XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS volume 6 Varese Sarabande VSD-6255 TRACKS: CD1:23, CD2:30. Music Composed by Joseph LoDuca. Copyright 2001.

Tracks:
FALLEN ANGEL: With The Angels, Battling Archangels, Go To Them, Body Snatch, Resistance, Gab's Trial, They're Coming, Back From The Dead.
IDES OF MARCH: She'll Be Here, Callisto In Hell, Way Of Pain, Keep Coming.
GOD FEARING CHILD: End Of Days.
THE RING TRILOGY: The Ring, Valhalla, On A Cow, Up The Rhein, Rhein Maidens, Out Of Options, The Kiss, Return Of The Rheingold.
DANCE CUES: Pas De Deux Femmes, You Will Dance.
FRIEND IN NEED: Sounds Of War, To The Rising Sun, Sounds Of Life And Death, Snow Falling On Cedars, Burning Higuchi, Die Demon, Reality Of Dreams, Xena vs. Yodoshi.
BONUS CUES: Return To Chin, The Power Of The Book, Secret Of The Powder, Haulin' To The North, The Mausoleum, It's Over, Love Is A Weapon, United In Love.
SPECIAL REQUESTS: Joxer The Mighty, The Play's The Thing, A Woman's A Natural Thing/Miss Known World, A Day In The Life, Catching Fish, Up In The Trees, Things In Common, Down The Valley, Neighbour Lady, Smelling Mortality, Chasin' Chickens, The Quill Is Mightier, Here Girl, Xena Main Title.

Nostalgic highlights are not marked at all.
Because this volume is far too big to be divided into tiny little pieces! :)

Personal faves: The Norse tracks, The FIN tracks, Catching Fish, and the music from To Helicon And Back. (I LOVE that episode waaaay to much!)

Another note: The Fallen Angel music won an emmy and is really, really good! The music for the Ring trilogy was nominated for one as well.








A little FIN pic:

 

This is a must-have! A double album with a lot of good music. Did I mention earlier that LoDuca gets better every time? Well, that is the fact here too. More epic pieces and full arc scores are found on this one, as was the case with XWP volume four.

Soooo...what's good and what's bad, hm? Well, let's start with the bad, so we can get that out of the way! The bad is there, underneath and expresses itself in Pas De Deux Femmes. Not that it's a bad song, I love it; it's just that a drum machine here seems so simple and unchallenging. Dull. The point with a real drummer is that he/she thinks and can add their own influences to the music. In PDDF this just isn't done. I want live drummers, dammit!

The 2nd Chin arc songs...are ok, but remind us of the horrible story. Especially Secrets Of The Powder, that doesn't share either Return To Chin's brilliance in harmony nor strength. Then we have the special requests. It's superb to hear some old faves, but why Joxer the Mighty? AGAIN?

Catching Fish is a very old fave. I did a little happy dance for that one. The Fallen Angel score is awesomw. Epic, detailed, well conducted...the list goes on and on. LoDuca is a master of making us feel, and so the IOM tracks come and blow you away. FA brings you hope and a will to fight all obstacles there ever was, when IOM is a sneaking, unsteady and bittersweet feeling twisting slowly through your guts. A very good example of how to project heart into an episode. Unavoidable pain and an intense beam of light at the end of the tunnel, is what IOM says.

The Norse Trilogy. Well, well. This is outstanding. This is might, strength, lurking awe and a fresh smell of crisp air. Even if the music does not resemble scandinavian viking music at all, it does sound influenced by some of the old french/german/over-all-european tunes/ballads from the medieval age, the mid-period of the era. And that's pretty cool! There's also some Wagner colour...

Then here it was; A Friend In Need. I am personally not a fan of the finale, but I am a big fan of its music. LoDuca ruled the last two episodes with this breathtaking piece. Emotion music, notes that pulls at your heart strings.

Overall this volume is the last experience of a show that was, that could have been and that left its mark on so many things, too many things to name here.


This is a volume you can't live without. It´s great to play in the background while you work, it's relaxing and SO good.