cedotal | SF, CA | 05/07/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Rented the movie on reccomendation from Netflix, it was pretty good. But the music was the star of the show. The soundtrack follows the course of the movie pretty closely, it's kind of like listening to the movie. Each track brings to mind a specific scene in the movie. One of the highlights is the ecclectic treatment of Burt Bacharach's "Close to You". Most will remember the super-sweet Carpenter's version, but this interpretation was the main reason I bought the music. Unusual augmented chord progressions and almost minimalist format (complete with the mechanical background sounds made by the female jack-in-the-box-like, life-sized, mostly metal toy dressers) make the tune as captivating as in the movie when they 'convert' the trapped Helena into the black princess. Great music to play while relaxing, too."