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Solaris | 
| Artist: Cliff Martinez
Label: Phantom Sound & Vision
Category: Music
Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 128234
Format: Import, Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4029758469224
ASIN: B00008IHLL
Release Date: March 25, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Is That What Everybody Wants | | • | First Sleep | | • | Can I Sit Next to You | | • | Will She Come Back | | • | Death Shall Have No Dominion | | • | Maybe You're My Puppet | | • | Don't Blow It | | • | Hi Energy Proton Accelerator | | • | Wear Your Seat Belt | | • | Wormhole | | • | We Don't Have to Think Like That Anymore |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 61 more reviews...
 A crescendo of well-being January 2, 2008
Nicholas Casley (Plymouth, Devon, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised to find myself attracted to the soundtrack of this film, since its subtle weave does not announce itself with a blaze of trumpets. Rather, its gentle rocking was clearly in tune with the film, and perfectly matched the pinks and blues of the dreamy land- and soundscape unravelling on-screen.
I thought initially that I was listening to synthesised sounds, but it was another pleasure to find that a full symphonic orchestra was called upon to create these fantastic sounds. So, we have the full-orchestral accompaniment credited on the sleeve, from violins to tuba. There is some electronic input into the matrix, especially apparent in track 4, 'Will She Come Back'.
Much of the music consists of long sustained notes - some rising, some already on their plateau - that are punctuated by strong chords. Underneath, gentle gamelan and steel drum sounds provide a warm and insistent rhythm. You could claim this is New Age music (whatever that is) and it is true that the music can be enjoyed in its own right without the film.
The music instils in me feelings of wonder, of melancholy, of darkness and light, of tension and re-assurance, just like the movie. I also sensed a warm, slow, transcending movement - like a night train working its way through and across a darkened world. The gamelan/steel drum arrangement can appear prominent in places, such as in track 9, 'Wear Your Seatbelt', and when this happens the feel is of cold metal.
The music has its discordant moments, especially in the fifth track, 'Death Shall Have No Dominion', and I was reminded of some of the Ligeti soundtrack on "2001: A Space Odyssey"; but the discords are never so bad as to set the teeth on edge. The longest track out of the total 43 minutes, lasting almost eleven minutes, is track 8 'Hi Energy Proton Accelerator', where pulses of sustained chords become randomly (?) discordant, but th track concludes in a positive crescendo of well-being.
Just like you will feel when listeing to this world!
 Compelling soundtrack December 22, 2007
C. Marchand (Baton Rouge, LA)
Haunting, evocative and enjoyable soundtrack. One of the best I've ever heard, regardless of the movie.
One of the best CD's in my collection September 23, 2007
Russell Adam Clark (Bay Area, N.CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mysterious, a bit dark, melodic. Good stuff for driving, chillin at home or making love to your woman. Going to have to look for more Cliff Martinez stuff.
Music for a chilly twilight reverie June 1, 2007
William Timothy Lukeman
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of those rare soundtracks that can easily stand on its own, deeply moving even to those who haven't seen the film & have no emotional associations with it. It's not only music of the infinite heavens, it's music of the equally infinite inner world as well, a flowing & swelling of intense feeling, moving inexorably forward even as it plumbs the past. It embraces loneliness & beauty, longing & fulfillment, and carries the listener along in tides of piercing memories. It's music to make you contemplate your life, to bring tears of both loss & joy, to evoke love & regret. Highly recommended!
A Melancholy Solar Wind-Bath February 28, 2007
Christopher B. Murray (Portland, OR)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great soundtrack. It washes over you in warm, silvery waves. It is sad, eerie, and a bit haunting--but it is also sweet and quite beautiful despite the virtual absence of melody. Orchestral washes are interspersed with subdued steel-drum rhythms. The music feels comforting and intimate, as if you are being bathed by the musical equivalent of womb-fluids; but the music is also strange, as if the silvery womb-fluids were swashing through the abandoned halls of a space station at the cusp of comprehension. I advise you to soak in this sublime dream music.
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