Karine twittered us about Imogen Heap’s new album, which is releasing August 24th or 25th depending on what part of the world you live in, called Ellipse.  It includes a song called 2-1, which she wrote for Prince Caspian, but was decidedly too dark for the soundtrack, according to the music producers on the film.  She decided, rather than letting good music go, to include it in her new album, which she finished a few months ago.  If you would like to hear the song, or even the full album, we currently have the official music player here.  The song is track #8, and it is 4 minutes and 42 seconds in length.

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I was up at Barnes and Noble today, doing some writing and decided to take a stretch break and browse through the music and see if anything caught my fancy. Right in front on the Disney movie music section was a compilation album, Disney Box Office Hits. The CD features not one, not two but THREE songs from the Chronicles of Narnia films.

The songs included were “Can’t Take It In” by Imogene Heap from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and “The Call”by Regina Spektor and ” This is Home” by Switchfoot from Prince Caspian. Other artists featured include Jamie Cullum, Five For Fighting, Peter Gabriel, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, John Travolta and singer/songwriter legend, James Taylor.

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Imogen Heap has revealed on her YouTube Video Blog that she is in talks with the producers of Prince Caspian to appear on the soundtrack. She was heard on the soundtrack for “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” during the credits, with the song “I Can’t Take It In.” This is the first news we’ve heard of any soundtrack information for Prince Caspian.

Hopefully this is just the start and there will be a flood of news on the Soundtrack front. No word yet on if there will be another Inspired By soundtrack as well.

Imogen mentions Prince Caspian around the 6:20 mark.

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The Grammy Foundation has released their picks for the 49th annual Grammy awards, and Narnia has received two nominations!

Harry Gregson-Williams, the film’s composer, has received a nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media. The award goes to the best original score created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current legitimate motion picture, television show, series or other visual media. The film is up against Hans Zimmer, composer for The Da Vinci Code, John Williams, composer of Memoirs Of A Geisha, John Williams, composer of Munich, and Hans Zimmer, who composed Pirates Of The Caribbean — Dead Man’s Chest.

Imogen Heap has been nominated for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for her song “Can’t Take It In.” This award goes to the best song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media and released for the first time during the Eligibility Year. Heap is running against by Melissa Etheridge who wrote “I Need To Wake Up” for the movie An Inconvenient Truth, Randy Newman who wrote “Our Town” for Cars, Mel Brooks for “There’s Nothing Like A Show On Broadway” for the remake of The Producers, and Dolly Parton who wrote “Travelin’ Thru” for Transamerica. “Can’t Take It In” was played during the movie’s credits.

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Imogen Heap, as you may know, wrote a song that appears on The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe soundtrack. It’s the song “Can’t Take It In” that you hear right when the credits begin.

In a recent interview, she spoke about the challenge of writing the song, as she only had a week to write and record it:

After that, the calls from the TV and film studios poured in. A highpoint was being asked to provide a song for a climactic scene in the recent version of The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe.

“I was about to go on holiday with my boyfriend to the Grand Canyon and I got a call from them,” she recalls.

“They invited me in and they were all giving it the hard sell so I said, ‘This sounds great, when do you need it by?’ and they said, ‘Well actually we need it next week so you’re going to have to cancel your holiday’.

“They always seem to leave the big song to the last week for some reason. I managed to get it done in a week but it was really difficult.”

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The nominees to the 2006 World Soundtrack Awards, to be handed out during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium, on October 14, were revealed today. Dario Marianelli, Alberto Iglesias, James Newton Howard and Gustavo Santaolalla all received two nominations each.

”Best Original Song Written for Film”
- “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” from Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla/ Bernie Taupin)
- “Can’t Take It In” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Harry Gregson-Williams/Imogen Heap)
- “Magic Works” from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Jarvis Cocker)
- “Mdlwembe” from Tsotsi (Kabelo ‘Kaybee’ Ikaneng/Zola)
- “Our Town” from Cars (Randy Newman)

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 42 original songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered for the 78th Academy Awards®.

The original songs, along with the motion picture, are listed below in alphabetical order:

“Along the River” from “End of the Spear”
“Angels Talk” from “Angels with Angles”
“Butterfly” from “Because of Winn-Dixie”
“Can’t Take It In” from “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
“Closer Every Day” from “Freezerburn: The Movie”
“Dicholo” from “The Constant Gardener”
“Do the Hippogriff” from “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
“Dreamer” from “Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story”
“Face of Faith” from “Rumor Has It”
“Fight for the Children” from “Palindromes”
“Finding Home” from “Finding Home”
“Great Big World” from “Hoodwinked”
“Have a Little Faith” from “The Theory of Everything”
“Hustle & Flow (It Ain’t Over)” from “Hustle & Flow”
“(I’d Have It All) If I Had Drew” from “My Date with Drew”
“If I Apologize” from “Mirrormask”
“I’ll Be Near You” from “Bee Season”
“I’ll Whip Ya Head Boy” from “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”
“In the Deep” from “Crash”
“It Ain’t Over Yet” from “Racing Stripes”
“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from “Hustle & Flow”
“I’ve Gotta See You Smile” from “Because of Winn-Dixie”
“Mad Hot Ballroom” from “Mad Hot Ballroom”
“Move Away and Shine” from “Thumbsucker”
“My Brother, My People” from “Blues by the Beach”
“Nobody Jesus But You” from “Palindromes”
“One Blood” from “Green Street Hooligans”
“One Little Slip” from “Chicken Little”
“One Safe Place” from “The Upside of Anger”
“Reachin’ for Heaven” from “Ice Princess”
“Remains of the Day” from “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”
“Same in Any Language” from “Elizabethtown”
“Shine” from “Robots”
“Shoulder to Shoulder” from “Pooh’s Heffalump Movie”
“So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
“Taking the Inside Rail” from “Racing Stripes”
“Tell Me What You Already Did” from “Robots”
“There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway” from “The Producers”
“These Days” from “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
“This Is the Way” from “Palindromes”
“Travelin’ Thru” from “Transamerica”
“You’re Gonna Die Soon” from “Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic”

The Academy will screen three-minute clips of each song in random order for music branch voting members on January 17 and again on January 23. At these screenings, members will vote to nominate three to five songs for Oscar consideration.

In order to make this list of eligible submissions, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original, and written specifically for the film.

Nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 a.m. PST, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST.

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Walt Disney Records have released two versions of the soundtrack for Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe today. The first is the [Golden Globe nominated] Original Soundtrack, featuring score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and songs performed by Alanis Morrissette, Imogen Heap, Tim Finn and Lisbeth Scott. The other is the 2-disc Special Edition Soundtrack, which includes a Special Edition CD, containing the original soundtrack plus a 40-page souvenir booklet, and DVD.

Harry Gregson-Williams reunites with director Andrew Adamson after composing the scores for Shrek and the subsequent box-office smash, Shrek 2. Gregson-Williams is well-known in the world of animation, having also scored the features Antz and Chicken Run. Named The Hollywood Composer of the Year 2005 by the Hollywood Film Festival, Gregson-Williams created the scores for a long and extremely varied list of films, including. Kingdom of Heaven, Veronica Guerin, Team America: World Police, Bridget Jones: The Age of Reason, and the recent theatrical release Domino.

Walt Disney Records have released an original soundtrack and a Special Edition CD/DVD package for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The soundtrack will feature the sweeping orchestral score composed by Gregson-Williams plus four original songs: “Can’t Take It In,” performed by Imogen Heap, “Winter Light” by Tim Finn (formerly of Split Enz, Crowded House, Finn Brothers), “Where” performed by Lisbeth Scott, who lent her vocal talents to the Shrek and Passion of the Christ soundtracks, and [Golden Globe nominated] “Wunderkind” performed by Grammy® Award-winner Alanis Morissette.

The Special Edition Soundtrack set will include a 40-page collectible souvenir booklet filled with film imagery, liner notes by director Andrew Adamson and quotes from composer Harry Gregson-Williams. The package will include a DVD with a Film Art Gallery, Concept Art Gallery, the Theatrical Trailer, Behind the Magic of Narnia: Featuring the Score with Harry Gregson-Williams and Music Inspired by the Film. The latter features interviews and song samples from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe “Inspired by” album on EMI, featuring today’s top Christian artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Bethany Dillon, Toby Ma, Nichole Nordeman, Jars of Clay and more.

[Narnia Soundtrack]

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Walt Disney Records will release two versions of the soundtrack for Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on December 13, 2005. The first is the Original Soundtrack, featuring score composed by Harry Gregson-Williams and songs performed by Alanis Morrissette, Imogen Heap, Tim Finn and Lisbeth Scott. The other is the 2-disc Special Edition Soundtrack, which includes a Special Edition CD, containing the original soundtrack plus a 40-page souvenir booklet, and DVD.

In 1950, the scholar, critic and writer C.S. Lewis published The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first of his seven-volume series, The Chronicles of Narnia, and established a modern legend. Adults and children alike fell in love with his stirring, action-packed adventure that was set in the middle of World War II bombing raids yet transported readers into an alternate and far more enchanted universe of mythological creatures waging an epic battle between good and evil.

Years in the making and meticulously created by director Andrew Adamson to match C.S. Lewis’ own vision of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe marks the live-action debut of New Zealander Adamson, who came to fore bringing worldwide audiences the Oscar®-winning Shrek and Shrek 2.

Harry Gregson-Williams reunites with director Andrew Adamson after composing the scores for Shrek and the subsequent box-office smash, Shrek 2. Gregson-Williams is well-known in the world of animation, having also scored the features Antz and Chicken Run. Named The Hollywood Composer of the Year 2005 by the Hollywood Film Festival, Gregson-Williams created the scores for a long and extremely varied list of films, including. Kingdom of Heaven, Veronica Guerin, Team America: World Police, Bridget Jones: The Age of Reason, and the recent theatrical release Domino.

Walt Disney Records will release an original soundtrack and a Special Edition CD/DVD package for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. The soundtrack will feature the sweeping orchestral score composed by Gregson-Williams plus four original songs: “Can’t Take It In,” performed by Imogen Heap, “Winter Light” by Tim Finn (formerly of Split Enz, Crowded House, Finn Brothers), “Where” performed by Lisbeth Scott, who lent her vocal talents to the Shrek and Passion of the Christ soundtracks, and “Wunderkind” performed by Grammy® Award-winner Alanis Morissette.

The Special Edition Soundtrack set will include a 40-page collectible souvenir booklet filled with film imagery, liner notes by director Andrew Adamson and quotes from composer Harry Gregson-Williams. The package will include a DVD with a Film Art Gallery, Concept Art Gallery, the Theatrical Trailer, Behind the Magic of Narnia: Featuring the Score with Harry Gregson-Williams and Music Inspired by the Film. The latter features interviews and song samples from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe “Inspired by” album on EMI, featuring today’s top Christian artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Bethany Dillon, Toby Ma, Nichole Nordeman, Jars of Clay and more.

C.S. Lewis’ timeless adventure The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe follows the exploits of the four Pevensie siblings — Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter — in World War II England who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of ‘hide-and-seek’ in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch’s powerful hold over Narnia in a spectacular, climactic battle that will free Narnia from Jadis’ icy spell forever.

Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media present The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in theaters on December 9, 2005. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Original Soundtrack and Special Edition Soundtrack will be in stores on December 13, 2005.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe follows the adventures of four siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter who enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe in the home of an elderly professor. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, Aslan the lion, the children help fight to overcome the White Witch’s power over Narnia.

The Narnia Original Soundtrack features a Limited Edition 3-D cover, score by acclaimed composer Harry Gregson-Williams plus a track by music superstar Alanis Morissette!

1. The Blitz, 1940 – Score
2. Evacuating London – Score
3. The Wardrobe – Score
4. Lucy Meets Mr. Tumnus – Score
5. A Narnia Lullaby – Score
6. The White Witch – Score
7. From Western Woods to Beaversdam – Score
8. Father Christmas – Score
9. To Aslan’s Camp – Score
10. Knighting Peter – Score
11. The Stone Table – Score
12. The Battle – Score
13. Only the Beginning of the Adventure – Score
14. Can’t Take It In – Performed by Imogen Heap
15. Wunderkind – Performed by Alanis Morissette
16. Winter Light – Performed by Tim Finn
17. Where – Performed by Lisbeth Scott

It’s Every Narnia Collector’s Dream – The Ultimate Collection of Music, Memorabilia and More!
Special Edition CD features:

* Original score by acclaimed composer Harry Gregson-Williams
* Songs by Alanis Morissette, Imogen Heap, Tim Finn and Lisbeth Scott
* 40-page collectible souvenir booklet filled with film imagery and liner notes by film director Andrew Adamson

Special Edition DVD includes:

* “Making of the Score” including an interview with composer Harry Gregson-Williams plus film footage
* Photo Gallery featuring hundreds of riveting images from the film
* Official Movie Trailer
* Artist interviews and song samples from the “Inspired By” Album featuring top artists Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, Bethany Dillon, Toby Mac, Nichole Nordeman, Jars of Clay and more!

[Narnia Soundtrack Site]

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