For this collection of Australian soundtracks I have selected several outstanding dramas that were highly praised by critics and audiences. The soundtracks were also composed by prominent Australian artists.
Beautiful Kate is a 2009 Australian drama film directed by Rachel Ward and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown, Maeve Dermody and Sophie Lowe. Writer Ned Kendall is returning to the remote and isolated family home inhabited by his sister Sally, to say goodbye to his father, Bruce, who is dying. Ned also brings his fiancée, Toni, who has trouble getting used to the isolation and harshness of rural Australia.
The score is composed by Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson.
1 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Beautiful Kate (Main Theme) 3:20
2 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Wilpena Pound 1:45
3 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– The Shed 0:33
4 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Weeping Windmill 2:32
5 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– The Old School Room 1:10
6 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– The Memory 1:18
7 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Room Service 1:33
8 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Beautiful Kate (Kiss And Make Up) 0:59
9 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– The Chase 2:23
10 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Ned Walks Back 1:28
11 Blind Dog Taylor And One More Mile, Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Always On My Mind / Finding Kate
12 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Beautiful Kate (The Dam) 1:04
13 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– You're Not Gonna Tell Him Are You? 1:16
14 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Forgiveness 0:57
15 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Washing Bruce 1:46
16 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Beautiful Kate (Goodbye) 1:17
17 Tex Perkins, Murray Paterson And Megan Washington– This Little Bird 1:58
18 Tex Perkins And Murray Paterson– Closing Titles (Remembering Russell Dunlop) 5:34
Beautiful Kate
Jindabyne is a 2006 Australian drama film by third time feature director Ray Lawrence and starring Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney, Deborra-Lee Furness and John Howard. Jindabyne was filmed entirely on location in and around the Australian country town of the same name: Jindabyne, New South Wales, situated next to the Snowy Mountains.
It was one of a rush of over 16 Australian cinema releases that year. Critics praised its refinement and the film is credited as a signal of Australian cinema's maturity.
At the ARIA Music Awards of 2006 the soundtrack by Paul Kelly and Dan Luscombe and featuring Soteria Bell, won the ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album.
1 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Rocks
2 Katie Brianna And The Stormwater Boys*– Jindabyne Fair
3 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Body Drop
4 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Claire On The Road
5 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Mirror
6 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Morning Fishing
7 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Stewart And Claire
8 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Power Lines
9 Paul Kelly & The Stormwater Boys– Nukkanya
10 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Night River
11 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– So Soft
12 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Going To Susan's
13 Doonuch Clan– Welcome Dance
14 Ursula Yovich– The Way That I Love You
15 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Humming Way
16 Paul Kelly And Dan Luscombe– Troitsa Bratya
17 Paul Kelly – Everything's Turning To White
One Night the Moon is a 2001 Australian musical film made for television, starring husband-and-wife team Paul Kelly, a singer-songwriter, and Kaarin Fairfax, a film and television actress, along with their daughter Memphis Kelly. The film was directed by Rachel Perkins and co-written by Perkins with John Romeril. In 2009 Romeril adapted the script as a musical theatre work.
Kelton Pell portrayed an Aboriginal tracker, Albert Yang, with Ruby Hunter playing his wife, who searches for the missing child. Musical score was by Kelly, Kev Carmody and Mairead Hannan, and with other artists they also contributed to the soundtrack. The film won ten awards, including two Australian Film Institute Awards.
1 Paul Kelly – I Don't Know Anything Anymore
2 Mairead Hannan– Flinders Theme
3 Kaarin Fairfax– One Night The Moon
4 Mairead Hannan & Deirdre Hannan– Moon Child
5 Mairead Hannan– The Gathering
6 Mairead Hannan & Deirdre Hannan & Alice Garner– Now Listen Here
7 Paul Kelly & Kelton Pell– This Land Is Mine
8 Mairead Hannan– The March Goes On - The Gathering 2
9 Kev Carmody– Spirit Of The Ancients
10 Kaarin Fairfax & Kelton Pell– What Do You Know
11 Mairead Hannan– Carcass - The Gathering 3
12 Kev Carmody & Alice Garner & Deirdre Hannan & Mairead Hannan– Night Shadows
13 Kev Carmody– Black & White
14 Mairead Hannan– Moment Of Death
15 Deirdre Hannan & Mairead Hannan– Hunger
16 Kelton Pell & Kaarin Fairfax– Unfinished Business
17 Kev Carmody– Spirit Of The Ancients
18 Deirdre Hannan– Moody Broody
19 Kaarin Fairfax– Little Bones
20 Ruby Hunter– O Breathe On Me
21 Kev Carmody– Moonstruck
