Constantine Soundtrack CD

Composers: Brian Tyler; Klaus Badelt.
Personnel: Susie Stevens Logan, Samela Beasom, Joanna Bushnell, Virenia Lind, Jenny Graham, Diane Freeman Reynolds, Teri Koide, Linda Harmon, Sally Stevens, Terry Harrington, Elin Carlson (soprano); John Beeney, Dwayne Condon, Walt Harrah, Agostino Castagnola, Richard Wells, Rick Logan, Steve Amerson, Jonathan Mack (tenor); Jon Joyce , Bob Joyce, Guy Maeda, Mike Geiger, Mark Beasom, John West, Kenneth Knight (baritone, bass voice); JoAnn Turovsky (harp); Eun Mee Ahn, Al Hershberger, Miran Kojian, Irina Voloshina, Anatoly Rosinsky, Katia Popov, Tamara L. Hatwan, Robin Olson, Mark Sazer, Aimee Kreston, Ana Landauer, Laurence Greenfield, Ken Yerke, Jeanne Skrocki Evans, Songa Lee Kitto, Julia Ann Gigante, Rene Mandel, Sungil Lee, Norman Hughes, Eric J. Hosler, Franklyn d'Antonio, Jay Rosen, Joel Derouin, Kevin Connolly, Lisa Sutton, Sid Page, Richard Altenbach, Jacqueline Brand, Roberto Cani, Bruce Dukov, Clayton Haslop, Peter Kent, Natalie Leggett, Phillipe Levy, Sara Parkins, Sarah Thornblade, Shalini Vijayan, Roger Wilkie, Marina Manukian, Darius Campo, Michael Markman, Liane Mautner, Dimitrie Leivici, Michele Richards, Miwako Watanabe, Mario Diaz de Leon, Endre Granat (violin); Matt Funes, Marlo Fisher, Dan Neufeld, Shawn Mann, Andrew Picken, Steven Gordon, Cassandra Richburg, Rick Gerding, Michael Nowak, John Scanlon, Robert Becker, Brian Dembow, Keith Greene, Jennie Hansen, Roland Kato, Simon Oswell, Danny Seidenberg, David F. Walther, Piotr Jandula, Victoria Miskolszy, Thomas Dienner, Darrin McCann, Samuel Formicola, Denyse Buffum, Shanti Randall, Robert Berg (viola); Martin Tillman (electric cello); Chris Jon Bleth (flute, woodwinds); Heath Clark, Jim Walker , Louise Di Tullio, Steve Kujala, Geri Rotella, David Shostac (flute); Steven Roberts, Ralph Williams , Gary Bovyer, James Kanter (clarinet); Michael O'Donovan, David Riddles (bassoon); Steven M. Holtman, Andrew Thomas Malloy, Jon Lewis , Alan Kaplan, Phil Teele, Rick Baptist, Warren Luening, Alexander Iles, William Reichenbach (trumpet); Fred W. Greene (tuba); Daniel Kelley, Phillip Edward Yao, John A. Reynolds, David Duke, Kristy Morrell, Elizabeth Cook Shen, Mark Adams , Richard Todd, Steve Becknell, Kurt Snyder, Brian O'Connor, Jim Thatcher (horns); Michael Lang , Randy Kerber (keyboards); Alan Estes, Emil Radocchia, Gregory Goodall, Steve Schaeffer, George Doering, Peter Limonick, Robert Zimmitti, Donald Williams (percussion); Robert & The Groovers Williams (programming).
Audio Mixers: Joel Iwataki; Alan Meyerson.
Recording information: Todd-Ao Studios.
Editors: Daryl Kell; Joe Lisanti; Gary L. Krause.
Arrangers: Andrew Raiher; Ian Honeyman; Wolfram DeMarco.
Despite being clichéd and religiously formulaic, composer Brian Tyler has constructed an appropriately menacing score for the latest DC Comics film adaptation, Constantine. Based on the popular Hellblazer series, it follows a chain-smoking occultist and a skeptical police officer through the streets of Los Angeles in search of clues to a murder. Instead, they find a whole lot of demons and the Gates of Hell, resulting in a lot of spooky choirs, dissonant strings, thunderous percussion, and the obligatory drum'n'bass/electro piece at the end. Tyler does little to branch out from the trappings of the traditional modern thriller soundtrack, but it's serviceable enough that it never interrupts the flow of the film; rather, it barely registers, which depending on your opinion of how a score should interact with its respective piece of celluloid is either a good thing or a bad thing. ~ James Christopher Monger