The music for "Congo" was under no favorable star. Quasi inserted into the composition process of sugar David "First Knight", Jerry Goldsmith looked throughout the work faced with constant cutting changes that made a concentrated action almost impossible. However, the terrible movie offered barely a toehold for artificial development. Except for the final sequence consists Goldsmiths contribution almost entirely of short musical pieces. In the relatively short CD (only the final is already taking a third of the total running time), however, are these fragments together reasonably sensible. In addition to some trivial arg exoticism that evoke vague memories of "Medicine Man", the composer shows at least in the dramatic passages quite in shape. The unvarnished Stravinsky archaism compatible doing well with the rough inhospitable jungle backdrop. About some production details of the recording can be argued, however. Why the composer despite 100 musicians (including seven percussionists and six horns) keeps going on clearly sampled percussions, is implausible, leaving just the melodic passages a stale aftertaste. For the commercial attraction of film and music on the other hand the title "Spirit of Africa" who not only obviously the success of Hans Zimmer's "The Lion King" is based makes, but with Lebo M and equal to one of the transmitted artists of the Disney film reactivated.
