House Of Flying Daggers (2004)

Product Summary Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records UPC: 00827969356128 Release Date: 11/30/2004 Buy.com Sku: 63923475 Item#: MXSVQG Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Opening Title ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Beauty Song (Jia Ren Qu) ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Echo Game, The ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Echo Game, The ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Peonyhouse, The ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Peonyhouse, The ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Battle In The Forest ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Taking Her Hand ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Taking Her Hand ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Leo's Eyes ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Leo's Eyes ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Lovers - Flower Garden ~ Original Soundtrack 9. No Way Out ~ Original Soundtrack 9. No Way Out ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Lovers ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Farewell No. 1 ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Farewell No. 1 ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Bamboo Forest ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Bamboo Forest ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Ambush In Ten Directions (Shi Mian Mai Fu) ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Ambush In Ten Directions (Shi Mian Mai Fu) ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Leo's Theme ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Mei And Leo ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Mei And Leo ~ Original Soundtrack 16. House Of Flying Daggers, The ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Lovers (Mei And Jin) ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Lovers (Mei And Jin) ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Farewell No. 2 ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Farewell No. 2 ~ Original Soundtrack 19. Until The End ~ Original Soundtrack 19. Until The End ~ Original Soundtrack 20. Lovers (Title Song) - Kathleen Battle ~ Original Soundtrack (P) 2004 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (C) 2004 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Composer: Shigeru Umebayashi. Personnel: Kouichiro Tashiro (guitar); Deng Le, Li Qi, Shu Fang, Wang Qiao, Song Hongfei, Gao Ruiyun, Wang Qi, Duan Yan, Xu Bin, Jiang Ting, Zhou Yu (pipa); Hitoshi Konno (violin); Xue Ke, Jia Peng Fang (erhu); Shota Mochizuki (bamboo flute); Aki Takahashi (ocarina); Bob Zung (saxophone); Bi Xiaodi, Takehiko Yamada (piano); Wang Shuai, Ikuo Kakehashi (percussion); Tadashi Yabe (programming); Dai Ya (dizi); Zhang Xuanlian (yang-chin). Audio Mixers: Minoru Tanaka; Xu Gang. Recording information: Bunkamura Studio; Dingtian Studio, Beijing, China; Studio Shanglira; Victor Studio. Editor: Minoru Tanaka. Photographer: Bai Xiao Yan. Shigeru Umebayashi's score for Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers is a study in simplicity, featuring a few understated but hypnotic themes that are repeated with different arrangements of traditional Chinese and Western instruments. Considering that Umebayashi also wrote the music for Wong Kar Wai's In the Mood for Love, it's understandable that this score's romantic moments are among the standouts. The "Lovers" theme has a pure, yearning melody that works as well in a stripped-down arrangement as it does in the more lavish "Lovers (Flower Garden)" and "Lovers (Mei and Jin)." Soprano Kathleen Battle's version of the song is more overtly Western-sounding but still retains the melody's almost unearthly beauty. The score's bittersweet romance is balanced out by a few percussion-driven tracks that score the film's action sequences, but even pieces like "Battle in the Forest" and "No Way Out" are more melodic than might be expected. Gentle drama and restraint are the watchwords for most of the score, particularly on "Bamboo Forest," "Taking Her Hand," "Ambush in Ten Directions (Shi Mian Mai Fu)," and "The House of Flying Daggers" itself. The score's subtlety helps give House of Flying Daggers its own identity and, in the long run, makes the music more compelling than more bombastic music would be. ~ Heather Phares Producer: Shigeru Umebayashi Engineer: Li Yuesong   Technical Info Release Date : 12/07/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 93561 Label : Sony Music Distribution (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 49m : 37s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00827969356128    Product Image