The soundtrack for the 1986 UK film Captive is the only solo album to date by The Edge

The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his stage name The Edge , is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record...

, guitarist of U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

. It is also the only solo album to date by one of the members of U2.

The Edge approached Michael Brook

Michael Brook

Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

, creator of the Infinite Guitar

Infinite Guitar

The Infinite Guitar was created by Michael Brook, as a way of allowing an electric guitar note to be held with infinite sustain . It consists of an electronic circuit that takes the signal from a standard guitar pickup, amplifies it, and feeds it back into a separate pickup coil...

, which The Edge regularly uses, to collaborate on this soundtrack album; Brook co-produced and helped with the instrumentals and some of the writing.

Edge also approached a young vocalist just beginning to appear on the Dublin scene to provide vocals for the main theme. This was Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

, who would shortly afterwards release her debut album. She and The Edge's U2 bandmate Larry Mullen Jr.

Larry Mullen Jr.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. is an Irish musician best known as the drummer for the Irish rock band U2. He is the founder of U2, which he later described as "'The Larry Mullen Band' for about ten minutes, then Bono walked in and blew any chance I had of being in charge." He has worked on...

 contributed to "Heroine", with O'Connor providing lead vocals and Mullen providing drums.

The music on Captive is a mix of ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 styles. The majority of tracks,except tracks 2 and 4 are instrumentals. The track "Heroine" was released as a single.

Track listing

All tracks written by The Edge

The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his stage name The Edge , is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record...

 except where noted.

1. "Rowena's Theme" – 3:56
2. "Heroine" (Theme from Captive) (music by The Edge, lyrics by The Edge and Sinéad O'Connor
   Sinéad O'Connor
   Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
   
   ) – 4:27
3. "One Foot in Heaven" – 5:10
4. "The Strange Party" – 5:35
5. "Hiro's Theme I" – 4:16
6. "Drift" – 2:20
7. "The Dream Theme" – 3:36
8. "Djinn" (Michael Brook
   Michael Brook
   Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....
   
   ) – 3:02
9. "Island" – 1:53
10. "Hiro's Theme (Reprise)" – 1:37

Personnel

The Edge

The Edge

David Howell Evans , more widely known by his stage name The Edge , is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record...

 and Michael Brook

Michael Brook

Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

 – all instruments except:

• Lesley Bishop – French horn
  Horn (instrument)
  The horn is a brass instrument consisting of about of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player ....
  
   on "Rowena's Theme"
• Larry Mullen Jr – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
   on "Heroine"
• Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
  
   – vocals on "Heroine"
• Steve Lillywhite
  Steve Lillywhite
  Steve Lillywhite is an English Grammy Award winning record producer. Since he began his career in 1977, Lillywhite has been credited for working on over 500 records and has collaborated with a variety of musicians including XTC, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Dave Matthews Band, U2, Peter Gabriel,...
  
  – remix of "Heroine"