Sony Music Masterworks release the soundtrack for Gotti, featuring the film’s original score music by Armando Christian Perez, aka Pitbull, and his long-time Grammy-winning producer Jorge Gomez. The movie follows legendary mobster John Gotti who was head of the largest and most powerful crime organization in North America, the Gambino Family. His flamboyant style, charm and ruthless personae made him the most famous mobster in the 20th Century. The story, told through the eyes of his eldest son John Gotti Jr., delves into the past and explores Gotti’s epic rise and fall in the mob...

The soundtrack to Gotti marks Pitbull’s first motion picture score. The album also includes three solo Pitbull tracks, one of them being the single 'Amore' featuring Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Leona Lewis.

The release contains 19 tracks (44 min, 30 sec) and for a first soundtrack project, Pitbull hits the ground running. This is a deeply rich, multi-layered, atmospheric score. It covers so many genres (from the hip-hop/pop 'Amore' to the rock infused 'Somebody to Be' and the numerous pieces that could almost be viewed as classical music in their own right).

If I had one slight grumble... I know it's cliched, but it would have carried a little more weight and sounded a lot bolder, if a full orchestra had been employed. For the most part it sounds like it's mostly digital with instrument samples being used.

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Darren Rea