Babylon 5: River Of Souls - US

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0782827890728 Format: Soundtrack Label: Sonic Images Manufacturer: Sonic Images Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sonic Images Release Date: 1999-06-24 Studio: Sonic Images
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Editorial Reviews: As the series drew to an end, this TV movie was slotted in to afford air time to an alien race not seen since the very beginning. The Soul Hunters could have been creator Straczynski's best method of detailing the overall story of the destiny of the human soul. Relegated to just this stand- alone they were rather wasted, but Christopher Franke clearly knew not to waste his opportunity. This score is full of sampled voices and unique effects to convey the tragedy of an ancient mistake. Trapped in a stolen globe are a billion souls and it is for them the Arabic wailing and choral chanting glides in and out. The good guy / bad guy "Soul Hunters" themselves have a most menacing four-note theme calling to mind Wojciech Kilar's vampire hunters from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Tediously there is a comic sub-plot involving Captain Lochley's battle with the proprietor of a "Holobrothel". The best thing to be said about this is that it lets Franke loose on a moog synth and saxophone sample which results in an hilarious sexy saunter ("Another Day, Another Holo"). Easily the best of the Babylon 5 TV movie scores. --Paul Tonks