Thin Red Line - 01 - The Corall Atol

composed by Hans Zimmer
additional music by Klaus Badelt & John Powell
conducted and compiled by Gavin Greenaway
orchestrated by Bruce Fowler & Yvonne S. Moriarty


featured musicians:
Harp: Ellie Choate, Katie Kirkpatrick, & Marcia Dickstein
Concert Master: Endre Granat
Shakahachi Flute: Daniel Kuramoto
Koto: June Kuramoto
Cosmic Beam: Francesco Lupica
Taiko Drums, Tibetan Bowls & Vocal Chants: Johnny Mori
Bassoon: Ken Munday
Taiko Drums, Tibetan Bowls & Tibetan Bells: Emil Richards
Taiko Drums & Tibetan Bells: Danny Yamamoto


Released: Jan 12, 1999
℗ 1999, BMG Entertainment


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Enjoy!!!

[suzannestoke-sanders]

Nevers seen a war movie as gripping and gritty as this. My grandad would be proud. Difference is the others were emotional explosions...this movie burnt senses and ignited hearts. Isn't war truthfully about death but beauty in human nature. The power to actually love a brother/nation for the greater good. Does this even exist anymore. Regardless...absoloute genius of a movie. E kotias should have won an Oscar.

[robwall]

In my opinion, Hans Zimmer should have won the Oscar for this score.

[nuretdinkaymakci]

It is the best war movie ever made. Terence Malik and hans Zimmer are genious. I have watched it more than 20 times and never enough.

[nicolasjumeaucourt]

Probably one of the most beautiful OST from Hans Zimmer

[MrMusique]

The best ever music soundtrack i've ever heard. I do listen to it over and over for years. The music reflects like in the movie every philosophical spheres of men realisations and destiny. Awsome...

[alessiogiovanninegri]

This piece has the characteristic of being timeless and resonates an infinite homesickness.

[zachary]

What a masterpiece. I love this movie so much... so much...

[louislaser]

Une des plus belles musiques de film que je connaisse pour un chef d’œuvre de Malick. Indémodable.

[welshparamedic]

goosebumps when you listen to the whole soundtrack, Zimmer is a genius!

[tsotighguy]

I've listened to this track too much lol & recently upgraded headphones. In doing so, I heard someone in the orchestra's watch alarm beep around the 5:02 mark and now I can't unhear it lol.

[DukeJon]

All they sacrificed for me. Poured out like water on the ground. All I might have given for love's sake. Too late. Dying. Slow as a tree.

[dmauk]

If you are looking for that haunting refrain that sets the soul into some beautiful, yet uneasy and hyper-vigilant, sturm und drang hovering 3 or 4 metres above the plane of the ecliptic: it is here.

[togarionbaremmon]

One of my favorite films of all time, easily!

[zinjanthropus]

He was in tune with the forces of nature when he composed this.

[dannyspitzer]

My favorite movie soundtracks:
1. Jaws
2. The Thing
3. The Thin Red Line
4. The Shining

[nckweeks]

Brilliant! The film was good but without the excellent soundtrack it wouldn't have been as complete.

[Autostade]

Yes - it's risky or sloppy to compare this film with 'Saving Private Ryan'; as they take place in different theatres of war (Europe & the Pacific), so too are they set within different sensibilities. 'Ryan' is about a tangible, material morality/ethos ('Earn this", "Every man I kill takes me farther from home.") and is a philosophical treatise - in plain speak - on the socio-historical meaning of sacrifice. Like 'The Tree of Life", "To the Wonder", and "Knight of Cups" to some extent, "The Thin Red Line" is a essentially a 'religious' film, for which Malick uses Guadalcanal as a context to ruminate on his perennial artistic theme: an energetic yet static transcendence ["Grace"] displaced by a kind of spiritual vanity ["Evil", flux - in "The Tree of Life", evolution itself seems to be blinded by this flux, incapable of settling into grace]. To play one off the other - a film snob's parlour game - is to miss the point. What we have is two of the best films made about WW 2 happening to come along in the same year.

[efizzle]

There is actually a musician from the 70s who made his own instruments to make the same sounds as this track. He was Hans Zimmer inspiration for the style of the TRD soundtrack. Anyone know his name? There is a video of him on YouTube on some television show from the 77 or 78 where he uses the instruments to make that a, among sound like the intro of this track.

[Polpivtifish]

Please tell me this won the Oscar for best soundtrack...

[kateydog]

4:33
Eos Rododaktulos, rosy fingered dawn.