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Carter Burwell
The General's Daughter: Music From The Motion Picture
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks

Track Listings (20) - Disc #1
1. She Began To Lie - Christine And Katherine Shipp
2. Mighty Good Road - Kelly Pace And Group
3. Rachel Rocket - Wash Dennis/Charlie Sims
4. Gonna Rise And Fly - 22 and Group
5. Exercise In Darkness
6. Epiphytic Shuffle
7. The Body
8. West Point
9. The General's Story
10. Congratulations
11. Footprints
12. The Tape?
13. The Conspiracy
14. Kent's Story
15. The Hurt Locker
16. Out Of Her Misery
17. The General's End
18. O Fortuna - CSR Symphony/Slovak Philharmonic Chorus
19. All Through The Night - Ray Colcord
20. She Began To Lie (Re-Mix)

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All Artists: Carter Burwell
Title: The General's Daughter: Music From The Motion Picture
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 2
Label: Milan Records
Original Release Date: 6/15/1999
Release Date: 6/15/1999
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Pop, Soundtracks
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 731383588525, 743216947423

Synopsis

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This John Travolta-starring military-themed thriller hardly distinguished itself with critics, who almost universally lambasted its overwrought ambience and painfully obvious plot points; a whodunit that begged the question "why'd ya make it"? But even the most turgid Hollywood fare can have its delightful musical surprises, and that's where The General's Daughter redeems itself. Veteran Carter Burwell turns in a brooding orchestral score that finely underplays the histrionics with subtlety and emotional weight. But it's Greg Hale Jones's ingenious digital reworking of half-century-old Library of Congress remote recordings (made in cotton fields and prisons) of African American folk music and spirituals that's the real revelation here. The opening "Sea Lion Woman" is both haunting and unforgettable, a gratifying reminder that studio alchemy can enhance the humanity of music as well as sublimate it. Minus points for trotting out the cinematically tired Carmina Burana once again; it's enough to make one want to Orff themselves. --Jerry McCulley

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Reviewed on 6/18/2010...

Love this music!

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Mesmerizing

Combination | Ottawa, Canada | 08/11/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Like almost everyone else I too knew I wanted to buy the soundtrack about one minute into the movie. The strange thing is a few weeks ago I was looking for "folk" music and had heard some of the Alan Lomax recordings so I was the only one in my group who came close to identifying the first song. Most of my friends thought it was in a language other than English. It made the movie for me."

Ghosts of the Deep South...

C.T. Chase | Arlington, VA USA | 05/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If anyone needed to be reminded of the importance music can have on the emotional and contextual impact of a movie, they would only need listen to this soundtrack after seeing the film that inspired it.

An ocean of ink has been used to vilify the sloppy obviousness of the script, the ham-handed direction, and the disservice done in the adaptation of Nelson deMille's military-based thriller. Nearly most of its shortcomings, however, are truly redeemed by a brooding, chilling score by Carter Burwell that is so damn good, it seems like it belongs in another film.

But the watershed moments come courtesy the stylings of Greg Hale Jones, who sampled Library of Congress recordings of Black spirituals, field songs, children's patty-cake style cadences ("She Began To Lie") and mixed them with synthesizer and electronic drum lines that effectively underscore and highlight the film's themes of murder, betrayal, dishonor and retribution so much better than the script; like ghosts from the past of the Deep South that constantly permeate and haunt the lives of its native sons and daughters, and most especially throughout the events that take place in the film.

The result is so memorably effective, you're almost better off listening to it while reading the source material in lieu of watching the movie. Absolutely one of the most underrated scores of the last decade (equalled only by the remarkable RAVENOUS score by Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn.)"