His Dark Materials - Season 2 (TV Series)

Score Produced by Lorne Balfe
Music Production Services: Steven Kofsky
Music Production Coordinator: Queenie Li
Assistant to Composer: Ashleigh Kelly
Additional Arrangements: Steffen Thum & Max Aruj
Music Editor: Al Green

Orchestrators: Adam Price, Gabriel Chernick & Harry Brokensha
Counter Tenor: Reno Troilus
Ethnic Flute: Troy Donockley
Ethnic Choir: Vanya Moneva Bulgaria
Featured Soloists: Nia Bethan Squirrel, Elin Taylor, Jordan Williams, Connie Francis, Jamie Davis, Chris Davis & Tamara Sullivan

Score Mix Engineer: Seth Waldmann
Assistant Mix Engineer: Soya Soo
Score Technical Assistant: Michael Bitton & Alfie Godfrey
Score Recorded by Synchron Stage Vienna
Score Mixed at Remote Control Productions

Executive Producers for Silva Screen Records Ltd.: Reynold D'Silva & David Stoner
Album Mastering: Rick Clark
Digital Manager: James Borrer
Design Layout: Stuart Ford

01 – The Subtle Knife (4:53)
02 – Play The Serpent (2:59)
03 – Dark Materials – Between The Worlds (1:34)
04 – A Spectre’s Playground (2:29)
05 – A New Cardinal Rises (3:58)
06 – The Witch Queen Of Lake Lubana (3:31)
07 – Children Of The Prophecy (3:00)
08 – The City In The Sky (5:01)
09 – The Shaman (3:53)

His Dark Materials (Season 2)

2020 88'13

Release date : 12/20/2020

BOOKLET CREDITS

Original Score by Lorne Balfe

Executive Producers for Silva Screen Records Ltd.: Reynold D'Silva & David Stoner
Album Mastering: Rick Clark
Digital Manager: James Borrer
Design Layout: Stuart Ford

01 – A Parallel Sky (2:37)

02 – Tortured Witch (3:01)

03 – Land Of Spectres (3:30)

04 – He’s A Murderer (1:59)

05 – Magisterium’s New Era (1:40)

06 – The Chosen Two (3:14)

07 – The Witches’ Envoy (2:07)

08 – Study The Dark Matter (3:12)

09 – Kiss The Ring (2:51)

10 – Journey Ahead (2:15)

11 – A Once Great City (2:15)

12 – O Little Knife (3:40)

13 – Queen Of The Southern Lakes (1:41)

14 – The Other Side Of The Window (2:33)

15 – Let’s Do It Together (2:46)

16 – Matter Of Dust (2:44)

17 – The Knife Will Protect You (2:19)

18 – The Key To The Multiverse (1:42)

19 – Giacomo Paradisi (2:34)

20 – Kaisa Reveal (2:22)

21 – Beyond The Aurora (1:55)

22 – The Female Scholar (2:56)

23 – Fly, Spectres! (3:12)

24 – Farewell (1:47)

25 – Interdimensional Travelers (3:27)

26 – Indomitable Courage (2:22)

27 – My Child (1:41)

28 – A Mystic Explorer (2:24)

29 – I Had A Best Friend (2:54)

30 – Lee’s Choice (2:24)

31 – Beyond The Waterfall (2:52)

32 – Fates Intertwined (2:16)

33 – The End Of Tyranny (1:44)

34 – Goodbye Explorer (3:52)

35 – The Eve Of War (1:25)

10 Comments

Edmund Meinerts November 21, 2020 at 5:01 pm - Reply

That recording footage makes it all the more baffling to me why the end product sounds the way it does.
MrHarris November 21, 2020 at 4:52 pm - Reply

I understand the comments about the orchestra sounding like samples by some of the comments?

If you follow his Twitter you see the BBC orchestra recording the soundtrack.Season two is cool and Balfe’s music is bigger that season 1.Bit choirs also.
Mr Tweedy November 17, 2020 at 1:43 pm - Reply

Remember these are only "theme suites" and not the actual score as heard in the series. I'm pretty sure the themes from season 1 (+ Anthology) will come back during this 2nd season's indicental music
Nonetheless, the new themes are weaker than the material from season 1, for sure.
MrZimmerFan November 12, 2020 at 12:14 pm - Reply

Jungleland out tomorrow

https://music.apple.com /nz/album/jungleland- original-motion-picture-score/1538478365
Knight November 8, 2020 at 8:25 pm - Reply

@Powellfan

He mixes the large majority of his scores like papery garbage (Red Sparrow, The Huntsman: Winter's War, Salt, Hunger Games Mockingjay 1&2, 2 especially holy crap that one sounds awful), and a lot of the ones he doesn't he undermixes elements so that they aren't as punchy as they would be if they were mixed normally (Fantastic Beasts 1&2, The Nutcracker). I think the amount of orchestral scores he has actually mixed very well I can count off one hand (The Water Horse, The Tourist). The Water Horse is like my gold standard for any of his scores cause everything about it sounds bloody fantastic.
Powellfan November 8, 2020 at 5:02 am - Reply

JNH scores sound like cardboard Knight? What does that mean, mid-heavy?

> Steve Lipson’s Sunday blog

Where can I find that?
MaxK November 6, 2020 at 4:42 pm - Reply

Everytime Balfe has a new score it’s the same rubbish about how it sounds!
It sounds epic to me and great melodies for Dark Materials
Macejko November 5, 2020 at 11:28 pm - Reply

I never said that I thought Lorne didn't use an orchestra . I knew that he did, even though Edmund did made me double-check. Just goes to show how easily can someone believe that HDM was produced using samples only. It really needs a bit more "organic" sound in places, for the lack of a better word.
Knight November 5, 2020 at 12:29 am - Reply

You heard wrong.
mpolonest123 November 4, 2020 at 8:20 pm - Reply

Really looking forward to this. As far as Balfe scores go, “His Dark Materials” was as close to a masterpiece as he’s gotten so far.

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