Mark Isham - The Black Dahlia

Title: The Black Dahlia Artist: Mark Isham Release Date: 9/5/2006 Label: Silva America Duration: 48:02 Album Type(s): soundtrack UPCs: 738572122126, 0738572122126 Genre: Soundtrack Styles: Soundtracks, Film Music, Original Score Moods: Clinical, Melancholy, Unsettling, Atmospheric, Complex, Wistful, Eerie, Light, Brooding, Laid-Back/Mellow, Confident, Detached, Elegant, Intimate, Calm/Peaceful, Dreamy, Sophisticated Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. The Black Dahlia, film score~The Black Dahlia - The Zoot Suit Riots
2. The Black Dahlia, film score~At Norton and Coliseum
3. The Black Dahlia, film score~The Dahlia
4. The Black Dahlia, film score~The Two of Us
5. The Black Dahlia, film score~Mr. Fire versus Mr. Ice
6. The Black Dahlia, film score~Madeline
7. The Black Dahlia, film score~Dwight and Kay
8. The Black Dahlia, film score~Hollywoodland
9. The Black Dahlia, film score~Red Arrow Inn
10. The Black Dahlia, film score~Men Who Feed On Others
11. The Black Dahlia, film score~Super Cops
12. The Black Dahlia, film score~Death at the Olympic
13. The Black Dahlia, film score~No Other Way
14. The Black Dahlia, film score~Betty Short
15. The Black Dahlia, film score~Nothing Stays Buried Forever

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD Silva America 1221

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Director Brian de Palma told composer Mark Isham that what he was looking for in the background music for his neo-noir crime drama The Black Dahlia was "a mournful trumpet score," to which Isham replied, "I happen to be a mournful trumpet player." Isham brings his mournful trumpet to the soundtrack, playing it as part of lush, romantic themes that recall Gato Barbieri's flugelhorn in Last Tango in Paris and, especially, David Raksin's music for the 1944 noir classic Laura. But The Black Dahlia actually demands a lot more than that. It's a typical De Palma tale of plot twists, choreographed violence, and elaborate dramatic scenes. Isham proves up to the task of providing fairly typical music for all those aspects, writing for a 100-piece orchestra and managing to be moody and threatening as well as darkly lyrical. The score for The Black Dahlia is as referential of Hollywood past as the film for which it was written, but it also achieves some of the same kinds of variations and surprises. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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