Broken Vessels (soundtrack)

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Broken Vessels
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Soundtrack album by
Bill Laswell
ReleasedSeptember 21, 1999 (1999-09-21)
StudioOrange Music (West Orange, N.J.)
Genre Ambient, drum and bass
Length48:55
Label Koch Records
Producer Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell chronology
Imaginary Cuba
(1999)		Broken Vessels
(1999)		 Permutation
(1999)
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Broken Vessels is the soundtrack album by American composer Bill Laswell, released on September 21, 1999, by Koch Records. It comprises Laswell's original score for the medical drama Broken Vessels , a film directed by Scott Ziehl released to theaters on April 18, 1998. Critic Steven McDonald called it "an engaging and propulsive recording." [1]

Contents

Track listing

All music is composed by Bill Laswell, except "Hands" co-written by Lori Carson

No.TitleLength
1."Broken Vessel"5:37
2."ER"3:17
3."Dementia"2:57
4."Light Speed"3:46
5."Strained"4:52
6."High Ride"2:07
7."Needle Drop"2:32
8."Graveyard"1:49
9."Smoking Up"5:13
10."Explosion"1:16
11."First Call"5:40
12."Falling Under"2:16
13."Lost Control"2:47
14."Hands"4:46
Total length:48:55

Personnel

Adapted from the Broken Vessels liner notes. [2]

Musicians
Technical personnel

Charts

Chart (1999)Peak
position
Canadian RPM Albums Chart [3] 40

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States1999 Koch CDKOC-CD-8055
Australia1999Take OneCDTAKE014CD

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References

  1. 1 2 McDonald, Steven. "Broken Vessels". Allmusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Broken Vessels (booklet). Bill Laswell. Port Washington, New York: Koch Records. 1999.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ↑ Comer, M. Tye (November 1, 1999). "RPM airplay reports". CMJ New Music Report . 60 (641). CMJ Network, Inc.: 27. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
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