Description:

Alien: Covenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is a soundtrack album for the 2017 science fiction film, Alien: Covenant, composed by Jed Kurzel. It was released on May 19, 2017 through Milan Records. A vinyl pressing of the soundtrack was 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.

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.

The music was performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Lionel Newman. However, the music was not originally used or heard as intended. The score was substantially cut for the film's released versions, and some recordings from other sources were added, notably portions of Goldsmith's original score for the 1962 film Freud (which were that film's Main Title, as well as the tracks Charcot's Show and Desperate Case), and the first movement (adagio) from Howard Hanson's 1930 "Symphony No. 2, Romantic" for the film's end credits.

The complete intended score was first released as an isolated track on a 1999 20th Anniversary DVD edition on 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (it has subsequently appeared on budget DVD and Blu-ray releases of the film). On November 15, 2007, Intrada Records released this same intended score with additional alternate score tracks and the original LP program in a 2-CD set. This release is the first to publish Jerry Goldsmith's complete score remixed and remastered from the original 1" master tapes.

Track listing:

1. Incubation

2. The Covenant

3. Neutrino Burst

4. A Cabin on the Lake

5. Sails

6. Planet 4 / Main Theme

7. Launcher Landing

8. Wheat Field

9. Spores

10. The Med Bay

11. Grass Attack

12. Dead Civilization

13. Survivors

14. Payload Deployment

15. Command Override

16. Face Hugger

17. Chest Burster

18. Lonely Perfection

19. Cargo Lift

20. Bring It to My Turf

21. Terraforming Bay

22. Alien: Covenant Theme

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