Mark Ayres | SILCD1372 | 738572137229 | CD | TV Soundtracks
Mark Ayres dark and mysterious synth score to Marc Platt’s 3-part TV series with Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
Originally released on Silva Screen Records in 1993, in this new version Ghost Light is freshly re-mastered from the original analogue stereo master tapes with consecutive cues combined into longer tracks. Also included are additional tracks previously omitted and the complete initial “demo” version of the music for Part One. The album presents the score in story order.
Though the score features small themes and motifs, the musical narrative relies on “sounds” rather than “themes”. The composer juxtaposes the tender sound of strings, harp, clarinet with native drums and unearthly sounds of pipes, distorted gong, organ and choir.
Ghost Light was the final production of the series’ original 26-year run.
A television composer best known for scoring the original series of Dr Who, Mark Ayres’s work encompasses the era of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and includes scores for The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Ghost Light, and The Curse of Fenric. Ayres was also part of BBC’s unofficial Doctor Who Restoration Team and has done much of audio restoration from the later VHS Doctor Who releases.
TRACKLISTING
- Ron Grainer – Doctor Who (Opening Theme)
- Mark Ayres – The Madhouse
- Mark Ayres – Redvers, I Presume?
- Mark Ayres – Uncharted Territory
- Mark Ayres – Heart of the Interior
- Mark Ayres – Gwendoline
- Mark Ayres – The Fang of a Cave Bear
- Mark Ayres – Enter Josiah
- Mark Ayres – Indoor Lightning
- Mark Ayres – Nimrod Observed
- Mark Ayres – Time to Emerge
- Mark Ayres – Burnt Toast
- Mark Ayres – Ace’s Adventures Underground
- Mark Ayres – Where Is Mamma?
- Mark Ayres – Loss of Control
- Mark Ayres – The Way to the Zoo
- Mark Ayres – The Hungry Inspector
- Mark Ayres – The Memory Teller
- Mark Ayres – Lighting the Touchpaper
- Mark Ayres – Homo Victorianus Ineptus
- Mark Ayres – Out of the Shadows
- Mark Ayres – Light Enlightened
- Mark Ayres – Tropic of Perivale
- Mark Ayres – Tricks of the Light
- Mark Ayres – Judgement In Stone
- Mark Ayres – Requiem
- Mark Ayres – Passing Thoughts
- Ron Grainer – Doctor Who (Closing Theme)
- Mark Ayres – The Madhouse (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Redvers, I Presume? (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Uncharted Territory (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Heart of the Interior (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Gwendoline (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – The Fang of a Cave Bear (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Enter Josiah (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Indoor Lightning (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Nimrod Observed (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Time to Emerge (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Burnt Toast (Alternative)
- Mark Ayres – Ace’s Adventures Underground (Alternative)