Mark Snow - The New Mutants (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) '2020

Tracks list

Mark Snow was born in Brooklyn, the son of a professional percussionist and a
kindergarten teacher who had a definite love for blues piano. As a youth, Snow
learned piano and drums, then fell in love with the oboe. An aficionado of
Baroque and Renaissance music, Snow entered the New York Music and Art School,
where he befriended composer Michael Kamen, another oboe fan, with whom he would
be roommates for several years at Juilliard. Studying as broad a variety of
music as possible, Snow gradually became fascinated with contemporary popular
music, going on to form the New York Rock N Roll Ensemble with Kamen in 1968,
the band signing almost immediately to Atco. The band was notable for a mix of
rock and classical elements, gathering attention for their live shows. After
five albums for Atco and Columbia, the band broke up.

Snow then took the advice of his wife, Glynn, the sister of actors Tyne Daly and
Tim Daly, and moved to California. He very quickly found work in television,
scoring shows and pilots for Aaron Spelling, beginning with The Rookies, for
which he scored individual episodes. A prolific composer, Snow was much in
demand for both television series work and for TV movies, with an impressive
list of credits that included everything from Hart to Hart to The Oldest Living
Confederate Widow Tells All.

In 1993, Snow was tapped by producer Chris Carter to provide music for The
X-Files, a risky horror/science fiction series debuting on the young Fox
network. After several attempts at a piece of title music yielded only
frustration, Snow played a few arpeggios through an echo device, drawing a
positive response from Carter. An eerie melody line was quickly generated, but
it then took Snow some time to figure out the right voice to use. In an inspired
move, Snow had his wife, Glynn, whistle the melody, which he then sampled and
doubled with the Whistling Joe patch from an Ensoniq Proteus synthesizer module.
The resulting piece of music, received with great uncertainty at Fox, quickly
became one of the key selling points of the new show. Several versions of the
music would be generated for album release, including a popular extended version
found on Songs in the Key of X. Warner Bros. eventually released The Truth and
the Light, mixing Snows music with dialogue from the series.

As prolific as ever, Snow went on to score Carters Millennium series while
maintaining the pace on The X-Files. In addition, he also provided themes and
scores for other series, TV movies, and low-budget features. While not seen as a
major film and television composer, Snow certainly made his mark with The
X-Files, and in 1999 released The Snow Files: Film Music.

Tracklist: 
01. Mark Snow - No Way Out (3:32)
02. Mark Snow - Smiling Man (2:14)
03. Mark Snow - Rahne Dome (1:31)
04. Mark Snow - The Bear Advances (1:15)
05. Mark Snow - Down from the Tower (2:15)
06. Mark Snow - Red Snow (1:21)
07. Mark Snow - Rahnes Story (1:06)
08. Mark Snow - Girl Fight (0:50)
09. Mark Snow - Lie Detector (2:16)
10. Mark Snow - So Am I (0:58)
11. Mark Snow - Explaining to Rahne (1:42)
12. Mark Snow - The Grand Tour (1:03)
13. Mark Snow - Regrouping (2:35)
14. Mark Snow - Girls Chat/Essex Orders (2:20)
15. Mark Snow - Dani Goes Under (4:40)
16. Mark Snow - Nervous Shower/Meditation (1:20)
17. Mark Snow - Rahnes Confessional (1:07)
18. Mark Snow - Obedience (0:58)
19. Mark Snow - Fighting Back (2:53)
20. Mark Snow - Dome Pt. 2 (2:17)
21. Mark Snow - Too Hot (2:18)
22. Mark Snow - Dani Begins Testing (0:42)
23. Mark Snow - Wake Up in Hospital (2:35)
24. Mark Snow - Hey Yogi (1:05)
25. Mark Snow - Not So Solitary (1:07)
26. Mark Snow - Dr. Reyes Knows Best/Fighting the Bear (3:32)
27. Mark Snow - Nice Bear (3:56)
28. Mark Snow - Calling All Mutants (0:57)
29. Mark Snow - Victory (3:41)
30. Mark Snow - Control/Time to Sleep (3:52)

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