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ARTIST: Clint Mansell
TITLE: The Fountain
LABEL: Nonesuch Records
GENRE: Ambient
BITRATE: 189kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-11-30
RIP DATE: 2006-11-27

Track List
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1.  The Last Man                     6:09
2.  Holy Dread!                      3:51
3.  Tree Of Life                     3:44
4.  Stay With Me                     3:36
5.  Death Is A Disease               2:34
6.  Xibalba                          5:22
7.  First Snow                       3:08
8.  Finish It                        4:25
9.  Death Is The Road To Awe         8:25
10. Together We Will Live Forever    5:01

Release Notes:

The Fountain is a layered, often beautiful score from composer Clint Mansell.
The disc seamlessly moves from ambient drones to plaintive piano music to slowly
percolating minimalist stuff to hugely swelling strings. Mansell, who's
collaborated with director Aronofsky before, uses almost anything from the
minor-key sonic palette available to him, with the exception of the mopey
yuppie-folk and instantly dated electronica so often thrown into films.
Mansell's own group, the superlative Kronos Quartet, is joined by Scottish noise
act Mogwai. The use of such an arty, detuned guitar rock band as Mogwai in a big
time movie soundtrack might seem weird, though of course Explosions in the Sky's
work on Friday Night Lights was a harbinger. It's too soon to tell if this is an
outright classic of soundtrack music in the realm of Goblin's Suspiria, John
Carpenter's Escape from New York, or Popol Vuh's Aguirre. But it is definitely a
subtle, melancholic work you'll want to revisit often.