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's film of the same name composed, and produced by the American solo artist Scott Walker. The soundtrack also includes contributions from

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, Fairuz, Nguyên Lê, and M. Luobin Wang. It was released on 17 May 1999. It was Walker's first full soundtrack. The soundtrack was recorded in Paris at Studios Davout, and in London at Lansdowne Recording Studio and Air Studios. Receiving positive reviews the soundtrack album was released in May 1999 on CD in France and Japan. All of Walker's compositions were later included on the fifth disc of Walker's 2003 boxset compilation ''

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''. Walker followed his scoring work on ''Pola X'' with scores for dance performances, namely 2007's ''

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'' for the London-based CandoCo Dance Company and ROH2 production's performances of Jean Cocteau’s ''Duet for One'' in 2011. Prior to the soundtrack, Walker already had a long history of performing songs from films and contributing songs to soundtracks, most notably 1969's "The Rope and the Colt" for ''Une corde, un colt'', 1971's "I Still See You" for '' The Go-Between'', 1993's "Man from Reno" for ''Toxic Affair'', and 1999's "Only Myself to Blame" for '' The World Is Not Enough OST''.

Reception

''Pola X'' received mixed to positive reviews by the majority of critics.

Track listing

All tracks performed and written by Scott Walker except where otherwise noted.

Personnel

* Jean-Claude Dubois - Orchestra Direction * Geoff Foster - Mixing * Paris Philharmonic Orchestra * Brian Gascoigne - Orchestration * Scott Walker - Producer

References

External links

* {{Authority control Scott Walker (singer) albums Drama film soundtracks Experimental rock soundtracks 1999 soundtrack albums Albums produced by Scott Walker (singer)