JOHN ZORN

JOHN ZORN
FILMWORKS II:
MUSIC FOR AN UNTITLED FILM BY WALTER HILL (1996)
320 KBPS

Unlike most other volumes of his film works, which compile various shorter scores that John Zorn composed over the years, Filmworks, Vol. 2 presents one longer score, written for a Walter Hill film. So, unlike the others, there is a consistent mood throughout the entire release. Overall, it is very atmospheric, with sections of drawn-out tones that slowly build theater mists in the background of a deserted sense of waiting. Balancing stretches of this kind are sections of bent, mellow country. Marc Ribot's guitar and banjo trickle along the score, as the didjeridu steadily pushes through. Later comes a percussive-oriented dance track with prepared piano, a theme that recurs sporadically through the last third of the score.

1. Intro
2. I Stole From Jesus Christ
3. Gold
4. Main Title
5. The Building
6. Meatlocker
7. Pigeons
8. Scuffle
9. Exploring
10. Rattlesnakes for Sergio Leone
11. Two Interiors
12. Stealth
13. Action
14. Dumping The Body
15. The Trunk
16. Escape Attempt
17. Arrival
18. Prying At The Windows
19. Arsenal
20. King James
21. Powerline
22. The Magic of Gold
23. Dilemma
24. Conspiracy
25. The Plot part 1
26. The Plot part 2
27. Heroin Fix
28. Lucky Run
29. Vengence Is Mine
30. Escape
31. Kill Fever
32. Outside
33. Ending
34. Alternate Ending/End Title
35. Arsenal Dance