LOST (and found)

[dcoscina]

Varese has released the 1st season music to LOST and I must implore all you film score fans to pick this one up. There's some great dissonant, textural writing, some excellent development of key themes, beautiful orchestration (with a fairly limited pallete- no winds or trumpets or french horns- just trombones and bass trombones for brass). Most of all, Giacchino has written some of the most moving, beautiful elegaic material I've ever heard for t.v. This is one of the best soundtracks I've heard in the last year and probably the finest music I've heard for a television show. Highly recommended.

p.s. I've heard through the grapevine that Giacchino's upcoming score for Mission Impossible 3 is outstanding too.

-Dave

[shnurgle]

hmm. I remember watching some of season one and having the opposite reaction to the music. I remember a lot of percussive bs with brass stabs. Very generic and corny. Although I do remember thinking he hit the pilot out of the park with one of the most beautiful string cues I ever heard on TV...

[josejherring]

Some of the music on Lost is stunning and original. Some of it is just filler taking up space because he's got better gigs now like MI:3. But, I would think that if it made it on to CD that he would have chosen the better stuff which is quite good indeed.

[dcoscina]

hmm. I remember watching some of season one and having the opposite reaction to the music. I remember a lot of percussive bs with brass stabs. Very generic and corny. Although I do remember thinking he hit the pilot out of the park with one of the most beautiful string cues I ever heard on TV...

There's actually quite a bit of variation of that 3 note alternating theme he employs for parts when a character is enlightened or re-visiting a turbulent part of their past. Parting Words is a track that is outstanding and you'll hear no better example of great 2 part contrapuntal string writing in canonic form for television, especially in this day and age when most television composers think a canon is merely a weapon :o .

I personally admire the way Giacchino balances the literal "scariness" with alternate playing techniques with the more elegaic stoicism of the string cues. I believe he's given a lot of latitude from the show's creators but I think it's neat to keep his ensemble paired down to strings, trombones, percussion, harp and piano. It gives the show a certain musical stamp.

[chocothrax]

There's actually quite a bit of variation of that 3 note alternating theme he employs for parts when a character is enlightened or re-visiting a turbulent part of their past. Parting Words is a track that is outstanding and you'll hear no better example of great 2 part contrapuntal string writing in canonic form for television, especially in this day and age when most television composers think a canon is merely a weapon :o ..

I don't know what that is but where in the track is it? It's a pretty nice track but my favourite by Giacchino is his music for Sloane in Alias.

[dcoscina]

It's about a minute into the track. I remember it being pretty cool when I saw the episode that it was scored for, when Sawyer, Jin, Walt and his dad set sail.

I also like Sloane's Theme (I'm sure it's that mournful cello line). Too bad Alias ended the way it did. I kinda hope they do a 2 hour long finale but I guess they pulled the plug and Mrs. Ben Affleck is probably too busy playing mommy to don the character of Sydney Bristow again. Bummer. Season 2 was the best IMO.

[Edx]

Theres some really good music in Invasion as well, and I prefer it to Lost probably because the composer has more opportunities to write more thematic material.

They really should release a soundtrack for that too.

[chocothrax]

It's about a minute into the track. I remember it being pretty cool when I saw the episode that it was scored for, when Sawyer, Jin, Walt and his dad set sail.

I also like Sloane's Theme (I'm sure it's that mournful cello line). Too bad Alias ended the way it did. I kinda hope they do a 2 hour long finale but I guess they pulled the plug and Mrs. Ben Affleck is probably too busy playing mommy to don the character of Sydney Bristow again. Bummer. Season 2 was the best IMO.

Yeah season 2 is the only season I own on dvd and I bought it mostly for the music. Here's that sad music http://www.michaelgiacchino.com/04_Resources/01_Music/alias/alias2_sloane.mp3 and yeah there is a track where it's done with a cello.