Bodyguard
Composer: Ruth Barrett – View bio »
Release Date (digital): 24 October 2018
About the album
This is Emmy-Nominated composer Ruth Barrett’s soundtrack to the BBC’s six-part series Bodyguard. The series originally aired in August and was hailed as the biggest and most watched drama on British television in over a decade.
Notes from Ruth:
“The soundtrack portrays the inner workings of lead character David Budd’s mind: his PTSD, torment and conflicting emotions about Julia, the woman he is assigned to protect. There are no big melodies – it’s more about mood and feeling, which was the brief by Thomas Vincent, the director. The entire sound palette is bespoke, using a lot of processed raw sounds recorded specifically for this project, including bass trombone and modular synths. Scratchy electric cello became the signature sound for David’s anxiety. For this I used a variety of scraping effects and textures, favouring the imperfections and the sound of the hair on the bow. The score is rough-and-ready and the main theme has an infectious club-like beat which the producers felt sounded like a seedy Berlin nightclub at 4am, dark and a bit unhinged. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a show where anything could happen!”

- Bodyguard – 02:57
- Attraction – 02:48
- Meet the Terror – 03:05
- Attack – 03:33
- Fear and Loathing – 03:37
- Obsession – 01:56
- The Trap – 03:22
- Despair – 02:45
- Renegade – 02:21
- The Trick – 03:39**
- Conspiracy – 01:31
- Dark Night – 01:45
- Makarov – 02:08
- Kompromat – 02:01
- Dread – 03:03
- Wired – 01:46
- To Protect You – 01:36
**written by Ruskin Williamson