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Various Artists - Asteroid City '2023

Asteroid City
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Album name Asteroid City
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Date 2023
GenreSoundtrack
Play time 70 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 171; 310 MB
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Asteroid City was written and directed by Wes Anderson and has an ensemble cast
that includes Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright,
Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope
Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Steve Carell, Matt Dillon, Hong
Chau, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie, Tony Revolori, Jake Ryan and Jeff Goldblum.
IndieWire calls Asteroid City “Anderson’s dreamiest film,”
“one of a kind” and “the most poignant thing he’s ever
made,” while Vanity Fair says the film presents “a mural of everyday
humanity, all its quiet passion and accidental humor.” Asteroid City
(Original Soundtrack) incorporates an original score by decorated composer
Alexandre Desplat, original tunes by Jarvis Cocker, and classic Country &
Western, pop, folk and skiffle songs across its 25 tracks. Asteroid City takes
place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. The itinerary of a Junior
Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and
parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is
spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. The film will see a limited
theatrical release June 16 in NYC and LA, followed by a nationwide release June
23. Music supervisor Randall Poster, who has worked with Wes Anderson on every
one of his films since 1998’s Rushmore (making Asteroid City their tenth
collaboration), said, “Wes and I had so much fun putting the film’s
music together. We’ve been doing these soundtracks for almost 30 years
and have the benefit of that continuity of collaboration. We’re expanding
our music horizons whenever he makes a new movie.” He continued,
“Wes is so good with music and stands by his very strong instincts. For
Asteroid City, we had been ‘hunting and gathering’ for a year
before shooting began so were very familiar with the Country & Western genre
which is not, per se, strictly country. C&W had more to do with the movies than
anything else and we were kind of instinctively drawn to one song or another.
Our mindset was to spread the wings of Western Swing and see what we
discover.” Asteroid City (Original Soundtrack) contains 16 songs recorded
and originally released in the approximate era the film takes place. Poster
commented, “We had a self-imposed rule and locked ourselves into the
period.” Country & Western is the predominant genre, with tracks such as
Tex Ritter’s “High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)” and “(I
Got Spurs) Jingle Jangle Jingle,” and Tennessee Ernie Ford’s
million-selling 1955 rendition of “Sixteen Tons,” which spent ten
weeks at the top of Billboard’s country music chart. Bing Crosby and Burl
Ives make appearances, having a go at Western music with “Cowboy’s
Lament” and “The Streets of Laredo,” respectively. Pop music
from the pre-rock and roll era is also represented with Les Paul & Mary
Ford’s 1951 version of “How High The Moon,” which spent nine
weeks at the top of all three Billboard charts that preceded the Hot 100. UK
folk and skiffle music (a British genre inspired by American blues, country,
bluegrass and jazz) is also included; “Island of Dreams” by The
Springfields (featuring a young Dusty Springfield and her brother Tom) and
“Freight Train” by The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group featuring Nancy
Whiskey blend seamlessly in the soundtrack with their US counterparts. Johnny
Duncan and The Blue Grass Boys’ “Last Train to San Fernando,”
which is also featured in the official trailer, serves as a centerpiece. Poster
said of the song, “This one kicked it all off; I had sent it to Wes for
something else so he was already aware of it; that was a door opener for much of
it.” Johnny Duncan was an American expat living in England and he scored a
UK #2 hit with the song, which is a cover of a calypso tune by Mighty Dictator.
The San Fernando being sung about is actually a town on the west coast of
Trinidad. Multiple Academy Award® and Grammy Award® winning Parisian
composer Alexandre Desplat began his career scoring French films, switching over
to English language films in the early 2000s. He has scored Wes
Anderson’s five previous films, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The
Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs and The French Dispatch. Desplat has since
earned an impressive number of accolades, including two Oscars for Best Original
Score (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water) and two Grammys for Best
Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (The King’s Speech, The Grand Budapest
Hotel). Desplat has racked up nine additional Oscar® nominations over the
years, two of which are for Wes Anderson films. Musician/broadcaster/poet Jarvis
Cocker, who is best known as the frontperson in English rock band Pulp, provided
two original songs for Asteroid City (Original Soundtrack) and briefly appears
in the film performing a musical number. Both “You Can’t Wake Up If
You Don’t Fall Asleep” and “Dear Alien (Who Art In
Heaven)” were produced by ex-Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley. This is not
the first time Cocker’s likeness and music have been intertwined in an
Anderson film; his musical contributions to The French Dispatch, in which he
sang in the voice of fictitious ‘60s French pop singer Tip-Top, inspired
an entire album of material in said character, entitled Chansons d’Ennui
Tip-Top (ABKCO, 2021). ABKCO has had a unique working relationship with Wes
Anderson, releasing the original soundtrack for every film Anderson has written
and directed for more than a decade and a half – The Darjeeling Limited
(2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest
Hotel (2014), Isle of Dogs (2018) and The French Dispatch (2021). These
soundtracks are all currently available from ABKCO Records.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Alexandre Desplat - WXYZ-TV Channel 8 (2:37)
1.02 - Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys - Last Train To San Fernando (2:29)
1.03 - Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call (2:31)
1.04 - Les Baxter - April In Portugal (2:44)
1.05 - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Ida Red (2:39)
1.06 - Henk Bouman - I. Canon (3:10)
1.07 - Alexandre Desplat - Opening Ceremony with Awards Presentation (Keynote
Speaker: General Grif Gibson) (2:37)
1.08 - Tex Ritter - Jingle Jangle Jingle (Remastered 2000) (2:49)
1.09 - Bill Monroe - Orange Blossom Special (2:34)
1.10 - Tex Ritter - High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) (Remastered 1991) (3:02)
1.11 - Burl Ives - Cowboy's Lament (2:40)
1.12 - Alexandre Desplat - Viewing of the Astronomical Ellipses (Opening
Comments: Dr. Hickenlooper) (3:49)
1.13 - Slim Whitman - Rose Marie (2:22)
1.14 - Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call (1944 Version) (3:09)
1.15 - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (Remastered 2000) (2:39)
1.16 - Eddy Arnold - The Cattle Call (2:33)
1.17 - Alexandre Desplat - Special Seminar at the Playwright’s Request
(Saltzburg Keitel’s Classroom) (3:10)
1.18 - Asteroid City Cast - Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven) (1:22)
1.19 - Johnny Duncan - Kaw-Liga (2:55)
1.20 - Alexandre Desplat - Emergency Assembly (1:07)
1.21 - Alexandre Desplat - A Bewildering and Bedazzling Celestial Mystery (5:43)
1.22 - Les Paul - How High The Moon (2:06)
1.23 - Bing Crosby - The Streets of Laredo (2:53)
1.24 - The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group - Freight Train (3:00)
1.25 - Jarvis Cocker - You Can't Wake Up If You Don't Fall Asleep (3:31)

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