Ramin Djawadi - Westworld Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series) '2016

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Our loop is complete.
Ramin and I had worked together before, indirectly, on Batman Begins. But it was
his tremendous score for Game of Thrones that made me desperate to work with
Ramin on my first show. Years later, as Westworld came together, Lisa and I knew
that we wanted to take enormous risks with the narrative of the show, tossing
the audience into the deep end with our story. And we were able to take those
risks, knowing that, in addition to our incredible cast, we were collaborating
with an artist who could ensure that even if the audience didn’t know
what to think about our hosts and their loops, they would know exactly what to
feel . Ramin came on board and began thinking about the project even before we
started principal photography. Working with Chris Kaller, our music editor, and
Steve Semel, our editor, we were able to deliver a pilot with Ramin’s
original – and haunting – score. Ramin’s ability to
translate even the most nuanced narrative idea into music is peerless. His
brilliance is that he can go further than simply what you’ve laid down on
film and find something ineffable. The beauty of film and television is the
collaboration: artists of every stripe sitting down together in a warehouse,
with some light refreshments, to try to haul something of great, dark beauty out
of the ether. When it works, you get the great privilege of collaborating with
artists whose work exists at a right angle – or, rather, a parallel
dimension – to your own. With the pilot in hand, we were able to write
the rest of the season with Ramin’s music as the soundtrack not only to
our show, but also to our thinking. I remember listening to the early versions
of Ford’s theme over and again while working: the music had followed
from, and then began to guide, the creation of these characters. A call and
response. Beyond the traditional score, we had another challenge. We knew that
we wanted to use the player piano as a key metaphor for the hosts; an almost
preposterously complicated device designed to evoke human emotion. It was also
an irresistible opportunity to use the power and familiarity of contemporary
music to remind the audience that they were watching a synthetic western, a
pastiche of cultural references set years in the future, not the past. With his
beautiful arrangements, Ramin guided all of the music, weaving the old into the
new, and making it all feel of a piece. Ramin’s stunning opening theme
became a synthesis of all of those ideas. The piano plays a call and response
with its creator. Eventually, the music begins to take over. And it did.
Enjoy.
- JONATHAN NOLAN, Executive Producer

Tracklist:
1.01 | Ramin Djawadi - Main Title Theme - Westworld
1.02 | Ramin Djawadi - Sweetwater
1.03 | Ramin Djawadi - Black Hole Sun
1.04 | Ramin Djawadi - Paint It Black
1.05 | Ramin Djawadi - This World
1.06 | Ramin Djawadi - Online
1.07 | Ramin Djawadi - No Surprises
1.08 | Ramin Djawadi - Dr. Ford
1.09 | Ramin Djawadi - A Forest
1.10 | Ramin Djawadi - Reveries
1.11 | Ramin Djawadi - Nitro Heist
1.12 | Vitamin String Quartet - Motion Picture Soundtrack // Vitamin String
Quartet
1.13 | Ramin Djawadi - Freeze All Motor Functions
1.14 | Ramin Djawadi - Pariah
1.15 | Ramin Djawadi - Fake Plastic Trees
1.16 | Ramin Djawadi - MIB
2.01 | Ramin Djawadi - The Maze
2.02 | Ramin Djawadi - House of the Rising Sun
2.03 | Ramin Djawadi - Trompe LOeil
2.04 | Ramin Djawadi - What Does This Mean?
2.05 | Vitamin String Quartet - Something I Can Never Have // Vitamin String
Quartet
2.06 | Ramin Djawadi - White Hats
2.07 | Ramin Djawadi - Back to Black
2.08 | Ramin Djawadi - No Ones Controlling Me
2.09 | Ramin Djawadi - Memories
2.10 | Ramin Djawadi - No Surprises (Stride Piano Version)
2.11 | Ramin Djawadi - Violent Delights
2.12 | Ramin Djawadi - Someday
2.13 | Ramin Djawadi - Sweetwater Stride
2.14 | Ramin Djawadi - Do They Dream?
2.15 | Ramin Djawadi - The Stray
2.16 | Ramin Djawadi - Bicameral Mind
2.17 | Ramin Djawadi - Exit Music (For a Film)
2.18 | Ramin Djawadi - Reverie

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