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Beat Street

Riffs, OST and pop anthems are set to scorch music charts

TAKE TWO James Newton Howard returns with a lilting score continuing his collaboration with Shyamalan

Lady In The Water/OST

Universal

Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) rescues a mysterious woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) and discovers she is a character from a fairytale. Cleveland starts to realise that he is a character in this bedtime story. Cleveland falls in love and protects his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable. The flick is based on a bedtime story that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan wrote for his kids. Composer/musician/songwriter James Newton Howard returns with a lilting score continuing his collaboration with Shyamalan. His scores for The Village (with violin solos by Hilary Hahn) and also for Batman Begins that he co-wrote with Hans Zimmer received rave reviews with the former bagging him an Oscar nominee. Going by this versatile composer, Pretty Woman, The Fugitive, My Best Friend's Wedding and Waterworld included among his works, this is one to watch out for.

There You'll Be: The Best of

Faith Hill/Warner

With over 20 million records worldwide the artiste from Mississippi has come a long way from her 1993 debut single Wild One that incidentally spent four weeks at #1 on the country charts. Recently she was voted `the most beautiful woman in country music' by the Country Weekly magazine readers poll. Her current international release includes the chart-topping single of the same title from the flick Pearl Harbor. This cover also features songs from her multi-platinum selling albums Breathe that debuted at #1 in the U.S. on Billboard's Top 200 and produced two hit singles including the crossover smash The Way You Love Me. Find here also tracks from special recording projects.

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin/Warner

This re release of the touted last great Led Zeppelin title from 1975 was recorded before the days of synthesisers and disco. For the two-disc cover, the band blended Middle Eastern rhythms, folk-stylings, heavy blues and deeply impassioned rock riffs. Most numbers on this cover are orchestrated with guitar and bass tracks. For the fans, featuring here is the chart scorcher Kashmir. Also find scores with the Indian raga effect and a few with a hectic occidental pace.

SYEDA FARIDA

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