The “Inception” soundtrack details are obviously already out there and now Amazon has snippets of the 12-track score by Hans Zimmer for those that want a teaser of what the music will sound like. It’s pretty bold, operatic, thrilling and grand-sounding, and even reminds us of shades of Kubrick at first (there’s also a few “techno” like moments that will probably sound better in context).
Johnny Marr (The Smiths, Modest Mouse, Electronic) played on several tracks and you can hear his subtle influence here and there (he’s always been a gloriously complex, but restrained in-the-pocket player).
While all of it is a great listen, the final track “Time” is particularly good, emotional, ascending and gorgeous. We can only imagine the kind of cinematic crescendo it’s going to be juxtaposed to (something with Marion Cotillard’s character we’re sure).
The soundtrack will hit stores on July 13th and we don’t think we need to remind you “Inception” opens a few days later on July 16th. Sadly, none of the remarkable songs in the trailer by Mike Zarin (who did the music for the teaser) and Zack Hemsey will be featured on the disc.
Track no. 6 is definitely the same as the music that appeared in the first trailer. Perhaps the Mike Zarin guy was hired to adapt Zimmer's work-in-progress score into something for the teaser? Unless Zarin's work made its way into the final film on the strength of the reaction to the teaser. Zimmer usually works with a bunch of minions so it's not surprising to see contributing composers.
I'd say at least three bunches worked on Sherlock Holmes, according to one of the minions.
If you watch some video interviews of Zimmer (by Anne Thompson, I think) while he was working on this, you can tell he wasn't particularly happy with the trailer music becoming so popular, so I don't think it's his work.
Oh, and the last track is a rework of "Journey to the Line", his masterpiece-track for The Thin Red Line.