Mike Oldfield - The Killing Fields
- Pran`s Theme (0:44)
- Requiem for a City (2:10)
- Evacuation (5:10)
- Pran`s Theme 2 (1:41)
- Capture (2:21)
- Execution (4:44)
- Bad News (1:10)
- Pran`s Departure (2:03)
- Worksite (1:16)
- The Year Zero (0:28)
- Blood Sucking (1:18)
- The Year Zero 2 (0:37)
- Pran`s Escape - The Killing Fields (3:15)
- The Trek (1:58)
- The Boy`s Burial - Pran Sees The Red Cross (2:40)
- Good News (1:42)
- Etude (4:35)
Virgin, 1984
also by Mike Oldfield:
- Tubular Bells (Boxed)
(1973)
- Hergest Ridge (Boxed)
(1974)
- Ommadawn (Boxed)
(1975)
- Incantations
(1978)
- Platinum
(1979)
- Exposed
(1979)
- QE2
(1980)
- Five Miles Out
(1982)
- Crises
(1983)
- Discovery
(1984)
- Islands
(1987)
- Earth Moving
(1989)
- Amarok
(1990)
- Heaven's Open
(1991)
- Tubular Bells II
(1992)
- The Songs of Distant Earth
(1996)
- Tubular Bells III
(1998)
This soundtrack is unlike any other of Oldfield's works, and makes me wish he had got some more gigs in film music. The gentle "Pran's Theme" and choir-backed "Requiem for a City" show that he can write and arrange evocative tunes on classical instruments with ease. But appropriately the music for this movie is mostly not pretty stuff. He makes the best use of his Fairlight sampler for some stark, atonal sound painting, like the industrial clanking of "Evacuation". It seems like he drew new inspiration from having a focused project to write music for, in contrast to his usual abstract instrumental epics. Even the "cover version" of Francisco Tarrega's guitar Etude is a quirky and off-beat arrangement. Definitely one of his most under-appreciated efforts.
July 29, 2004
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