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It is the Quebec director Denis Villeneuve who bears the heavy responsibility of tackling the sequel of Blade Runner, the science-fiction movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1982, with Harrison Ford in the role of Rick Deckard, a former cop hunting Replicants. For its music, it was first the Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson, a regular of Villeneuve’s movies (Sicario, Arrival…), that had the just as heavy responsibility to take over from Vangelis, the composer of the soundtrack of the first movie. Finally, the director wanted to get closer in spirit to the Greek composer: he fired Jóhannsson and replaced him with Hans Zimmer, whose ability to musically dress science-fiction needs no further proof. Remember his soundtracks for Christopher Nolan (Inception and Interstellar). For this sequel, Zimmer (helped by Benjamin Wallfish) navigates the synthetic and freezing waters of the first Blade Runner soundtrack. You just have to listen to the introductory track (2049) or to Mesa to notice the striking resemblance with the layers both heavy and harrowing from Vangelis’ score. The rest of the soundtrack is stuffed with atmospheric tracks of the same ilk, designed with extreme care and great efficiency, as always with Zimmer. It’s worth noting the presence of two of Elvis Presley’s sweet songs (among which we find the hit Can’t Stop Falling In Love) and another from Frank Sinatra, which are completely at odds with the whole thing. Maybe we’ll someday have access to the movie’s rejected music, the one composed by Jóhannsson? In the meantime, it constitutes a Grail popular with collectors, as often happens in Hollywood movie score history (see the rejected soundtrack for Troy by Gabriel Yared or the one for Robin and Marian by Michel Legrand). © NM/Qobuz
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Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Elvis Presley, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Mark James, Composer, Lyricist - Chips Moman, Producer - FELTON JARVIS, Producer - AL PACHUCKI, Engineer
Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Elvis Presley, Associated Performer, Main Artist - The Jordanaires, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires, Associated Performer - Thorne Nogar, Engineer - Hugo Peretti, Composer, Lyricist - Luigi Creatore, Composer, Lyricist - George Weiss, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1961. All rights reserved by RCA Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer - Evanghelos Papathanassiou, Composer, Lyricist, Producer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Hans Zimmer, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist, Producer - Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch, Associated Performer
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Lauren Daigle, Associated Performer, Composer, Lyricist, Main Artist - Michael Hodges, Composer, Lyricist, Producer - Kayla Morrison, Composer, Lyricist - Gerald Trottman, Composer, Lyricist - Ghian Wright, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records
Album review
It is the Quebec director Denis Villeneuve who bears the heavy responsibility of tackling the sequel of Blade Runner, the science-fiction movie directed by Ridley Scott in 1982, with Harrison Ford in the role of Rick Deckard, a former cop hunting Replicants. For its music, it was first the Icelander Jóhann Jóhannsson, a regular of Villeneuve’s movies (Sicario, Arrival…), that had the just as heavy responsibility to take over from Vangelis, the composer of the soundtrack of the first movie. Finally, the director wanted to get closer in spirit to the Greek composer: he fired Jóhannsson and replaced him with Hans Zimmer, whose ability to musically dress science-fiction needs no further proof. Remember his soundtracks for Christopher Nolan (Inception and Interstellar). For this sequel, Zimmer (helped by Benjamin Wallfish) navigates the synthetic and freezing waters of the first Blade Runner soundtrack. You just have to listen to the introductory track (2049) or to Mesa to notice the striking resemblance with the layers both heavy and harrowing from Vangelis’ score. The rest of the soundtrack is stuffed with atmospheric tracks of the same ilk, designed with extreme care and great efficiency, as always with Zimmer. It’s worth noting the presence of two of Elvis Presley’s sweet songs (among which we find the hit Can’t Stop Falling In Love) and another from Frank Sinatra, which are completely at odds with the whole thing. Maybe we’ll someday have access to the movie’s rejected music, the one composed by Jóhannsson? In the meantime, it constitutes a Grail popular with collectors, as often happens in Hollywood movie score history (see the rejected soundtrack for Troy by Gabriel Yared or the one for Robin and Marian by Michel Legrand). © NM/Qobuz
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:33:44
- Main artists: Hans Zimmer Benjamin Wallfisch
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Epic
- Genre: Soundtracks Film Soundtracks
Compilation (P) 2017 Alcon Sleeping Giant (ASG) Records exclusively distributed by Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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