Listening to this titan of a soundtrack will have you short of breath. It is as if Giacchino was in fact cooking an intricate recipe rather than composing music.maybe the two are related in a strange way every instrument he can get his hands on goes into the preparation of tracks like "End Creditouilles" and "Remy Drives a Linguini" before he gradually trurns the flame down a bit and throws in a slice of marvellous piano work in the score's last track "Ratatouille's Main Theme". I've never heard anything quite like this before. "Colette Shows Him the Ropes" even ventures into Salsa with dashings of violin and accordion to punctuate the dance moves and some very funky bass guitar popping in and out. These very moving pieces appear throughout the soundtrack but are often interrupted by more playful tunes. I was almost tearful when listening to some of the arrangements and their longing echoed string work. It is fairly obvious that after listening to the first few tracks of Ratatouille alone, you already know you are in for one hell of a ride.Ĭalmer cello and violin moments pop-up here and there such as in tracks "Granny Get Your Gun" and "Wall Rat" for instance. Almost all tracks contain the same level of detail and immediacy as this. "This is Me" sounds like one of those dusky and seductive Woody Allen pieces for a minute before bursting into maniac orchestration and then back into the initial pace with tones of Django Reinhardt guitar plucking. We are treated to some amazing jazz moments that throw in many different elements in some rather unusual ways. In this particular track, the adorable accordion ballads that punctuate the entire release are displayed at their most romantic. "Welcome to Gusteau's" kick-starts a sucession of 23 tracks that amount to one of the best scores of 2007. There is a striking resemblance with Katie Melua in both style and voice here. Previously to Ratatouille her music appeared in Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart as well as in Ridley Scott's A Good Year (2006). It is performed by French pop chanteuse Camille. The opening track "Le Festin" is completely optional in my opinion. I guess it is partially down to the film's theme, that of a French rat in Paris wanting to become a chef, that the score has such character, warmth and romance. Ratatouille manages to avoid such classification altogether although it does borrow many ideas from all of the above. Stalling type with their intricate musings and madcap arrangements and a somewhat more traditional style such as Frank Churchill's music for the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There seem to be two main genres of cartoon and animation music: the Carl W.
Michael Giacchino's score for the animated film "Ratatouille" by Brad Bird was released in 2007, in between the short animated film Lifted (Gary Rydstrom, 2006) and a computer game score (Medal of Honor: Airborne, 2007). Rataouille - soundtrack by Michael Giacchino
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