Brokeback Mountain＜限定盤/Colored Vinyl＞

繊細で親密、そして心に深く響く『Brokeback Mountain』のサウンドトラックは、ミニマルな楽曲と、情感豊かなフォークやカントリーソングが見事に融合しています。
この音楽は、切望、愛、そして自制という映画のテーマを美しく映し出し、聴き終わった後も長く心に残る、深く感動的な体験をもたらします。
限定カラー・ヴァイナル1LP。

What is most notable about the soundtrack to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the original score by Argentinian music wizard Gustavo Santaolalla (producer of the grand Cafe Tacuba recordings and a songwriter in his own right, as evidenced by his two albums, Gas and Ronroco). His interludes and cues evoke the very landscape that Lee portrays in his film, but there are also some fine vocal performances by a star-studded cast of singers. Willie Nelson's read of "He Was a Friend of Mine," complete with squeezebox and layered acoustic guitars, is gorgeous. Emmylou Harris' performance of Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin's "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" is simple, spare, and poignant. The shuffling honky tonk ballad that Santaolalla wrote for Mary McBride, with its crying pedal steel, hits close to the bone and evokes Patsy Cline. Likewise, the hard-driving country of "I Will Never Let You Go," written for Jackie Greene, is tough and tender. Santaolalla's cues, like the best of Ry Cooder's film scores, touch the film's scenery, move its narrative, and pricelessly frame it in time. Teddy Thompson and Rufus Wainwright team for a throwaway country-swing version of Roger Miller's "King of the Road," but Thompson does a fine job on the Santaolalla and Taupin tune "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye," which is as heartbroken a ballad as one is likely to hear. This is an utterly wonderful soundtrack that could have done without Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," Steve Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand," or even Wainwright's "The Maker Makes," but this is a small complaint.

What is most notable about the soundtrack to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain is the original score by Argentine music wizard Gustavo Santaolalla (producer of the grand Cafe Tacuba recordings and a composer in his own right, as evidenced by his two albums, Gas and Ronroco). His interludes and cues evoke the very landscape that Lee portrays in his film, but there are also some fine vocal performances by a star-studded cast of singers. Willie Nelson's read of "He Was a Friend of Mine," complete with squeezebox and layered acoustic guitars, is gorgeous. Emmylou Harris' performance of Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin's "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" is simple, spare, and poignant. "No ONe's Gonna Love You Like Me," a shuffling honky tonk ballad that Santaolalla wrote for Mary McBride, employs a crying pedal steel that hits close to the bone and evokes Patsy Cline in spirit. Likewise, the hard-driving country of "I Will Never Let You Go," written for Jackie Greene, is tough and tender. Santaolalla's cues, like the best of Ry Cooder's film scores, touch the film's scenery, move its narrative, and pricelessly frame it in time. Teddy Thompson and Rufus Wainwright team for a throwaway country-swing version of Roger Miller's "King of the Road," but Thompson does a fine job on the Santaolalla and Taupin tune "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye," which is as heartbroken a ballad as one is likely to hear. This is an utterly wonderful soundtrack that could have done without Linda Ronstadt's version of Buddy Holly's "It's So Easy," Steve Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand," or even Wainwright's "The Maker Makes," but those are a small complaints. ~ Thom Jurek

ラテン・ロック界の大物ながら、映画音楽家としてもじわじわと評価を高めてきたグスタホ・サンタオラージャの最新作。ペダル・スティールの音色が染み渡るなか、ルーファス・ウェインライトが歌うバラードに涙!　アメリカーナな音像を澄んだ叙情で包み込んだ見事な仕上がりだ。
bounce (C)村尾 泰郎

問題作にして傑作、アン・リーの異色ウエスタン！ 音楽は、なんとグスタボ・サンタオラージャ！！ ゲストがすごい！！！ 『ブロークバック・マウンテン』（２００５） サウンドトラック 音楽　グスタボ・サンタオラージャ 監督　アン・リー 主演　ヒース・レジャー、ジェイク・ギレンホール、 リンダ・カルデリーニ、アンナ・ファリス、アン・ハザウェイ、 ミシェル・ウィリアムス、ランディ・クエイド 西部を舞台に、愛し合うふたりの青年の物語。 カントリーで、なんと音楽がラテン・ロック・プロデューサー にして現在映画音楽界でひっぱりだこのサンタオラージャ にオファー！！　エコーかかりまくりのギター・サウンドは さすがの深さ。そして、びっくりは２曲目でボブ・ディラン・ ナンバーをサンタオラージャ・プロデュースでウィリー・ ネルソンがカバー！！４曲目ではサンタオラージャ曲そして 作詞がエルトン・ジョン・ナンバーに欠かせないライターの バーニー・トーピン！のナンバーをエミルー・ハリスが 歌う！メアリー・マクブライド、テディ・トンプソンも参加。 異色の取り合わせによるコンセプト・カントリー・アルバム に仕上がっている。おそるべしサンタオラージャのプロデュース・ ワーク。音楽ファン、カントリー・ファンも要チェック！！ (C)馬場敏裕