127 Hours (soundtrack)

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127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture
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Soundtrack album by
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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