CD Details
- Released: November 13, 2001
- Label: Decca U.S.
Tracks:
- 1.Spy Game, film score: Su-Chou Prison - (with Metro Voices)
- 2.Spy Game, film score: Muir Races to Work - (with Metro Voices)
- 3.Spy Game, film score: He's Been Arrested for Espionage - (with Metro Voices)
- 4.Spy Game, film score: Red Shirt - (with Metro Voices)
- 5.Spy Game, film score: Training Montage - (with Metro Voices)
- 6.Spy Game, film score: Berlin - (with Metro Voices)
- 7.Spy Game, film score: It's Not a Game - (with Metro Voices)
- 8.Spy Game, film score: You're Going to Miss It - (with Metro Voices)
- 9.Spy Game, film score: Beirut, a War Zone - (with Metro Voices)
- 10.Spy Game, film score: My Name Is Tom - (with Metro Voices)
- 11.Spy Game, film score: All Hell Breaks Loose - (with Metro Voices)
- 12.Spy Game, film score: Explosion and Aftermath - (with Metro Voices)
- 13.Spy Game, film score: Parting Compaany - (with Metro Voices)
- 14.Spy Game, film score: Harker Tracks Muir - (with Metro Voices)
- 15.Spy Game, film score: Long Night - (with Metro Voices)
- 16.Spy Game, film score: Muir's in the Hot Seat - (with Metro Voices)
- 17.Spy Game, film score: Back at Su-Chou Prison - (with Metro Voices)
- 18.Spy Game, film score: Operation Dinner Out - (with Metro Voices)
- 19.Spy Game, film score: Spies [Ryebot Remix] - (Ryebot Remix, Ryebot remix, with Metro Voices)
- 20.Spy Game, film score: Dinner Our [Rothrock Remix] - (Rothrock Remix, Rothrock remix, with Metro Voices)
Product Description:
Original score composed and conducted by Harry Gregson-Williams.
Performed by the London Session Orchestra & Metro Voices.
Recorded at Abbey Road, London, England.
Personnel: Timothy Washburn (vocals, soprano); Andy Lawson, Lisbeth Scott (vocals); Peter DiStefano (guitar); Patrick Cassidy (celtic harp); Hugh Marsh (electric violin); Fred Selden (flute); John Nordstrom, Bob Daspit, David Lauser (percussion, percussion programming); Paul Clarvis (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Alan Meyerson.
Audio Remixers: Ryeland Allison; Tom Rothrock.
Recording information: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England.
Photographer: Keith Hamshere.
Unknown Contributor Roles: The London Session Orchestra; Metro Voices.
Arrangers: Toby Chu; Justin Burnett.
Hans Zimmer prot?g? Harry Gregson-Williams' name is most closely associated with animated features (Shrek, Antz, Chicken Run), but he has also worked on action pictures like The Replacement Killers and The Rock, and so he is right at home for Spy Game. Like Zimmer, he maintains parallel interests in traditional symphonic scoring and in heavily programmed music, and this lengthy score seems designed to show off his versatile talents. Tracking a globe-hopping adventure tale, he dips into various ethnic styles, making room for Middle Eastern vocals (courtesy of Khosro Ansari) on "Explosion & Aftermath," for example, and seems to delight in sudden juxtapositions, such as in "Red Shirt," where a grand symphonic theme emerges four minutes into the track after lots of percussion programming, only to submerge again. Similarly, a calm piano theme begins "You're Going to Miss It," then gives way to electronic effects. There may be some hope for electronica and dance crossover here in tracks like "Training Montage," and in the two remixes that close the disc. This is music for a fast-paced thriller with a lot of exotic settings, and it no doubt helps get hearts pounding in movie theaters, even if it is a bit too various for its own good as a merely aural experience. ~ William Ruhlmann
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