| Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | John Zorn |
| Cover: | Filmworks II.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1992 |
| Genre: | avant-garde, jazz, classical |
| Length: | 34:00 |
| Label: | Toys Factory TFCK-88753 Tzadik TZ 7306 |
| Producer: | John Zorn |
| Chronology: | Filmworks |
| Prev Title: | Filmworks 1986–1990 |
| Prev Year: | 1991 |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Filmworks II: Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill features the second release of scores for film by American composer John Zorn. The album was originally released on the Japanese Toys Factory label in 1995 and subsequently re-released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1996.[1] It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for Trespass which director Walter Hill rejected in favour of a score by Ry Cooder.[2]
The AllMusic review by Joslyn Layne notes that "Overall, it is very atmospheric, with sections of drawn-out tones that slowly build theater mists in the background of a deserted sense of waiting. Balancing stretches of this kind are sections of bent, mellow country... Lacking contrast, this one is definite background music, and although well done, it is also probably the least interesting of Zorn's film scores".[3]
All compositions by John Zorn