Brotherhood of the Wolf [SOUNDTRACK]

Joseph LoDuca (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 8, 2002)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B00005S84Q
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #91,765 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
This French film became a box-office sensation to rival Titanic in its home country, succeeding largely by gene-splicing several different commercially robust Hollywood genres (chiefly the costume drama, horror film, and martial arts thriller) and pumping them up with a typically American sense of cinematic scale, if not emotional depth. Composer Joseph Lo Duca cut his teeth in commercials before beginning a successful collaboration with Sam Raimi in both films (the Evil Dead series, Army of Darkness) and TV (most notably Xena and Hercules), and his percussive, largely synthesized score for Wolf will be instantly familiar to longtime Raimi fans. With Spanish guitar arpeggios set against howling electronic effects, hoodoo-rhythmed electronic drums, horror-film jolts, and galloping action cues, Lo Duca raids his genre-rich résumé and imparts this ostensibly trans-ethnic score with an energy that's distinctly Hollywood inspired. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pure emotion, August 25, 2002

By	- Kasia S. (New York City) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This soundtrack is one of my favorites. The music can be both dark and powerful or sad and delicate. The use of so many different instruments ads to the mysterious combination that can take one back to the times of the haunting beast in the French forests. Track 3 was touching and beautiful.
There can be heard many eastern influences on the cd, where we can hear the raw power of the battle between good and evil. As a soundtrack collector i deeply recommentd it. Its a very mysterious and haunting cd.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mysterious and haunting, filled with beautiful sounds, May 11, 2002

By	The No Evil Killer "Know No Evil" (Everywhere, Anywhere, Nowhere) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Whoa! This soundtrack is really something. A definite must have. Joe LoDuca has created a wonderful and thematic score for the absolute BEST film of 2001. Although the main theme isn't used enough it comes thru best in tracks 3,4,20 and 21(Once).

Many of the other tracks either evoke a bizarre Danny Elfman style (Track 5) or are atmospheric, tension tracks used in scenes of mystery. It is in these, basically empty, tracks that the CD fails but they are bearable whenever the secondary theme kicks in.

This CD is hardly ever out of my player and if you are a fan of the movie or even if you just love great music then this is for you.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply marvelous, March 27, 2002

By	C. A Baker (Santa Rosa CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Saw the movie and was blown away by the score. As a fan of LoDuca's work on Xena and Hercules I thought it sounded very much like his work and then the credits rolled and I saw it was him!
Very beautiful and Joeseph LoDuca at his best for this fabulous film that is like seeing one of the fairy tales of old come to life. And I don't mean the children's versions so many of us are used to.
Dark and dangerous, beautiful and horrifying Jospeh LoDuca conveys all of this and does it with originality and great talent.
I hope now that Herc and Xena are done we will hear more of his work in films.