Music Album Review: 'A.I. Artificial Intelligence - Music from the Motion Picture'
Album cover from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Music from the Motion Picture. (C) 2001, 2018 Warner Sunset/Amazon LLC. In 2001, Warner Sunset, the now-defunct record label that produced soundtrack albums for Warner Bros. movies, released A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Music from the Motion Picture. This was a 13-track collection of themes and cues composed and conducted by John Williams for Steven Spielberg’s eponymous science-fiction film. Performed by a Los Angeles-based studio orchestra and recorded at Sony Pictures Studios Royce Hall near Hollywood, the score features some of the orchestral themes, action cues, and two versions of the song For Always, which features lyrics by Cynthia Weil and a haunting melody by Maestro Williams. As is often the case with “original motion picture soundtrack albums,” the 2001 commercial release of A.I. Artificial Intelligence – Music from the Motion Picture does not present Williams’ complete score, which is almost two ...