The Kite Runner

Artist	Original Soundtrack
Label Name	Deutsche Grammophon
Song List	1: Opening Titles (3:20) 2: The Call, Kabul 1978 (2:32) 3: He Hates Me (1:07) 4: Kite Shop (3:06) 5: Sin (1:34) 6: Tanha Shudam Tanha (As Used in the Film the Kite Runner) (3:36) 7: Kite Tournament (5:40) 8: Hassan Theme (2:57) 9: Az Man Begurezed (As Used in the Film the Kite Runner) (5:04) 10: Plant the Watch (1:29) 11: Russians Invade (2:22) 12: The Truth (1:59) 13: Omaid E Man (As Used in the Film the Kite Runner) (1:47) 14: Fuel Tanker (3:09) 15: End Phone Call (2:06) 16: The Stadium (2:33) 17: Escape (3:11) 18: Dukhtare Darya (As Used in the Film the Kite Runner) (3:43) 19: Fly a Kite (4:27) 20: Reading the Letter (2:49) 21: Supplication (As Used in the Film the Kite Runner) (4:05)
Format	CD
Release Date	2007 11 20
Genre	Soundtrack

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For director Marc Forster's film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner, Spanish score composer Alberto Iglesias (an Academy Award nominee for The Constant Gardener who has written music for many of Pedro Almodovar's films) was taken out of his comfort zone in having to come up with music to accompany the story of the lives of two boys growing up against the backdrop of the recent history of Afghanistan, including the Soviet invasion and the rise of the Taliban, a story that runs up to the early 21st century in San Francisco, to which one of the now grown boys has immigrated. Iglesias employs a full orchestra, the Hollywood Studio Symphony, but for much of the soundtrack, it serves largely as a backdrop to music with distinct Middle Eastern and Indian flavors, using a variety of ethnic instruments including the tabla as a major element in the percussion section. Nylon-stringed guitars played by Javier Crespo, Heitor Pereira (aka Heitor T.P.), and Ramon Stagnaro also lead the arrangements frequently. Here and there, source music is used in the form of period tracks by Afghan singers Ahmad Zahir and Ehsan Aman. The best mixture of symphonic and ethnic percussion is found in the lively "Kite Tournament." The last couple of cues, "Fly a Kite" and "Reading the Letter," are the only ones really dominated by the string orchestra, and they have a new age feel that may seem odd to the listener after all the Middle Eastern accents, even if they are appropriate to following the story in the film itself. Iglesias succeeds in a challenging assignment here. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide