Raising Arizona / Blood Simple Soundtrack (by Carter Burwell)

Raising Arizona / Blood Simple Soundtrack

(by Carter Burwell)

GENRE: Score
DATE: 1987
COUNTRY: USA
AUDIO CODEC: MP3
QUALITY: 320 kbs
PLAYTIME: 40:30
The story goes that composer Carter Burwell owes his fortuitous, ongoing collaboration with the filmmaking's Brothers Coen to one crucial requirement: he worked cheap. But the Coens' low-budget film noir debut, Blood Simple (which also launched the career of cinematographer-turned-director Barry Sonnenfeld), certainly got the best of the bargain, a wonderfully less-is-more score highlighted by a compelling solo piano theme. For the Coens' next film, Raising Arizona, a darkly goofy kidnapping-themed comic vehicle for Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter, Burwell veered bravely into the ozone, mixing heavily Gothic organ, soaring sopranos, bluegrass banjo, whistlers, synths, yodelers, and samples of what sounds like a tin can being kicked down the longest hill in the world into a delightfully heady farrago that recalls Morricone at his most mischievous.

RAISING ARIZONA:
01. Introduction - A Hole In The Ground (0:38)
02. Way Out There (1:55)
03. He Was Horrible (1:30)
04. Just Business (1:17)
05. The Letter (2:27)
06. Hail Lenny (2:18)
07. Raising Ukeleles (3:41)
08. Dream Of The Future (2:31)
09. Shopping Arizona (2:46)
10. Return To The Nursery (1:35)
BLOOD SIMPLE:
11. Crash And Burn (2:40)
12. Blood Simple (3:33)
13. Chain Gang (4:47)
14. The March (3:34)
15. Monkey Chant (1:04)
16. The Shooting (2:52)
17. Blood Simpler (1:22)