The Killing Fields (Soundtrack)

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The Killing Fields
Soundtrack by Mike Oldfield

Publication
(s)

December 10, 1984

Label (s) Virgin Records

Genre (s)

Soundtrack

Title (number)

17th

running time

38:36

occupation Mike Oldfield (various instruments)

production

Mike Oldfield

chronology
Discovery
(1984)
The Killing Fields Islands
(1987)

The Killing Fields is the only film soundtrack (for the film The Killing Fields ) by British musician Mike Oldfield from 1984 , the year in which his studio album Discovery was released.

Track list

  1. Pran's Theme - 0:44
  2. Requiem for a City - 2:11
  3. Evacuation - 5:14
  4. Pran's Theme 2 - 1:41
  5. Capture - 2:24
  6. Execution - 4:47
  7. Bad News - 1:14
  8. Pran's Departure - 2:08
  9. Worksite - 1:16
  10. The Year Zero - 0:28
  11. Blood Sucking - 1:19
  12. The Year Zero 2 - 0:37
  13. Pran's Escape / The Killing Fields - 3:17
  14. The Trek - 2:02
  15. The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees the Red Cross - 2:24
  16. Good News - 1:46
  17. Etude - 4:37

Charts

UK # 97, D # 64

useful information

  • It is true that parts of Oldfield's first album Tubular Bells were used as background music for the film The Exorcist ; The Killing Fields but was first planned as a soundtrack album of the artist.
  • Oldfield later wrote a soundtrack for his computer game of the same name with Tr3s Lunas ; then also for the game Maestro .
  • Oldfield was also active for the X-Files and composed the piece Tubular X , which is not available on all soundtrack versions of the series. It's a mix of Mark Snow's theme song from the series and Oldfield's exorcist theme from Tubular Bells ; including a variant of it.
  • The average length of a track is just over 2 minutes; the album contains the shortest Oldfield track: The Year Zero with a length of 28 seconds; three pieces are under a minute long.
  • Étude , the only piece on this album not composed by Oldfield, is actually called Recuerdos de la Alhambra and comes from the Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909).
  • The album was created with German support: under the direction of Eberhard Schoener , the Bavarian State Orchestra played the Bavarian State Opera and the Tölzer Boys' Choir sang .
  • The Killing Fields was recorded in studios in England , Switzerland and Germany .

criticism

Oldfield was nominated for the 1984 Golden Globe for best film music. As a stand-alone album, The Killing Fields shares the problem of other soundtracks, as many pieces are less melodic than rather aim to underline scenes from a war and action drama, which titles such as Execution or Evacuation show. Only the longest piece of Étude may be a pleasure for those listeners who are not familiar with the film.

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