PR: Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CHRONICLES SOUNDTRACK TO BE RELEASED BY
LA-LA LAND RECORDS
Soundtrack Features Original Score By Bear McCreary
With “Samson and Delilah” Performed By Season Two Star Shirley Manson
(December 2, 2008- Burbank, CA) – The soundtrack for Terminator: The
Sarah Connor Chronicles will be released by La-La Land Records on
December 16, 2008. Composer Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica,
Eureka), composed the original score. The soundtrack features
original score from the first and second seasons of the hit FOX TV
show, and also features the track “Samson and Delilah”, performed by
season two star and Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson and arranged by
McCreary.
Composer Bear McCreary is one of the top young composers working in
Hollywood. His work on the television series Battlestar Galactica has
been described as offering “some of the most innovative music on TV
today,” by Variety, and his blog www.bearmccreary.com/blog, which
features in-depth inside looks at the process of scoring Battlestar
Galactica, was called "one of the best blogs in the business. It's a
fascinating look at the process of making music for film and
television and the care he takes with aligning the score with the
twists and turns of each character's plot lines," by The Hollywood
Reporter.
McCreary also scores the hit SCI FI series Eureka. His film credits
include Wrong Turn 2 and the Rest Stop films. McCreary was among a
handful of select protégés of late film music legend Elmer Bernstein
(THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN) and is a classically trained composer with
degrees in Composition and Recording Arts from the prestigious USC
Thornton School of Music.
The 1984 film, The Terminator starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a
cyborg killing machine known as a Terminator, sent back in time to
kill Sarah Connor (then-Linda Hamilton) before she gives birth to her
son and future savior of the human race, John Connor. Sarah Connor
morphs from timid waitress to kick-ass momma in the 1991 sequel
Terminator 2: Judgement Day, with the original Terminator reprogrammed
and back to help Sarah protect her now pre-teen son from a different
killing machine.
The events of the hit television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor
Chronicles begin a few years after Terminator 2: Judgement Day. The
series begins again with a Terminator being sent back to kill the now
teenage John (Thomas Dekker). The future John Connor has also sent
back a Terminator (played by Serenity’s Summer Glau) to protect the
younger version of himself and his mother Sarah (Lena Headey) as they
plot to destroy Skynet and hope to prevent the impending Armageddon.
Because the music for the Terminator films was an important part of
its spirit, composer Bear McCreary chose to incorporate references to
Brad Fiedel’s score into the television series. Says McCreary,
“Fiedel’s work elevated the art of synthesizers in film music, and
forged a signature musical identity for the Terminator mythology.
While his main melody is infinitely memorable, he also used sonic and
textural colors in very characteristic ways. I set out to score Sarah
Connor by keeping this soundscape intact: in essence to make this
series feel like a credible heir to Terminator and Terminator 2.”
While Fiedel’s work focused on expressive synthesizers, McCreary
decided to warm the sound up a bit, incorporating more live musicians
in the studio. He orchestrated the music to include a string quartet,
recorded playing together through pick-ups run through mic-ed
amplifiers. The result “sounds lush and warm, a lyrical backdrop for
the emotional story arcs of the series,” McCreary described. “But,
these strings also feel manipulated, distorted by speakers and wires.
In the same way that Cameron is a robot hidden beneath human flesh,
the string ensemble is an electronic entity masked by acoustic
instruments and live musicians.”
Executive Producer Josh Friedman couldn’t be more pleased with the
musical landscape of the series. “What do I like most about Bear’s
music?” he posits. “Well, for one, it’s smarter than I am. It manages
to create a dialogue between past and present Terminator compositions
(appropriate for a time travel franchise) without seeming to quote or
steal or simply ignore. The music loves its family tree without being
a slave to it.”
Series star Thomas Dekker agrees, “Bear’s simple assembly of notes and
clever chord transition below it, changing at just the right time, and
recurring in endless different incarnations, never ceases to give me
chills.”
The La-La Land Records soundtrack features McCreary’s music from the
first and second seasons of the series, and also the track “Samson and
Delilah”, featured in the second season and performed by new cast
member Shirley Manson. Friedman explains, “I think it goes very well
with the season one material. It was conceived as a companion to the
Johnny Cash “When the Man Comes Around” sequence that finished up our
Season One finale.”
Shirley Manson, who joined the cast in season two as Catherine Weaver,
is best known as the lead singer of the multi-platinum group Garbage.
The group’s 1995 debut recording was a critical and commercial
success. It spawned the hit single “Stupid Girl” and sold millions of
albums worldwide. They followed it up with Version 2.0 which was
nominated for two Grammy Awards. The group announced its hiatus in
2005 with Manson recording a solo album. In 2007 Absolute Garbage, a
greatest hits retrospective was released.
Executive Producer Josh Friedman invited Manson out to dinner. She
describes, “He took me to dinner under false pretences, leading me to
believe it was my sparkling company and wit he sought. As it turns out
he wanted me to sing this old folk song to accompany the first five
minutes of footage that opens season two. I would have said no but for
the copious glasses of champagne he had plied me with. I said yes.”
The dinner led to the recording of “Samson and Delilah” and her
casting for the second season as the mysterious ZeiraNet CEO Catherine
Weaver. “And the rest, as they say, is showbiz!”
The second season of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles currently
airs on FOX Monday nights 9PM. The first season is currently
available on DVD. The original soundtrack will be available in
stores or from www.lalalandrecords.com on December 16, 2008. Also
available from La-La Land Records are the soundtracks for Battlestar
Galactica Season One, Season Two, Season Three, Eureka, Wrong Turn 2,
and Rest Stop: Don’t Look Back also composed by Bear McCreary.
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