The Revenant (soundtrack)

The Revenant: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner
Released December 25, 2015
Recorded
Genre Film score
Length 70:43
Label Milan Records
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The Revenant: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is a soundtrack album for the 2015 film, The Revenant, composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto with additional music by Bryce Dessner. It was released digitally on December 25, 2015, and on CD on January 8, 2016 by Milan Records.

Overview

In September 2015, Japanese musician[1] Ryuichi Sakamoto was announced as the composer for director Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant.[2] The two originally came in contact with each other after Iñárritu used songs of Sakamoto's in his 2006 film Babel.[3] Following a year-long professional hiatus in 2014 after being diagnosed with a type of throat cancer, Sakamoto's work on The Revenant marked his return to the industry despite still being in the middle of recovery.[4][5] In October 2015, it was revealed that Alva Noto (the stage name for Carsten Nicolai) and The National's Bryce Dessner would join Sakamoto in scoring the film.[6] Alva Noto, a frequent collaborator of Sakamoto's, was brought in personally by Sakamoto due to his concerns of health and fulfilling the scope of the score.[7] "What reason I called Carsten was simply, physically, the amount of music for this film is just gigantic," said Sakamoto in an interview with Rolling Stone "And naturally Alejandro wants acoustic music, like strings or whatever and very, um, edgy electronic music. Processed music. So it seemed very naturally to call Carsten you know?"[8]

Primary scoring sessions with Sakamoto took place throughout October 2015 at Bastyr Chapel's Seattlemusic Scoring Stage in Seattle.[9][10]

Milan Records released the soundtrack album digitally on December 25, 2015 and on CD on January 8, 2016.[11] While the soundtrack album features the music composed specifically for the film, there are many contemporary compositions featured in the film.[12]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Arts Desk[13]
éclat[14]
Consequence of Sound(favorable)[15]
NPR(favorable)[16]
Pitchfork Media7.3/10[17]
Soundtrack Dreams100%[18]
Soundtrack Geek100%[19]

The musical score has received positive reviews.

Writing for New York magazine, Justin Davidson compared Sakamoto's score to the contemporaneous score by Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight, stating: "Iñárritu made a completely different choice of composer: Ryuichi Sakamoto, who came to film from a career in experimental electronics... Sakamoto's is the more successful score. Both films slouch toward inevitable spasms of bloodshed, with long pensive stretches in between... Sakamoto slowly progresses through glacial chords that build toward a fortissimo horizon... The score doesn't so much follow the action here as lead it, urging the fighters on, even as it registers their single-minded lunacy."[20]

Track listing

No. TitleArtist(s) Length
1. "The Revenant Main Theme"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 2:41
2. "Hawk Punished"  Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner 2:14
3. "Carrying Glass"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 3:07
4. "First Dream"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 3:05
5. "Killing Hawk"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 3:49
6. "Discovering River"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 1:11
7. "Goodbye to Hawk"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 3:41
8. "Discovering Buffalo"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 2:43
9. "Hell Ensemble"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 2:38
10. "Glass and Buffalo Warrior Travel"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 1:51
11. "Arriving at Fort Kiowa"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 1:21
12. "Church Dream"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 2:38
13. "Powaqa Rescue"  Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner 5:35
14. "Imagining Buffalo"  Bryce Dessner 2:39
15. "The Revenant Theme 2"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 1:54
16. "Second Dream"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 1:13
17. "Out of Horse"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 3:57
18. "Looking for Glass"  Bryce Dessner 2:51
19. "Cat & Mouse"  Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner 5:42
20. "The Revenant Main Theme Atmospheric"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 2:50
21. "Final Fight"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Bryce Dessner 6:35
22. "The End"  Ryuichi Sakamoto 2:16
23. "The Revenant Theme (Alva Noto Remodel)"  Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto 4:00

Personnel

Production
Management
  • Christine Bergren – music clearance and legal
  • Merle Scheske – orchestra manager
  • Jon Schluckerbier – stage manager
  • Dave West – stage manager
Orchestration
  • Hildur Guðnadóttir – cello
  • Daniel Orthey, Gunnar Kötke, David Gutfleisch, Felix Ernst – Frantic Percussion Ensemble
  • Motoko Oya – ondes Martenot
  • Alex Petchu – additional percussion
  • Aart Strootman – music preparation
  • Stephen Feigenbaum – music preparation
  • Audrey DeRoche – score supervisor
Technical
  • Martin Hernández – music editor
  • Joseph S. Debeasi – music editor
  • Richard Henderson – music editor
  • Steven Saltzman – music editor
  • Curt Sobel – music editor
  • Terry Wilson – music editor
  • Conrad Hensel – score recordist/score mixer
  • Alec Fellman – production manager/assistant engineer
  • Jonathan Feurich – recording engineer (Hamburg)
  • Zak – recording engineer (Tokyo)
  • Alex Venguer – recording engineer (New York)
  • Kiyoharu Terada – assistant engineer (Tokyo)
  • Nick S.S. Banns – assistant engineer (New York)
  • Fernando Aponte – consulting engineer (New York)
  • Kaz Tsujio – piano technician (New York)
  • Yoshie May – piano technician (Los Angeles)
  • Takeshi Sakai – piano technician (Tokyo)
  • Hiroaki Mizutani – piano technician (Tokyo)
  • Scott Smith – score mixer
  • Conrad Hansel – scoring engineer
  • Kory Kruckenberg – Protools engineer
  • John Winters – second engineer
  • Eduardo De La Paz Canel – Protools operator
  • Tom Russbuelot – recording engineer

Additional music

Additional music credited in The Revenant:[21]

Title Musician(s) Key scenes/Notes
"Arikara Elder" Chesley Wilson Sung by actor Chesley Wilson at the tail end of the Arikara ambush.
"Qilyuan" John Luther Adams Plays at the start of the Arikara ambush.
"Become Ocean" John Luther Adams Plays during the Arikara ambush. Adam's musical movement was also featured in the film's first official teaser trailer.[22]
"Haloid Xerrox Copy 11" Alva Noto
"Xerrox Spiegel" Alva Noto Plays as Hugh Glass leaves his son and heads west.
"Haloid Xerrox Copy 1" Alva Noto
"Xerrox Spark" Alva Noto
"Jetsun Mila (Excerpt)" Éliane Radigue
"The Place Where You Go to Listen" John Luther Adams
"Miss McLeod's Reel" Michael Fraser, Scott Duncan
"Harakiri Opening (from Harakiri – Death of a Samurai)" Ryuichi Sakamoto
"Messiaen: Oraison" Olivier Messiaen Plays as Glass emerges from the dead horse. This music was later incorporated into Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps.
"Taboos" Ryuichi Sakamoto
"Glacier" Ryuichi Sakamoto, Skúli Sverrisson, Ren Takada
"Stoukur" Hildur Guðnadóttir
"Op.1-1" Ryoji Ikeda
"Duoon" Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto
"Viisari" Vladislav Delay
"Lachrimae" Bryce Dessner
"Viaton" Vladislav Delay
"Whitten" Hildur Guðnadóttir

Charts

Chart (2016) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[23] 154

References

  1. ↑ "Famous Japanese & Foreigners In Japan: Ryuichi Sakamoto". JapanVisitor. GoodsFromJapan KK. Archived from the original on January 31, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ryuichi Sakamoto Scoring Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s ‘The Revenant’". Film Music Reporter. September 29, 2015. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Carter, Spike (December 29, 2015). "The Revenant Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Explains His Process". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Josiah (September 29, 2015). "Ryuichi Sakamoto Scoring 'The Revenant'". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  5. ↑ Saxelby, Ruth (December 4, 2015). "In Conversation With The All-Knowing Ryuichi Sakamoto". The Fader. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  6. ↑ Coultate, Aaron (October 20, 2015). "Alva Noto joins Ryuichi Sakamoto on The Revenant score". Resident Advisor. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  7. ↑ Greiving, Tim (December 23, 2015). "In 'The Revenant,' A Return From Death's Door — Onscreen And Off". NPR Music. NPR. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher (December 17, 2015). "Ryuichi Sakamoto Details 'Gigantic' Score to 'Birdman' Director's 'The Revenant'". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on January 1, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  9. ↑ "THE REVENANT Seattle Scoring Session". Celebrity Images. October 20, 2015. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  10. ↑ "The Revenant (2015) Production Credits". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ Minsker, Evan (December 2, 2015). "The National's Bryce Dessner Shares "Imagining Buffalo" From The Revenant Soundtrack". Pitchfork Media. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  12. ↑ van Cooten, Peter (January 18, 2016). "Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto with Bryce Dessner – The Revenant OST". ambientblog.net. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  13. ↑ Muggs, Joe (January 9, 2016). "CD: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - The Revenant Original Soundtrack". The Arts Desk. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  14. ↑ Bothe, Oliver (January 8, 2016). "Rezension: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner The Revenant OST". éclat (in German). Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  15. ↑ Kivel, Adam (January 5, 2016). "Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto feat. Bryce Dessner – The Revenant OST". Consequence of Sound. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  16. ↑ Moon, Tom (December 30, 2015). "Review: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto & Bryce Dessner, 'The Revenant'". NPR. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  17. ↑ Corcoran, Nina (January 4, 2016). "Various Artists: The Revenant OST". Pitchfork Media. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  18. ↑ Manduteanu, Mihnea (December 2015). "Soundtrack review: The revenant (Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto and Bryce Dessner – 2015)". Soundtrack Dreams. A small measure of peace. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  19. ↑ Tillnes, Jørn (December 31, 2015). "Soundtrack Review: The Revenant". Soundtrack Geek. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  20. ↑ Davidson, Justin (December 27, 2015). "Reviewing the Scores of 2015’s Celebrated Films". Vulture. New York. Archived from the original on January 27, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
  21. ↑ "The Revenant - Song Credits". Soundtrack.Net. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  22. ↑ "John Luther Adams' Become Ocean featured in Iñárritu's Revenant trailer". The Bang On A Can Sound. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original on January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2016.
  23. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Soundtrack / Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto – The Revenant" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved January 30, 2016.

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