Track Listing

1. The Last Man
2. Holy Dread!
3. Tree Of Life
4. Stay With Me
5. Work
6. Xibalba
7. First Snow
8. Finish It
9. Death Is The Road To Awe
10. Together We Will Live Forever

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6611 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Album Description
For the soundtrack to writer-director Darren Aronofsky's long-awaited sci-fi epic, The Fountain, Kronos Quartet reunites with composer Clint Mansell. The had previously collaborated on the haunting score for Aronofsky's Requiem For A Dream.

Amazon.com
The Fountain is a layered, often beautiful score from composer Clint Mansell. The disc seamlessly moves from ambient drones to plaintive piano music to slowly percolating minimalist stuff to hugely swelling strings. Mansell, who's collaborated with director Aronofsky before, uses almost anything from the minor-key sonic palette available to him, with the exception of the mopey yuppie-folk and instantly dated electronica so often thrown into films. Mansell's own group, the superlative Kronos Quartet, is joined by Scottish noise act Mogwai. The use of such an arty, detuned guitar rock band as Mogwai in a big time movie soundtrack might seem weird, though of course Explosions in the Sky's work on Friday Night Lights was a harbinger. It's too soon to tell if this is an outright classic of soundtrack music in the realm of Goblin's Suspiria, John Carpenter's Escape from New York, or Popol Vuh's Aguirre. But it is definitely a subtle, melancholic work you'll want to revisit often. --Mike McGonigal

Customer Reviews

Music for the Soundtrack Bignners
The Fountain was described to me as a piece of artwork filled with perceptions and beautiful art direction. However, no one even told me the exceptional music that played an instrumental role in creating a feel for this movie that made me tingle.
Clint Mansell is truly an amazing composer and a master in his field, I have enjoyed many of his work in many movies such as smoking aces and requiem of a dream! You have to give it all a listen.

Fantastic soundtrack for a so-so movie
I must say I found the film to be a bit pretentious and overwrought. It had some amazing visuals, and some interesting story points along with a nice twist here and there. However, I found it to meander a bit too much and it seemed to be artsy just for the sake of being artsy... hopefully that makes some sort of sense. I enjoyed Pi and Requiem much more than this one.

However, with that being said, I can say that this soundtrack is absolutely astounding. The unique melancholy of the music sets a mood like none other I can think of. This will be in my iPod playlist right next the The Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack, and the OST for Last of the Mohicans. I can't remember the last time I said that a sountrack took me on a journey, but that is what I feel like as I listen to it while typing this. Kudos to Clint Mansell in this wonderful achievement.

Mansell was brought into this world to score this film...
Clint Mansell apparently "gets" Darren Aronofsky's indie films. This score matches the dreamlike imagery to absolute perfection. It is as if Mansell was BORN TO SCORE THIS FILM. There is simply nothing more I can say except to say thank you Mr. Mansell and the Kronos folks....and where the h*ll can I find the Wind Chill score?