Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Bruno Coulais
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| Total: 32 Songs |
Album Review
Composed by Frenchman Bruno Coulais, the soundtrack to Coraline is a unique and atmospheric accompaniment to the Oscar-nominated stop-motion animation based on Neil Gaiman's novel. Featuring 32 pieces of classical music and brief vocal contributions from actress Teri Hatcher ("Dreaming," "Mechanical Lullaby"), it also includes the Children's Choir of Nice, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, and musicians Hélène Breschand and Christophe Grindel, alongside a new 28-second track by U.S. alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants ("Other Father Song"). ~ Jon O'Brien, Rovi
Customer Reviews
A refreshing change from the usual over-orchestrated sountracks
At last, here's a soundtrack for an animated film that is not bombastic and over-the-top. There are moments of subtlety and beauty and wonderful textures, which complimented the film's magic. I hope we hear more from this talented composer.
As Odd and Charming as the Girl Herself
I loved this album. Bruno Coulais' unique instrumentals have both this natural and organic, and yet otherworldly quality. His use of strange instruments alongside the conventional orchestra, and choirs singing in what aren't quite words but aren't necessarily just sounds, show a unique musical strangeness and enchantment. The emotions of the album are also very subtle yet apparent, from the rousingly magical opener of "Dreaming", the childlike curiosity of "Exploration", to the surprisingly tense "Wybie". The music's emotional range is subtle yet strong, it doesn't whipsaw us between emotional extremes like most film music, but has an underlying identifiability under its strange melodies that we understand. The emotion is often so powerful, the scenes they're used in often have no dialogue and depended only on the superb animation and music to play the scene. A lot of the music also evokes scenes from the movie very well. You can tell that "Mice Circus" is being played on very tiny trumpets, and "The Famous Mister B" is a grotesque, distant-sounding piece that seems like the sort of music a weathered circus suit talking in a sickly, insane voice, formerly a wondrous ringmaster, would have. The soundtrack sometimes goes conventional, but usually to surprise us later, or to punctuate an event in the movie, like "Trap for the Mices". The singing additions of John Linnell singing "Other Father Song" and Spink and Forcible's hilarious cabaret are also amusing additions. "Coraline" was not strictly an unfilmable book, but it was an adaptation that couldn't be done by lesser talents, including the music. Bruno Coulais had previously only scored French films and the nature documentary "Winged Migration", so he was an appreciably peculiar choice for this film who not only delivered something incredible, but something the likes of which we have never heard. He composed a score that both fits Coraline's theme of supernatural curiosity perfectly, and is a charmingly unique and wonderful album in its own regard.
Great Movie Excellent Music!
The music tied in beautifully with the movie. I never really recognize music in movies, but in this movie it was just mindblowing
Biography
Born: January 13, 1954 in Paris, France
Genre: Soundtrack
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By Bruno Coulais
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Exploration | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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End Credits | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1:56 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dreaming | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Mechanical Lullaby | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Mice Circus | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Baby | Babies (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Wybie | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Fantastic Garden | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 1:36 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Spink and Forcible | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 0:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Bobinsky | Coraline (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | 2:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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- Genres: Soundtrack, Music, Classical, Original Score
- Released: Feb 03, 2009
- ℗ 2009 Koch Records
