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Brian Eno - Dune: Original Soundtrack Recording Audio CD

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Brian Eno Band: Brian Eno
Title: Dune: Original Soundtrack Recording
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Release Date: 1996-04-23
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Prologue 2: Main Title 3: Robot Fight 4: Leto's Theme 5: Box 6: Floating Fat Man (The Baron) 7: Trip to Arrakis 8: First Attack 9: Prophecy Theme - Brian Eno, Roger Eno, Daniel Lanois, , Toto 10: Dune (Desert Theme) 11: Paul Meets Chani 12: Prelude (Take My Hand) 13: Paul Takes the Water of Life 14: Big Battle 15: Paul Kills Feyd 16: Final Dream 17: Take My Hand

Powerful music by Toto and Eno...
Unlike many soundtrack composers, Toto doesn't flagrantly rob the classical composers, then claim work they scarcely had touched as their own. This is one of my favorite movie scores of all time. (I'm not talking about short quotes, stylistic similarities, or credited quotations. ) You know who you are out there, so hang your heads in shame. . . An old movie done as a cartoon on a very famous sword and sorcery tale comes to mind, as well as a fantastic tale told about trollish and elvish creatures on a far away world. Then, there's the recent tale about a fallen Roman general. Magnificent music in all of these, but some of the pieces are lifted wholesale from other sources, without credit. Dune? A great deal of it sounds sort of New Age by way of several overtly psychotic states of mind.

This is meant as a compliment: Baron Vladimir Harkonnen is missing more than a few marbles, (He'd have to get a wheelbarrow load to reach zero!) Leto is practically a saint, in the good sense of the word, while Paul's mother and her teacher are manipulative. . . . women. (This last is a grand understatement!) Paul? He's a male messiah in a female dominated religion. His family has been slaughtered by the Harkonnens and he's been abandoned to a fate most people would not wish on their enemies. Paul ends being manipulated by his environment, his teachers, and the Fremen. By force of training and circumstance, he drinks a derivative of the spice brewed up by some horrid method from Arrakis' sand worms in order to fully realize his remarkable powers. (One wonders if he will end up looking like the monstrosities the spaceship pilots become upon long ingestion of melange, the famous `spice' of Arrakis. Yuck! They end up looking like gigantic grubs!) Is it any wonder that the music has to reflect many different points of view? And Toto has done a fantastic job. I've listened to this music many times, and have never grown tired of it.

Eno's Prophecy theme is deceptive; at first, it just sounds beautiful. On repeated listenings? It grows in emotional power that gives it a life far beyond the environs of the movie. Harkonnen's `theme' is a maniacal Baroque nightmare. The rest? When Paul drinks the Water of Life, one can feel how close his sanity and soul come to slipping away from him. The Final Dream? A climax to an emotionally savaged life. This music brings visions to my mind up and beyond Dune's plot and characters. . . and this is one of the highest compliments I can pay to any score, for any purpose. This score is so varied, I can't describe it with any all-encompassing phrase. Rock and Roll? A few pieces are reminiscent of Toto's normal work. Symphonic power? You bet. Space Music? Outer and inner.

Do I highly recommend this soundtrack? From Mount Everest!.


What a pity!
The music is grandiose and magnificient. This is a great soundtrack, by a great Band. Do all you can to find a used copy!.


Charming to the last minute
This is why when ever I listen to the music, I never feel bored by it. This score works like the classical music in the movies of Stanley Kubrick, it can stand on it's own, while it also enhances both the scene and the feelings of the audience. It offers a great variety of musical material from classic to typical Toto-Music, while it is also so inspiring that you won't need to see the movie when listening to it. The music perfectly transmitts the scene, it captures you in this wonderful magical world of Dune .


A near miss
Toto does as well as a rock band can, but the often thin music can't compete with the power a full orchestra could lend to a movie based on an epic story like Dune -- the listener is left unsatisfied hearing an electric guitar when a full brass section is called for. Once again, producer de Laurentis pushed for a pop band to do a movie that called for an orchestral score, and this time he won (he was nixed on Conan the Barbarian, which yielded Basil Poledouris' soul-stirring score). Still, a valiant effort.


Dated? Yes. Still great music? Of course!
I was disappointed at first when I looked at the jewel case and saw only 40-some minutes of music. For such a long movie, the soundtrack sure is short. But the quality definitely makes up for the quantity. The electronic instruments (not to mention the soft rock style on some tracks) make it easy to pinpoint the time of conception, but good music is good music, right? Right.


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