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The sheltering sky analysis6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() An excellent album that can easily be recommended for more than just soundtrack aficionados. The local source music, too, adds to this, giving the album a grounding in the real world that completes the overall structure. ![]() Where Sakamoto easily sketches panorama with his music, Horowitz sketches in mystery. It is unclear whether this is intentional or accidental, but i believe personally that it was suicide. In its interior aspect, The Sheltering Sky is an allegory of the spiritual adventure of the fully conscious person into modern experience. Horowitz' part in this is in stepping away from traditional Western scoring and using Middle Eastern elements for score structures - something that's very effective indeed on "Fever Ride" with its blend of Moroccan and Spanish elements. The cook ends up blowing himself up in the trailer. The diversity thus makes for a more interesting album than might have been had from variations on the main minor-key "Sheltering Sky" theme (presented here in orchestrated and piano-based versions.) It also breaks away from the sound of Sakamoto's recordings, strong material that suffers from a certain digital harshness in the strings. The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles is a story of innocents abroad in an unfamiliar land. Part of the reason for the variation is that only twelve of the album's 21 tracks are by Sakamoto - several are source music, others were composed by Richard Horowitz. ![]() ![]() A varied soundtrack album that manages to weave in a little variation from the traditional type of motion picture scoring indulged in here by Sakamoto. ![]()
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