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So when I discovered the other day while browsing through Best Buy's music section that Hans Zimmer--who frequently collaborates with ace guitarists like Johnny Marr, Michael Brook and Heitor Pereira--enlisted Rodrigo y Gabriela as soloists and co-composers on his Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides score, I had to snap up the On Stranger Tides score CD right away.
All five of the On Stranger Tides album tracks that feature Rod y Gab are as excellent as I expected them to be. The highlight is, of course, when they tackle the Captain Jack Sparrow theme with the same gusto they've brought to their covers of Metallica's "Orion" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven."
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Love these guys! Never heard of them before getting the POTC score. Then I saw that "Hanuman" video and became a new fan! They really elevate the score and give it a distinctive voice in relation to the previous three.
ReplyDeleteYes, their sound really does elevate the score. I became a fan of Rod y Gab after watching their video for "Diablo Rojo" (an instrumental about a favorite rollercoaster of theirs) back in 2006. Seeing their name on the cover of the On Stranger Tides CD at Best Buy totally took me by surprise because I didn't know about their involvement in the movie.
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