The soundtrack to the harrowing Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) film features the lead track from the film, the beautiful 'Season Song' by Blue States & tracks from Brian Eno & Grandaddy. The original score was composed by John Murphy, one of the UK's most prominent film composers, & the CD is enhanced with unseen footage, film stills, & more. 23 tracks. Digipak. XL. 2003.

Combining the visionary imaginations of two premier fantasists, dirctor Henry Selick ("The Nightmare Before Christmas") and author Neil Gaiman (Sandman), "Coraline" the movie is a wondrous and thrilling, fun and suspenseful, adventure that honors and redefines two moviemaking traditions. Based on the best-selling book "Coraline" the movie is a stop-motion animated feature, and - as the first one to be conceived and photographed in stereoscopic 3-D, is unlike anything moviegoers have ever experienced before. The Soundtrack, produced by award-winning french composer Bruno Coulais, sets the perfect tone for the suspenseful and wonderful world created in the film, and features a new original song by They Might Be Giants.

Saxophonist Najee, the two-time Grammy nominee and a pioneer of the rhythm and jazz movement of the late ‘80s and ‘90s, continues to shed new light on the contemporary jazz scene with Rising Sun. Always the innovator, Najee blends various shades of straightahead as well as contemporary jazz, classic R&B and even indie rock on this new ten-song set. The result is an album that’s destined to appeal to established fans of his multi-layered groove as well as listeners who are meeting the artist for the first time. The idea was to try to do something a little different from before, says the New York native. But the challenge in that is to always stay true to my own creative identity at the same time. People who are familiar with me and my music have certain expectations, but I’m always looking for something that’s going to make people say, ‘Hey, this is a little different. This is something fresh.’Contributing to this fresh perspective is a coterie of talented songwriters and session players. Producer Chris Davis, who first teamed up with Najee on his previous Heads Up release, returns to the production helm on Rising Sun, and offers numerous songwriting credits as well. Najee also co-authors two tracks with labelmate and Pieces of a Dream keyboardist and songwriter extraordinaire James Lloyd. In addition, the saxophonist borrows a couple songs from the old school as well as the new one from veteran jazz flutist James Moody and another from reigning indie rock songwriter/guitarist John Mayer.

Three-time Oscar-nominated Danny Elfman, one of Hollywood's most in-demand composers, continues his long-standing collaboration with innovative director Tim Burton for the soundtrack to the stop-motion animated feature Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

Even those allergic to musicals may be won over by Once, a tender-hearted Irish romance with songs by Czech Republic–born Markéta Irglová and Frames frontman Glen Hansard. (The film's director, John Carney, actually used to play bass in the group.) The trick here is that Irglová and Hansard also play the leads; because their characters are shown busking, writing music, or rehearsing, the songs are smoothly integrated in the film. The overall acoustic mood won't surprise fans of the Frames--some tracks ("Say It to Me," "When Your Mind's Made Up") have even popped up on the band's albums, though the arrangements are more pared-down here, befitting the scruffy, street-musician setting. Being the lesser-known entity, Irglová feels like a revelation; she sounds a bit like a folkie Björk on "If You Want Me," and her song "The Hill" is downright heartbreaking. Irglová and Hansard had already made the 2006 album The Swell Seasontogether, so their collaboration here feels really organic--they sound particularly good together on the title track, for instance. Now that's the kind of magic you want from musicals. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

◎ 巨星雲集！安妮特班寧、葛妮絲派特洛、喬瑟夫范恩斯和亞歷鮑德溫領銜主演
◎ 原聲帶收錄涵蓋搖滾、流行與爵士的精彩，為電影更增深廣度
◎ Elton John、Nat King Cole、Al Stewart等經典金曲收錄
◎ 特別收錄當今最優秀民謠女歌手Catherine Feeny重新演唱〈Mr. Blue〉
在一個醫療電擊設備形同玩具、安眠藥有如糖果、聖誕樹一年365天始終豎立的怪異家庭中成長，肯定有著訴說不盡的趣事與心酸。美國作家Augusten Burrough拿下銷售排行榜第一名的回憶錄《Running with Scissors》，描寫的正是這樣不尋常的故事，當他的酒鬼父親與精神失常的母親離異之後，母親將他送給自己的精神醫師寄養，正值青春期的他在這個混亂脫序的家庭，開始了令人匪夷所思的生活。熱門電視影集整型春秋(Nip/Tuck)的編導Ryan Murphy，深深被這個古怪的故事吸引，並決定將Augusten Burrough(由Joseph Cross飾演)苦澀脫軌的青春歲月重現大銀幕。為此他號召眾多一流演員聯袂主演：除了硬底子演員Joseph Fiennes(莎翁情史)、Alec Baldwin(獵殺紅色十月)外，還有近期挑片十分謹慎的Annette Bening(美國心玫瑰情)與Gwyneth Paltrow(烈愛風雲)，組成近期少見的黃金陣容。
為了能更貼近原著風格、強化影片節奏與戲劇結構，導演Ryan Murphy親自挑選電影原聲帶中的13首作品。由於故事背景為70年代，此張作品收錄了Elton John、the Average White Band、10cc、Crosbz, Stills & Nash’s等經典樂隊傳唱於70年代的搖滾金曲。此外全方位爵士歌手Nat King Cole兩首作品中的«Quizas, Quizas, Quizas»，也曾收錄在王家衛«花樣年華»的電影原聲帶中，影痴們肯定印象深刻。還有Vince Guaraldi Trio以爵士風格演奏德國聖誕節的傳統歌曲«O Tannenbaum»，Phoebe Snow與The 5th Dimension則帶來了恬適怡人的搖擺風情，Al Stewart清新巂永的«Year of the Cat»讓人百聽不厭。除了過去的光輝餘韻，本輯還加收Catherine Feeny特別為此張電影原聲帶，重新演唱的«Mr. Blue»，成長於美國費城，目前定居倫敦的她藉此再度證明，不負「當今最優秀民謠女歌手」的美名。《Running with Scissors》的電影原聲帶先聲奪人，同時涵蓋搖滾、流行、鄉村與爵士的精彩，成功地為電影的深廣度背書。