Possible UFO music on new CD

I read in Sci Fi Weekly about a new Silva Screen SF compilation which
includes music from Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue193/

Click on Sound Space

Here's some more info:

The second disc has two significant subsections. "Journeys into Space"
contains compositions from The Last Starfighter, Silent Running, Journey to
the Far Side of the Sun and the Lost in Space motion picture, while
"Destruction From the Sky" spotlights the music of Meteor, Deep Impact and
Armageddon. The platter also features a suite from Galaxy Quest along with
various cues from Things to Come, The Matrix and Star Wars: Episode 1--The
Phantom Menace.

All 27 works are performed by The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra,
conducted by Paul Bateman and Nic Raine. The liner notes--written by album
producer James Fitzpatrick--provide brief synopses of the various dramas
plus a few informative sentences about each tune. Like the two earlier
volumes, Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier is packaged in a cardboard
slipcase.

That's all it says about the cues from JTTFSOTS, maybe its the title music?
I know a bunch of clips were used in UFO from all the UFO/Barry Gray people
here (Thank you!)

The Sci Fi Weekly email newsletter I get also included an ad for the
upcoming Space 1999 DVD's! : -)

Later!

>I read in Sci Fi Weekly about a new Silva Screen SF compilation which
>includes music from Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.

I don't own this particular CD, but I do know that the music from
"Journey to the Far Side of the Sun" is not the original music, but a
re-recording. For me, that makes the difference between buying it
and not buying it...

--
Marc Martin, [hidden email]

> That's all it says about the cues from JTTFSOTS, maybe its the title
music?
> I know a bunch of clips were used in UFO from all the UFO/Barry Gray
people
> here (Thank you!)

The suite (track 3 on disc 2) is actually quite decent
as a new re-arrangement. It runs 5.57 minutes and
includes 3 sections:
- Main Theme
- Sleeping Astronauts (which, yes was heard in UFO)
- Finale

"Main Theme", is, quite predictably, the section
of music heard over the opening titles of the film.

The "Sleeping Astronauts" track is from about mid-way
through the film where the astronauts put themselves
into extended sleep on their journey to the new planet.
Yes, it is probably best known to UFO fans for its
re-use as the music that underscores the scene
in "Close Up" of the astronauts installing the equipment
into the B142 space probe

"Finale" is a short section of music that accompanies
Jason Webb back into the nursing home, (after the
destruction of the Eurosec base), and brings him face
to face with his own reality, (and the closing credits
of the film, short as they are).

It's not a bad rendition; "Sleeping Astronauts" is a little
odd, rendered in different manner to Barry Gray's original,
but it's quite recognisable nonetheless. The other
2 tracks are pretty faithful reproductions of the original score
or so I thought the first time I heard it. My main dislike stems
from the tempo of the music being too fast for the pieces,
(which **may** be due to the arrangers using a PAL video
recording to source the music from the film by ear for their
own re-arrangements; I may be wrong on this account
so don't take it as gospel, but it would account for the
slightly faster-sounding music).

All in all it's a good 2 disc set, although the Anderson
content is light; if anyone were to be buying it for
the GA content alone, I'd probably warn them not to
invest in it....but the mix and variations of other SF
material is pretty good.

Space 3: Beyond The Final Frontier
Silva Screen Records (US) 2000
SSD 1112

- 6 stars out of 10 for GA rendition
- 4 stars out of 10 for GA value
- 7 stars out of 10 for general SF value


Kelly

Kelly Patrick Lannan
The Gerry Anderson Memorabilia Site
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http://www.users.bigpond.com/BASE_KOALA/GA.Memorabilia/Infornation.html