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Battlestar Galactica Season One by Bear McCreary
01/08/2005 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
CD: LalaLand Records LLLCD 1032. 30 tracks - 78.33minutes. Price: $16.95 (US), £13.99 UK- import. Buy Battlestar Galactica Season One in the USA - or Buy Battlestar Galactica Season One in the UK  check out website: www.lalalandrecords.com, www.scifi.com/battlestar and www.bearmccreary.com
As the new 'Battlestar Galactica' series hasn't reached terrestrial TV in the UK yet, the first review CD copy got lost in the post and its nearly two months since this was released in June with a deadline looming, I'm just hoping I'm the right person to review this soundtrack. Bearing in mind I do have a taste for soundtracks and an ear for music, I should be at least half-way there. I even read the footnotes 8 page book enclosed and am aware that the production team didn't want anything that would reek of any memory of 'Star Wars' or its kind. Mind you, considering the original 70s Galactica was along those lines, it's not hard to see why they would want to re-enforce the distinction.
Anyway, listening to this CD totally unguarded, the biggest surprise was coming away with nothing memorable. All right, so there's been a move towards TV themes that you are less likely to be able to hum these days but to have no real memory hook that gives immediate identity to a series should be a little worrying. Even more so that there are US and UK themes on the CD suffering the same problem.
The other 28 tracks are bits and pieces from the episodes, including 3 with lyrics (which are also included in the booklet) and I agree with composer Bear McCreary that they were designed to capture specific moods, even with the touch of Gaelic-like pipes in places. One can only hope it works better with the TV series than apart from it. As said above, a more consistent theme might have been considered but as an experiment in being different, I'm still undecided.
Although I doubt anyone not a fan of the new Galactica will buy this CD, I think there is enough here for those who are, especially if they have already picked up the CD of the mini-series. The fact that the series has reached a second series must surely mean it has a lot more going for it than the music but my instincts say you really must love all things Galactica to go for this one.
GF Willmetts
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