Green Wing: Original Television Soundtrack is the soundtrack

Soundtrack

A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

 to the British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 sitcom

Situation comedy

A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

 Green Wing

Green Wing

Green Wing is a British sitcom set in the fictional East Hampton Hospital. It was created by the same team behind the sketch show Smack the Pony, led by Victoria Pile, and stars Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Julian Rhind-Tutt....

by Jonathan Whitehead

Jonathan Whitehead

Jonathan Whitehead is an award winning music composer, born in 1960 in Denton, Lancashire, who is most noted for writing music for television comedies such as The Day Today, Brass Eye, Black Books, Green Wing, Campus and Nathan Barley. He studied music at the University of Bristol and now lives in...

, under the name "Trellis". The album contains 23 tracks originally recorded for the series, but no soundtracks recorded by other artists. The music originally won Whitehead an RTS Craft and Design Award for "Best Original Score" in 2005, and also nominated for a BAFTA.

Production

The album was produced for Silva Screen records. Most of the soundtracks are instrumental

Instrumental

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, however in the track "Fibre Troll", parts are sung by Jennifer McGregor. The sleeve notes

Liner notes

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 themselves are written in a humorous style, describing the music in bizarre ways. For example, the note on "Last Week" (the theme tune to Green Wing) it reads:

"This rousing Ouvertüre featured the signature sound of the famous, One Stringed Indian Instrument, the pitch of which is controlled by the skillful squeezing of its bamboo shaft. The three note ascending brass motif (taken from 'Akoustika' and electronically speeded up by one of Trellis' techie drones no doubt!) is in the form of an asymmetrical palindrome: it underscores perfectly that janiform state of looking back to the events of last week's episode, and simultaneously… breathlessly, anticipating the madcap thrills to come. Heaven!

It also includes other comments such as, "As a direct result of all the terror and bad things post 9/11 and as a mark of respect, it has been decided NOT to release this cd in Dolby 5.1 surround

Dolby Digital

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Reception

Composer Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton

Daniel Pemberton is an Ivor Novello winning and multi BAFTA-nominated English composer.He has composed title tunes and incidental music for countless award winning television series including Peep Show, Desperate Romantics, Occupation, Suburban Shootout, Hell's Kitchen, Great British Menu,...

wrote that the soundtrack to Green Wing was, "One of the most innovative TV soundtracks in recent years which has been Jonathan Whitehead's twisted work on this cult comedy show, which is now finally released as a really quite crazy-sounding album."

Track listing

1. "Last Week" - 1:09
2. "Car Park" - 2:21
3. "Vibrobedhead" - 1:18
4. "Jolly Scarface" - 2:06
5. "MoonAway" - 2:12
6. "Acoustica" - 1:24
7. "No Tune" - 3:23
8. "Camel" - 1:12
9. "Ouch" - 1:07
10. "Sniff" - 2:26
11. "Kinslide" - 3:03
12. "Wig, A Wig" - 1:34
13. "King Jelly" - 1:32
14. "Fibre Troll" - 1:53
15. "Kingston" - 0:44
16. "Rhodespierre" - 0:57
17. "Grammercy" - 3:01
18. "Crab" - 2:25
19. "Twang (original)" - 1:14
20. "Fibreoptik" - 6:21
21. "Dark Kingston" - 0:43
22. "Nun Hope" - 2:12
23. "Logus" - 0:33