What are you listening to now?
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I love the original album, so of course I had to check out the “sequel”. Very fitting follow up after all these years.
Have to admit I’ve had this sitting on my shelf for a while before listening to it. But I quite like it. Ranging from the ambient and soothing via the majestic to the weird, Zimmer can really draw you in with his exotic, otherworldly soundscapes. The opening, 9-minute track, “Beginnings Are Such Delicate Times”, is beautiful, with a saxophone (or sax-like instrument) that reminds me of Vangelis’ use of sax in BLADE RUNNER.
I said it before. In my view Dune is from score perspective a big missed opportunity. This very slow paced movie would have been a great canvas for a kind of Wagnarian classical score. But Zimmer’s spheric meandering sound design slows this already slow movie down so much and evoked partly rather boredom in me despite this epic imagery.
I found the score in part 2 much better than in part 1. There I found it really too much score and often too loud for scenes that could have used calmer or no score. Of course counterpoint usage of music is great but in part 2 I found this far better solved. I have not listened to both scores standalone yet except sample a track here and there via Youtube.
I hear Aquaman returns in the 2nd installment
Yes, right afer the Avengers have defeated the Emperor 😉
I said it before. In my view Dune is from score perspective a big missed opportunity. This very slow paced movie would have been a great canvas for a kind of Wagnarian classical score. But Zimmer’s spheric meandering sound design slows this already slow movie down so much and evoked partly rather boredom in me despite this epic imagery.
I’m not a super-fan of the movies either. They’re spectacular, for sure, and visually, of all the DUNE film or TV adaptations, they’re by far the closest to the images I had in my head while reading the books. But I can’t say they engaged me emotionally to any great extent. Not sure how much the scores are to blame for that, though. I wouldn’t call them “spheric meandering sound design” – as I mention, I find them quite varied. But a far cry from anything Wagnerian, definitely.
I think I saw Bugge walking around here in my hometown just before Christmas…
Oh, is he from your hometown?
I really like Zimmer’s DUNE efforts, especially the second (my whittled programs of both work like gangbusters). Of course, they can’t compare to three previous DUNE entries — the Toto score for the Lynch film, the Picq score for the 1992 videogame and – most recently – Knut Avenstroup Haugen’s brilliant score for the latest videogame, which I reviewed here. But still.
Nils, is that the vinyl you have?
Nils, is that the vinyl you have?
No, it’s the 2CD release. Which could have been a single CD, had they omitted a track or two, as each CD is just 40 minutes long. But it seems to be the CD version of the digital and vinyl releases, and I guess they didn’t want to leave anything out. 🙂
I haven’t heard Knut’s DUNE: AWAKENING yet. I’ll check it out!
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