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Jun 9, 2009 - 7:56 AM
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ColSharpe
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(2-CD set) La-La Land Records proudly presents its 100th soundtrack release, the 2-CD Set Battlestar Galactica: Season 4. Acclaimed Battlestar composer Bear McCreary pulls out all the musical stops with his sensational music score to the fourth and final season of the critically lauded Sci Fi Channel television series starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff. McCreary enriches and expands his glorious, one-of-a-kind mix of orchestra, vocals, rock, world-beats and synth. A sonic powerhouse that lives on beyond this beloved television show.
DISC 1:
1. Gaeta’s Lament
Featuring Alessandro Juliani, vocals
Words by Michael Angeli, Music by Bear McCreary
From the Episode “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner”
2. The Signal
From the Episode “Revelations”
3. Resurrection Hub
From the Episode “The Hub”
4. The Cult of Baltar
Featuring Raya Yarbrough, vocals
Words and Music by Bear McCreary
From the Episodes “He That Believeth in Me” and “Escape Velocity”
5. Farewell Apollo
From the Episode “Six of One”
6. Roslin Escapes
From the Episode “Blood on the Scales”
7. Among the Ruins
From the Episode “Sometimes a Great Notion”
8. Laura Runs
From the Episode “A Disquiet Follows My Soul”
9. Cally Descends
From the Episode “The Ties That Bind”
10. Funeral Pyre
Featuring Kandyse McClure, vocals
From the Episode “Sometimes a Great Notion”
11. Roslin and Adama Reunited
From the Episode “The Hub”
12. Gaeta’s Lament (Instrumental)
From the Episode “Guess What’s Coming to Dinner”
13. Elegy
Performed by Bear McCreary, piano
From the Episode “Someone to Watch Over Me”
14. The Alliance
From the Episode “Revelations”
15. Blood on the Scales
From the Episodes “The Oath” and “Blood on the Scales”
16. Grand Old Lady
From the Episode “Islanded in a Stream of Stars”
17. Kara Remembers
From the Episode “Someone to Watch Over Me”
18. Boomer Takes Hera
From the Episode “Someone to Watch Over Me”
19. Dreilide Thrace Sonata No. 1
Performed by Bear McCreary, piano
From the Episode “Someone to Watch Over Me”
20. Diaspora Oratorio
Words and Music by Bear McCreary
From the Episode “Revelations”
DISC 2: “Daybreak”
1. Caprica City, Before the Fall
2. Laura’s Baptism
3. Adama in the Memorial Hallway
4. The Line
5. Assault on the Colony
Featuring Raya Yarbrough, vocals
6. Baltar’s Sermon
7. Kara’s Coordinates
8. Earth
9. Goodbye Sam
10. The Heart of the Sun
Contains “Theme from Battlestar Galactica”
by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson
11. Starbuck Disappears
12. So Much Life
13. An Easterly View
14. The Passage of Time
Release Date: July 21, 2009
http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=2107#more-2107
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This has been on my 'to-get' list for four months, along with the features scores and 'Caprica'.
It's about the only thing on my list, barring any more 'Twilight Zone's or 'Something Wicked...'s.
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(2-CD set) La-La Land Records proudly presents its 100th soundtrack release, the 2-CD Set Battlestar Galactica: Season 4. Acclaimed Battlestar composer Bear McCreary pulls out all the musical stops with his sensational music score to the fourth and final season of the critically lauded Sci Fi Channel television series starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, James Callis, Tricia Helfer and Katee Sackhoff. McCreary enriches and expands his glorious, one-of-a-kind mix of orchestra, vocals, rock, world-beats and synth. A sonic powerhouse that lives on beyond this beloved television show.
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Temp cover guys, just a temp cover
MV
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Now THIS I'm really looking forward to.
There's some FANTASTIC work in S4 !!!
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I picked mine up from Comic-Con - It is beautiful. Far more layered than the Season 3 CD, and Daybreak is fantastic.
Highly recommended.
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Some thoughts on the new double album...
*I will mention track titles, however I don't think any of them are spoilers*
There is some superb material. The second disc - the score of the finale episode - surveys most of the themes of the series with a more extensive orchestral presence than usual. 'The Line', 'An Easterly View', 'So Much Life', 'Goodbye Sam' and 'Into the Sun' are the peaks for me. The 15 minute action cue actually is interesting, but kind of feels less interesting in comparison to 'Prelude to War', 'Mandala in the Clouds' and 'Storming New Caprica' from previous seasons.
The first disc is the real winner for me however, with some wonderful tracks like 'The Hub', 'Elegy', 'Among the Ruins', 'Roslin and Adama Reunited', and in particular all versions of 'Gaeta's Lament' (heard in 'Blood on the Scales' as well as both of the tracks titled 'Gaeta's Lament'). The latter joins 'Violence and Variations' and 'Storming New Caprica' as one of my favourite cues of the series. It's probably the weight of things like 'Gaeta's Lament' and 'The Hub' that shifts me in favour of the first album. Like the episodes that lament accompanied ('Guess what's coming to dinner', and 'The Oath' arc), there is more meat for drama here than the very-well produced finale 'Daybreak' ultimately offered. 'Among the Ruins' and 'Funeral Pyre' from the superb mid-season re-opener 'Sometimes a Great Notion' explore darker territory than any of the BSG music before. 'Roslin Escapes' joins the great action cues of the series.
'Kara Remembers' is a strong track, but feels a little happy to hold on a groove -- it probably could have been worked over a little more for album. (Though the reworking of it for album has already added a few nice touches.) 'The Signal' is 90% great, but is almost ruined by having what sounds like a choir of 6 trying to sound bigger than they are. (The small choir works much better for the early cue devoted to Baltar's cult.) 'Diaspora Oratorio' is also pretty strong, and I suspect it will grow on me.
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Less than 30 FRAKKIN' minutes!!!!!!!!!!!
MV
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Less than 30 FRAKKIN' minutes!!!!!!!!!!!
MV
MV, how many have you sold/pre-sold already?
Is this one looking like it will be your highest seller (I hope so!)?
To stores it is a record for us -- we may even top the first week sales of Harry Potter!
MV
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