At times of melancholy, we sometimes see (or hear) the things around us a different way. Last Tuesday, I had that experience while listening to the ‘The Earth’ from the The Gladiator soundtrack. I swear I have previously listened to it a thousand times but something in that cold breezy morning evoked an unusual feeling of grief and despair in me. This is the not same kind of emotion you feel when you lose a pet cat, or even a bike for that matter . It is something more intense, more overpowering.

Anyway, for three days now, I have sort of made it my early morning ritual to play on 5 tracks from Hans Zimmer’s superb masterpiece. Certainly beats yoga by a mile.

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As an aside, I must mention that Hans Zimmer also wrote very powerful musical scores for the following films, among others:

• The Lion King
• Pearl Harbor
• The Last Samurai
• The Thin Red Line
• Black Hawk Down
• Pirates of the Carribean
• and the list goes on and on…

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