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Posted: April 21st, 2014 / 07:45 AM

"Few composers have conjectured about weird science with Alan Silvestri's sense of cosmic wonder, whether it's been seeking alien life inhabiting our inner space in THE ABYSS, time travellingBACK TO THE FUTURE or talking with an intergalactic craft voiced by Pee-Wee Herman for FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR. So it's only natural that Silvestri now gets to board a spaceship of the imagination first piloted on TV 24 years ago by Carl Sagan, whose film adaptation of CONTACT ranks as one of the composer's most awe-inspiring scores. It's that music's touching quality of intergalactic hope that now infuses COSMOS' pretty terrific reboot, which places Sagan's acolyte Neil deGrasse Tyson aboard a significantly souped-up spaceship OTM, whose new model's cinematic aspirations are achieved by Silvestri's music at all of its symphonically sweeping, big screen sci-fact majesty..........."

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