OST- Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow, 2004, Edward Shearmur

Artist: Soundtracks
Album: Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow, 2004, Edward Shearmur
Tracks: 18
Size:132 mb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Director Kerry Conran's retro-themed action adventure is imbued with a singular visual sense, an ambitious marriage of Indiana Jones' serial sensibilities and the neo-Deco sci-fi trappings of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. Young composer Edward Shearmur is charged with bringing that pulp-visionary, past-that-never-was to musical life, a task he accomplishes with expected orchestral verve. Its music that's as unabashedly derivative as the film's grab-bag of 1930s/40s influences, yet arranged and executed with a rich orchestral palate and an endlessly energetic dynamic sense. While he deftly avoids walking too closely in the familiar musical footsteps of John Williams---and there are admittedly no themes here as instantly memorable as Raiders of the Lost Ark's signature march---Shearmur manages a few smart new themes of his own, breathing compelling new life into one of filmdom's most cliched genres---and trumping previous similar back-to-the-future adventure scores like James Horner's The Rocketeer the bargain. --Jerry McCulley

1. The World Of Tomorrow
2. The Zeppelin Arrives
3. The Robot Army
4. Calling Sky Captain
5. Back At The Base
6. The Flying Wings Attack
7. An Aquatic Escape
8. Flight To Nepal
9. Treacherous Journey
10. Dynamite
11. Three In A Bed
12. Finding Frankie
13. Manta Squadron
14. H-770d
15. Flying Lizard
16. Totenkopf's Ark
17. Back To Earth
18. Over the Rainbow- Jane Monheit