Michael McClennan discusses Alberto Iglesias' music for The Constant Gardener.
One of the things I feel is a bit remiss of soundtrack review sites is overemphasis on the soundtrack album as a delivery device for music that otherwise would never be heard in its pure form unsaddled by sound effects and dialogue. Yes, we’re reviewing the product, but it couldn’t hurt I feel to consider the motivations of the music as an element of storytelling through film. So I’m experimenting here with the idea of a column that tries to discuss a soundtrack album as though it was a way to reflect on how the music worked in the originating films. This is close to the way I treat soundtrack albums to those films I love – as a way to re-insert myself into the experience of a film and capture again the emotions bound to that music via the synchresis of the image and sound.
Yee hah. Wonderful stuff.
