Serenity [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] * by David (Film Composer) Newman (CD, Sep-2005, Varèse Sarabande (USA))

Album Features
UPC:	030206668223
Artist:	David (Film Composer) Newman
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2005
Record Label:	Varèse Sarabande (USA)
Genre:	Film Composers, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Serenity, film score: Into the river
2. Serenity, film score: Escape
3. Serenity, film score: Serenity
4. Serenity, film score: Going for a ride
5. Serenity, film score: Trading station
6. Serenity, film score: River goes wild
7. Serenity, film score: River and Simon in locker
8. Serenity, film score: Population dead
9. Serenity, film score: Haven destroyed
10. Serenity, film score: Sheperd Book's last words
11. Serenity, film score: You're not a Reaver
12. Serenity, film score: Mal decides
13. Serenity, film score: Truth / Mal's speech
14. Serenity, film score: Space battle
15. Serenity, film score: Crash landing
16. Serenity, film score: Run to black
17. Serenity, film score: Generator room
18. Serenity, film score: Mal & Op fight
19. Serenity, film score: Jane & Zoe / Final battle
20. Serenity, film score: Funeral / Rebuilding Serenity
21. Serenity, film score: Prep for flight
22. Serenity, film score: Love
23. Serenity, film score: End credits

Details
Playing Time:	50 min.
Producer:	David Newman
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Composer: David Newman .Personnel: Tony Mandracchia (guitar); Billy Sullivan (percussion).Audio Mixer: Bruce Botnick.Liner Note Author: Joss Whedon.Recording information: Newman Scoring Stage.Firefly, creator/director Joss Whedon's hip and eclectic sci-fi series, may have tanked on the small screen, but it garnered the kind of devoted fan base that takes other similarly cultish programs years to muster. One of the many things that made the show so unique was its adherence to Western themes (as in cowboys), an element that not only informed the program's language and attitude, but its music as well. While composer David Newman -- he has a famous composer brother named Thomas (Shawshank Redemption, Six Feet Under) and even more famous cousin named Randy -- retains little of Greg Edmonson and Whedon's original music on the series' big-screen adaptation, Serenity is still occasionally kissed by a flurry of guitar and banjo, percussion, and pan-Asian flute motifs. Newman has taken some of the quirkiness out -- to many a fan's dismay -- and replaced it with chilly and bombastic action cues that scream mediocrity, but for the most part no great injustice has been done. In fact, Serenity has more in common with Joby Talbot's eclectic score for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy than it does Krull. ~ James Christopher Monger