The soundtrack behind the Sound of Freedom movie was released in its entirety on Friday.
All 19 tracks are available on all music streaming services. Composer Javier Navarrete is behind the album and has won an Emmy, an Oscar nod, and a Grammy nod in his career. Navarrete is known for his work with director Guillermo del Toro in the films The Devil’s Backbone and Pan’s Labyrinth. The Sound of Freedom album features a children’s choir, young soloists, and an orchestra.
“From the beginning, the Sound of Freedom was a unique project. The roughness of the subject material made me doubt if I would be up to the task, and I went back and forth about it, but now believe I made the right decision,” Navarrete said in a statement. “Our conductor, Julian Kershaw, would later describe their singing as ‘primitive-pagan,’ but it is the call of the lost children, their way to plead with us to rescue them from the depths of their misery and absolute darkness.”
According to Navarrete, he arrived at the Abbey Road Studios in London to begin recording the album and found he’d lost his desire to drink alcohol without any previous inclination to quit. The composer remains sober four years later.
“I feel much better. That may seem a modest amount of freedom to have conquered with these sounds, but it means a lot to me,” Navarrete said.
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Sound of Freedom has earned over $216 million in worldwide box office sales and more than $183 million domestically.
The film is about the story of how former Homeland Security agent Tim Ballard quit his DHS job to journey into the jungles of Colombia in an effort to save children from sex slavery. Ballard is portrayed in the film by Jim Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in 2004’s The Passion of the Christ.
