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Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
Michael Nyman
Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Soundtracks
 
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Digitally remastered version in a standard jewel case of this 1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 tracks. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.

     
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All Artists: Michael Nyman
Title: Drowning By Numbers (1987 Film)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Venture / Caroline
Original Release Date: 6/1991
Re-Release Date: 9/25/1992
Album Type: Soundtrack
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Jazz, Special Interest, New Age, Soundtracks
Styles: Techno, Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Comedy & Spoken Word
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 017046164627

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Digitally remastered version in a standard jewel case of this 1988 film score for the Peter Greenaway film, features 13 tracks. Copy Controlled. Virgin. 2004.

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Drowning by nyman
timbearcub / tim baker | London, UK | 06/20/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I first heard this when I first saw the film (go see!) and wanted to know who wrote such beautiful music, which was so in sync with the counting games and cut of the film. It's a great score: musically it carries on where Zed and Two Noughts left off, rather than take 4 bars of the Mozart piece, Nyman decided to 'rewrite' and rework the whole piece for inspiration...it turned me onto the darkness in mozart's work (the opera Don Giovanni for example) which I hadn't previously realised. Drowning by Numbers #3 is as haunting as say, 'The Garden is becoming a robe room' and very morbid, like the film...the opening up of the music and score definitely works wonders, where a lot of Z.O.O. left me cold as some academic exercise (apart from the last track, the amazing Angelfish Decay: is that a REAL human voice or a theremin? :-) whereas this is cold in a human, dark way and much more lyrical and flowing.The only thing is now I've heard Philip Glass's 'Einstein on the Beach.' I now realise what a big influence Glass was on Nyman (rather than the other way round as I'd supposed?), the fast arpegiating chords and vocal lines, even down to the use of counting in the film (although that might not have been Nyman's doing, Greenaway and Nyman did seem to work very closely together). It does seem to equally wear it's influences on (or up?) it's sleeves as much as it improves or conquers them.But a great soundtrack, and piece in it's own right, 5 stars for feeling and evocative mood alone."
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Mr. A. Pomeroy | Wiltshire, England | 05/18/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)

"A fantastic collection of Michael Nyman concert pieces and selections used in the film, this was mostly derived from the works of Mozart, although bearing little musical similarity. It fits the film perfectly, being both ancient and modern, with a definite melancholic edge. It's my personal favourite of all the Greenaway / Nyman collaborations, and my favourite single Michael Nyman album."
Drowning in a sea of music
José Miguel Covas Moura | Coimbra, Portugal | 07/06/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)

""Drowning By Numbers", the film: Directed by Peter Greenaway in 1987 and released in the U.S. four years later on the heels of the release of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover". The audience follow three generations of women from the same family who murder their husbands by drowning. In return for promised sexual favors, which the women ultimately withhold, the local coroner agrees to certify the deaths as accidental.
"Drowning By Numbers", the soundtrack: Michael Nyman's compositions main appeal rely on paleness and subtlety, and most melodies guide the listener to subterfuges only to be revealed after quietness can't hold its breath anymore. The music has an undisturbed poetic quality, reminiscent of baroque but never being intrusive. Strongly recommended."