Broken Flowers: Music from the Film

Artist: Original Soundtrack , and Mulatu Astatqe
Label: Decca
Category: Music

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Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 602498837818
EAN: 0602498837818
ASIN: B0009XT914

Release Date: 2005-08-02

Broken Flowers: Music from the Film

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Tracks:

There Is An End - The Greenhornes
Yegelle Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke
Ride Your Donkey - The Tennors
I Want You - Marvin Gaye
Yedermo Sew - Mulato Astatke
Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth - Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tell Me Now So I Know - Holly Golightly
Gubelye - Mulatu Astatke
Dopesmoker - Sleep
Requiem, Op.48 (Pie Jesu) - Oxford Camerata
Ethanopium - Dengue Fever
Unnatural Habitat - The Greenhornes

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Will this soundtrack do for Ethiopian composer and musician Mulatu Astatke what Titanic did for Celine Dion? Well...maybe on a much, much smaller scale. Astatke's circle of Western fans has already expanded thanks to the compilation Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-¬1974, and Jim Jarmusch's movie puts his hypnotic instrumentals to great use. This isn't surprising, since Jarmusch is a filmmaker with a natural affinity for music and its use onscreen. Here, a three-minute excerpt from stoner-rock legend Sleep's titanic "Dopesmoker" only offers a sample of the song (it actually lasts an hour) but it still sounds awesome, especially stuck between an Astatke track and Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem, Op. 48 (Pie Jesu)." Garage vets the Greenhornes and Holly Golightly contribute tracks together and separately, while indie-rockers Brian Jonestown Massacre's "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" (an answer song to the Dandy Warhols' "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth") sounds as bilious now as it did in 1997. This is a rare case of a soundtrack that pulls together a broad range of artists yet remains oddly consistent--no doubt because it was assembled by a director with vision instead of a focus group. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

Great collection.......2007-02-13

This is an excellent collection.. if you saw the movie Broken Flowers you will recognize some of the music. Very relaxing and inspiring tunes if you can get into this type of music.

Well-themed soundtrack for an easy to watch movie........2007-01-22

I walked into Broken Flowers expecting another low-key performance from Bill Murray like his role in Lost in Translation. Great movie to take in easily without loud distractions or tedious moments... quietly funny.

This mood could have been ruined, however, if the soundtrack did not assist the mood of the movie by providing casual transition music. The great additions of Astatke, Greenhornes, and Golightly have already been mentioned, but Marvin Gaye and Dengue Fever also add a sharp quality to an already wide-ranging soundtrack. Marvin Gaye's "I Want You" is a sensual classic that shows how his later period of work was evolving instrumentally as well as vocally. Dengue Fever's "Ethanopium" provides a jazz-funk background to the movie that fits in well to Broken Flowers' sometimes quirky plot. Although the tune is missing the Khmer style of vocalist Chhom Nimol, the track signifies the eclectic sound of the band.

Both artists, as well as those previously mentioned, make the soundtrack to Broken Flowers enjoyably unique.

good, but not as good as Ethiopiques.......2006-07-27

Great sound track. I loved the movie, mainly because I love watching Bill Murray, but even he couldn't have kept my interest if it wasn't for the music. It led me delightfully from one scene to the next. When I finished watching the movie, I said, "what was that music, and where can I get it."

What's Good is GREAT.......2006-07-23

Movie soundtracks (and anthologies in general) tend to be "hit-and-miss" affairs. The BROKEN FLOWERS soundtrack is no exception, but its "hits" are so good, it's hard to quantify an overall ranking for this CD vis-a-vis the misses.

I see the other reviews here rightly concentrate on the brilliant and haunting Ethiopian jazz of Mulatu Astatke. This is the music that drew me to the CD in the first place, and it is otherworldy in quality and sound. Also noteworthy are the two wonderful tracks featuring Holly Golightly.

That leaves a couple of indifferent tracks, and a couple of unlistenable ones courtesy of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Sleep. Program these songs out and you have a shorter, 5-star CD. Leave them, and you have, uh, this!

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