Babel (Slip)
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Edition: Music CDAudio: Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Music Label: Concord Records
Product features:
- SOUNDTRACK BABEL (2CD)
Music CD 1
- Tazarine
- Tu Me Acostumbraste - Chavela Vargas
- Medley: September/The Joker - Fatboy Slim
- Medley: Deportation/Iguazu
- World Citizen - I Won't Be Disappointed/Looped Piano - Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Cumbia Sobre El Rio - Control Machete
- Hiding It
- Masterpiece - RIP SLYME
- Desert Bus Ride
- Medley: Bibo No Aozora/Endless Flight/Babel - Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Tribal
- Para Que Regreses - El Chapo De Sinaloa
- Babel - Nortec Collective
- Amelia Desert Morning
- Jugo A La Vida - Los Tucanes De Tijuana
- Breathing Soul
- The Blinding Sun
- Only Love Can Conquer Hate - Ryuichi Sakamoto
- El Panchangon - Los Incomparables
- Two Worlds, One Heart
- The Phone Call
- Gekkoh - Susumu Yokota
- The Catch
- Mujer Hermosa - Los Incomparables
- Into the Wild
- Look Inside
- The Master
- Oh My Juliet! - Takashi Fujii
- Prayer
- El Besito Cachicurris - Daniel Luna
- Walking In Tokyo
- The Visitors - Hamza El Din
- Morning Pray
- Mi Adoracion - Agua Caliente
- The Skin Of the Earth
- Bibo No Aozora/04 - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Music reviews of Babel (Slip)
Music Review: 5 stars, for all the stars in the sky...
Rating: 5 Stars
Wonderful ... So much music to transport us to "another world," from so many fine artists I had never heard of before. Arab, Argentina, Latino, Indian, Indonesian, Moroccan, North African, Nordic, Japanese, American... so many styles I do not really know the names of, but the overall sound is a trip to the far east and around the world, as if I too have flown.
I have imported both CD's TWICE into iTunes in order to enjoy them over and over again, and a number of songs 4 or more times. Example: "The Phone Call," "World Citizen - i won't be disappointed/looped piano," "Bibo no Aozora/Endless Flight/Babel," "Bibo No Aozoro / 04 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Yuichiro Gotoh" and more.
New artists (new to me, anyway): David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakaomoto/Amadeo Pace/Keigo Oyamata/Sketch Show, susumu yokota, Takashi Fuji, Hamza El Din, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jaques Morelenbaum & Everton Nelson / , Nortec Collective, and of course one of my favorites of all time, Senor Gustavo Santaolalla.
I leave it to the listener to match the song titles to the artist names; it's a journey well worth taking.
Wonderful CD, highly recommended. Leaves me as breathless as the film, with the wind blowing through my shirtsleeves raising me up into the dream of flying high into the air. Rising above the turmoil and strife of daily life surrounded by Life and "humans" everywhere. This is one dream most of us share.
The CD cover photos of the boys arms raised into the wind feeling as though they could fly "says it all." Then comes the dark turn and turmoil of "when things go wrong." No matter who is to blame, when things go wrong everyone suffers in the end. How can we begin to hear? How do we find a cure? What language can speak from the heart and cure our ills? Speaking can so often fail. What will bring people together, parents and children, men and women, adult to adult? Will people ever learn to "hear" and to "heal?"
No one listens, as can be seen even here in the comment and reviews.
One reviewer called this CD "excessively heterogeneous." What the heck does this mean? (Ah, just looked it up: "definitions for heterogeneous consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature; "the population of the United States is vast and heterogeneous"
Does this person never "dream to soar?" Indeed!
The great mix of music and of sound reflects the great mix and chaos and mud slipping and sliding as we Babel our way through life... even though the songs are quite different in many areas, one can delete those songs from their play list and duplicate others to make for a longer meditative song as I have learned to do. The entire premise of "Babel" the film is well-represented in the mix of musical styles that bring us together and keep us apart.
I applaud the musicians and the director of this fine and moving film to continue leading the way on this journey we call "life."
I have been shot in the heart and this "symphony of sounds" has become my own Red Cross. Today, listening to this sweet "cacophony of sounds" has kept me alive. We are all "Citizens of the World."
Like it or not. Cacophony or Symphony?
It's all in how we play...
Description of Babel (Slip)
SOUNDTRACK BABEL (2CD)As its title suggests, Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu's film revolves around the transcultural difficulties of human communication. But the linguistic dysfunction that drives the film's characters towards causal connection and inevitable tragedy has paradoxically inspired just the opposite on this adventurous musical mélange of a soundtrack. The meditative, often hypnotic fretboard inventions of Iñárritu's previous soundtrack collaborator, Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla (a 2005 Oscar winner for Brokeback Mountain), serve as the restless soul of interlocking plots in the film, the final chapter of a fatalistic trilogy that also includes the Santaolalla-scored Amores Perros and 21 Grams. But on this expanded, double-disc collection, the South American composer's culture-bending film cues (including mastery of indigenous Arab stringed instruments and incorporating field recordings of Moroccan tribal music) also serve as artistic axes, reflective anchor points for a pop collection that's as ambitious and far-ranging as the film itself. While the "music from and inspired by" tag often indicates cynical record company marketing schemes, here it's an invitation to transcultural musical adventure that links Santaolalla's North African musical conjuring with the contemporary styles of Japan (the atmospherics of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Susumu Yolota, Shinichi Osawa's sly Earth, Wind & Fire/Fatboy Slim mashup, the teen pop of Takashi Fujii's "Oh My Juliet") and Tijuana (a generous sampling of effusive Norteño that includes Los Incomparables, Daniel Luna, and Agua Caliente). --Jerry McCulley
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