[.ca] Broken Flowers

From Amazon.com:
Will this soundtrack do for Ethiopian composer and musician Mulatu Astatke what Titanic did for Celine Dion? Well...maybe on a much, much smaller scale. Astatke's circle of Western fans has already expanded thanks to the compilation Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-¬1974, and Jim Jarmusch's movie puts his hypnotic instrumentals to great use. This isn't surprising, since Jarmusch is a filmmaker with a natural affinity for music and its use onscreen. Here, a three-minute excerpt from stoner-rock legend Sleep's titanic "Dopesmoker" only offers a sample of the song (it actually lasts an hour) but it still sounds awesome, especially stuck between an Astatke track and Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem, Op. 48 (Pie Jesu)." Garage vets the Greenhornes and Holly Golightly contribute tracks together and separately, while indie-rockers Brian Jonestown Massacre¹s "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" (an answer song to the Dandy Warhols' "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth") sounds as bilious now as it did in 1997. This is a rare case of a soundtrack that pulls together a broad range of artists yet remains oddly consistent--no doubt because it was assembled by a director with vision instead of a focus group. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

• There Is an End - Holly Golightly, The Greenhornes
• Yegelle Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke
• Ride Your Donkey - The Tennors
• I Want You - Marvin Gaye
• Yekermo Sew - Mulatu Astatke
• Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth - The Brian Jonestown Massacre,
• Tell Me Now So I Know - Holly Golightly
• Gubèlyé - Mulatu Astatke
• Dopesmoker - Sleep
• Requiem, Op. 48 (Pie Jesu) - Oxford Camerata
• Ethanopium - Dengue Fever,
• Unnatural Habitat - The Greenhornes
• Ethanopium - Dengue Fever
• Requiem, Op, 48 (Pie Jesu) - Oxford Camerata
• Unnatural Habitat - The Greenhornes