Label: Abkco

Released 7/11/2025

Original soundtrack to Wes Anderson’s new film The Phoenician Scheme, in theaters May 30, 2025, starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend and Hope Davis. The soundtrack blends Alexandre Desplat’s original score with a mix of classical and jazz recordings. Classical highlights include Stravinsky, Bach, and Beethoven, with a handful of Desplat’s compositions for the film referencing Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet L’Oiseau de feu (The Firebird). Jazz highlights include Gene Krupa’s “Drum Boogie,” Glenn Miller’s big band standard “A String of Pearls,” and “Mud Bug” by the Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq Sextet, recorded specifically for the film. The vinyl package includes art from the film and notes by Alexandre Desplat and Wes Anderson. Pressed on sea foam color vinyl

Track Listing:

1. Airplane Crash #1
   
2. Apollon musagète: "Apotheosis"
   
3. A.Z.K Land & Sea
   
4. Palazzo Korda
   
5. Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 2 IV Rondo
   
6. Petrouchka, 1947 Version: "Tableau 1, The Shrovetide Fair"
   
7. The Gap Explodes
   
8. The Trans-Mountain Locomotive Tunnel
   
9. Drum Boogie
   
10. Mud Bug
    
11. The Jungle Unit of the Intercontinental Radical Freedom Militia Corps
    
12. Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Chorale)
    
13. Hach Baregel
    
14. Heaven #5 (Dost Thou Not Fear God)
    
15. A String of Pearls
    
16. IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs "Baba-Yaga"
    
17. L’Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird) "Introduction"/"Le Jardin enchanté de Kachtchei"/"Disparition du pal"