Philip Glass - KOYAANISQATSI (Complete Original Soundtrack Version)
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Artist: Philip GlassComposer: Philip Glass
Performer: Philip Glass
Conductor: Michael Riesman
Orchestra: Philip Glass Ensemble
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2009-05-19
Music Label: Orange Mountain Music
Soundtracks:
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Organic
- Clouds
- Resource
- Vessels
- Pruitt Igoe
- Pruitt Igoe Coda
- SloMo People
- The Grid Introduction
- The Grid
- Microchip
- Prophecies
- Translations and Credits
Music reviews of KOYAANISQATSI (Complete Original Soundtrack Version)
Music Review: Perfect except for what could be some technical flaws
Rating: 4 Stars
'Koyaanisqatsi' is a great film and I have watched it many times...I have listened to the original soundtrack even more. I also enjoyed musical cues that were in the movie that were not in the original soundtrack release; I used to have to watch the movie to hear these unreleased musical cues/cuts. Naturally, as someone who has almost every Glass release I was glad to see they would finally add these other cues onto a complete version of this amazing soundtrack.
Listening to the completed soundtrack creates a mood that is much more like watching the film itself as you hear some of the pieces weaving right into each other as they do in the film (rather than silence between tracks). The incorporation of some of the actual sounds from the film in the extra cues works much better than I thought it would. So it is a fine representation and recreation of the entire film's soundtrack onto CD and worth five stars for concept and reproduction of the original film music.
My only issue with this new release would be with sound quality. I find there are several places on the recording where the quality of the sound is 'iffy' compared to the original CD release. If the degredated quality was only in the unreleased tracks I could understand, but I heard some strange anomalies during tracks that sounded fine on the original CD. One track, 'Vessels' (#5 on this disc) starts out clearly and normally enough but in the middle section when the instruments enter the entire sound of the music and chorus suddenly sounds like they are playing in a tunnel. It becomes almost impossible to pick out individual instruments and everything kind of blends together into an heavy echo/reverb-like resonance. I can almost not even make out the chorus against the instruments because it just has such a tunnel-effect. It just sounds very, very strange. It was so odd that I decided to check it against the original soundtrack CD and the clarity of the original was much better in this section and in other places so I don't know what happened with the sound compared to the original release.
So a potential 5 stars for the idea and release of the album, but minus one for some questioning of quality and sound issues in a few places.
*Update: I got a second copy of this disc thinking perhaps I had a 'bad' disc but the sound is still the same. After continuing to compare this release to the original CD release the original is much clearer and 'cleaner' in many sections. However, I also decided to compare this new release to the sound quality heard on the 'Koy' DVD and I found the sound of the music from the DVD and the sound on this new CD are pretty identical. So while compared to the original CD release I think this version sounds inferior, it is nonetheless an accurate representation of the music as also heard in the film on DVD. It now makes me wonder why the original CD release sounds so much different (and in my opinion better) to that heard during the DVD of the film. I still give this version four stars because if they could master the original release to sound so good why could they also not do this with this version?
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