Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna OST (2015)

Soundtrack / Score

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Tracklist:
01. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Waltz (2:32)
02. Shigeru Umebayashi - Theme (3:09)
03. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna and Jay (3:23)
04. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Cello (1:40)
05. Shigeru Umebayashi - Start on a Journey (1:32)
06. Shigeru Umebayashi - Her Family's Life (1:50)
07. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Waltz 2 (1:46)
08. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna and Jay II (3:46)
09. Shigeru Umebayashi - Talk About Love (1:49)
10. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Cello 2 (1:42)
11. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Waltz 3 (2:49)
12. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna Killed Jay (3:17)
13. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Cello 3 (2:06)
14. Shigeru Umebayashi - Our Rajasthan (2:44)
15. Shigeru Umebayashi - Trishna's Soul (4:03)

About:
Album title: Trishna
Genre: Score
Composer: Shigeru Umebayashi
Year CD: 2015
Year of the film: 2011
Manufacturer disk: Germany
Publisher (label): Caldera Records
Catalog Number: C6009
Audio Codec: MP3
Audio Bitrate: 320 kbps
Duration: 00:38:09


Michael Winterbottom’s film Trishna was made way back in 2011 and released in 2012, but here Caldera records was able to do a very nice release of Shigeru Umebayashi’s string-based score to the romantic melodrama. The story follows a lower class servant falling in love with a rich man’s son. She relocates with him where their love would be less taboo and it exposes a dark twist when he begins to get a rise out of the idea of being an all-powerful upper class man with control over her. The score accents and speaks to the inner dance these two characters weave as Trishna finds herself in a seemingly overbearing situation.

Shigeru Umebayashi is a fantastic composer who probably gained your attention with his collaborations with director Wong Kar-wai. Here he completely ignores the Indian setting and allows no ethnic influences into the score. The film features a pulsing Indian soundtrack though with songs from Bollywood composer Amit Trivedi. Non of that is featured here so what we have here is Shigeru Umebayashi’s score working on its own. It make's sense that the tracks sort of work as movements versus a completely strung together narrative. By sequencing certain tracks “1”, “2”, and “3” you can pick up the internal flow of those pieces. You sense the music progressing and pushing while the music always carries a tone of despair. The score can feel too monotonous at times given its simple and minimal instrumentation, but structurally it’s very strong. The use of a waltz sort of clashed with me personally at first, but by the third movement of the waltz it felt right. Overall the score showcases some strong structural narrative flows within the connected motifs and that’s where the real heart of the music lies.

Trishna is an interesting small-scale score from acclaimed composer Shigeru Umebayashi. The simple and streamlined instrumentation could have used a little more textural work to make the music stick better. As it stands though you will find some interesting motifs connected in movements throughout the narrative of the score. The score carries the sense of despair through most of it, which makes it feel “one-note” at times, but there is a deep pain to Trishna’s journey and the music carries us through the ultimately inevitable dark ending.