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An Inconvenient Truth
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0843041016520
Format: Soundtrack
Label: High Wire Music
Manufacturer: High Wire Music
MPN: HE5
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: High Wire Music
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Studio: High Wire Music
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Editorial Review:
Most documentaries suffer from generic soundtracks or the most rudimentary of scores, often cut by the director's friend. But then most of them don't have Michael Brook as composer. The guitarist is best known for his world fusion work with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and other Real World artists and his own ambient fusion releases like RockPaperScissors and Hybrid. It's the latter side that's tapped for Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, his dire documentation of Earth's warming and the government's inability to tackle the problem. Those themes dominate the film, but Gore's treatise is surrounded by personal reflections and autobiographical side trips. It's in these segments that most of Brook's music is used. He manages to be pastoral, reflecting Gore's Tennessee farm roots; and atmospheric, underscoring Gore's emotional personal journey. Plaintive guitars ("Katrina"), processed guitar washes ("Main Title--River View"), touches of ambient Americana ("How Could I Spend My Time?"), and even a bit of U2's quietly anthemic pulse ("Science") emerge. Some of the best tracks, like "Best Unsaid" and "Carte Noir," weren't even used in the film. This score works as individual songs, but even better as an album-length dip into a melodic, rustic ambience, a drift down an American river, where shadows lie around the bend and dark shoals are just beneath the surface. --John Diliberto
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Great Sound
The Inconvenient Truth in the SOUNDWAVE 360 VERSION played on my MP3 player sounds incredible. I have never experienced this type of sound in my headphones. Everyone has to hear it!
Rating: - News Has To Spread!
This soundtrack is so incredibly beautiful, word hopefully will spread about it as time goes on. The movie is such a marquee event, that many people do not know about this amazing piece of work. Please, do yourself a favor, get a copy of this thing. I come home often after a busy day and this cd just sets a wonderful mood. Thanks Michael Brook.
Rating: - Among the best soundtracks in 2006
After four years without a musical recording, Michel Brook came back in 2006 with no less than the musical backdrop to the fantastic documentary "An Inconvenient Truth". In the same vein as Mark Isham's latest work ("Crash"), the Toronto-born musical genius provides the perfect companion to this dramatic movie that presents us with a crude reality that we feel compelled to do something about.
Non-invasive in any way and mildly ethnic in certain respects, Brook's guitar/keyboard-based ... Read More
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