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Warriors of Heaven and Earth by A.R.Rehman

Warriors of Heaven and Earth is a Chinese action/adventure movie released in 2003. The film is in Mandarin, with some Japanese. The film's score, composed by the Indian music director A.R.Rahman, features 14 tracks including the theme song in Chinese (Mandarin). The song was recorded in English as well as Hindi (Indian language). However, the score provided here contains only the original chinese song, but includes two tracks i found elsewhere (Opening and After Buddha). The film features the theme song Mirage (Warriors In Peace), sung by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. The movie boasts of exceptional cinematography by Zhao Fei, which captures a wide range of landscapes, across the Xinjiang province of China and covers a wide range of cultures along the silk route and thus the music reflects chinese, indian, arabic instrumentals masterfully employed though out the score. The film also includes numerous horse-riding sequences, played out by trained Kazakh horsemen from the Peoples Liberation Army. It consists of a classic battle between good and evil.
0. Opening (2:21)
1. The Golden Era (03:56)
2. Warriors of Peace (Chinese Version feat. Jolin Tsai) (04:35)
3. Lord An's Empire (03:31)
4. Water (03:51)
5. Horses (02:27)
6. Mountains (01:49)
7. Dacoit Duel (03:26)
8. Lai Chi (01:31)
9. Buddha's Remains (02:40)
10.Blue Light (02:23)
11.The Monk and the Miracle (04:05)
12.Desert Storm (05:19)
13.Escape (02:33)
14.Warriors of Heaven and Earth (04:25)
15.After buddha (1:38)

"Warriors of Heaven and Earth" is the first movie scored by Rahman which got a score release. A step below, Tan Dun's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Hero, the score is still one of the best in the genre and surely tops Rahman's illustrous composition career.