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Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch
It was never going to be easy to turn William Burroughs' Naked Lunch into a film; to his credit David Cronenburg did no such thing. His film was a fevered, paranoid journey based loosely on Burroughs' life and fiction. It gathered a mixed critical reception. While I'm very fond of it, I will admit that it has its strengths and its weaknesses.
One of those strengths is the score, written by Howard Shore and the great Ornette Coleman. Here's the marvellous title theme: Shore's uneasy string arrangements are overlaid with Coleman's saxophone glossolalia. It's an unlikely pairing, but overall a very successful one. Offhand, I can't think of a more unsettling original soundtrack.
Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch
It was never going to be easy to turn William Burroughs' Naked Lunch into a film; to his credit David Cronenburg did no such thing. His film was a fevered, paranoid journey based loosely on Burroughs' life and fiction. It gathered a mixed critical reception. While I'm very fond of it, I will admit that it has its strengths and its weaknesses.
One of those strengths is the score, written by Howard Shore and the great Ornette Coleman. Here's the marvellous title theme: Shore's uneasy string arrangements are overlaid with Coleman's saxophone glossolalia. It's an unlikely pairing, but overall a very successful one. Offhand, I can't think of a more unsettling original soundtrack.
Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman - Naked Lunch
