A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Original Soundtrack) [Audio CD] Music From The Motion Picture A.I. and John Williams

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Amazon.ca Packed with Big Ideas about the future of mankind and dispatched with a distant, often icy veneer, Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence can scarcely camouflage its roots. Begun by the late Stanley Kubrick in the mid-1980s, Spielberg collaborated briefly a decade later, bowed out, then inherited it upon Kubrick's death in 1999. And while the late auteur's cold vision seems largely intact, it's safe to say that Kubrick's often challenging musical tastes would probably not have led him to composer John Williams's doorstep. Nonetheless, the acclaimed veteran again rises to the occasion. Setting the tone of the film's robotically enhanced not-so-distant future, "The Mecha World" crackles and glistens with Steve Reich's rhythmic urgency and John Adams's dense coloration, while "Abandoned in the Woods", "Hide and Seek" and "Rouge City" succeed by setting Williams's more traditional sense of melody against Phillip Glass's hypnotic arpeggios. There's also a sense that the composer has craftily evoked the ghost of Kubrick music past and 2001 in particular; "Replicas" and "Stored Memories" bring to mind Ligeti, while the mournful strings of "Cybertronics" seem a ghostly echo of Khachaturian's Gayane Ballet Suite. David Foster's ballad "For Always" (in a solo rendition by Lara Fabian and a duet between Fabian and Josh Groban) seems twice-included strictly to enhance the album's radio allure. Completists should also note that Ministry's dark contribution to the film's Flesh Fair sequence, "What About Us?", is not included on this soundtrack, but is available on their Greatest Fits compilation. Arguably Williams' most musically adventurous score since his landmark Close Encounters of the Third Kind, AI should take its place among the most distinctive of the composer's long and bounteous collaboration with Spielberg. --Jerry McCulley Product Description John Williams's emotion and affecting score is the perfect pairing with the imaginative, involving and utterly heartbreaking world of A.I. David's journey of self-discovery and self-creation as an artificial boy is carried along by these brilliantly sympathetic songs. Featured artist Barbara Bonney. Track listing includes "The Mecha World," "Cybertronics," "Hide And Seek," plus lots more.

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• • A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) by John Williams (2001-09-17)