Silva Screen Records releases the soundtrack from the 1989 Doctor Who story Ghost Light, composed and performed by Mark Ayres.
Another 1989 Doctor Who story scored by Mark Ayres, this music follows closely the synth-symphonic style of Curse Of Fenric, though the shadows are cast at a different angle. That’s an oblique way of saying that both discs contain very dark music settings, but this one relies on different elements than Fenric. Where Fenric‘s style owes a little something to the John Williams school of film music, Ghost Light‘s music is more eerie and horrific, depending on primitive percussion samples, unearthly sounds, and a lot of pipe organ and choral samples. If anything,
Ghost Light is more operatic and depends more on mood and suspense than all-out action. Both have merited addition to the Damn Near Perfect Album List.
- The Madhouse (3:44)
- Redvers, I Presume? (0:43)
- Uncharted Territory (1:42)
- Heart of the Interior (2:19)
- Enter Josiah (0:28)
- Indoor Lightning (1:39)
- Nimrod Observed (1:02)
- Time To Emerge (1:23)
- Burnt Toast (1:37)
- Ace’s Adventures Underground (4:36)
- Where Is Mamma? (0:44)
- Loss of Control (3:34)
- The Way to the Zoo (1:54)
- The Memory Teller (1:51)
- Lighting the Touchpaper (1:11)
- Homo Victorianus Ineptus (1:19)
- Out of the Shadows (4:03)
- Light Enlightened (1:58)
- Tropic of Perivale (2:10)
- Tricks of the Light (4:29)
- Judgement in Stone (2:19)
- Reqiuem (5:03)
- Passing Thoughts (1:26)
Released by: Silva Screen
Release date: 1993
Total running time: 51:14
1995 music review by Earl Green
