When pianist Eddy Duchin died from leukemia at the terribly young age of 41, he’d built up a striking career as a bandleader and performer, playing soft-styled orchestral jazz versions of contemporary songs and classical pieces for nightclubs, ballrooms, and live radio shows…
Video game soundtrack reviews released by Sumthing Else, including the Castlevania – Lords of Shadow franchise, plus Dead Rising 3 and Thief (2014).
For the follow-up to Konami’s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010), esteemed composer Oscar Araujo augmented the video game’s sound with a richer inclusion of electronics, often deepening the heavy string chords in epic melodic build-ups like “Dying for a Drop of Blood” with some chorals, or pulsing bass hits…
The stealth nature of Thief mandates a score that’s almost purely about subterfuge, evasion, discovery, and remaining in a state of constant vigilance, which Luc St-Pierre handles with a blend of orchestra and electronic which accentuate dizzying figures, electrical feedback, and simple pulses…
Oscar Araujo’s latest epic score for the Castlevania franchise is another remarkable opus that melds a huge orchestral sound with some overt electronic elements to capture a world of myth and mayhem…
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