This was originally posted at another blog of mine that was recently deleted by Google.
The film Baraka is easily in my top five films. My journey (though a bit longwinded) of discovery with it, if you’re interested, can be found here.
The novelty and naïveté has worn off but this film always take me back to that original burst of spiritual awareness that burst forth that year.
Anyhow, if you’ve watched the film and listened to the soundtrack you’ll notice immediately that the soundtrack is sorely lacking.
These are songs not included on the soundtrack and extended versions of some of the tracks from the soundtrack.
Add these songs to the soundtrack and you’re close to the soundtrack as it’s meant to be. You can find a straight audio rip of the DVD here.
The only thing not included here, and unavailable outside of the tidbits found on the soundtrack, would be the score by Michael Stearns (with an uncredited appearance by Lisa Gerrard during the scoring of one of the film scenes).
The Blu-Ray is available and it is, hands down, one of the best - if not the best - Blu Ray discs I've ever seen. I've seen this on the big screen (though I can't say it was in its original 70mm format or not...was kind of stoned at the time...) and have seen it on video and DVD. But the Blu-Ray...don't wait and don't settle for a bootleg from the web.
Part1//Part2
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