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Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 
 enlarge | Creators: Kevin Kiner, Nic Raine, City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
Label: SONY CLASSICS
Category: Music
List Price: $18.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 615
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 735616
UPC: 886973561621
EAN: 0886973561621
ASIN: B001BWQAN2
Release Date: August 12, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| Tracks:
| • | Star Wars Main Title & A Galaxy Divided | | • | Admiral Yularen | | • | Battle Of Christophsis | | • | Meet Ahsoka | | • | Obi-Wan To The Rescue | | • | Sneaking Under The Shield | | • | Jabba's Palace | | • | Anakin vs. Dooku | | • | Landing On Teth | | • | Destroying The Shield | | • | B'omarr Monastery | | • | General Loathsom / Battle Strategy | | • | The Shield | | • | Battle Of Teth | | • | Jedi Don't Run! | | • | Obi-Wan's Negotiation | | • | The Jedi Council | | • | General Loathsom / Ahsoka | | • | Jabba's Chamber Dance | | • | Ziro Surrounded | | • | Scaling The Cliff | | • | Ziro's Nightclub Band | | • | Seedy City Swing | | • | Escape From The Monastery | | • | Infiltrating Ziro's Lair | | • | Courtyard Fight | | • | Dunes Of Tatooine | | • | Rough Landing | | • | Padme Imprisoned | | • | Dooku Speaks With Jabba | | • | Fight To The End | | • | End Credits |
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Album Description
The Soundtrack to the all-new animated Star Wars feature film. Composer Kevin Kiner has created a dynamic score for CLONE WARS which builds upon the classic themes created by John Williams. Contains an exclusive fold-out poster!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 John williams would be proud August 26, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kevin Kiner really did well in the shoes of John Williams. Taking Johns classic tracks and adding modern touches and melodies made for an amazing new Star Wars Sound!
The Force is with Kiner. I can't wait to hear more on the series. August 22, 2008
I really enjoy this soundtrack. I bought it the day is came out. My first impression was that I liked it, especially the new, albeit, shorter version of the main theme. The more I listen to it, the more I love it, especially when the volume is turned up a bit. The overall style is a bit different than John Williams but it still feels like Star Wars to me, especially after viewing the film. There are a few tracks that have a little electric guitar. At first I was surprised to hear this but it's pretty cool, and I think it really works with the movie since it's animated and has a different feel than the other Star Wars movies (since it's going to be a tv series). The guitar soon blends in with the orchestra and subtle synthesizers.
A few tracks on this score are even reminiscent of some of John Williams' music for the Star Wars films. I think that "Admiral Yularen" really has the feel of some of the music from A New Hope's Tattooine scenes and a little of Cloud City. "Sneaking Under the Shield" to me is reminiscent of "The Trip to Naboo" from The Phantom Menace, and lastly, "Ziro Surrounded" reminds me of "Jango's Escape" from Attack of the Clones. Again, the more I listen to this score the more I love it. I'm huge fan of everything Star Wars, especially the music so I'm always craving any new material. I especially like the score to Knights of the Old Republic 2 by Mark Griskey. I'm glad that Lucasfilm and LucasArts are creating original music for their new titles instead of using the same old songs from the movies, like Star Wars games of the past.
Kevin Kiner uses some instruments that haven't really been used in Star Wars before. There's a lot of Middle Eastern inspired music for some of the Tattooine scenes as well as a good blend of synthesizers throughout. Kevin Kiner's use of synthesizers reminds me of Jerry Goldsmith's usage of them.
If you're a fan of John Williams' Star Wars scores, but maybe want something a little different, you should enjoy this. Just don't pretend that this is John Williams because it's not but it's still really good. My favorite tracks include Admiral Yularen, Landing on Teth, Sneaking Under the Shield, Scaling the Cliff and Courtyard Fight.
 It's not John Williams. August 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, it's not John Williams. Since this is a child's movie so to speak, it has been rearranged to make kid's enjoy it. The bit's of rock guitar put through the score I did not like. But the rest is okay, considering it's not John Williams doing the score. The movie and this download still have the same theme from Star Wars but it has been considerably changed, there is now more upbeat parts to it (for the kid's) So I just think this score has been downgraded to where kid's like it more, but I personally want John Williams back. You can go through some of the previews listening for the drab rock parts, but you can make your own opinion about how good this soundtrack is.
Not a bad score, but... August 15, 2008
... the Star Wars theme was butchered. Absolutely butchered. Everything else is great, but if the opening march and subsequent themes in the title scroll get you going, forget it. Not in this album. The usual music swell and orchestra burst preceding the end credits is also half-hearted and short lived.
The music itself is actually pretty entertaining. I remembered Kiner from his score to Wing Commander, the music of which was a crap-ton better than the movie itself. He's a great composer if you want a copy-cat score, and he also manages to infuse it with his own style (even if that's made up of David Arnold flavoring). There are a few tracks that are more rousing than others and some of the Star Wars character themes are included, but I honestly wouldn't call this a Star Wars score. It's basically "generic sci-fi score #12", pulled straight from the shelf. I think I also heard a direct rip from The 13th Warrior as well. Funny stuff.
I'd recommend this score to someone who was desperate for something new, or wanted something to listen to in the background while they were working. It's good, but not that good.
No clone here, only a middling score August 13, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
Kevin Kiner's composing credits at the Internet Movie Database include 67 scores, most of them for American television. I've seen a few episodes of some of these programs, though I can't say that I ever remember hearing of Kevin Kiner until his name was announced as the composer for the new Star Wars animated feature, The Clone Wars. And in fact I suppose that's true for most Star Wars fans, and the general public, as well. The composer doesn't maintain a web presence, but perhaps he's too busy. In a recent interview he noted recording 400 minutes of music for the new animated Clone Wars television series.
Kevin Kiner, if you will, is a skilled craftsman, a technician who can on demand compose, conduct, perform, and produce the music required in the high pressure world of weekly television serials. He may show flashes of brilliance now and then, but very few of those moments seem to have been captured in the soundtrack to the Clone Wars feature.
Not having seen the film, I can't say how well the score compliments the story, though judging from the music itself I'd say the film is not likely to have many moments of quiet reflection. What's most immediately noticeable is how well Kiner's work blends in with John Williams' oeuvre. Surely this was intentional, to make viewers feel at home in a well-known universe, while preserving and then building on Williams' and Lucas' musical traditions. Within the first half a minute, you know right away that something old is being presented wrapped as something new, the familiar opening theme on brass, but with a staccato punch, the rhythm accentuated by powerful percussion.
Besides Luke's Theme there are only a couple of moments where it appears Kiner quotes directly from Williams. But these moments are so short they could be dismissed as coincidence, making this Kiner's work entirely, a score built on classical orchestral themes but including as well voices until now not a part of the Star Wars universe, including synthesizer, electric guitar, erhu (2-stringed Chinese violin), duduk (Armenian flute), oud (Arab lute), and taiko (Japanese drum). Kiner uses them sparingly, giving each their moment but not letting any run loose to dominate the score.
Perhaps the most unusual thing about this as a Star Wars soundtrack are the number of cues, 32, more than any of the individual scores for the previous six films. Eight are less than one minute in length, six less than two minutes, nine less than three. That leaves only nine cues longer than three minutes. Compare that with Williams' most recent Star Wars score, Revenge of the Sith, with 15 cues, only two under three minutes. Typically cues for television programs are shorter than for film, and as the decision to begin The Clone Wars animated series with a full-length feature came rather late in the development process, it seems likely that Kiner was writing for television, rather than the cinema. What we get on this CD are aural vignettes, not fully developed themes. And so far, none of them seem to be stand out compositions, no Luke's Theme, no Imperial March, no Duel of Fates, Across the Stars, or Battle of the Heroes.
But not everyone gets to be John Williams. On the other hand, it took Williams a number of years before he hit his stride. (Who remembers his score for I Passed for White?) Perhaps Kiner's about to hit his and we can look forward to more memorable cues from the new Clone Wars animated television series.
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