127 Hours (soundtrack)

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127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture
127HoursCover.jpg
Soundtrack album by
A. R. Rahman
Released2 November 2010 [1]
RecordedK. M. Musiq Studios, Los Angeles
AIR Studios, London
Miloko Studios, London
Hear No Evil Recording Studio, London
Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios, Chennai
Nirvana Studios, Mumbai
Genre Post-industrial, experimental, ambient
Length1:01:23
Label Interscope, Fox Music
Producer A. R. Rahman,
Gretchen Anderson
Danny Boyle film soundtrack chronology
Slumdog Millionaire
(2008)		127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture
(2010)
A. R. Rahman chronology
Jhootha Hi Sahi
(2010)		127 Hours
(2010)		 Rockstar
(2011)
No.TitleWriter(s)Artist(s)Length
1."Never Hear Surf Music Again"John PughFree Blood5:52
2."The Canyon"A. R. Rahman A. R. Rahman 3:01
3."Liberation Begins"A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman2:14
4."Touch of the Sun"A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman4:39
5."Lovely Day"Bill Withers, Skip Scarborough Bill Withers 4:16
6."Nocturne No.2 in E flat, Op.9 No.2" Frédéric Chopin Vladimir Ashkenazy 4:01
7."Ça plane pour moi" Francis Jean Deprijck, Yves Maurice Lacomblez Plastic Bertrand 3:00
8."Liberation in a Dream"A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman4:06
9."If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" Marguerite Monnot, Édith Piaf (Original French lyrics), Geoffrey Parsons (English adaptation) Esther Phillips 3:27
10."Acid Darbari"A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman4:21
11."R.I.P."A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman5:11
12."Liberation"A. R. RahmanA. R. Rahman3:11
13."Festival" Jon Thor Birgisson, Orri Páll Dýrason, Georg Hólm, Kjartan Sveinsson Sigur Rós 9:26
14."If I Rise" A. R. Rahman, Dido & Rollo Armstrong Dido, A. R. Rahman, Chorus [lower-alpha 1] 4:38
Total length:1:01:23
Notes
  1. ↑ Chorus by The Gleehive Children's Choir, Mumbai (Jervis Dias, Kristen Fernandes, Alisha Pais, Jessica Dmello, Sherize Alveyn, Evania Cerejo, Jememia Fernandes, and Aidan D'silva) and recorded at Octavious Studio, Mumbai. [32]

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