''Tomb Raider: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is the

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to the film of the same name, based on the 2013 video game of the same name by

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. The music was composed and arranged by

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. It was released digitally on March 9, 2018, by

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with the physical edition being released on March 16, 2018, followed by the vinyl being released later on August 24, 2018. The film also features "Run For Your Life" performed by

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which appears in the end credits of the film.

Background

On June 14, 2017, Tom Holkenborg was announced as the film's composer for ''Tomb Raider''. He was originally scoring

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's ''

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'' but was replaced by

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. Holkenborg commented that "It pains me to leave the project, but a big thanks to Zack for asking me to be part of his vision, and I wish Danny, Joss, and Warner Bros all the best with ''Justice League''." For the basis of the score, Holkenborg looked to the late

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's score to

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. But the majority of his inspiration came from the film score album, Birdy by

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which served as the foundation for the island scenes in the film. On creating the sound for ''Tomb Raider'', Holkenborg combined a bunch of different animal sounds to create a canvas for the score and then worked on top of that. He then employed an original approach with director

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, with an emphasis on raw sound design and music to portray the journey of Lara, one of which was through the use of strong percussion to give that sense of grittiness and realism. Scoring took place over two days at AIR Lyndhurst Studios in

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, with the London Studio Orchestra conducted by John Ashton Thomas. Aljoscha Christenhuß and Antonio Di Iorio provided additional music.

Track listing

Personnel

* Score Composer, Producer and mixer & Synth Programming –

* Additional Music – Aljoscha Christenhuß & Antonio Di Iorio * Technical Score Engineer – Alex Ruger * Additional Programming – Emily Rice & Jacopo Trifone * Music Editor – Simon Changer * Additional Music Editors – Ben Smithers & Arabella Winter * Music Consultant – Bob Badami * Score Orchestrations and Copyist – Jonathan Beard, Edward Trybek, Henri Wilkinson & Tom Holkenborg * Librarian – Jill Streater * Conductor – John Ashton Thomas * Recording Engineer and mixer – Nick Wollage * Music Production Services – Michael Groeneveld

References

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