Lost in Translation

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Composer: Kevin Shields
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); German (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2004-06-29
Music Label: Emperor Norton
Soundtracks:

Intro/Tokyo
City Girl
Fantino
Tommib
Girls
Goodbye
Too Young
Kaze Wo Atsumete
On the Subway
Ikebana
Sometimes
Alone in Kyoto
Shibuya
Are You Awake?
Just Like Honey/More Than This

Music reviews of Lost in Translation

Music Review: Haunting, reflective and modern
Rating: 4 Stars

Like the film this soundtrack is the perfect reaction of a world in a state of graceful if confusing flux. It spans the divide of both an ancient culture and the modern problems and minor miracles of this age. Kevin Shields' opening track is a light hearted but earthy dirge, low on emotional essence as the timber of his voice remains just below eye level but also has a translucent quality melding with the simple but flowing rhythm of that textured rhythm guitar. It's a ghost in heavy traffic on a rainy day. Sebastian Tellier's "Fantino" is another hauting piece and mercifully brief and that's not a bad thing.
I could list all the track like Death in Vegas' "Girls" with it's ephemeral but electric bloom, or so many others that cling to my subconsious long after I've listened to them. What's remarkable about this soundtrack is the way it was used for the film makes it as essential as the actors' spoken words, their situations, the settings, editing and cinematography. It is so much a part of the whole that I really neglected it, took it for granted. Then i realized that it haunted me. Years later I finally bought the CD and it's been played 4 times in less than 2 months. As soundtracks go, they are always a mixed bag, with songs you're bound to just tolerate in the mix of even the best tunes, but this one has not a single stinker to be tolerated. There are a couple that don't get me excited but even those are delightful bridges to better work.
One last bonus that bears mentioning; this collection has yet to disappoint me regardless of the time of day or weather conditions. It really seems to suit any moment I find myself listening to it, rain or shine, day or night.

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Description of Lost in Translation

The soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation features exclusive music from Kevin Shields (of My Bloody Valentine) and Air -- plus classic tracks from the Jesus & Mary Chain, Death In Vegas, My Bloody Valentine and Squarepusher.

Sofia Coppola has, with two elegant movies, proved herself a talented director with a keen eye for interior life. She's also got great ears. For Lost in Translation, the story of a May-December friendship in Tokyo between two displaced Americans, the score is a tonic for jetlag. Coppola prescribes a dose of shoegazer pop, from My Bloody Valentine's chiming "Sometimes" to Jesus & Mary Chain's fuzzed-out "Just Like Honey." The music nails the hazy conscious state of actors Bill Murray (as a movie star with a midlife crisis) and Scarlet Johansson (as an emotionally marooned twenty-something). It also provides a safe, warm envelope in which they can enact their overseas adventures. Working with producer Brian Reitzell, whose band Air scored her previous Virgin Suicides, Coppola lured Valentine's Kevin Shields into providing several slices of dreamy indie-rock and sonic wallpaper, as stylish as it is formless. There's a welcome bit of Japanese goofiness, a funhouse-mirror reflection of U.S. folk-rock courtesy of early-1970s band Happy End. And a "hidden" track provides the audio of Murray, in the film, doing his sleepy karaoke version of Roxy Music's "More Than This." --Marc Weidenbaum

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