In Stores April 3, 2007
Emilie Simon - March of the Empress
About the Record
As an expected follow-up to Emilie Simon's debut U.S. release, The Flower Book comes the world-renowned CD, March of the Empress (La Marche De L'Empereur) . Written as the original score to the European version of March of the Penguins , Emilie's full recordings have never seen the light of day in the United States. One of Barclay Records/Universal France's biggest success stories of 2006, Milan Records is excited to release this “Victoires De La Musique” Award-winning CD in its entirety for the first time in the U.S.
It was after meeting March of the Penguins director Luc Jacquet in 2003 that Emilie realized that this was her chance to write the music for a real feature film where music would play a key role crucial to the project's success. Coincidentally, she was already working on new songs based on the theme of ice when the fantastic opportunity came.
“The producers of the film's original version took a big risk, actually, because they wanted me to do the music but I wasn't really established.” Emilie admits. “They knew my first album and they thought my music was so different from the common kind of documentary music. They wanted to do something different and artful and unique. They knew that I was interested in the texture of music, and that although I like electronic music, I'm interested in arrangements and melodies. I was interested in making music in keeping with the elements – water and ice or wood and flowers. I had just finished a song called ‘The Ice Girl' about coldness and ice. The film was sent to me and when they contacted me I said, ‘that's really funny, I've just finished this song. So my involvement just grew from there.'”
Tracklisting:
01. The frozen world
02. Antarctic
03. The egg
04. Song of the sea
05. Baby penguins
06. Attack of the killer birds
07. Aurora australis
08. The sea leopard
09. Song of the storm
10. Mother's pain
11. To the dancers on the ice
12. All is white
13. The voyage
Bonus tracks
14. Footprints in the snow
15. Ice girl