Battlestar Galactica:season 3 (2007)

Product Summary Label: City Hall Records UPC: 00826924106228 Release Date: 10/23/2007 Buy.com Sku: 205503120 Item#: M3RT27 Buy.com Sales Rank: 2011 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Distant Sadness, A - (From 'Occupation') ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Precipice - (From 'Precipice') ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Admiral And Commander - (From 'Exodus, Pts.1 And 2) ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Storming New Caprica - (From 'Exodus, Pt.2') ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Refugees Return - (From 'Exodus, Pt.2') ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Wayward Soldier - (From 'Hero') ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Violence And Variations - (From 'Unfinished Business') ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Dance, The - (From 'Unfinished Business') ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Adama Falls - (From 'Unfinished Business') ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Under the Wing - (From 'Maelstrom') ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Battlestar Sonatica - (From 'Torn') ~ Original Soundtrack 12. Fight Night - (From 'Unfinished Business') ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Kat's Sacrifice - (From 'The Passage') ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Someone To Trust - (From 'Taking a Break From All Your Worries') ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Temple Of Five, The - (From 'The Eye Of Jupiter') ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Dirty Hands - (From 'Dirty Hands') ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Gentle Execution - (From 'Exodus, Pt.2') ~ Original Soundtrack 18. Mandala In the Clouds - (From 'Maelstrom') ~ Original Soundtrack 19. Deathbed And Maelstrom - (From 'Maelstrom') ~ Original Soundtrack 20. Heeding the Call - (From 'Crossroads Pt.2') ~ Original Soundtrack 21. All Along the Watchtower - (From 'Crossroads Pt.2') ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Composer: Bear McCreary. Personnel: Bear McCreary (accordion, piano, harmonium); Steve Bartek (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Paul Cartwright (violin, electric violin); John Wittenberg, Cameron Patrick, Jessica van Velzen, Shari Zippert, Sharon Jackson, Christine E. Frank, Laura McLean, Erika Walczak, Adriana Zoppo, Gina Kronstadt, Norm Hughes, Juliann French, Francine Walsh, Kirstin Fife, Peter Kent, Margaret Wooten, Armen Garabedian, Josephina Vergara, Susan Chatman (violin); Martin J. St. Pierre (erhu); Caroline Buckman, Carole Castillo, Lynn Grants, Scott Hosfeld, Maria Newman, David Stenske, Briana Bandy (viola); Maurice Grants, Rudy Stein, Jacob Szekely, Erika Duke-Kirkpartick, Peggy Baldwin (cello); Eric Rigler (Uilleann pipe); Laura Griffiths (French horn); Bart Samolis (double bass); John Avila (electric bass); Nate Wood (drums); M.B. Gordy (percussion). Additional personnel: Raya Yarbrough, Bt4 (vocals). Audio Mixer: Steve Kaplan. Liner Note Author: Bear McCreary. Recording information: Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage, CA. Arranger: Bear McCreary. Starting in 2004, composer Bear McCreary broke the mold with his background music for the Sci Fi cable-TV channel's series Battlestar Galactica (not to be confused with the original series of the same name that ran on network television from 1978 to 1980, or the 2003 mini-series also called Battlestar Galactica). For McCreary, space was not to be the musical setting for sweeping symphonic themes, as it had been for his many predecessors. McCreary's space music was akin to world music, full of various contemporary ethnic styles and, more than anything else, drums. That's the sound heard especially on the soundtrack album for the first season and, to a lesser extent, the second season's CD as well. This time around, however, McCreary clearly states in his liner notes that he was making a virtue of necessity; if he didn't write symphonic pieces, it was because the producers "didn't want an orchestral score cluttering up their series," and, presumably, because they didn't want to pay the freight: "My approach bordering on minimalism, I set out scoring the first season with a small ensemble of ethnic percussion and woodwinds." Everything is different now. This third-season soundtrack credits 46 string players, along with nine other musicians. McCreary still loves drums, and he has a noticeable affinity for Indian music that is apparent immediately in the leadoff track, "A Distant Sadness" (which also features Raya Yarbrough singing lyrics in Armenian), as well as a taste for Celtic sounds that leads him to use uilleann pipes on several cues. But for the first time, music from the TV series takes a more conventional orchestral approach, and McCreary even plays a solo piano piece, "Battlestar Sonatica." Executive producer Ronald D. Moore contributes an extensive justification in his liner notes for the use of the Bob Dylan song "All Along the Watchtower" (with a sort of hard rock/Indian arrangement and vocals by BT4), a selection apparently not in keeping with the show's science-fiction setting. But it's hard to see why anyone would object; suspended disbelief has been a part of a musical appreciation of the series from the start. ~ William Ruhlmann Producer: Steve Kaplan; Bear McCreary; Steve Kaplan; Bear McCreary Engineer: Steve Kaplan   Associated Artists and Works California Dreams Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 10/23/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 1062 Label : La-La Land Records Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 79m : 3s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00826924106228    Product Image