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There's the joyous revelry of The Polyphonic Spree's "Light & Day." Then there's the Middle Eastern tones of Lata Mangeshkar's "Wada Na Tod." Don Wilson represents with his late '50s big band swing styled "Some Kinda Shuffle" and the scratchy piano dominated instrumental scat bop of "Nola's Bounce." SoCal rockers The Willowz kick out the jams with "Something," which hearkens back to the glory days of pimply faced kids rockin' out in their parent's basement. "Spotless Mind" is a revolving blend of strings and ambient warmth that slips into the final, uber brief number "Elephant Parade." In addition to Brion's instrumental score, there are six additional tracks that further lend a tripped out vibe to the proceedings. Then it's back into the trippy instrumentals with the loopy "Phone Call" and the ominous "Down The Drain." Brion's contributions to the album are rounded out by the somber piano that resonates on "Row," the off-kilter and tweaked cartoon jazz vibe of "Drive In," and the flute and harp dominated "Main Title," which is simultaneously whimsical and scary. Brion then lets his singer side show on "Strings That Tie To You," sounding like a more nasally Beck as he sings over a quirky pop composition. This can be heard on songs like the sparse and haunting piano number "Peer Pressure" which blends into swirling accordion and flute driven "A Dream Upon Waking." The latter, which escalates into a burble of synthetic cacophony, may just be the most fully realized chunk of the score as it clocks in at 3:36. That said, however, the latter part of the CD, which is predominantly filled with his brief compositions, is at least blended together in such as way as the short entries feel like a much larger piece. It's like Brion is dangling a musical carrot in front of our ears and just as we feel we're within reach, he yanks it away. As such they resonate with an overwhelming sense of incompleteness coupled with a feeling of quasi taunting. They are, in reality, not songs, but merely the ideas behind larger compositions.
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The reason for this being that just as they begin to pick up steam and pull the listener into an alternate world, they abruptly end. While all of these snippets worked to wondrous effect in the film, as stand-alone tracks they just don't cut it. But it's the 14 second "Howard Makes It All Go Away" that takes the prize for shortest entry on the entire CD. Likewise, the nightmarish clanging of "Showtime" keeps it at 0:55 and the light-as-air "Sidewalk Flight" is a mere 31 seconds long. "Bookstore" comes in at just under a minute (52 seconds, to be exact). Unfortunately, the bulk of Brion's score is relegated to brief sound bytes that are tied to specific scenes from the film. The interesting thing, however, is that buried underneath the more classical intonations one can just make out the barely audible scratches and other effluvious noize. With "Collecting Things" Brion continues to keep the fairy tale like ambiance intact with delicate string arrangements that ebb and flow.
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It also resonates with an ever-so-slight Ragtime vibe (think Scott Joplin in one of his more reflective moments).
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The main theme for the movie is a somewhat mournful, yet lilting piano passage that flutters along with a sense of happy serenity, yet it masks an underlying aura of sadness. For his sophomore effort, Gondry reached in a wholly different direction, tapping the talents of noted rock producer/musician Jon Brion to craft the beguiling score for Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind.īrion, who performs a PoMo musical vaudevillian show with some regularity at the hip Los Angeles venue Largo, and who has also lent his talents to the likes of Fiona Apple, Badly Drawn Boy, Robyn Hitchcock, The Eels, The Crystal Method, Tom Petty, Aimee Mann, and who to date has composed music for all of Paul Thomas Anderson's films (except Boogie Nights) has crafted a beguiling, dreamlike (and often nightmarish, as well) score that floats along with modern fairy tale flutters of ambiance. For his first feature length film, noted music video director Michel Gondry enlisted the services of Graeme Revell, who is more or less a rather traditional Hollywood film composer.