George Sarah is an electronic composer whose work falls somewhere between trip-hop and neoclassical compositions. His "electronic chamber music" has been featured in independent film, network television and most recently in the Discovery Channel's Plastic Surgery Before and After.

The fourteen compositions that appear on Ossia were culled from songs Sarah created for Plastic Surgery. Fortunately, the ambient beats don't inspire visions of face lifts and boob jobs; they'd be more at home in a high-end SoHo bedding store or at the Getty Museum in LA. Each piece sets a mood for the three of four minutes it occupies, and that mood remains essentially unaltered; playful string melodies (or sampled-string melodies) guide each song, but there isn't a climax in sight.

You won't dance to Ossia; BPMs never come close to 100. Sarah's compositions sound like what they are: incidental music, similar to David Holmes's soundtrack work. Taste-wise, material like this (almost-danceable) falls into something of a genre grey area -- but as Sarah has a successful career writing for TV and film, he's free to satisfy his own tastes here.