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Naked Lunch: Music From The Original Soundtrack

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I've been listening to this work since it was first available. I'm just now reviewing it though. This was one of those CDs that goes in the player and doesn't come out for a long time. It is just fascinating. This is an absolutely brilliant work from Shore featuring Ornette Coleman. I agree with the editorial reviews that one does not need the film to appreciate the soundtrack. Although, I do really like the film too.

I am a big fan of Ornette Coleman. It is difficult to compare this work with other Coleman work because the setting is o different. Coleman's soloing, and the use of his soloing, is insipred. In fact, that is a great way to describe this work - inspired (now I have a title for my review). Inspired by what? Burroughs, Naked Lunch, Cronenberg? I would love to know more about that.

Excellent soundtrack by Howard Shore featuring Ornette Coleman. The music is extremely moody, and not easy to focus on. In the film, the music often seems to be coming from the apartment next door, almost as natural sounds. Music has a beat generation feel to it, not a modern update. Recommended.

This is a fine addition to your Ornette or Soundtrack library. Certainly a treat for Coleman fans; The slow moody pace never hinders the King of Free from offering up a fresh life-giving performance. Ornette stays with the easy pace adding his superior, cutting, sometimes jumpy alto sound to the relaxed background score. I love this soundtrack! It's a Free Jazz-Minimalist-Movie Theme bit of sweetmeat. Yummmm!

I saw the movie which was terribly boring except for the music.(Later I tried the original story but I...couldn't finish it.Anyway,I didn't like it ,either.)That was my first encounter with Ornette Coleman. I had known about him but never listened to his music before.I got ashamed of it. Why had I been neglecting him?Then I began listening.Now I have many of his albums.I like him when he was with Don Cherry the best, but this remains my favorite,still.Dark and moody...well,maybe somewhat fragmentary.(Most songs don't last 3 minutes.)But his music is fragmentary by nature anyway.This format even suites him,Iguess. And it is the composer who set the stage.Great collaboration! It can be a good introduction to Ornette's music.And if you are an Ornette fan already,why don't you listen to this? You'll love this.

Seeing how I LOVED the movie, I was expecting a lot from the soundtrack. In the movie, it works just fine, but on CD I wanted music from the movie as well as something else to make it interesting. For example they should have included some timeless movie quotes inside the songs or in between the songs. And I would have liked to see more traditional music of Morocco put forth in the mix to take you into the world of Interzone, instead of in just one or two songs. There is a lot of spooky orchestral work by Howard Shore as well as avant-guard jazz from Ornette Coleman. As time went by, I found myself listening to this a lot more; it works just fine as background music. I have to say my disappointment comes from me having other expectations.