Elfman demonstrates again in A Simple Plana special inability to narrate small histories without the necessary presence of a symphonic orchestra and choirs. Elfman's effort to achieve an appropriate atmosphere for the San Raimi film is translated in a very flat music, dressed by a strange selection of winds, nine flutes in total, guitar, piano and strings. The rhythmic exercise of A Civil Action (1998) is transformed on this A Simple Plan in a music resolved in a conventional way, without the desire that he imprints to the Tim Burton productions and fleeing from more imaginative positions, preferring to be isolated in the practice of a vulgar music, of dramatic tendencies and without a solid orchestral structure. Thus, the most prominent cue is the brief The Moon, where we find that sound so typical of the score taken until its last consequences and that it registers in some seconds with the flutes its whole dynamics. D.R.C.

/ COMPASS3 RECORDS COM 0105 / 44'

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