 Salt : Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on July 20 , 2010 on iTunes and on August 11 , 2010 as on @-@ demand CD @-@ R from Amazon.com. The music was composed by James Newton Howard and released by Madison Gate Records . The song " Orlov 's Story " includes a Russian lullaby which music editor Joe E. Rand found at Amoeba Music , and which served for inspiration for the choir heard in other tracks – but the chants in the rest of the score are only random syllables , as Rand and Howard thought actual Russian words would spoil about Salt 's allegiance . 
