‘Be Kind Rewind’ Soundtrack Features Mos Def, Jack Black, Fats Waller, Billy Preston, Booker T, & Jean-Michel Bernard Score; Due January 22

As previously reported, the score was composed by Jean-Michel Bernard (he also did Gondry’s “Science Of Sleep” and contributed music to “Human Nature”) and also features Mos Def and Fats Waller.

The soundtrack also includes songs by Jack Black, Billy Preston (the same song was used in the trailer), Booker T, and musical contributions from Michel Gondry (who plays drums, most notably in recent years on the Jon Brion, Kanye West produced track “Diamonds From Sierra Leone”).

The film’s synopsis from the official site:

A junkyard worker (Jack Black) who attempts to sabotage a power plant that he believes is melting his brain. But when his plan goes awry, the magnetic field that he creates accidentally erases all of the videotapes in a local video store where his best friend Mike works (“Mos Def”). Fearing that the mishap will cost Mike his job, the two friends team up to keep the store’s only loyal customer – a little old lady with a tenuous grasp on reality (Mia Farrow) – from realizing what has happened by recreating and re-filming every movie that she decides to rent. From “Back to the Future,” to “Robocop,” to “Rush Hour,” to “The Lion King,” Jerry and Mike become the biggest stars in their neighborhood by starring in the biggest movies ever made

You’ll recall the process of re-making movies is called to “swede” in ‘Rewind.’ We’ve got a bunch of the sweded trailers, including “Robocop” and “Rush Hour” at this previous post. Due digitally on January 22, 2008 and physically January 29, 2008 on Lakeshore Records (though we’re told Amazon might currently be wrong and the release may go 1/22 as well), you can hear four songs from the 28-song soundtrack including Mos Def and Bernard’s take on the Fats Waller song, “Your Feets Too Big” over at the soundtrack’s official myspace page. The film itself is due in theaters January 25.