Nominated to "Breakout Composer of the Year" award by the International Film Music Critics Association 2008.
"Christopher Wong is most certainly a name to keep track of with Journey from the Fall acting as a fine curtain raiser on what is sure to be a blossoming career." - Music from the Movies
"Journey from the Fall is small-scale and intimate but immensely passionate, touching and sentimental; a sensitive musical work of rare honesty and true inner melody as well as hard to find musical-aesthetic values." - Demetris Christodoulides
"A lush, thematic score for a full orchestra and various Asian soloists, Wong’s score captures perfectly that indescribable marriage between East and West that so often in music ends up being pastiche rather than authentic.” - Movie Music UK
"Christopher Wong's score matches (the film's) emotional depth, but buried within its sorrows is a subtle strength and beauty that makes this score infinitely listenable.” - Tracksounds
"Haunting score!" - Intrada
“Christopher Wong’s Hollywood-style score is quality stuff...” - Variety
The acclaimed, award winning drama Journey from the Fall tells the story about a Vietnamese family, tragically affected by the Vietnam War, who are forced to emigrate to America thirteen years after the end of the war. The deeply emotional, heartfelt and strikingly honest orchestral accompaniment to the film is the creation of young composer Christopher Wong, one of our most exciting “new discoveries” this year. He is a student of the legendary Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes, Basic Instinct, L.A. Confidential), and certainly a composer who has learnt a few important tricks by the late maestro: the importance of a strong theme to unify a score and the beauty of carefully figured out choices of instrumentation - while Journey from the Fall has its glowing moments of swelling strings, it’s most evocative writing is for solo instruments such as violin, piano, clarinet, guitar and the Dan Tranh, the traditional Vietnamese zither.
Our Journey from the Fall album also features bonus tracks from Christopher’s score for Victor Vu’s feature First Morning (winner of the Best Picture Award at the San Diego Asian American Film Festival) and the short The Anniversary, which was the first collboration between Christopher Wong and Journey from the Fall director Ham Tran.
Journey from the Fall was released on DVD on October 30.
CD edition is limited to 500 copies.
MMS07015 JOURNEY FROM THE FALL: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Composed and Conducted by CHRISTOPHER WONG
Release date: November 20, 2007.
