Richard Band scored several episodes across the first two seasons in 1997 & 1998. Using a compositional palette of synthesizers augmented by small instrumental ensembles, Band fashioned evocative sci-fi soundscapes with a degree of symphonic architecture. Melodies both haunting, dramatic trade with exciting action cues, militaristic percussion sequences. Band’s harmonic vocabulary melds rich, highly accessible chordal ideas with intense, aggressive vernacular to create unusually wide range of material.

Intrada 2-CD release, mastered from two-track digital scoring session mixes, courtesy MGM, features not just brief excerpts but fully-developed “suites” from three separate episodes plus entire finale written for a fourth program that otherwise did not feature further original Richard Band music. “Cold Lazarus” from Season One introduces Band to the series with a dramatic tale involving crystalline alien life forms, painful memories revived, an alien planet environment and profuse action leading to a moving finale. Band captures all of it in his 37-minutes score. “In The Line Of Duty”, from Season Two, offers story elements with an alien planet under attack, rescues and moving earthbound drama. Band provides dynamic action material, lyrical love music and haunting mysticism in his half-hour score. “The Serpent’s Lair”, opening Season Two, offers pulsating action music for a pending Goa’uld warship invasion of planet earth. “Singularity”, from Season One, introduces young Cassandra, sole plague survivor of an alien planet. Band creates a beautiful theme that trades with suspenseful ideas for the discovery a bomb inside the girl plus dramatic material for surgery scenes intended to save her from an explosive demise.

Additional rewarding highlights of the scores are moving and dramatic interpolations of original Stargate themes composed by David Arnold for the 1994 feature, often heard as episode finales. Informative notes by Jeff Bond feature inside booklet, original MGM series artwork features in “flipper-style” cover design by Kay Marshall. Richard Band composes, orchestrates. Intrada Special Collection 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain!

From Intrada

Tracks:

DISC 1:
COLD LAZARUS:
1. Teaser* (03:42)
2. Is It Really Jack? (03:53)
3. Jack At Ex-Wife’s House (03:25)
4. Jack Visits Charlie’s Room* (03:24)
5. The Crystals (02:14)
6. The Crystal Monitor (02:18)
7. Jack And Wife On Park Bench* (03:08)
8. They Re-Activate The Crystal Monitor (02:03)
9. Pushing Back Through Gate To Hospital (03:53)
10. Jack Meets Alien Self And Finale* (09:10)
IN THE LINE OF DUTY:
11. Teaser* (02:50)
12. Medical Time (03:12)
13. O’Neill Comforts Cassie* (03:05)
14. O’Neill To Burn Victim (00:38)
15. Teal'c Gives O’Neill Advice (02:28)
16. Daniel Talks To Girl Survivor (02:07)
17. Bad Guy Bandages Doc (02:20)
18. Daniel Talks To Alien Carter* (02:26)
19. Finale – Daniel And Then Others Visit* (10:11)

CD 1 TOTAL TIME: 67:01

DISC 2:
THE SERPENT'S LAIR:
1. Finale* (08:50)
SINGULARITY:
2. Teaser (03:34)
3. From Stargate To New World (02:36)
4. Sam With Girl And Back Through Gate* (02:49)
5. Sam And Little Girl Get Closer (02:58)
6. Heart Attack And Operation* (03:36)
7. Jack And Teal'c Escaping Battle* (04:22)
8. To The Underground Site (02:35)
9. Time Is Up And Finale* (08:26)

CD 2 TOTAL TIME: 40:01