RealWorld Records releases Afro-Celt Sound System‘s third album, Volume 3 – Further In Time, featuring the single “When You’re Falling” with Peter Gabriel. 
RealWorld Records releases Afro-Celt Sound System‘s third album, Volume 3 – Further In Time, featuring the single “When You’re Falling” with Peter Gabriel.
Vanguard Records releases the Butterfly Jones album Napalm Springs.
GNP Crescendo Records releases selections from James Horner’s soundtracks from the movies Battle Beyond The Stars and Humanoids From The Deep on one CD.
GNP Crescendo Records releases the soundtrack compilation The Best Of Stargate SG-1, gathering highlights from the first season of the sci-fi TV series.
Oglio Records releases Listen To What The Man Said: Popular Artists Pay Tribute To The Music Of Paul McCartney, an all-star album of tributes to the former Beatle’s solo and Wings material.
Epic Records releases Ben Folds’ debut solo album Rockin’ The Suburbs.
Sonny’s Pop Records releases Tim Finn’s sixth solo album, Feeding The Gods.
Film Score Monthly releases the complete soundtrack from the 1969 science fiction movie The Illustrated Man by Jerry Goldsmith (the movie itself having been inspired by the short stories of Ray Bradbury).
Scitron Digital releases an EP of remixes of music from the video game Super Xevious by Haruomi Hosono (Yellow Magic Orchestra).
Former Jellyfish guitarist Jason Falkner releases an instrumental album of lullaby-styled Beatles covers, Bedtime With The Beatles.
EMI Records releases Neil Finn’s soundtrack from the movie Rain.
Capitol Records releases the Paul McCartney solo album Driving Rain, featuring the single “From A Lover To A Friend”.
Atlantic Records releases Jewel‘s fourth album, This Way, featuring the single “Standing Still”.
Wendy Carlos‘ much-requested soundtrack from the 1982 movie Tron is released on CD, featuring music not previously issued on the long-out-of-print LP version.
Film Score Monthly releases, for the first time, the complete Jerry Goldsmith score from the 1976 science fiction movie Logan’s Run. (Portions of the music have been available previously, but this is the first CD of the complete soundtrack.) The release marks the beginning of a close working relationship between the soundtrack specialty label and MGM.
Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts release a CD of Frank Klepacki‘s soundtrack from the Westwood computer game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
JOS Record releases a newly expanded version of John Scott’s soundtrack from the 1980 science fiction film The Final Countdown.
The first Electric Light Orchestra album is re-released in the UK in an expanded, remastered form, featuring numerous previously unreleases mixes and other curiosities. This two-disc edition is a British exclusive, though copies inevitably make their way across the Atlantic to die-hard fans.
The Jars Of Clay album The Eleventh Hour is released, featuring the single “I Need You”.
Peter Howell‘s soundtrack from the 1980 Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive is released in its entirety on CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
The soundtracks from the 1980 Doctor Who stories Meglos and Full Circle are released on a CD, including a selection of contemporary sound effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
GNP Crescendo Records releases Matthew McCauley’s soundtrack from the TV series Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda, featuring guitar work by Rush’s Alex Lifeson.
John Williams‘ soundtrack from the movie Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones is released, with four different covers (CD contents do not change from cover to cover).
Not Lame Records releases the 2-CD set Lynne Me Your Ears, an all-star tribute to ELO frontman Jeff Lynne’s songs from ELO, The Traveling Wilburys, The Idle Race, and the Move, with contributions from Todd Rundgren, Jason Falkner, Ben Lee, and Sixpence None The Richer.
Dennis McCarthy‘s soundtrack from the Star Trek: Enterprise pilot movie Broken Bow is released on CD, including the theme song “Faith Of The Heart”, sung by Russell Watson.
The Neil Finn album One All is released. This is a revised version of his 2001 album One Nil, altered specifically for the North American market.
RealWorld Records releases Peter Gabriel‘s album Long Walk Home, the soundtrack from the movie The Rabbit-Proof Fence.
Frank Klepacki releases his second solo album, Rocktronic.
Tony Fox NYC releases the classic-video-game-themed album I Am Humanoid at Classic Gaming Expo 2002.
Intellivision Productions (a collective of programmers and designers who created the games for the iconic ’80s video game console) releases the album Intellivision In Hi-Fi at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, containing recordings of some of the system’s signature musical moments, and new renditions of some of the games’ musical themes.