Black Rain (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

My choice of title for this review comes from the fact that "Black Rain", evidently is the first major action movie scored by Hans Zimmer. Here is a quote from Daniel Schweiger, who wrote most of the liner notes for the "Broken Arrow" soundtrack CD (also composed by Zimmer), "Zimmer's work on A World Apart called him to the attention of director Barry Levinson, who offered the composer "Rain Man". Since then Zimmer has scored such diverse films as "A League of Their Own", "Driving Miss Daisy", "Beyond Rangoon" and the Oscar-winning "Lion King". But perhaps none of his music had the effect of "Black Rain", a soundtrack that combined Japanese rhythms with percussive computers and lush melodies." The sound of Black Rain is, to use Schweiger's words again, "caught somewhere between the electronic and symphonic worlds." This becomes apparent when you listen to the suite at the end of the disc, which is a combination of the score's main themes. But I can't do a review of this one without talking about the songs. They're just great! Almost all of them are used in the night club scenes except for "I'll Be Holdin' On"; this version is played at the end of the film.