LORD OF WAR AK 47 SONG MOVIE
He eschews the pizzicato strings of cheap humor and scores the weirdly comedic movie about an arms dealer by coloring the locales and bringing an aura of tiredness and dysphoria to the music. You can probably look forward to hearing more of the Moroccan violin in at least four different movies in 2006 before it makes its way into three different TV series in 2007, after which it will probably be sitting on a shelf, somewhere, accumulating dust right next to tired Middle Eastern female vocalists smoking cigarettes and talking about the good old days.Īntonio Pinto does a fine job crafting a subtle and melancholic score that doesn't seem like much on the surface but which is intriguing enough to warrant repeat listens.
Regardless, this scratchy North African string instrument with an obstinate sound that keeps screaming in wave is a welcome distraction from that battery of by-now clichéd "world instruments", like the duduk and the ney. Maybe it is, but it has some other name that I'm not aware of.
To my ears, it sounds like a Moroccan fiddle. I want to say that Lord of War makes beautiful use of a sadly under-represented instrument, the Moroccan violin, but I might be stepping on a mine. You might come out without a scratch on your body, or one of those mothers might just blow half of your face away, and then you'll look like an idiot (not to mention what happens to whatever's in that stroller). Reviewing a score that complements the traditional Western orchestra with so-called "world instruments" without having access to liner notes is sort of like taking a walk with a stroller down a mine field.