Zodiac [Soundtrack]

David Shire (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: David Shire
• Audio CD (March 13, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000NA1ZM4
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,655 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aftermaths

2. Graysmith

3. Law & Disorder

4. Trailer Park

5. Dare To Dream

6. Avery & Graysmith, Toschi & Armstrong

7. Graysmith Obsessed

8. Are You Done?

9. Closer & Closer

10. Confrontation

11. Graysmith's Theme

12. Toschi's Theme (Unused)

13. Graysmith's Theme (Piano version)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shire creates a remarkable emotional palate, September 14, 2008

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Merbert "Merbert Music" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Zodiac (Audio CD)

In many ways David Shire has returned to the classic era of film score composition and performance with Zodiac. Spare and extremely well-coordinated with the screen action, he creates incredible tension and suspense without all of the heavy-handed and heavily processed thunder that is often heard in today's films. It is reminiscent of Herrmann's score to Psycho in this regard. With Shire's brilliant composition and scoring, the listener is always kept slightly off-balance; there are moments bristling with suspense and others of the bleakest isolation. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that this was recorded live under the capable baton of Mr. Shire. There is power, albeit subtle, in the recording of entire pieces instead of the incessant cutting and pasting that occurs almost exclusively in today's soundtracks.

For one who lived through the era of the Zodiac killer's grip on our community, David Shire's soundtrack transported me back to a time when were were all watching our backs in fear during this brutal and mysterious killer's reign of terror.