The Dark Knight Rises (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer | |||||
| Released | July 17, 2012 | ||||
| Genre | Film score | ||||
| Length | 51:20 (2:16:14 with all bonus tracks) | ||||
| Label | WaterTower Music | ||||
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The Dark Knight Rises: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the film of the same name, the sequel to Christopher Nolan's 2008 film The Dark Knight. The soundtrack was released on July 17, 2012. The CD edition of the album contains an exclusive code to unlock three bonus tracks, titled "Bombers Over Ibiza (Junkie XL Remix)", "No Stone Unturned", and "Risen from Darkness". Two additional bonus tracks, "The Shadows Betray You" and "The End", are digital-download exclusive tracks. The soundtrack was officially released online for streaming purposes on July 10, 2012.
Additional cues were released through an iPhone app titled The Dark Knight Rises Z+ App Origins Pack. The app contains four original suites ("Wayne Manor", "Selina Kyle", "Orphan", and "Bane") that were created during the early stages of development for the film.
The main themes were composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, but Howard did not return to the series to score this film and was not credited as a composer. Regarding his departure from the franchise, Howard said, “I just really felt that I had made what I felt like I could contribute to that series, and I always felt that…Hans...was the mastermind of those scores. I mean, they really sounded the way they sounded because of him. His conception of the scores was really brilliant. It’s not that I didn’t add a lot, I did, but I don’t think I added the aspects of the music that really defined the character of those movies.”
The album debuted at number ten on the Canadian Albums Chart. Peaked at 25 in Spanish Albums Chart.
A high-resolution, digital version of the soundtrack was released by HDTracks in 24-bit/192 kHz. It contains all the bonus tracks from the standard digital edition, but spectral analysis of the audio files shows they were not true high-resolution files, with no frequencies at all above 22 kHz or so (basically equivalent to a 48 kHz sampling rate).
The film features a prevalent chant of the phrase deshi basara, which, according to Hans Zimmer himself, means "rise up" in a language which he says he's happy to have maintained secret (allegedly Moroccan or another Arabic dialect though this is disputed).
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