June 19, 2009 | Caprica Soundtrack

Cover to the Caprica pilot soundtrack.

My free copy of the Caprica soundtrack from Fandomania arrived today. I am listening to it as I write this, and what I can tell you is that the music is stellar. It is a minimalistic, somber score with emotional depth, like the Caprica pilot itself. The music conveys the emotional, rotting decadence of the technological and hedonistic Caprican people with the tragedy experienced by Joseph Adama and Daniel Graystone, as well as the creation of the first “Cybernetic Life Form Node” (Cylon).

Bear McCreary and the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra were able to create something quite wonderful here. While the music is not action packed the likes of BSG’s “Wander My Friends,” “Storming New Caprica,” “Battle of the Asteroid,” or “Prelude to War,” Caprica is able to do what a good soundtrack should: compliment the story that is being told and tie the story into the pre-existing universe of the re-imagined BSG. In this, McCreary is successful; the track entitled “Cybernetic Life Form Node” ties in very well with Richard Gibbs’s “Inbound” score from the Miniseries and other leitmotifs from this universe’s “future.” After listening to it, it automatically “clicked” in my head that this unique story was in the same universe.

Very cool. Get the CD and listen.