The Book of Life (1999)

About this title: As a companion piece to Hal Hartley's movie The Book of Life, this soundtrack is actually a bit of a curiosity at just under 58 minutes; it runs about seven minutes shorter than the movie itself, and much of the music here doesn't really fit the claustrophobic feel that Hartley generated using a herky-jerky and grainy digital-video filming process. Indeed, some of the material here is gentle and even a bit folky, like the tracks from Hub, Joey Sweeney, and Super 5 Thor. There are a couple of tracks from Hartley's house band, Yo La Tengo, and two from one of the film's stars, Polly Jean Harvey ... read more

Tracks:

1. Polorum Regina [Traditional]
2. The Faster I Breathe the Further I Go [Harvey]
3. In a Hole [Coleman]
4. 1.666666 [Minekawa]
5. Two People [Moore]
6. Turtle Soup [Hubley/Kaplan/McNew]
7. Waking Up [OShea/Masucci]
8. My Name Is Rich [Sweeney]
9. Machu Picchu [Byrne]
10. Mrs. Nedelija Became Famous
11. King of Boys [Kavanagh]
12. Lincoln [Diez/Oliver]
13. Far from the Sun [Drazy Hoops]
14. Turtle Soup 2 [Hubley/Kaplan/McNew]
15. Love Too Soon [Comelade/Harvey]
16. Fugitive [Hartley/Coleman]
17. Laudamus Virginem [Traditional]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.