BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)

Label: La-La Land LLLCD 1015
Date: 2003
Tracks: 26
Time = 68:24

Original soundtrack to 2003 Sci Fi Channel miniseries with Edward James Olmos. Richard Gibbs avoids customary space opera vernacular, creates meld of minimalism with accessible harmonic idiom. Warm chord progressions in major allow depth, sustained ideas in strings and synths allow mystery. Balancing with beauty is another side: warfare. Here Gibbs (with assist from Bear McCreary) writes for splendid array of Taiko drums, ethnic percussion, electronics. Complex rhythms get spotlight but clarity of cadence is ever-present. Gibbs writes to characters, various moods as well as action. Involved, crisply recorded score!