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The Bourne Supremacy [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] | ![The Bourne Supremacy [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/613NHJEXEQL._SL160_.jpg) | Creator: John Powell
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Category: Music
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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
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Release Date: July 27, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Goa - John Powell, Powell, John [MST] | | • | The The Drop - John Powell, Hall, Richard | | • | The Funeral Pyre | | • | The Gathering Data | | • | The Nach Deutschland | | • | The To The Roof | | • | The New Memories | | • | The Berlin Foot Chase | | • | The Alexander Platz / Abbotts Confesses | | • | The Moscow Windup | | • | The Bim Bam Smash | | • | The Atonement | | • | Extreme Ways |
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Artist: BOURNE SUPREMACY
Title: SCORE
Street Release Date: 07/27/2004
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Genre: SOUNDTRACK
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Novelist Robert Ludlum's amnesia-plagued, tough-as-nails spy/assassin Jason Bourne again proves that success begats sequels, be they literary or cinematic. As he did for the saga's initial big screen installment, composer John Powell concocts an electro-orchestral fusion score that seasons its tense, bristling rhythms with dollops of melodicism, synth-atmospherics and staccato string figures. Those welcome touches hearken back to composer's similar work on the '03 action-thriller The Italian Job, with Powell initially evoking the film's exotic locales by employing a savory synth pop-meets-Eastern European palate. The tension-building rhythms and percussion flourishes familiar from Powell's other action-centric scores are the score's musical pulse -- even if they eventually upset the finely honed balancing act by boiling over into the familiar explosive cliches of all too many thriller scores. --Jerry McCulley
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One of those rare film scores which actually fit the film January 12, 2005
D. COLLIER (Brownwood, TX United States)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
This film score compliments the movie as much as any orchestral piece would compliment a ballet. But there's more to John Powell's upbeat and unconventional film score than just that (though that alone does place it above the average film score).
If one were to listen to this music, not knowing anything about the film, one would hear the music of a heart-pounding action movie, an emotionally-charged drama, and an edge-of-your seat suspense thriller. What I like best is when Powell takes two or three of those themes and weaves them into the same track. He does this best with the opening track, "Goa," "Funeral Pyre," "Nach Deutschland," "To the Roof," and "Alexander Platz/Abbotts Confesses".
I especially love the way the soft, mellow sounds of "Atonement" follow right after the extremely upbeat "Bim Bam Smash". It provides a fitting end to the scoring part of the soundtrack; and ending finally with "Extreme Ways" by Moby.
Other action film soundtracks I'd recommend include THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, PATRIOT GAMES, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, and, of course, THE BOURNE IDENTITY.
Bourne Supremacy Scores over Bourne Identity September 27, 2004
NYC Music Lover (New Rochelle, NY USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have been playing the soundtrack from The Bourne Supremacy (TBS) over and over and I am very impressedhow well this music stands on its own, as well as how well it works in the film. In fact, I believe it is vastly superior to the music for The Bourne Identity (TBI), which sounds more like sketches for TBS.
If you listen to the tracks for TBI on the CD and then see how they work in the DVD, you can hear that Powell was working with weaker material, or at least with weaker development of the original Bourne themes. It's the integration of the music with the movie sequences (e.g., Atonement) which demonstrates the superiority of how he handles his material.
Powell has a tough task, since the Bourne screenplays are not the most powerfully emotional scripts ever written. Rather, they are puzzles, into which cool reserve masks human emotion. In TBS, there really is no emotion after Marie perishes, since Bourne himself is a cipher, whose own life experiences is psychologically supressed. He wants out, but cannot get out, even as far away as Goa.
TBS is filled with grand gestures, which always seem right for the film's sequences: consider his use of strings in the To the Roof sequence, which is largely devoid of other instruments, and is especially reminiscent of pages from Shostakovich...not from his film scores, but from his 8th and 11th Symphonies. Yes, Powell uses a lot of rhythmic drive, especially in his use of percussion. However, the motoric rhythms all seem right: Bourne is a human machine who works according to his instincts, which have been synchronized perfectly due to his training.
As much as I love To the Roof and the Russian car chase scene (Smash, indeed!), it's the Goa, Atonement and Nach Deutschland sequences which are musically most poignant. Why? because they hint at the emotional life of the character which is trying to emerge -- expressions of tenderness, fear, sorrow -- but which yet stay psychologically repressed. The music is cool, yet not quite detached. Powell's use of the vibraphone is especially memorable here.
TBS is a real triumph of music craftsmanship and creativity. It is far superior to the TBI score. I highly recommend it as one of the best scores since last year's memorable Glass score for The Hours.
brilliant tension - an overlooked gem June 11, 2005
Donovan G. Rinker (Cambridge, MA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The old spy genre still has space for fresh visions. In Bourne, John Powell has crafted one of the most intense soundscapes ever contrived for film.
From one track to the next, the high tempo pieces move with an unrelenting pace. Yet by the end, one acclimates.
Likewise, the natural instruments mixed in with synths form a strange union, at first slightly jarring, as if the soundtrack included video game bleeps, but ultimately, a strange unity. One acclimates.
Finally - the pace, that relentless set of strings that vies with drum rhythms for your attention. Which raises the question: where is one supposed to listen to it? Too fast for helping concentrate at work/study, too slow for working out, and the exhaustive tendency of sustained tension makes listening to it while driving...well, likely to lead one to attempt film stunts.
In short: I like the sound, I've just no idea when to listen. Which fits Bourne perfectly. Contrast to that other JB-spy, whose familiar, sunny "surf music" guitar theme signals some new intrepid feat by the dapper Brit who fits in anywhere; Bourne, on the contrary, fits nowhere. His theme may signal some feat, or some tragedy, or simply the endless tension.
Yet somehow, Powell strikes a fittingly tragic air - a synthetic tragedy, to be sure, like everything else about Bourne. Should our hero escape some new threat, will anyone care? Not likely. But he struggles anyway. The soundtrack treads tenderly on such bleakness, and as such, reflects what soul Bourne retains.
Don't miss this gem: overlooked almost everywhere, not generally useful for passive listening, yet deep and powerful. Perhaps the ideal soundtrack for a power walk.
A Soundtrack I can listen to cover to cover! August 4, 2004
pdx_reader (Portland, OR)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this soundtrack! I decided to buy the CD the moment I heard the Goa track while watching the movie in the theater. Then there is the "walking" theme, as I dubbed it, played several times when shots of cities are shown and Bourne is on the move. It further solidified my decision. I am so glad I bought it. There is not a single track that I will miss. I have been listening to the whole soundtrack cover to cover since I got the CD yesterday. Basically there are three major themes:
* The Goa theme: most prominently in 1. Goa and 12. Atonement
* The chase theme: most prominently in 4. Gathering data, 6. To the roof, and most of other "action" pieces.
* The walking theme: most prominently in 5. Nach Deutschland and 10. Moscow windup. After watching my TBI DVD again I noticed that this theme was also in TBI but it just seems to stand out more in TBS.
Of course there is Moby's Extreme Ways, which is excellent. It was not in the TBI soundtrack but fortunately is included this time.
I don't have the TBI soundtrack, because I really don't think the score was all that good. I actually didn't pay attention to the music at all. It's either because the movie was so good that I simply ignored the music, or just because the TBI score failed to grab my attention. However, the music for TBS is actually the highlight of the movie. As in most soundtracks, there will be variations (or rehashing) of the same theme, but trust me, none of them is boring or repetitive. My only gripe, is that it is too short :-)
Excellent Listen February 15, 2006
Moniker Mike
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this soundtrack immensely. Having heard the background themes to the Bourne movies from the movie, I knew right away that I would like the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is mainly a combination of electronic and orchestral themes except for the last song by Moby, "Extreme Ways". Instead of basing the soundtrack on one or two main riffs, the pieces rely on multiple riffs. While in some respect I wished that John Powell could have expanded some of the pieces (like Gao), I was satisfied that there was enough genuinely unique material throughout.
Regarding the song-content on this album, there is mainly orchestral pieces as mentioned earlier. I did some research on-line and found that the song in the chase-scene of the first Bourne series, The Bourne Identity, is by Paul Oakenfold - 'Ready Steady Go'. Also, the club music in the second Bourne series, The Bourne Supremecy, is by Mocean Worker - 'IntoThinAir'. Two great artists that I hardly knew about before the Bourne series.
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