Alien

about this album

The iconic, avante garde, score to the film Alien was composed by Jerry Goldsmith, it is considered one of his best, most visceral scores. It is very atonal and rather than focusing on themes Goldsmith creates a bleak and dissonant soundscape that fits the films very dark and intense atmosphere perfectly with only a few more "romantic" cues which also shine on the album and in the film. The score was substantially altered for the released versions of the film. The music was performed by The National Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Lionel Newman. The complete intended score has been released as an isolated track on a 1999 20th Anniversary DVD edition (as well as subsequent budget DVD issues) on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. On November 15, 2007, Intrada Records released this same intended score with additional alternate score tracks and the original LP-program in a 2-CD set. This release first published Jerry Goldsmith's complete score remixed and remastered from the original 1" master tapes. Despite being called a "complete" soundtrack, it does not include the tracked cues from Goldsmith's previous score for Freud, nor the Howard Hanson "Romantic" source music that was used for the final film's end credits. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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