Released 2005 Length 42:23 Artists Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Genre Film music Producers Nick Cave, Warren Ellis | Recorded 2005 Label Mute Release date 27 September 2005 Movie The Proposition | |
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The Proposition
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The Proposition is a soundtrack recorded by Nick Cave in collaboration with Warren Ellis, and was produced for the film The Proposition, released in October 2005. At the 2005 AFI Awards it won Best Original Music Score for Cave and Ellis.
Contents
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Music style
This album is instrumentally focused, and is a departure from Cave's band-oriented compositions. All tracks are directly reproduced from the musical interludes in the film, and feature little alteration from the film score. Many songs on the album are slow-tempo and ballad-like, and the violin work of Warren Ellis becomes the central voice of the album for much of the time. Cave's unusual vocal performances on the "Rider" trilogy of songs brings a particularly haunting and uneasy tone to the album.
Track listing
- "Happy Land" (trad.) – 1:36
- "The Proposition #1" – 3:24
- "Road to Banyon" – 1:40
- "Down to the Valley" – 3:48
- "Moan Thing" – 2:46
- "The Rider #1" – 1:15
- "Martha's Dream" (Cave, Ellis, Mick Turner, Jim White) – 3:07
- "Gun Thing" – 4:28
- "Queenie's Suite" (Cave, Ellis, Turner, White) – 3:30
- "The Rider #2" – 2:59
- "The Proposition #2" – 2:42
- "Sad Violin Thing" – 0:50
- "The Rider #3" – 1:08
- "The Proposition #3" – 2:59
- "The Rider Song" – 2:30
- "Clean Hands. Dirty Hands" (trad., Cave, Ellis) – 3:34
Awards
Songs
1Happy Land1:37
2The Proposition #13:25
3Road to Banyon1:40