update: the song is now available to listen here:

“gathering stories”, an original song from the forthcoming “we bought a zoo” soundtrack, is now available to listen to on the npr show “all songs considered”

also on the npr blog post, is the album sleeve notes written by cameron crowe about the recording process, here is an extract:

his first theme for the movie fit perfectly. within a week, jónsi had composed a series of themes that would reflect everything we’d hoped for. in his music were all the highs and lows and passionate in-betweens of the film itself. over the course of several visits to los angeles, jónsi sculpted and orchestrated a soundscape with elements i’d never had in a movie before: bells, strings, cymbals, toy pianos, even melodies played through a small dictaphone. the instinct that began the movie had come full circle. on a warm fall night in october, we finished. the e-mail he sent last night before boarding the plane back to his home in iceland says it all: “it was such a blast.” and so it was. here, with thanks from an inspired director, and special gratitude to alex somers, who helped shine it through a prism of love and wonder, is jónsi’s first score for film. this is his music for “we bought a zoo.”

cameron crowe
october 2011

the album is also available to pre-order on itunes (united states) in addition to amazon.com