Cirque du Soleil Musique To Release The KA soundtrack CD On October 18, 2005

MONTREAL, CA. (Cirque du Soleil PR) - Cirque du Soleil Musique announces the release of the KA soundtrack, its most ambitious musical project to date. While remaining firmly rooted in Cirque du Soleil musical tradition, the recording featuring a 57-piece symphony orchestra and 40-member choir creates a unique musical universe both epic and lyrical.

The powerful percussion and distinctive sound invites comparisons with classic movie soundtracks creating "a rich soundtrack that lives up to the overarching eye-candy on display," says Variety. To create this sound, KA was recorded at the renowned Paramount Studios in Los Angeles and in Montreal, where Cirque du Soleil is based. Hollywood veteran Simon Leclerc, the conductor for Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, the play Les Miserables and the Quebec production Dracula, conducted the orchestra in Los Angeles.

Composer Rene Dupere has been part of Cirque du Soleil since the very beginning. KA is the first work Dupere has composed for Cirque du Soleil since 1994's Alegria, the best-selling Cirque du Soleil recording to date. Dupere is proud of his new creation, currently showing at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. "We pulled out all the stops in the making of this album, and the result is, I believe, a record of the highest quality," says Dupere. The album KA is worthy of the show that Time magazine called "bigger than Vegas."

Both the stage production and the soundtrack called for highly innovative use of musical technology. Says Martin Lord-Ferguson, co-producer of the recording: "Technological innovation, artistic audacity and technical prowess are all features of KA that the soundtrack had to reflect."
The KA CD is on sale now at https://www.cirquedusoleil.com and will be in stores on October 18, 2005.