![]() ![]() Reception į wrote "The score by Zimmer and Powell achieves everything necessary for the film, and as for its translation onto album, only the inconsistency of the comedy and actual fight material in the middle of the product, as well as the few moments of outward cross-cultural flair, restrain it from a fourth star." James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "Kung Fu Panda is good fun - a little silly at times, perhaps - but undemanding and enjoyable. American rapper-producer Timbaland also contributed to the soundtrack. In addition to Zimmer's score, a rewritten version of the classical song " Kung Fu Fighting" (1974) was performed by CeeLo Green and Jack Black, while the end credits version of the song is sung by Rain and Sam Concepcion, in the soundtrack marketing of the East Asian editions, and Mumiy Troll for the Russian edition. From both of them, we knew that it would be the perfect marriage because the film was a marriage of extremes." So, Hans gave us this huge, epic and beautiful dragon warrior theme, which is very emotional and very sweeping and John was the one who provided us with our very simple, very humble Po music. So, for us, it was a strong contrast between the two elements that were the most important to our storytelling, and we wanted them to explore that aspect. Osborne said, "We told them from the very beginning we wanted our film to be an intimate story about one character, but the backdrop was just epic, with a very formal and martial world. Stevenson attributed Zimmer and Powell had "both the ability to create lush musical landscapes", hence "there is a huge, majestic, epic quality to Hans’ music and John’s exciting and innovative ideas". John Stevenson and Mark Osborne did not want "to have a soundtrack that had contemporary pop songs in it", instead a traditional and orchestral score for a "big, epic film". Several chinese instruments, such as erhu, guzheng, Chinese flutes and Baigong pipes were used in the score. ![]() Recording of the score was held at AIR Studios in London. In the process, he got to know about the Chinese National Symphony orchestra and brought them on their project, along with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Voices also performing. To score for the film, Zimmer visited China to absorb the culture and influence of traditional Chinese music. ![]() This marked Zimmer and Powell's third film working together, after Chill Factor (1999) and DreamWorks' The Road to El Dorado (2000). While Zimmer was intended to be the sole composer, his protégé John Powell was later brought into the project Powell's involvement was confirmed by CEO of DreamWorks Animation, Jeffrey Katzenberg, after the test screening of the film. Hans Zimmer was roped in as the composer for Kung Fu Panda, thereby making his sixth DreamWorks Animation film. The 17-track album was released by Interscope Records on June 3, 2008. As a process, the score was recorded with mostly Chinese traditional instruments, and the China National Symphony Orchestra also performed the score. The album consisted of traditional and orchestral score, infused with Chinese music, where Zimmer visited China to study the traditions and culture. ![]() The album features original score composed by Hans Zimmer and John Powell, and a cover of the classical song " Kung Fu Fighting" performed by CeeLo Green and Jack Black (who also plays Po, the lead character). Kung Fu Panda (Music from the Motion Picture) is the score album to the 2008 film of the same name. ![]()
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