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- CommentAuthorcinemediapromo
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK 2 CD SET DUE DECEMBER 10TH FROM WATERTOWER MUSIC
Featuring Original Music by Academy Award® Winner Howard Shore
With An Original Song I See Fire Performed by
GRAMMY Nominated Singer-Songwriter Ed Sheeran
2 CD Special Edition Soundtrack Also Available
(November 5, 2013 – Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music today announced details of the soundtrack to “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), the second in a trilogy of films by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The soundtrack will be released on December 10, 2013, three days before the December 13 release of the film, and will be available both digitally and as a 2 CD set. A Special Edition soundtrack, featuring twelve extended tracks, a bonus track, expanded liner notes and interactive sheet music will also be available. Fans will be able to preorder the album at both iTunes and Amazon on November 5.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features the music of Howard Shore, one of film music’s most respected, honored, and active composers and conductors. "I’m looking forward to introducing you to Smaug," exclaimed Shore, who previously worked with director Peter Jackson on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Jackson added, "Howard Shore's music soars and enriches way beyond its connection to our images, a unique sound like no other. He truly has created an epic musical world of his own. "
Shore’s music for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy has been performed in numerous concerts internationally. In 2003 he conducted the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings Symphony in Wellington, New Zealand. Since then, the work has been performed nearly 300 times by the world’s most prestigious orchestras, and has been the subject of a book, The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films: A Comprehensive Account of Howard Shore's Scores.
Howard Shore’s music for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy stands as his most towering achievement to date, garnering three Academy Awards® for his music for those films, two for Best Original Score, and one for Best Original Song. Shore has also won numerous other honors for his film work, including four Grammys and three Golden Globe Awards, the Career Achievement for Music Composition Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, New York Chapter’s Recording Academy Honors, ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Award, the Frederick Loewe Award and the Max Steiner Award from the city of Vienna. He holds honorary doctorates from Berklee College of Music and York University, and is an Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la France and the recipient of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award in Canada.
Included on the soundtrack is I See Fire, a new song created for the film by Ed Sheeran, the 22-year old British singer/songwriter and multi-platinum global phenomenon who was nominated in the prestigious “Song of the Year” category at this year’s 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Sheeran is also a two-time BRIT Award winner and recipient of the highly esteemed Ivor Novello award for best song musically and lyrically in the UK." “It was such an honor working with Peter Jackson on this song," Sheeran says. "Not only is he one of my favorite directors of my favorite films, The Hobbit was the first book I ever read as a child, so it means a lot that I get to produce music for the motion picture.”
Elaborating on the collaboration with Jackson, as well as filmmakers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, Sheeran stated, “I was allowed complete freedom to create what I thought was fitting for the film, which is very rare, and Peter, Fran and Philippa were always on hand to give notes and pointers. The entire team down in New Zealand was out of this world. The film is amazing, I'm still geeking out that I've done a song for a Peter Jackson film set in Middle-earth!”
"Ed Sheeran is a true Tolkien fan, and also happens to be a brilliant singer-songwriter,” offered Peter Jackson. I See Fire is Ed's emotional response to the film. It's perfect."
“It is an honor to once again work with the tremendous Howard Shore, who has created the musical voice of Peter Jackson’s iconic The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings films from the beginning,” stated WaterTower Music head Jason Linn. “And we are thrilled that the stars aligned for this collaboration with Ed Sheeran and his truly inspired original song for our soundtrack. WaterTower anticipates another exciting and successful soundtrack journey with these two exceptional musicians.”
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be released on December 10, 2013. The track list is as follows:
DISC 1
1. The Quest for Erebor
2. Wilderland
3. A Necromancer (Bonus Track) *
4. The House of Beorn **
5. Mirkwood **
6. Flies and Spiders **
7. The Woodland Realm **
8. Feast of Starlight
9. Barrels Out of Bond
10. The Forest River **
11. Bard, a Man of Lake-town **
12. The High Fells **
13. The Nature of Evil
14. Protector of the Common Folk
DISC 2
1. Thrice Welcome
2. Girion, Lord of Dale **
3. Durin's Folk **
4. In the Shadow of the Mountain
5. A Spell of Concealment **
6. On the Doorstep
7. The Courage of Hobbits
8. Inside Information
9. Kingsfoil
10. A Liar and a Thief
11. The Hunters **
12. Smaug **
13. My Armor Is Iron
14. I See Fire performed by Ed Sheeran
15. Beyond the Forest
* Bonus track available on Special Edition Soundtrack only
** Extended Versions of these songs Available on Special Edition Soundtrack only
From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” the second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The three films tell a continuous story set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
The screenplay for “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson also produced the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Philippa Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
Under Jackson’s direction, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” was shot in 3D 48 frames-per-second and will be released in High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D) in select theaters, other 2D and 3D formats, and IMAX®. Production took place at Jackson’s own facilities in Miramar, Wellington, and on location around New Zealand. Post production took place at Park Road Post Production in Wellington.
New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Present a WingNut Films Production, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” The film is a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television distribution being handled by MGM. www.thehobbit.net
WaterTower Music, the in house music label for Warner Bros., has been releasing recorded music since 2001. Distributed through InGrooves Fontana, WTM has released over 150 titles, including the film soundtracks to “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Gravity,” “Man of Steel,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Game of Thrones,” and “The Great Gatsby Jazz Recordings” among others.
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- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Does it include the 2-second cue as Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash? We MUST have that one. It's so crucial!I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Thor wrote
Does it include the 2-second cue as Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash? We MUST have that one. It's so crucial!
Howard Shore doesn't write two-second cues, you nit.
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- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
I think it may be a looped half-second cue.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorAtham
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Edmund Meinerts wrote
Thor wrote
Does it include the 2-second cue as Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash? We MUST have that one. It's so crucial!
Howard Shore doesn't write two-second cues, you nit.
That's right! This two second bonus cue "Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash" is in fact written by both PLAN 9 and David Long. Not Howard Shore as some were led to believe. -
- CommentAuthorDemetris
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Can't wait, loved the previous Hobbit score.Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders. -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Atham wrote
Edmund Meinerts wrote
Thor wrote
Does it include the 2-second cue as Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash? We MUST have that one. It's so crucial!
Howard Shore doesn't write two-second cues, you nit.
That's right! This two second bonus cue "Bilbo throws a piece of paper in the trash" is in fact written by both PLAN 9 and David Long. Not Howard Shore as some were led to believe.
Wasn't there also supposed to be a dance remix of the main theme by Kelvin Wheelbarrow and Brian Kilkline? As well as 3 unreleased alternate cuts of said remix? And a narrated version by Kilkline describing his thought processes as he worked?I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Brian asked me to add a comment here, since he's currently unable to post anything as his fingers have all been frozen together after an unfortunate incident with a margarine-obsessed fan from the Antipodes. He said that officially he is not allowed to comment on his involvement with this score, but that unofficially he is allowed to say that he wrote the big new theme for Red Adair, which is heard throughout all the sequences on Piper Alpha. -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013 edited
Mark Langdon wrote on FSM almost 2 years ago
No, unfortunately Brian hasn't been able to sign anything since he losts his hands in that unfortunate accident when his conducting baton somehow got mixed up with a stick of gelignite
Southall wrote on MT
Brian asked me to add a comment here, since he's currently unable to post anything as his fingers have all been frozen together after an unfortunate incident with a margarine-obsessed fan from the Antipodes.
How can his fingers be frozen together if he lost his hands? I hate it when these big labels make up sensational stories to try to sell records. Movie Wave Records won't be getting my business anymore and I'll be selling my copy of The Reasonable Horticulturalist to some less observant ebayer...as a fellow no-handed member of the film music community the original story of Brian's accident was the only reason I bought the album. Now with this new revelation, the "accidental recording" that used to have the power to bring me tears as I imagined Brian standing there waiting for his assistant to turn the cue pages for him, has become....
Sorry, my voice to text dictator ran out of batteries there. I don't remember what I was saying.I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorStavroula
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Demetris wrote
Can't wait, loved the previous Hobbit score.
Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better... -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Scribe, you're reading far too much into this. Brian wanted this to remain private but I don't think there's any choice but to reveal it now. When he lost his hands, surgeons were able to append his fingers onto his ears, allowing him to keep on playing the piano while his head was ducked towards the keys. It was when his biggest fan, Michael somebody from Sydney, chased him around the margarine packing plant that he fell, head first into the deep freezing cabinet. His fingers were of course covered in an ointment which the doctor had told him never to use if he was planning to go into subzero conditions since that could cause potentially irreversible finger freezing. And that's exactly what happened. People like you make me sick, throwing these unfounded allegations around. Brian needs your support now more than ever. -
- CommentAuthorfranz_conrad
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
:dA butterfly thinks therefore I am -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Me, I'm just wondering whether or not Smaug will be voiced by Michael Lonsdale again.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorCaptain Future
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013 edited
Peter Jackson has rejected Howard Shore's score. As a last minute replacement Hans Zimmer is currently reworking Leonard Rosenman's 1978 "Ring" score into contemporary bolck buster sound patterns. Recording will begin shortly at the vent of Mount Vesuvius. The final song will feature Ramstein.
V.Bach's music is vibrant and inspired. -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013 edited
Southall wrote
Scribe, you're reading far too much into this. Brian wanted this to remain private but I don't think there's any choice but to reveal it now. When he lost his hands, surgeons were able to append his fingers onto his ears, allowing him to keep on playing the piano while his head was ducked towards the keys. It was when his biggest fan, Michael somebody from Sydney, chased him around the margarine packing plant that he fell, head first into the deep freezing cabinet. His fingers were of course covered in an ointment which the doctor had told him never to use if he was planning to go into subzero conditions since that could cause potentially irreversible finger freezing. And that's exactly what happened. People like you make me sick, throwing these unfounded allegations around. Brian needs your support now more than ever.
I make you sick because I wasn't rich enough to pay for the surgery to have my fingers appended to my ears? Well, I'm sorry I'm not like you rich people in the music industry who get 50,000 pounds every time they write a review...
At least I know better than to feel any solidarity towards rich hacks like Brian, to whom losing their hands is barely even a sacrifice, and to think I actually enjoyed his music...
I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorSouthall
- CommentTimeNov 26th 2013
Yes, but it's 50,000 pounds of elastic bands, and that doesn't put food on the table, let me tell you.
Kilkline used to put food on my table - literally, he would carry the margarine from the kitchen using his ear-fingers. And now he can't even do that. I don't know where my next meal is coming from. -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeNov 27th 2013 edited
Surely you could sell the 50,000 pounds of elastic bands to some kind of...I don't know...company that bands lots of things. You lazy bastard. At least you have hands with which to type reviews and open up the packages of elastic bands and type up ebay listings to sell them. I can't do any of those things.
Oh um, also, The Hobbit. And Howard Shore. And...Eggs Benedict Cumberbund!I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
- CommentTimeNov 27th 2013
There will be no score at all. The cast sings and hums their way into Erebor. -
- CommentAuthorBobdH
- CommentTimeNov 29th 2013 edited
It's embarrassing how far into the Southal/Scribe exchange I was still thinking, "oh no, poor Brian!" (I fell halfway into it, bottom up), and "my English is apparantly not that good anymore to understand slang appropriately, cause I'm sure they're talking about something else here that makes total sense". -
- CommentAuthorScribe
- CommentTimeDec 1st 2013
When I went googling for my Kilkline backstory, I kept being told that he wasn't a real thing and that I meant someone else, its hard to get google to bring up that old FSM thread about our legendary friend with the most glorious album art ever created...I love you all. Never change. Well, unless you want to! -
- CommentAuthorStavroula
- CommentTimeDec 2nd 2013
By the way guys have you seen this?
It's very good and it was the first peek in the soundtrack!Whatever you gaze rests on,do not use your vision, but the eyes of your soul...She knows better... -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeDec 2nd 2013 edited
Grr. That map makes "Bywater" and "Buckland" look like the names of rivers, rather than locales in the Shire. And Weathertop looks like a region rather than a single hill. And where the heck have they placed Helm's Deep?!
As someone with an unhealthy interest in fantasy geography, THIS IRKS ME. 
Otherwise, cool. Kind of like a Google Middle Earth.
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- CommentAuthorJim Ware
- CommentTimeDec 2nd 2013
Musically everything on that site is from Fellowship of the Ring - interestingly only cues that were performed by the NZSO. -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
I just came back from the film.
There were some good things and some bad things. I miss the reliance on slower tempo and mood from the first film, but at the same time it's tighter, story-wise, and balances the comedy element more delicately throughout.
The score, however, is HUGELY disappointing. I didn't like the first one that much either, except the "Misty Mountains" theme, but this one doesn't even have that. It looms and dooms and drones and screams like only Shore at his worst can do. I wouldn't have touched this soundtrack even if they had created a tight, 50-minute program out of it. I do not envy those who have to go through the torturous 2CD set.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorSynchrotones
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
Been listening to the deluxe edition this morning.
It's not easy.www.synchrotones.wordpress.com | www.synchrotones.co.uk | @Synchrotones | facebook | soundcloud | youtube -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
Synchrotones wrote
It's not easy.
Here's a weird question maybe: then why do it?
I listened to the regular release, and -like Thor- thought the lack of one (or more) overarching 'coat hanger' themes like Misty Mountains fatally hurt the score. I do enjoy the tone and feel of it, and I suspect it supports the film very well.
But on CD it's simply not very interesting.
As this discussion rears its head every once so often, it's probably worth pointing out that to me a theme is not three notes here and there, or the suggestion of a motif simply because these three notes are once repeated.
Princess Leia's Theme is a theme. The Raiders March is a theme. The James Bond Theme is a theme.
Nothing in The Desolation of Smaug is a theme to those standards.
The Desolation of Smaug will be the first Rings-saga soundtrack that will find no place on my iPod.
And I'm saying that with some regret.'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorThor
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013 edited
Martijn wrote
I listened to the regular release, and -like Thor- thought the lack of one (or more) overarching 'coat hanger' themes like Misty Mountains fatally hurt the score. I do enjoy the tone and feel of it, and I suspect it supports the film very well..
Actually, it doesn't really do that either, IMO. It's just.....there. It's not out-of-place or anything, but it doesn't add anything at all beyond doom and gloom. There were one or two brief cameos of the Shire theme, but that's it. It's truly an awful, awful score, IMO (and I'm not usually that tough on things). It reminds me why Shore has never been a favourite composer of mine, and why the LOTR scores stand out as rare beacons of light in his filmography.I am extremely serious. -
- CommentAuthorMartijn
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
Hah! That's odd!
As an album it certainly seemed very coherent! Much more so in fact than the An Unexpected Journey score.
I'm really curious to experience it in the film now!'no passion nor excitement here, despite all the notes and musicians' ~ Falkirkbairn -
- CommentAuthorSynchrotones
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
Martijn wrote
Here's a weird question maybe: then why do it?
Because I'm curious.
And an idiot, but let's not go there.
www.synchrotones.wordpress.com | www.synchrotones.co.uk | @Synchrotones | facebook | soundcloud | youtube -
- CommentAuthorEdmund Meinerts
- CommentTimeDec 10th 2013
Martijn wrote
As this discussion rears its head every once so often, it's probably worth pointing out that to me a theme is not three notes here and there, or the suggestion of a motif simply because these three notes are once repeated.
Princess Leia's Theme is a theme. The Raiders March is a theme. The James Bond Theme is a theme.
Nothing in The Desolation of Smaug is a theme to those standards.
I guess you could differentiate between longer "themes" and shorter "motifs" - Shore has always tended more towards the latter than the former with his Middle-earth scores, but in the original trilogy at least there were a number of more prominent, long-lined proper themes that lent themselves to satisfying performances. An Unexpected Journey had plenty of motifs (new and recurring) but I'd argue only two real themes were "Misty Mountains" and his new Bilbo theme that was annoyingly cut out of much of the film in favor of tracked-in Shire stuff. If the former is absent from Desolation of Smaug then that is, indeed, a disappointment.
On the other hand, I also really enjoy the way Shore meticulously uses his minor motifs. I'm the kind of person who loves to listen through the entire Complete Recordings while reading along in Doug Adams' book. So perhaps I'm just more naturally forgiving of Shore's music because this is a series that I'm invested in like no other.
Grrr, I wish I could join in these discussions properly but I simply can't listen to the score until I've watched the movie, and that won't be until Saturday.