"Labyrinth" is a soundtrack album by David Bowie and Trevor Jones, released in 1986 for the film Labyrinth.
Trevor Jones' music for this elaborate and ambitious Jim Henson/George Lucas production was filled with synthesizers blended cautiously into orchestral ensembles to provide a suitably ethereal tone -- one echoed very well by David Bowie's Goblin King singing the haunting "Within You" while stalking the film's heroine. This variant on the Persephone story, however, was treated as a half-hearted musical, with the Goblin King and his minions breaking out into raucous pop every so often, a tactic that undermined the tone of the entire film and upended the score. While "Underground" is a more than adequate Bowie entry, "Magic Dance" and others have a tendency to fall flat. A curious hodgepodge indeed. The soundtrack holds a tiny slice of the Labyrinth world. David Bowie is BRILLIANT. His songs make this album; superb, rocky interjections in an otherwise awesome bit of musical engineering courtesy of Trevor Jones (he does the 'non-Bowie' bits). This CD isn't just a soundtrack. It's an album in and of itself, and pure magic.
Track List:
01. David Bowie & Trevor Jones - Opening Titles Including Underground (Bowie, Jones) – 3:21
02. Trevor Jones - Into the Labyrinth (Jones) – 2:12
03. David Bowie - Magic Dance (Bowie) – 5:13
04. Trevor Jones - Sarah (Jones) – 3:12
05. David Bowie - Chilly Down (Bowie) – 3:46
06. Trevor Jones - Hallucination (Jones) – 3:02
07. David Bowie - As the World Falls Down (Bowie) – 4:51
08. Trevor Jones - The Goblin Battle (Jones) – 3:31
09. David Bowie - Within You (Bowie) – 3:30
10. Trevor Jones - Thirteen O'Clock (Jones) – 3:08
11. Trevor Jones - Home at Last (Jones) – 1:49
12. David Bowie - Underground (Bowie) – 5:57
Released: June 23, 1986
Genre: Soundtrack, Pop
Length: 43:33
Label: EMI Records
Produced By: David Bowie, Arif Mardin and Trevor Jones.
Personnel:
David Bowie - vocals, lead vocals
Backgound Vocals - Robin Beck, Cissy Houston, Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Fonzi Thornton, Marcus Miller, Marc Stevens, Daphnie Rubin-Vega, Garcia Alston, Mary David Canty, Beverly Ferguson, A. Marie Foster, James Glenn, Eunice Peterson, Rennele Stafford
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