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Beautiful music not in the OST

posted 12 years ago by Gregos
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Hello everybody,

There is this very nice and calm piece of music that is heard when Bridges drives the lonely road to meet Rachel Ward at her beach house, before he gets his plane (he thinks...). It's somewhere like 20 minutes after the beginning : Bridges packs his suitcases in his hotel room, then Ward enters and offers him to visit her house "in the best part of the island" (or something like this). The music then appears, sounding like a tintinabulum of small metal bars, with bits of acoustic guitar and some beautiful layers of electric guitar. Bridge's car then pass under palm trees, he stops, enter Ward's house, and the music disappear. The best music of the movie for me ; each time I watch it I rewind this scene 10 times, just for the great feeling it gives with the images. A shame it's not in the soundtrack. Anyone knows what tune it is ? Maybe it existed before the film ? Where can it be found ? Thanks !

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[–] grumpyoldguy1 8 years ago

All of the original, incidental music you describe is simply credited to Michael Columbier and Larry Carlton. I wished, like you, that all those good bits were included in the soundtrack, but they were not. Probably considered too brief to bother with (usually called "cues"), but I would have loved to have them expanded. Might be worth listening to some other work by these two artists. There might be something similar at least. The nearest I've found is a piece by Carlos Santana titled, "Bella."