Pola X (soundtrack)

Pola X is the soundtrack album to Léos Carax's film of the same name composed, and produced by the American solo artist Scott Walker. The soundtrack also includes contributions from Smog, Sonic Youth, Fairuz, Nguyên Lê, and M. Luobin Wang. It was released on 17 May 1999. It was Walker's first full soundtrack.

The soundtrack was recorded in Paris at Studios Davout, and in London at Lansdowne Recording Studio and Air Studios. Receiving positive reviews the soundtrack album was released in May 1999 on CD in France and Japan. The majority of Walker's compositions were later included on the fifth disc of Walker's 2003 boxset compilation 5 Easy Pieces.

Walker followed his scoring work on Pola X with scores for dance performances, namely 2007's And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? for the London-based CandoCo Dance Company and ROH2 production's performances of Jean Cocteau’s Duet for One in 2011. Prior to the soundtrack, Walker already had a long history of performing songs from films and contributing songs to soundtracks, most notably 1969's "The Rope and the Colt" for Une corde, un colt, 1971's "I Still See You" for The Go-Between, 1993's "Man from Reno" for Toxic Affair, and 1999's "Only Myself to Blame" for The World Is Not Enough OST.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Pola X received mixed to positive reviews by the majority of critics.

Track listing

All tracks performed and written by Scott Walker except where otherwise noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Time Is Out Of Joint!"		1:08
2.	"Light"		3:20
3.	"Meadow"		2:09
4.	"The Darkest Forest"		5:42
5.	"Extra Blues" (Performed by Smog)	Bill Callahan	6:03
6.	"Never Again"		1:26
7.	"Iza Kana Zanbi" (Performed by Fairuz)	Assy Rahbany, Mansour Rahbany	8:53
8.	"Trang Mo Ben Suo" (Performed by Nguyên Lê)	M.Le Mong N'Guyen	1:15
9.	"Zai Na Yao Yuan De Di Fang" (Performed by M. Luobin Wang)	M. Luobin Wang	0:59
10.	"Church Of The Apostles"		5:53
11.	"Bombupper"		1:39
12.	"River Of Blood"		1:22
13.	"Blink" (Performed by Sonic Youth)	Sonic Youth	5:21
14.	"Running"		1:56
15.	"Closing"		1:49
16.	"Isabel"		6:51

Personnel

Jean-Claude Dubois - Orchestra Direction
Geoff Foster - Mixing
Paris Philharmonic Orchestra
Brian Gascoigne - Orchestration
Scott Walker - Producer

References

↑ Allmusic review

External links

Pola X at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

Scott Walker

Discography

Studio albums	Scott Scott 2 Scott 3 Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series Scott 4 'Til the Band Comes In The Moviegoer Any Day Now Stretch We Had It All Climate of Hunter Tilt The Drift Bish Bosch Soused (with Sunn O))))

With The Walker Brothers	Take It Easy with The Walker Brothers Introducing the Walker Brothers Portrait The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore Images No Regrets Lines Nite Flights

Soundtracks	Pola X And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball?

Compilations	Fire Escape in the Sky: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker Scott Walker Sings Jacques Brel Boy Child: The Best of Scott Walker 1967–1970 No Regrets – The Best of Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers 1965–1976 5 Easy Pieces

Singles	Solo John/Solo Scott (EP) "Jackie" "Joanna" "The Rope and the Colt" "Lights of Cincinnati" "I Still See You" "The Me I Never Knew" "Delta Dawn" "Track Three" "Man from Reno"

Related artists	Jacques Brel Johnny Franz Peter Knight Ute Lemper Pulp The Routers John Stewart Wally Stott The Walker Brothers Gary Walker John Walker Peter Walsh

Related articles	"Deadlier Than the Male" "The Electrician" "Nite Flights" Scott Walker: 30 Century Man We Love Life

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