Prisoners (Original Soundtrack) [Import]

FEATURES

• 2xLP pressed on Black Vinyl
• Includes a double-sided full-color insert

DESCRIPTION

Prisoners (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2013 film Prisoners, directed by Denis Villeneuve and featuring a musical score composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson. The album was released through WaterTower Music and ASG Records on September 16, 2013.

According to Jóhannsson, the role of the film's music was not only to create tension, but also to create "a kind of poetic and lyrical counterpoint to the horror of the events depicted in the film". He added that, "while the action is terrifying and horrific, the music has this beauty and fragility and lyricism which, in a strange way, amplifies the effect the film has on you."

Jóhannsson recorded a session with experimental musician Erik Knive Skodvin in Berlin during the recording session and generated a collection of drones and soundscapes, which he used in the writing process. Skodovin's recording of unsettling layers in the soundscape was curated and layered with the drones and soundscapes. Jóhannsson did not want a pipe organ, in favor of an ethereal instrument without any religious association that a pipe organ has, hence, he layered the Cristal Baschet and Ondes Martenot to curate "floating, dream-like sound".

TRACKLIST

1. The Lord's Prayer
2. I Can't Find Them
3. The Search Party
4. Surveillance Video
5. The Candlelight Vigil
6. Escape
7. The Tall Man
8. The Everyday Bible
9. Following Keller
10. Through Falling Snow
11. The Keeper
12. The Intruder
13. The Priest's Basement
14. The Snakes
15. The Trans Am
16. Prisoners

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