Heat

Music by Elliot Goldenthal

 

 

 

 

 

The soundtrack of Heat works as an interesting panel of contemporary musical production. Synthetic and aseptic as a shopping mall showcase, music shines in updated technology, perfectly fulfilling its function in mirroring an industrialized and dehumanized world.

The long track (seven minutes) in the opening, with string by group Kronos Quartet, display this idea with precision. In tracks Condensers, Run Uphill, Fate and Scrapes, the composer makes room for the sound of guitars, the musical protagonists of the soundtrack. Director Michael Mann probably opted for include other artists to avoid a central theme to identify characters or the film itself. Therefore, the characters are also loose elements in a culture of unimportant fragments? To be discussed.

Completing the collective structure of the soundtrack, are great inclusions (in own recordings) as ambient guitarist Michael Brook and the brilliant Norwegian guitarist Terje Rypdal, with two tracks of his unique Nordic jazz. The set is completed with the industrial sound of the German group Einsturzende Neubauten; the experimental pop of Passengers (U2 and Brian Eno); electronic pop Moby, and Lisa Gerrard with his heavy neo-medieval sound.

Heat 1995

Elliot Goldenthal

74 min

Warner Music