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- P A R T 1 - ASYLUM OF THE TRACKS 1 - 8 TRACKS 9 - 11 A TOWN CALLED MERCY TRACKS 12 - 17 THE POWER OF THREE TRACKS 18 - 20 THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN TRACKS 21 - 29 THE BELLS OF SAINT JOHN TRACKS 30 - 37

- P A R T 2 - THE RINGS OF AKHATEN TRACKS 1 - 10 C O L D W A R TRACKS 11 - 12 TRACK 13 JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS TRACK 14 TRACKS 15 - 17 TRACKS 18 - 29 THE NAME OF TRACKS 30 - 37 (BONUS TRACKS) TRACKS 38 - 39 P A R T 1

1. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE 2. S AVE US 3. PARLIAMENT 4. OSWIN OSWALD 5. TOWARDS THE ASYLUM 6. A PROBE IN THE SNOW 9. DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP / PTERODACTYLS 7. AMY AND RORY TOGETHER 10. BRI A N 8. THE TERRIBLE TRUTH DINOSAURS ON A SPACESHIP 11. TAKE A RIDE ON TRICEY

ASYLUM OF A TOWN CALLED MERCY 12. MAKE PEACE 13. WELCOME TO MERCY 14. OUT WEST 15. GUNSLINGERS 16. THE SALVATION OF KAHLER JEX 17. OUR LITTLE TOWN’S PROSECUTOR

18. CUBES 19. WHILE WE WAITED 20. BRIAN’S LOG THE POWER OF THREE THE BELLS OF SAINT JOHN

21. NEW YORK NEW YORK 22. I AM YOU 23. MELODY MALONE 24. LITTLE ANGELS 25. MY HUSBAND’S HOME 26. HIDE THE DAMAGE 30. CUMBRIA 1207 27. ALMOST THE END 31. MONKING ABOUT 28. TOGETHER OR NOT AT ALL - THE SONG OF AMY AND RORY 32. SPOONHEADS 29. GOODBYE POND 33. CL A R A? 34. A TURBULANT FLIGHT 35. BAH BAH BIKER 36. UP THE SHARD THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN 37. I MIGHT CHANGE MY MIND west musically. For some reason, I have two lap-steel I don’t know why. The Doctor’s monologue to the in Silver’. The theme that originated in ALBUM INTRODUCTION guitars. I haven’t played either of them since making parasitic monster-planet Akhaten rivalled his speech the second series had many more variations in this the soundtrack to this episode. in for bravura and swagger. episode, as well as a version which nodded towards Series 7! No, but seriously, Series 7. I know I’m The Long Song in this episode featured heavily in the Michel Legrand’s score to the famous chess scene in supposed to elaborate now, but let me just let it hang In ‘Power of Three’, explored the theme Prom at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013. the Steve McQueen movie The Thomas Crown Affair. there enigmatically before I do. Series 7. *walks away of how The Doctor’s experience of life is fast and enigmatically* active while ours is sometimes slow and tedious. It’s ’ ‘’ was a dark claustrophobic If there was ever any doubt how much a difficult theme to pull off but the episode was funny period drama set in 1983 when Ultravox had just will be missed when he leaves Doctor Who, watch Is someone actually trying to make this whole Doctor and emotional. It was a completely different type of missed out on topping the UK charts with Vienna. ‘’. He is brilliant. His ability Who music thing harder or what? I mean, dinosaurs episode to score because of its lightness. I sometimes There was no recording session for this episode, the to shift between moods and tones is mesmerising. on spaceships, cowboys in spaceships, motorbikes think lightness is harder to achieve than heaviness but piece instead relying on a mostly electronic score. We recorded the orchestra in Cardiff and a few going up buildings, beloved characters jumping off I don’t exactly know why. days later viola and cor anglais at Air for the buildings, a parliament of Daleks, weird cubes, a sort- ‘Hide’ was Neil Cross’ creepy, scary ghost story which very intimate tragic moments around the talk of of musical, ghosts, very red faces, the Doctor’s grave ‘The Angels Take Manhattan’ certainly was not light. was for the most part realised electronically. Neil The Doctor’s grave. Please don’t make The Doctor go (spoilers), Clara and and...I mean seriously. Series 7. Those stone-faced ghouls plunged my favourite city wanted to keep the sound of the episode relatively to Trenzalore again this year. Please. into darkness and took two of The Doctor’s favourite simple and represent the unseen forces with a drone ‘’ was fun and, weirdly (but companions away from him forever. When you know or a sustained discordant note. gratifyingly) was nominated for a BAFTA (I only you are going to lose a , you sort of build up say weirdly because I was asked which episode to it from the beginning of the series. Musically, Amy Steven Thompson’s ‘Journey to the Centre of the to put forward and I wrote back ‘The Angels Take and Rory’s base-jump scene (Together or Not at All) was TARDIS’ took the notion of the TARDIS’s impossible . 2013. Manhattan’). The piece of music in which Oswin’s bedded in near the opening of ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ size and turned it into a breathless chase around its condition is revealed ‘The Terrible Truth’ is one of my and Halia Meguid’s vocal was in Amy’s hallucinatory interior. Again, this was an episode in which no studio favourite cues so far. dance scene in the same episode (Halia’s voice was recording session was available and the score was backwards with a jazz bass under it). mostly achieved electronically. ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’ introduced us to some dinosaurs and to Brian Williams, Rory’s dad. This ‘The Bells of Saint John’ saw The Doctor return in ‘The Crimson Horror’ was mad brilliant and horrible, meant that (the actor who played 2013 popping over to fix Clara Oswald’s internet from and I now call my worst enemies Mr Sweet. him) came to present the Doctor Who Symphonic the year 1207. In one of the tracks, I put down a quick The relationship between real life mother and spectacular at Sydney Opera house which, frankly, vocal and delivered it to the dub on a separate track daughter and Rachael created a was good news because he is a lot of fun. Note to self, so that the mix engineer could lose it easily as I knew melodramatic heart that beat darkly until the brutal I want a ride on a triceratops. he wouldn’t want it. He left it in. Bah bah bah. ending. This was the first episode to come out the cutting room in the series and saw the return of the Toby Whithouse’s excellent morality tale ‘A Town Called Neil Cross’ ‘The Rings of Akhaten’ had heart and much loved duo Strax and Madame Vastra. Mercy’ the first Western to be produced since Doctor charm in abundance. Although for some reason Who returned to the screens in 2005, meant a chance nobody seemed to know it had extended musical Chess playing Cybermen (who could also move to use slide guitars and banjos and to generally head sequences until a week or two before shooting began. VERY quickly) appeared in ’s ‘Nightmare P A R T 2 C O L D W A R

11. COLD WAR 12. SKALDAK

THE RINGS OF AKHATEN

1. THE LEAF 2. SOMETHING AWESOME 3. MARKET DAY 4. MERRY GEJELH 5. GOD OF AKHATEN 6. THE SPEEDER 7. NEVER WAKE 8. THE LONG SONG 9. INFINITE POTENTIAL 10. ALWAYS YOU, NEVER A REPLACEMENT JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS

14. A MACHINE THAT MAKES MACHINES

13. I AM A GHOST HIDE NIGHTMARE IN SILVER

15. CRIMSON HORROR 16. SWEETVILLE 17. THOMAS THOMAS THE CRIMSON HORROR

18. HEDGEWICK’S WORLD 19. TIBERIAN SPIRAL GALAXY 20. UPGRADE IN PROGRESS 21. THE DREAM OF CYBERIA 22. WHAT A BRAIN 23. CAN’T WIN 24. YOUR ORDERS COME FROM ME 25. OTHER GOOD NEWS 26. THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL 27. CYBER ARMY 28. THE EMPEROR’S WIFE 29. SOME WEDNESDAY CREDI TS

Album produced by Murray Gold Co-produced and compiled by Jake Jackson Conducted and Orchestrated by Ben Foster Mixed and Mastered at Air Studios, London by Ray Staff

Crouch End Festival Chorus directed by David Temple Solo vocals: Halia Meguid Solo viola: Bruce White Cor Anglais: Janey Miller

Thanks to the brilliant Ben Foster, Jake Jackson, Dave Foster, Gerry O Riordan, Air Studios, Marcus Wilson, , Hothouse Music.

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