Howard Shore - Eastern Promises (OST) (2007)
Howard Shore - Eastern Promises (OST) (2007)
(Solo Violin by Nicola Benedetti)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 00:34:20 | 79 MB
(Solo Violin by Nicola Benedetti)
MP3 CBR 320kbps | 00:34:20 | 79 MB
This soundtrack marks composer Howard Shore's 12th collaboration with director David Cronenberg, and it's safe to say the two men have an almost symbiotic relationship at this point. Like its immediate predecessor, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises is a crime drama; this time around, however, it is set not in a very American town but among Russian gangsters in London. Shore evokes the milieu by incorporating "slavic" touches from a cimbalom (a type of hammered dulcimer), a balalaika (a triangular stringed instrument), and a tárogatóto (a woodwind) in his orchestrations, but thankfully he doesn't overdo it and turn the score into cheesy folklore. This is a taut, somber CD, where the main themes are performed by a solo violin (check out in particular "Nine Elms"). But the most arresting track may well be the slow, majestic "Slavery and Suffering", a traditional revolutionary song performed by the Red Army Choir.
1. Howard Shore - Eastern Promises (5:04)
2. Howard Shore - Tatiana (5:11)
3. Howard Shore - London Streets (1:56)
4. Howard Shore - Sometimes Birth and Death Go Together (1:53)
5. Howard Shore - Trafalgar Hospital (1:33)
6. Howard Shore - Vory v Zakone (0:48)
7. Howard Shore - Slavery and Suffering (2:00)
8. Howard Shore - Nikolai (1:19)
9. Howard Shore - Kirill (2:09)
10. Howard Shore - Anna Khitrova (3:25)
11. Howard Shore - Eagle and Star (1:25)
12. Howard Shore - Nine Elms (6:15)
13. Howard Shore - Like a Place in the Bible (1:22)