MovieScore Media release composer Erwann Kermorvant's score for the French TV series. Your Honor (Un Homme D'honneur) is a French remake of the hit Israeli series Kvomo, telling the story of Richard Altman, a respected judge who is forced to sacrifice everything he has worked for when his son Lucas commits a hit and run, leaving a man for dead. When it turns out that the victim is the son of a dangerous criminal he had helped put behind bars, Richard must prepare for the worst for his family...

The soundtrack for Your Honor contains 30 tracks (1 hr, 14 min, 28 sec) of primarily gripping suspense music. There's also a lot of softer, reflective segments of music. It's this fine balance that makes this an enjoyable and far reaching release, able to draw in an audience who may not have even seen the show.

Discussing the project, composer Erwann Kermorvant said: "The brief by director Julius Berg was pretty simple: Less is more. He asked me to developed a classic motivic (film noir like) approach to the music with easily recognizable themes for the protagonists. Stressing the dilemma and emotions of the father and his son. We also decided that it was to be an hybrid score of orchestral and electronic colours. I also experimented with more 'musique concrete' like sounds as the plot developed towards more 'roughness' and 'darkness'. Thus offering a palette of Orchestral/Electronic/Found Sounds through the score. I played most of the instruments myself, the rest is programmed."

There's lot of enjoyable little moments that constantly pop up as you're listening to the album. It's probably a little lacking in memorable themes, but as a broad and diverse collection of styles and themes, this is pretty impressive.

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Darren Rea