The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep

Performer: Original Soundtrack/James Newton Howard
Engineer: Andrew Dudman
Producer: Daniel Lanois; James Newton Howard; Daniel Lanois; Jim Weidman
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Sin�ad O'Connor (vocals); John Parricelli (guitar); Skaila Kanga, Helen Tunstall (harp); Jean Kelly , Gr�inne Hambly, Triona Marshall (irish harp); Peter Lale (viola); Anthony Pleeth (cello); Karen Jones (flute); Nicholas Bucknail (clarinet, bass clarinet); David Theodore (oboe); Julie Andrews (bassoon); Ian Balmain (trumpet); Peter Davies (tenor trombone); Owen Slade (tuba); Richard Watkins (horns); Simon Chamberlain (piano, celesta); Chris Laurence (double bass); Tony Mangurian, Mike Smith (drums); Bill Lockhart (timpani); Frank Ricotti, Ray Cooper (percussion). Additional personnel: Sin�ad O'Connor, The Chieftains. Audio Mixers: Daniel Lanois; Richard Chappell. Recording information: EMI Abbey Road Studios, London, England; Sinead's house, Dublin, Ireland. The 2007 boy-and-his-monster film WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP features an appropriately enchanting score by composer James Newton Howard, who is renowned for his work on THE VILLAGE, BATMAN BEGINS, and KING KONG, among other blockbuster fare. Highlights of the soundtrack include Howard's beautiful orchestral pieces (see "Swimming" and "Saving Crusoe") and Sinead O'Connor's "Back Where You Belong," a dreamy tune commissioned specifically for the film. A children's fantasy like The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep gives free rein to James Newton Howard's most grandiose music impulses -- this kind of project is a perfect fit for the composer's over the top sentimentality and unabashed histrionics, and for all of its excess, it's one of his most creative and heartfelt scores. With its soaring strings, broad melodies, and lush Celtic instrumentation, The Water Horse luxuriates in a kind of mystical otherness essential to Howard's musical vision -- heroic strings, sledgehammer brass, and eruptions of percussion all vie for space in the overstuffed arrangements. Despite its sheer density, the score works: Howard summons a genuine sense of childlike wonder sure to override even the most jaded listener. ~ Jason Ankeny

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