Alien: Covenant (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Jed Kurzel | ||||
| Released | May 19, 2017 | |||
| Studio | Abbey Road Studios, Air Lyndhurst Studios | |||
| Genre | Film score | |||
| Length | 58:57 | |||
| Label | Milan | |||
| Producer | Jed Kurzel | |||
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Alien: Covenant is a soundtrack album for the 2017 film, Alien: Covenant, composed by Jed Kurzel. It was released on May 19, 2017 through Milan Records. A vinyl pressing of the soundtrack is set to be released on July 7, 2017.
In February 2016, Harry Gregson-Williams confirmed that he will be scoring Alien: Covenant. Gregson-Williams had previously collaborated with director Ridley Scott on Kingdom of Heaven (2005) and Prometheus (2012). However, in November 2016, Gregson-Williams revealed that he was no longer attached to the film. Gregson-Williams summarized the reasons for his departure from the project as a mixture of scheduling and creative issues, stating that "schedules and one's expectations of scoring a film don't always fit and this one wasn't going to work out."
Upon the release of the film's first trailer, it was revealed that Australian musician and composer Jed Kurzel would take over composing duties. "When I first met Ridley, we talked a lot about these organic-sounding instruments being corrupted either by foreign sounds or from within themselves," said Kurzel on his writing process. "Even within the more lush orchestral pieces there are elements suggesting a threatening presence, like breaths and pulses."
The Alien: Covenant score makes extensive use of Jerry Goldsmith's main title from the Alien soundtrack and also quotes the tracks "Life" and "We Were Right" from Gregson-Williams' Prometheus score.
Mihnea Manduteanu of Soundtrack Dreams noted "“Alien” is a franchise that’s dear to many and has been around since forever; everybody has an idea about how the movie should be and especially how the music should sound and when the precedent scores where written by people like Jerry Goldsmith or James Horner the expectations and tempers are high. Luckily Jed Kurzel is a guy who knows his worth and his hands were not shaking on this one. He brought his own dark and discreet sound and stitched the iconic Jerry theme in it. The “Alien” theme appears for the first time in “The covenant” and man it sounds gorgeous. That unforgettable ping and that frightening pulse have haunted me for years and I was glad to hear them again. They recur during this score and the movie in all the right places and do a great job of connecting this film and score to the history."
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