I think Jack Nitzsche's soundtrack to Cutter's Way is simply excellent. (I just can't get the opening theme out of my head the last couple of days.)
Does anyone know where to find/has anyone tracked down a good quality copy of the OST? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I looked around but sadly couldn't find much info.
I think it is incredible too. I have no idead where to get the soundtrack. I will keep looking though.
You like fireworks, boy? What do you say to a rocket...in your pocket?
Very often the less notes there is in a theme the stronger it sounds. This one's instantly memorable.
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I wholeheartedly agree, the score is an essential part of this film as it adds to the mood and tone, which is at once mysterious and melancholy. What is it he uses, a theremin?
shareSounds like a musical saw (a metal saw Played with a bow.)
shareThe credits mention Glass Harmonica and Zither. I am unfamiliar with Glass Harmonica, but a Zither is the main instrumemt used for the famous The Third Man score.
I DVR'd this movie last fall having never heard of it and was pleasantly surprised. I just rewatched it, and I would really like to have the score.
Does anyone know if it was released on vinyl or at all?
Are there MP3's floating around without the movie sounds - meaning not taken from a copy of the movie?
Maybe there is some kind of compilation at least the theme is on?
Unfortunately, there has never been any kind of soundtrack release. The only way to hear the music is from a clip like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FpKrKlzV_A
What a stunning score. What a deeply odd score, too, though; I've never heard anything quite like it. It almost could qualify for the soundtrack to a horror movie, with its unconventional instrumentation and outright dissonant, precariously see-sawing melody that seems to occupy a musical space somewhere between fantasy and insanity. Just watching the film for the first time, I recall, the introduction of that score at the beginning was enough to instill a sense of unease. The music fits the film like hand in glove: they both suggest a certain wistful yearning or nostalgia which conceals a reality far darker and more despairing than any character can bear to verbalize.