Name: The Bourne Identity (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Brand: John Powell

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

VSD00483

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Black

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-18

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Supplier US

Unive­rsal

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Sales:8.875

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888072414006

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

John Powell

Genre US

Soundtracks

Label US

Varese Sarabande

John Powell is a British soundtrack composer, born on 18 September 1963 in London, England, UK. He is an accomplished violinist, violist, and guitarist who studied composition at Trinity College of Music in London. During his time there, he received the John Halford and Boosey and Hawkes Bursary Music College Prizes.

In 1988, Powell began composing music for commercials and gradually transitioned to independent films, feature films, and television. He moved to Los Angeles in late 1995 and worked with Hans Zimmer for seven years (1995-2002), as well as individually in 2008 and 2011. Since then, he has worked on numerous soundtracks for US film productions and currently resides in Marina Del Rey, California.

Similar artists to John Powell include Michael Giacchino, Ilan Eshkeri, Alan Silvestri, John Ottman, Harald Kloser,
Alexandre Desplat,Randy Edelman,Klaus Badelt,
James Newton Howard ,Marco Beltrami ,Steve Jablonsky ,Harry Gregson-Williams,Dario Marianelli ,
Geoff Zanelli,Trevor Rabin ,John Debney,Brian Tyler,
Patrick Doyle ,Mark Isham,Nicholas Hooper.

Soundtracks | Vinyl LPs, CDs, Merch | Rough Trade

The Bourne Identity (2002) revitalized the action genre in thrilling, consequential fashion. Matt Damon’s “Jason Bourne”—an alias for a man with no memory, but a ferocious set of fighting skills—upped the ante for gritty, imaginative, pulse-pounding action as well as emotional depth and sophistication, leading to a hugely successful franchise.

The Bourne Identity was directed by Doug Liman, whose background in indie film (Swingers, Go) made him the perfect filmmaker to reinvent the genre. For the score, Liman found a willing partner in John Powell, who had started his career working for Hans Zimmer. But Powell, too, wanted to try something different from his previous action films (Face/Off).

With Liman’s encouragement, Powell innovated an intimate, novel score from electronics, solo bassoon and strings that captured the film’s anxiety, grittiness and existential mystery—with a propulsive “motor” theme that became the franchise’s signature. Heavily improvised and shaped by digital technology, the music nonetheless captures the human heart of the film’s protagonist—and as always with Powell, is executed with great subtlety and taste.

The Bourne Identity (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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