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tuned percussion – like the seductive marimba – lend embellishment and shimmer.
I love the spooky John Carpenter-like ending of this movement. Pure Elfman.

The final piece is a short choral piece Are You Lost? from Elfman’s song-cycle Trio. It is
in French and sounds French and women’s voices again invoke that Elfmanesque
airborne quality which is fantastical in itself though this time the images are in one’s
head not up there on the silver screen. After 115-plus movies Elfman can’t help but
make pictures of sound and the fabulous engineering here certainly makes them pop.