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Alberto Iglesias
Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack)
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (26) - Disc #1
1. Titulos de Cabecera
2. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizas, Quizas, Quizas)
3. La Cine Olimpo
4. Kyri
5. La Viaje A Galicia
6. La Noche Oscura
7. Cuore Matto
8. La Plegaria Atendida
9. La Por Mi Grandisima Culpa
10. La Los Cocodrilos Hambrientos
11. La Carta Del Mas Alla (Hommage
12. La La Piscina
13. La Escena Familiar
14. La Foulard de Seda
15. La Noir
16. La Juan y El Sr. Berenguer
17. La El Cine Como Espejo
18. La Saxo + Cuarteto
19. La Puerta Final
20. La Exotica
21. Maniqui Parisien
22. La Plato
23. La Adagietto
24. Moon River (for the film Breakfast at Tiffany's)
25. La Valsetto
26. Torna a Surriento, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

CD Details

All Artists: Alberto Iglesias
Title: Bad Education (La Mala Educación) (Original Soundtrack)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Release Date: 11/16/2004
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Soundtracks
Style: Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 827969355121

Synopsis

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Informed by a vintage Hollywood production sheen and flashback-fueled, identity-questioning melodramatics worthy of Hitchcock, Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's sexually-charged film was quickly hailed as a mature masterpiece. The film's classic Hollywood conceits are deep-rooted, and Iberian composer Alberto Iglesias reinforces the film's often retro mood via a brooding, classically oriented score with an ear towards history. It may briefly excerpt Rossini's "Kyrie" to haunting effect, but the touchstone here is the Bernard Herrmann of Hitchcock's prime, with an emphasis on their epochal Vertigo and especially the tense, dark strings of Psycho (which "Escena Familiar" and "Cine Olimpo" echo with haunting grace). But while Iglesias capably evokes the color and spirit of those iconic touchstones, he crucially does it without sacrificing his own identity. Evocations of Spanish culture come mostly via vintage performances of "Quiza, Quiza, Quiza," "Cuoro Matta" and others, but on the expansive "Puerta Finale" the composer skillfully interweaves his Herrmann influences with touches of mournful jazz, flamenco and "Kyrie"'s choral echoes, creating a compelling, oft chilling post-modern new whole. -- Jerry McCulley

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CD Reviews

The Starving Crocodiles...

Mario A. San Juan | Downey, CA USA | 11/16/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Starving Crocodiles

Almodovar's latest movie is undoubtedly his best, and a very inventive film-noir that absorbs and electrifies you from the very beginning. Alberto Iglesias' score serves "as a cradle where the movie rests" as the auteur himself said.

La Mala Educacion (Bad Education) is one of -if not- the best soundtrack composed this year, and its style is absolutely magnificent. Following the film-noir trend, Iglesias' score is a mixture of tunes a la Herrman ("Juan y el Sr. Berenguer", "Por mi grandisima culpa", "Escena Familiar"), poignant waltzes ("Foulard en seda", "La Carta", "Valsetto"), and vocalized cues that reflect the theme of the movie, and illustrate it fittingly ("Kyrie", "La piscina", "El cine como espejo"). "Cine Olympo", an exquisite theme for the movie-within-the-movie manifests itself disguisedly many times, in variations, as Iglesias' has done in previous scores where a parallel story is narrated - The Flower of my Secret, Live Flesh, Talk to Her, and All About my Mother- however the best track in the score is the "Overture". Other superb tracks are "Carta del mas alla", "Plato", and "Adagietto"... melodies that crave lust, but "Puerta Final" -the MAIN theme- is absolutely grand; probably the best potpourri of songs written in the last decade, that will grab you by the horns from the moment it opens to the last saxophone refrain, in an orgasm of eight minutes that you will want to experience over and over again.

The soundtrack also consists of key songs that in one way or another relate to the main characters and the story: "Maniqui Parisien", "Cuore Matto", "Moon River" (a very avant-garde arrangement), and "Jardinero".

Alberto Iglesias has composed a score so dark, rich, hunting, powerful, and mysterious... that proves to be irresistible.

Experience the Bad Education!!!

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