Word: albums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Movie soundtracks inevitably suffer from the limitations of the genre. One option is to pack your album full of tried and true, catchy tunes that have little to do with the film in question. On the other extreme, a filmmaker could commission a more tailored fit, usually VIA original instrumental compositions. The results in either case can vary from the extraordinary (the apropos songs of Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction, or the haunting instrumentals of Twin Peaks) to the banal (most others...
Jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's soundtrack to A Map of the World, the upcoming film based on Jane Hamilton's book, falls somewhere in between. Certainly no innovation, but surely no tragedy, Metheny's compositions are no doubt appropriate. The main framework of the album is a variation on a theme, punctuated by less topical instrumentations, which include very literal motifs. An apt analogy would be to say that the artist has ceded to the architect. That is to say, Metheny has selflessly concealed his artistic biases to create a non-intrusive score for a film and not a masterpiece...
...This is it. The DJing is a small part of what makes the night happen. The rest of the time I'm setting up promotions. I try to keep different things happening every week--a different promotion, promoting a new album or a new artist, or different DJs coming in to showcase what they have. That keeps me busy during the day. One or two days a week I'm at FNX taking phone calls from record labels and doing that side of the business. I also do a little bit of studio work where I produce my own music...
Soliciting it through: Sweet Dreams, an album of lullabies...
...latest CD the gangsta rapper addresses nuclear proliferation, explores the "digital divide" between blacks and whites, quotes liberally from Hegel...nah, we're just playin'. Dre's album is mostly about weed, "bitches" and guns, just as you'd expect. Still, some of the beats are fresh and involving, and Dre's collaborations with Eminem and Snoop Dogg have ferocity and wit. But you have to wonder: Can gangsta themes age gracefully? Will Dr. Dre 2041 find an older, wiser Dre boasting about the benefits of marijuana for glaucoma...