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Jun 26, 2017 - 9:07 PM
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STARGATE SG-1
Composed by RICHARD BAND
INTRADA Special Collection 374
Intrada presents a 2-CD set of Richard Band's scores to four episodes of Stargate SG-1: "Cold Lazurus," "In the Line of Duty," "The Serpent's Lair," and "Singularity." Band’s genre experience made him well suited to handle Stargate SG-1’s mix of science fiction, action and drama, and he used a combination of small orchestral ensembles and synthesizers to work within the show’s music budget while still maintaining an appropriate science fiction palette.
The first episode scored by Band was “Cold Lazarus,” where he had to characterize the strangeness of the featured alien planet, with some subtle suggestions of material from David Arnold’s original Stargate score as well as a wavering, atmospheric motive and a variety of percussion effects that create a nervous, unpredictable feeling.
Season two’s “In the Line of Duty” opens with Richard Band’s underscoring a sprawling action scene with a humanoid alien attack on the planet Nasya. Band's score features a keening, slithery variation of Arnold’s B theme, as well as the more romantic version of the B theme.
Stargate SG-1’s second season opened with the action-packed “The Serpent’s Lair,” which has the team infiltrating a warship to head off an attack on Earth. Band composed the Finale, driven by his percussive military material, and wraps up with a warm synthesizer statement of Arnold’s main theme as the crisis is averted.
The last episode featured is “Singularity." Band’s “Teaser” opens with some grand chords for establishing shots of the stargate in operation, while the rest of the score features everything from droll underscoring for a little comic banter, a military motif playing alongside snares and low, staccato keyboard notes as the team enters the stargate, while wailing synthesizer notes, creaking waterphone effects and a touch of choir accentuate the horror and mystery of the plague they discover on the other side.
The TV series followed three years after the theatrical release of Stargate, on the SyFy Channel. In the series, Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) took on Kurt Russell’s role of tough-talking military officer Colonel Jack O’Neill, while Michael Shanks played the wet-behind-the-ears Dr. Jackson. Joining Anderson and Shanks were Amanda Tapping as Major Samantha Carter, a pilot and astrophysicist who was an expert on the stargate technology, and Christopher Judge as Teal’c, a warrior from one of the numerous planets enslaved by the Goa’uld, the symbiotic half-human, half-alien race who were the chief antagonists of the original Stargate movie and the subsequent television series. While it extensively employed the iconography and story elements of the movie, Stargate SG-1 quickly established its own characters and themes, growing in popularity and eventually running for an incredible 10 seasons and spawning two spinoffs, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe.
INTRADA Special Collection 374
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Retail Price: $21.99
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For track listing and sound samples, please visit: http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.10907/.f
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[CD 1]
COLD LAZARUS
01. Teaser (3:42)
02. Is It Really Jack? (3:53)
03. Jack At Ex-Wife’s House (3:25)
04. Jack Visits Charlie’s Room (3:24)
05. The Crystals (2:14)
06. The Crystal Monitor (2:18)
07. Jack And Wife On Park Bench (3:08)
08. They Re-Activate The Crystal Monitor (2:03)
09. Pushing Back Through Gate To Hospital (3:53)
10. Jack Meets Alien Self And Finale (9:10)
Total Time: 37:22
IN THE LINE OF DUTY
11. Teaser (2:50)
12. Medical Time (3:12)
13. O’Neil Comforts Cassie (3:05)
14. O’Neil To Burn Victim (0:38)
15. Tilk Gives O’Neil Advice (2:28)
16. Daniel Talks To Girl Survivor (2:07)
17. Bad Guy Bandages Doc (2:20)
18. Daniel Talks To Alien Carter (2:26)
19. Finale – Daniel And Then Others Visit (10:11)
Total Time: 29:36
CD 1 Total Time: 67:01
[CD 2]
IN THE SERPENT’S LAIR
01. Finale (8:50)
Total Time: 8:54)
SINGULARITY
02. Teaser (3:34)
03. From Stargate To New World (2:36)
04. Sam With Girl And Back Through Gate (2:49)
05. Sam And Little Girl Get Closer (2:58)
06. Heart Attack And Operation (3:36)
07. Jack And Teale Escaping Battle (4:22)
08. To The Underground Site (2:35)
09. Time Is Up And Finale (8:26)
Total Time: 31:04
CD 2 Total Time: 40:01
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The PR is silly too, the show aired on Showtime for years before it went to Sci Fi. Pretty sure Sci Fi wasn't rebranded to SyFy during SG1's run either.
Don't blame Intrada for corporate idiosyncracies. Even if Syfy was Sci-Fi at the time, that spelling is strictly verboten today. The labels have to play ball with our benevolent corporate licensors. (Don't get me started about the headaches keeping the historical M-G-M studio releases separate from the contemporary MGM/UA designations, back when Lukas and I were copy editing FSM releases. Sheesh!)
Anyway, nice to see Stargate get a new album!
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I found something else weird in the tracklisting:
[CD 2]
IN THE SERPENT’S LAIR
01. Finale (8:50)
Total Time: 8:54)
So, if the total time of the track is listed at 8:50, where do the additional four seconds come from? Is that lead-in and trail-out silence to separate it from the start of the disc and the next episode score? I thought CD's normally counted that in track times.
And there is a parentheses missing.
Anyway, tracklisting aside, I'll sample it later. I can speak for his first episode though, based on the old GNP release (which, in my personal opinion, was the only good score on the CD...). The way he uses Arnold's secondary Stargate theme, is beautiful land touching in the episode. While there were some small bits I didn't care for, I edited together a rather seamless suite and raised volumes on extremely quiet parts I could barely hear even when I dialed the volume to 100% for a wonderful listening experience. It's synth, but it works.
I hope if this does well, more scoring from the series will follow. Before Joel died, on his now gone forum on his website he was taking suggestions for tracks to be included on a release he was working on (also, Atlantis), but since he's died and nothing has materialized since then, I guess it went belly up without him.
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Jun 29, 2017 - 7:17 AM
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jkannry
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I found something else weird in the tracklisting:
[CD 2]
IN THE SERPENT’S LAIR
01. Finale (8:50)
Total Time: 8:54)
So, if the total time of the track is listed at 8:50, where do the additional four seconds come from? Is that lead-in and trail-out silence to separate it from the start of the disc and the next episode score? I thought CD's normally counted that in track times.
And there is a parentheses missing.
Anyway, tracklisting aside, I'll sample it later. I can speak for his first episode though, based on the old GNP release (which, in my personal opinion, was the only good score on the CD...). The way he uses Arnold's secondary Stargate theme, is beautiful land touching in the episode. While there were some small bits I didn't care for, I edited together a rather seamless suite and raised volumes on extremely quiet parts I could barely hear even when I dialed the volume to 100% for a wonderful listening experience. It's synth, but it works.
I hope if this does well, more scoring from the series will follow. Before Joel died, on his now gone forum on his website he was taking suggestions for tracks to be included on a release he was working on (also, Atlantis), but since he's died and nothing has materialized since then, I guess it went belly up without him.
Id love to see more Stargate SG-1. So much good music. How bout their 1969 episode themes?
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Great to see some more Stargate music getting released 
Hopefully this release isn't just a one off. Hopefully this release signals MGM's willingness to let labels like Intrada, La La Land and Varese get all that unreleased music from the Stargate franchise out to fans.
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