Nick Cave - The Road (Original Film Score) '2010

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The Road, directed by John Hillcoat and adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel
of the same name, features an original score by Nick and Warren.

This highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, bestselling and
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road by Cormac McCarthy (author of No Country
For Old Men) sees Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leading an all-star cast
featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi
Smit-McPhee. An epic post-apocalyptic tale of survival of a father and his young
son journeying across a barren America destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm, The
Road boldly imagines a future in which men are pushed to the worst and the best
that they are capable of – a future in which a father and his son are
sustained by love.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have created an evocative score featuring violin and
piano with beautiful fleeting melodies and eerie sound loops filled with terror
and suspense. The threat of all-too-real cannibal gangs is heightened by
disturbing loops and frenetic percussion. A small ensemble of wind instruments
adds further scope. At key moments in the movie, scenes between the father and
son are set to musical passages that are light, lyrical and elegiac.

For Hillcoat and his team, the mission was to convey the horrific aspect of a
ravaged world without resorting to well-worn clichés from the end-of-the
earth genre. This required delicacy on all fronts – it meant creating a
score without a big orchestral sound or melodrama or sentimentality. The Road is
an adventure story, a horror story, a road movie and ultimately a love story
between a father and his son, between a man and his wife, as it is a celebration
of the inextinguishable will to live. The music of Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
found just the right balance.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Home (2:04) 
1.02 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Road (3:41) 
1.03 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Storytime (2:25) 
1.04 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Cannibals (2:05) 
1.05 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Water and Ash (1:31) 
1.06 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Mother (2:46) 
1.07 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Real Thing (2:32) 
1.08 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Memory (3:42) 
1.09 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The House (3:17) 
1.10 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Far Road (2:45) 
1.11 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Church (1:34) 
1.12 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Journey (4:14) 
1.13 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Cellar (1:09) 
1.14 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Bath (2:31) 
1.15 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Family (3:42) 
1.16 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Beach (3:45) 
1.17 - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - The Boy (3:11)

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