0094635323726. New condition. CD. The soundtrack for Pirates of the Caribbean was originally composed by Alan Silvestri who left the project prior to the film s release. Credited to Klaus Badelt a protégé of Hans Zimmer it was hastily assembled at the last minute resulting in a paint-by-numbers exercise in big studio fluff that required the work of several unnamed composers. Badelt and his mysterious co-conspirators have created a schizophrenic pastiche of Hollywood excess -- much like the film itself -- disguised as a traditional score. The swashbuckling is propelled by an instantly unmemorable -- albeit rousing -- motif that contains bits of every action score in existence. Fog Bound starts off with a sprightly Celtic flair before dissolving into a generic Jerry Bruckheimer wash of keyboard strings and synthetic flute patches. This is the case for much of the record resulting in inspired flashes of creativity here and there. ~ James Christopher Monger Rovi