Upcoming Releases: Shrek 2 Score, Earthsea, ALIAS: Season 2, CARNIVÀLE

Varèse Sarabande have announced details of their upcoming releases for the next month.

SHREK 2 - Original Motion Picture Score Release Date: 12/07/04. The much-loved music score by Harry Gregson-Williams (who also returns from the original SHREK) is finally available. The fairytale continues as everyone’s favorite ogre faces his greatest challenge of all — the in-laws — in SHREK 2! Shrek and Princess Fiona return from their honeymoon to find an invitation to visit Princess Fiona’s parents, the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Far Far Away. With Donkey along for the ride, the happy couple ventures off on a whirlwind of new adventures with a host of new fairy tale characters to lampoon along the way.

EARTHSEA - Original Television SoundtrackRelease Date: 12/07/04. Adapted from fantasy author Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed six volume Earthsea series, the Sci-Fi Channel present an epic fantasy that follows the tale of a reckless youth destined to become the greatest sorcerer that the mystical world of Earthsea has ever known. When the difficult and rebellious youth discovers the extent of his magical powers, he seeks to master the ancient arts — and his own impulses as well. As he journeys to manhood, he combats dragons, crosses death’s threshold and ultimately wields the power to reunite a planet. This epic, magical and thrilling orchestral score is a new fantasy classic for those that love great music and the genre.

ALIAS: Season 2 - Original Television Soundtrack Release Date: 11/16/04. To accompany the recent release of ALIAS Season 3 on DVD comes this exciting second soundtrack for the hit television series ALIAS. It was a family affair in the second season of J.J. Abrams’s Alias, as secret agent Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) came face-to-face with the mother of all super secret agents — her own mother, Irina Derevko (Lena Olin), a former KGB agent presumed dead but alive and more dangerous than ever. The Soundtrack features the popular theme composed by series creator J.J. Abrams.

CARNIVÀLE - Original Television SoundtrackRelease Date: 12/07/04. HBO’s new series, CARNIVÀLE follows a traveling carnival as it wends its way across the Dust Bowl, focusing on a mysterious young fugitive with hidden talents who is taken in by the carnival, and on the charismatic, shadowy evangelist who will ultimately cross his path. The 12-episode dramatic series takes place at a time of worldwide unrest, with evil on the rise around the globe and the Great Depression wreaking economic and social havoc.