This is not the 46 minute original soundtrack release from 1983 - which contains barely half the music in the film.

This is not the 73 minute re-recording from 1998 - which is a much softer performance. [ Posted by Yannis here - Thread 125330 ]

This is not the 76 minute "complete original soundtrack" from 2009 - which is not complete. [ Philip Glass: Music: Koyaanisqatsi (complete original soundtrack) (http://www.philipglass.com/music/recordings/Koyaanisqatsi-09.php) ]

This is an 85 minute, truly complete presentation of the music in the film - taken from a 448kbps AC3 DVD rip and transcoded to FLAC. There is, of course, no dialogue.





[Note that those frames are 4:3. This is how the film was shot. If you watch this in widescreen, you are missing a significant fraction of the visuals that are the whole point. Seek out the "Premium Edition" (http://torrentz.eu/8aeaf90c80d7d87e0e8754f03357d1717234ce89) that preserves the original aspect ratio.]


Philip Glass' score for Godfrey Reggio's 1983 film Koyaanisqatsi comes from one of his most fertile creative periods, soon after Satyagraha and about five years after Einstein on the Beach, and it contains some of his most immediately appealing music. For listeners who are not likely to wade into one of his huge operas, Koyaanisqatsi's manageable dimensions make it an ideal introduction to Glass' work (if there is in fact anyone out there who has not yet been introduced to it) because many of its sections are so memorably distinctive. The opening, with a broadly amplified very low bass intoning the film's title (which means "life out of balance" in Hopi) while the orchestra weaves an apocalyptically menacing web is one of Glass' most unforgettable inventions. The ululating chorus of mixed voices, "Vessels," at first unaccompanied, and then joined by the throbbing of instruments, is a marvel of open-throated lyricism that should dispel any stereotypical misconceptions of Glass as a rigidly mechanistic technician. ...

Glass' ensemble, as always, performs with mind-boggling discipline and soulful commitment, and because of the darkly pessimistic tone of the film, with a stark and sobering gravity. His use of a large ensemble of orchestral instruments, as well as the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, along with electronic instruments, allows him a wide palette, ranging from the warm of human voices to the high-tech pulsing of synthesizers.- AllMusic (http://www.allmusic.com/album/koyaanisqatsi-life-out-of-balance-original-soundtrack-mw0000651297)



Conductor: Michael Riesman
Voice of "Koyaanisqatsi": Albert de Ruiter
Chorus: The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble
Keyboards: Michael Riesman
Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet: Jack Kripl
Saxophone: Jon Gibson / Richard Peck
Saxophone, Bass Clarinet: Bob Mintzer
Piccolo, Flute: Tom Nyfenger
Trumpet: Lew Soloff / Charles Lewis / Lowell Hershey / Mark Gould / Allan Dean
French Horn: Sharon Moe / Peter Gordon / Russell Rizner / Brooks Tillotson / Albert Richmond
Trombone: Bob Smith / Keith O'Quinn
Bass Trombone: George Flynn
Trombone: James Pugh
Tuba: Warren Deck / Samuel Pilafian
Viola: Jill Jaffe / Sue Pray / Theodore Israel / Jean Dane
Cello: Seymour Barab / Beverley Lauridsen / Kermit Moore / Frederick Zlotkin
Bass: John Beal / John Bongiorno

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oh this is ... thank you!! huge glass fan, and especially this score...

whaouuu ! My fav' !! Please pm and thank you for sharing !

Excellent work!
Thank you very much for the link.

Thanks for sharing ribonucleic. Is there a .cue file to break the score down into individual tracks?

Is there a .cue file to break the score down into individual tracks?

Afraid not. But since the music plays continuously through the film, you could argue that there is only the one track. :)

PM please, both my wife and I are keen Glassphiles as we saw the great man in concert just after we got engaged. :-)

Wow amazing, please may I have link, thank you in advance :-)

Thank you very much. I'm sure it will enjoy me.

While playing with the individual channels of the DVD-A disc's 5.1 LPCM track, I was shocked to find that the opening title was rippable without vocals and loving it as much as the complete track, I felt compelled to post it along with the isolated vocals (the time codes for the vocals are 0:29, 1:26 and 2:25): KOYAANISQATSI-ISOLATEDTRACKS.rar (http://www.mediafire.com/?f851cu4bk2br5rs) Both tracks are presented in 96k/24bit FLAC. Enjoy!

BTW: Ribonucleic (I was tempted to type acid ^.^) is right. 4:3 IS the way to go with this. I bought the Bluray simply for the increased quality of the HD image and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track but I will definitely be hanging on to my 4:3 disc.

Thanks for your share.

thank you!

Link received and downloaded. Thank-you very much, this is one of my top 10 movies.

Thank you for the link !!

Thank you.

thanks

Link received. Many thanks!

I would be thrilled to have the links to this wonderful music... and in it's entirety !! Thanks.