Quality is often a characteristic that is seldom found on TV.
\nFor every one program that really tries to break the norm, you will
\nfind channels full of junk. Now take a look at those programs that
\nyou consider truly good and notice that most of them will have very
\ngood music with it. This music has the ability to contain within it
\nall of the emotions portrayed on screen.<\/p>\n
I bring that up to properly introduce the music of Christopher
\nFranke. While he has done music for movies, television, and on his
\nown, it is the music he has written for the sci-fi TV show,
\nBabylon 5<\/i>, which stands up and proclaims his talents. (OK,
\nOK, I’ll cut it out with the pretty-talk and get to the
\nreview).<\/p>\n
In case anyone didn’t know,
\nBabylon 5<\/i> is a TV show (and a damn good one) that takes
\nplace in the future.
\nIn The Beginning<\/i> provides background info on the heard-of,
\nbut not seen, Earth-Minbari War–which prompted the construction of
\nBabylon 5. A huge story that deals with politics, mistakes,
\nsacrifices, courage, and the near-destruction of the Human Race,
\nthe music for it has to fit it and add to it. It does not
\ndissapoint.<\/p>\n
The music starts by telling us of a dark time and sweeps us back
\n35 years into the past. We hear moods change from simple–when a
\nbrother and a sister say goodbye–to complex–making sense of all
\nof the carnage. In the music, there’s the story. It is simple and
\nit is complicated. (If I sound like I’m BSing, you’re wrong.)<\/p>\n
I will give you one example. The final track details the worst
\nof this futuristic war–as the human race is pushed farther and
\nfarther back and the chances of survival look grim. The music
\nslowly comes up and brings in bagpipes as the details of this gory
\nwar are told. Then, the music changes beats to something more
\ndetermined and heroic–as this piece details the beginnings of the
\nlast battle of this war and soldiers are called to make the
\nultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n
This album is strong and touches you. As the show’s creator, J.
\nMichael Stracyzinski, says in the inside of the cover, “(Franke)
\nbroke our hearts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7060],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-39330","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-original-score","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39330"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}