Hans Zimmer – Inception (Music From The Motion Picture)

It's one of my favorite sci-fi films, and its soundtrack is maybe my favorite of the last 15 years.

What if you could enter the dreams of people and place the seed of an idea in their minds?
And what if, by doing so, you’d lose everyone you ever loved, and the guilt would be about to destroy you and your only chance to be back to the remains of your family?
And what if everything had actually been a dream?

Christopher Nolan plays with these questions in "Inception", creating more than a modern science- fiction classic, managing to entertain even those not really into the genre by loading it with astounding action scenes and perfect dreamlike visuals and concepts, while Hans Zimmer outdoes himself with one of his greatest scores.

As I see it, ‘Inception’ is where Hans Zimmer better managed to fuse his more classical and modern scoring styles; the use of electronics, drums and even electric guitar (courtesy of Johnny Marr, of The Smiths fame) engages with the classical elements so seamlessly that these are not only a refreshing take on the music, but an essential part of the soundtrack's personality.

From the ominous pounding of "Half ed Dream" and the rhythmical frenzy of "Mombasa", to the mysterious "Radical Notion", the tension building up in "528491", the conspiracy feeling emanating from "One Simple Idea", to the odd nostalgia and dreamy essence of "Old Souls" or "We Built Our Own World" and the first half of "Waiting For A Train", which will build up to become a monster (like one of these dreams that end up becoming a nightmare) depicting how Cobb and Mal created their own reality and became old souls trapped in young bodies… reaching to that closing summit of musical inspiration named "Time" that, with just five notes starting in an intimate, shy, adagio- like fashion, slowly builds up to bloom into one of the most powerful, simple yet moving, intense moments of the last 20 years of film music.
A masterpiece of contemporary film music.