Angel Romero's World Music Central brings word that the American soundtrack recording for Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers (buy it) is in stores. The composer is Shigeru Umebayashi:

Once the leader of Japan's legendary new-wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the West for his score for director Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood for Love (2001). Umebayashi is also scoring Wong Kar-Wai's long-awaited 2046, scheduled for release this year.