Thomas Newman Original Motion Picture Score - American Beauty - A Sam Mendes Film (LP, colored Vinyl)

(Real Gone Music) 19 tracks, on blood-red rose vinyl

With 14 Oscar nominations, seven Grammy awards and an Emmy, Thomas Newman has a track record unparalleled among modern film composers (and even in his family, which is saying a lot considering he is the son of Alfred, the brother of David and the cousin of Randy Newman)! But of all his Academy Award-nominated scores to such classics as The Shawshank Redemption, Wall-E, Finding Nemo, Saving Mr. Banks and The Road to Perdition, his score to the 1999 Academy Award-winning Best Picture American Beauty (the first of his many collaborations with director Sam Mendes) remains his most distinctive. That's because Newman made the bold decision to compose a score consisting almost entirely of percussion instruments. He had a brilliant sense that the lack of melodic resolution in the film's themes would reflect and reinforce what he called the “moral ambiguity” of the script. The result was a haunting and wholly original score that anyone who has seen the film will immediately recognize. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to present this brilliant work on blood-red, pink vinyl to match the original album cover (here for the first time on a vinyl release) and the film's harrowing ending!