The Killing Fields (Soundtrack)
The Killing Fields | ||||
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Soundtrack by Mike Oldfield | ||||
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Label (s) | Virgin Records | |||
Title (number) |
17th |
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running time |
38:36 |
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occupation | Mike Oldfield (various instruments) | |||
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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
- Pran's Theme - 0:44
- Requiem for a City - 2:11
- Evacuation - 5:14
- Pran's Theme 2 - 1:41
- Capture - 2:24
- Execution - 4:47
- Bad News - 1:14
- Pran's Departure - 2:08
- Worksite - 1:16
- The Year Zero - 0:28
- Blood Sucking - 1:19
- The Year Zero 2 - 0:37
- Pran's Escape / The Killing Fields - 3:17
- The Trek - 2:02
- The Boy's Burial / Pran Sees the Red Cross - 2:24
- Good News - 1:46
- 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.