Naqoyqatsi (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
byPhilip Glass Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma, Philip Glass
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- Date Released: October 1, 2002
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Film Soundtracks
- Label: Sony Classical
- Copyright: (P) 2002 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
A visionary composer and a visionary cellist team up to soundtrack a visionary film
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We Say...
The third of the so-called Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio might have been the most heavy-handed as a movie, but it provoked the most refined of the three soundtracks by Philip Glass. Not as intense and rocking as Koyaanisqatsi nor as globally colored as Powaqqatsi, the music for Naqoyqatsi features strings, and especially the singular cello talents of Yo-Yo Ma, who seems to have inspired Glass to write some of his most "classical" music. "New World" and "Old World" have a lyricism that continues in Glass's later, successful Hollywood scores, and the title track (loosely translated from the Hopi as — oh, never mind, we don't have all day) will offer Glass's many fans some familiar sounds but in a slightly warmer setting than usual. This is the irony of the Naqoyqatsi soundtrack: the film, unlike the earlier two in the trilogy, is largely made of computer-processed imagery, and Glass's score is the most organic thing in the whole project. The standout tracks include "Media Weather," a pensive, almost Romantic work; "Religion," with its subtle yet telling use of chiming percussion; and "Point Blank," perhaps the most obviously Glass-ian piece here but one that uses a somewhat muted version of some of Glass's trademark musical gestures.
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11 Total Tracks, 77:07 Total Length
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Credits
- Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Arranger // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Philip Glass - Liner Notes // Yo-Yo Ma - Cello // Virgil Blackwell - Clarinet (Bass) // Joseph Bongiorno - Double Bass // Alfred Brown - Violin // Albert DeRuiter - Bass (Vocal) // Joyce Hammann - Violin // Regis Iandiorio - Violin // Jill Jaffe - Viola // Susan Jolles - Harp // Dan Levine - Trombone // Richard Locker - Cello // Lois Martin - Viola // Nancy McAlhany - Violin // Sharon Moe - French Horn // John Moses - Clarinet // Jan Mullen - Violin // Kurt Munkasci - Producer // Keith O'Quinn - Trombone // Richard Peck - Sax (Tenor) // Alan Raph - Trombone (Bass) // Michael Riesman - Conductor // Michael Riesman - Keyboards // Marti Sweet - Violin // John Weston - Engineer // Shelley Woodworth - Horn (English) // Shelley Woodworth - Oboe // Masako Yanagita - Viola // Amahid Ajemian - Violin // James Pugh - Trombone // Dean Plank - Trombone // Linda Moss - Viola // Marisol Espada - Cello // William Rohdin - Trumpet // Jim Keller - Executive Producer // Mark Atkins - Didjeridu // Linda Quan - Violin // Lisa Sparagano - Art Direction // Lisa Sparagano - Design // David Calhoun - Cello // Greg Hesselink - Cello // Paul Houghtaling - Baritone (Vocal) // Juliann Klopotic - Violin // Alexandra Montano - Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal) // Godfrey Reggio - Liner Notes // Lisa Bielawa - Soprano (Vocal) // Timothy Malosh - Flute // Timothy Malosh - Piccolo // Lorraine Cohen - Trumpet // Gil Gilbert - Photography // Frank Morelli - Bassoon // Frank Cassara - Percussion // Francis Bonny - Trumpet // Mario J. McNulty - Assistant Engineer
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Composers
Philip Glass -
Performers
Andrew Sterman played Woodwind // Lisa Bielawa played Soprano (Vocal) // Yo-Yo Ma // Philip Glass Ensemble // Alexandra Montano played Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal) -
Other Details
- Conductor:
- Michael Riesman
- Instruments:
- Soprano (Vocal) //
- Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal) //
- Woodwind
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