Hunted Discography of CDs

Recording information: Sonic One Studios, Wales, UK. Editor: Tim Hamill. Photographer: Owen Richards. Personnel: Chris G (vocals); Steven Barberini (guitars); Matt "Animal" Thomas (drums). Audio Mixers: Hunted; Tim Hamill.

Original score composed and conducted by Brian Tyler. Personnel: Brian Tyler (guitar, electric bass, percussion); Jo Ann Turovsky (harp); Eun Mee Ahn, Miran Kojian, Anatoly Rosinsky, Mark Sazer, Ken Yerke, Armen Movsessian, Rene Mandel, Sungil Lee, Jennifer Gordon Levin, Kevin Connolly , Karen Jones, Richard Altenbach, Clayton Haslop, Natalie Leggett, Sara Parkins, Marina Manukian, Armen Garabedian, Darius Campo, Josefina Vergara, Mario Diaz de Leon, Endre Granat (violin); Michael Zinovyev, Cassandra Richburg, Rick Gerding, Steve Gordon, Brian Dembow, Keith Greene, Jennie Hansen, Michael Nowak , Darrin McCann (viola); Paula Hochhalter, Drew Dembowski, Kevan Torfeh, David Shamban, Antony Cooke , Stephen Erdody, Andrew Shulman, David Speltz, Cecilia Tsan, John Walz, Roger Lebow, Todd Hemmenway, Christine Ermacoff (cello); Louise di Tullio (flute); Emily Bernstein, Charles Boito, James Kanter (clarinet); Ken Munday, David Riddles (bassoon); Warren Luening (trumpet); Phillip Teele, Bob Sanders, Michael Hoffman, Alan Kaplan (trombone); Tommy Johnson (tuba); Phillip Edward Yao, Kristy Morrell, Carolyn Drake, Brian O'Connor (horns); Alan Estes, Steven Schaeffer, Peter Limonick (percussion). Audio Mixer: Jeff Vaughn. Recording information: Sony Scoring Stage. Music By:Brian Tyler

As far as soundtracks go, the usual run is to find a pile of willing artists and make a relatively diverse set of songs. For The Hunted, director Jonathan Lawton decided to break this basic mold and invite Kodo to handle the full soundtrack with their powerful Taiko drumming. While a good deal of the music is merely various background music from the movie, even that can be made good in the right hands. "Kirina's Theme" is a piece of mild synthesizer genius, for example, at less than two minutes. Most of the rest of the tracks are short bits played on traditional shamisen, shinobue, and, of course, the run of Taiko drums (miya-daiko, okedo-daiko, o-daiko, hirado-o-daiko, uchiwa-daiko). The opening and ending themes are representative of the normal works of Kodo, in length and style. Fans of Kodo may recognize "Matsuri" as the original "Irodori," though this performance is a live recording from a party scene in the movie. The movie may have been somewhat forgettable, but the soundtrack is filled with the usual power of a Kodo album and should be given a shot by any fan of the music. ~ Adam Greenberg Live Recording Performers include: Kodo. Personnel: Motofumi Yamaguchi (flute, bamboo flute, wood block); Yasukazu Kano (bamboo flute, shaker, taiko); Ryutaro Kaneko (cymbals, shaker); Hideyukii Saito (cymbals, wood block, dancer); Takeshi Arai (shaker, wood block); Hisayuki Mori (shaker); Akira Nanjo (wood block); Chieko Kojima (dancer). Recording information: Kodo Village (05/1994-11/1994); Sado Island (05/1994-11/1994); Sony Music Shinanomachi Studio, Tokyo, Japan (05/1994-11/1994). Director: Motofumi Yamaguchi. Photographer: Masakazu Sakomizu. Unknown Contributor Roles: Yoshikazu Fujimoto; Elichi Saito.