1978 cover artwork for 'Battlestar Galactica' by Giorgio Moroder. Produced by Giorgio Moroder and someone called, according to the album cover, simply Harold Falt.
Battlestar Galactica, etc
The 'Battlestar Galactica' album is probably both Moroder's most tasteless album cover and most blatant piece of disco exploitation. Plundering the winning format already established by Meco's 'Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk' album (also for Casablanca Records) Moroder followed an identical pattern with the score of this lesser successful sci-fi odyssey.
Featuring the Munich Machine's usual line-up of Keith Forsey, Les Hurdle, Mats Bjoerklund, Fritz Sonnleitner, Dino Solera and Harold Falt (or Faltermeyer) on keyboards.
Faltermeyer's involvement with Moroder was developing rapidly. With his perfectionist, mathematical approach to music and keyboard dexterity he was able to translate many of Moroder's ambitious ideas into reality.
In 1990, Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys said of his experience working with Faltermeyer:
'He's regarded as one of the great programmers in the world... he's got that whole German know-how thing. Technical precision to the millisecond."'Battlestar Galactica' was redeemed by the appearance of 'Evolution' on side 2, an original Moroder composition. This tightly-arranged fifteen minute dance instrumental featured Moroder on keyboards along with Forsey, Bjoerklund and two new names: Stefan Wisnet and Guenter Moll.
These last
two musicians also worked as co-producers and co-writers with Moroder
on the third and last Munich Machine album 'Bodyshine' (1979).