Babylon

ゴールデン・グローブ賞 最優秀作曲賞受賞!主要5部門にノミネートされた 未来に語り継がれる新時代の名作。
《ジャスティン・ハーウィッツ ～映画『バビロン』オリジナル・サウンドトラック》

ゴールデン・グローブ賞 最優秀作曲賞をジャスティン・ハーウィッツが受賞!主要5部門にノミネートされた話題作[最優秀作品賞(ミュージカル/コメディ)、最優秀主演男優賞(ミュージカル/コメディ)、最優秀主演女優賞(ミュージカル/コメディ)、最優秀助演男優賞、最優秀作曲賞]。本年度の賞レースの主役との呼び声高い、未来に語り継がれる新時代の名作が誕生!

『ラ・ラ・ランド』でアカデミー監督賞を史上最年少で受賞、いま最も映画に愛される若き天才監督デイミアン・チャゼルが、オスカー俳優ブラッド・ピット、マーゴット・ロビーほか豪華キャストを迎え、再びハリウッドを舞台に描く夢と音楽のエンタテインメント最新作『バビロン』のオリジナル・サウンドトラック!

舞台はゴールデンエイジと呼ばれた、1920年代ハリウッド。 豪華なファッションと、ド派手なパーティに、壮大な映画撮影などゴージャスでクレイジーなハリウッドを描く極彩色のエンタテインメントをジャズ・エイジの音楽が彩る。

Composer Justin Hurwitzs fifth collaboration with director Damien Chazelle was an epic one, with the over-three-hour Babylon focused on the transition between silent and sound film in the late 1920s and early 30s -- a technological advancement with devastating consequences for many in Hollywood. Coinciding with the height of the jazz age, Babylons 97-minute score finds Hurwitz creating a stylized sound rooted in big-band swing but not quite authentic to the period. In addition to the occasional use of a 100-piece orchestra, the score features elements of rock, carnival music, classical music, cabaret, and overseas adventure conspicuously worked into cues with such descriptive titles as "Kinescope Ragtime Piano," "Waikele Tango," and "Damascus Thump." With a trumpet player among the films main cast of characters, soloists credited with score contributions include noted trumpeters Sean Jones and Dontae Winslow. The films hedonist opening -- set at an estate party replete with crowd-surfing, overdoses, and an elephant -- is accompanied by the boisterous "Welcome," a four-minute big-band romp in the vicinity of "Sing, Sing, Sing." Hurwitz soon introduces the poignant "Manny and Nellies Theme" on what sounds like an out-of-tune bar piano before diving headlong into a diverse set of cues, most of which maintain a distinctly playful, freewheeling tone. A small combo eventually introduces the more sophisticated, recurring "Gold Coast Rhythm" theme, and by the arrival of the track-48 "Finale," the score has done its job, assuming the task at hand was to reflect the films myriad excesses. Already a two-time Oscar and Grammy winner coming into Babylon (all for La La Land), Hurwitz -- a scriptwriter and TV producer as well as composer -- still had yet to compose for any other filmmaker. ~ Marcy Donelson