{"id":11578,"date":"2015-06-11T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2015-06-11T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T18:29:10","slug":"mp3-assassins-creed-unity-dead-kings-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11578","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity – Dead Kings (2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"AssassinsCreedUnityDead<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Ubisoft \/ iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0 January 13, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a012 tracks \/ 23 mins.<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Cris Velasco<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Switching gears from more percussive electronic fusion scores, the latest album from the Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity<\/b> video game franchise features a more intimate work by Cris Velasco, featuring a smaller all-orchestra design with somewhat stealthy homages to Bernard Herrmann.<\/p>\n

Written to evoke mounting suspicion and mystical experiences, Velasco\u2019s approach skips any formal intro or build-up and just cuts to the dramatic meat with lengthy, beautifully constructed pieces that unfold like glimpses of suspicious goings on as seen from the corner of a dank tunnel or from behind a veiled doorway in a Medieval castle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Marquis\u201d features a chamber-styled string orchestra with heavy vibrato evoking a bit of Herrmann\u2019s more subdued yet eerie pieces from Psycho <\/b>(1960), and in select cues Velasco not only applies bass clarinets (a Herrmann signature and portent of ominous events), but allows their reedy tones to unfurl and tickle the listener with their warm yet unnerving sounds.<\/p>\n

The score\u2019s more kinetic cues tend to support hasty, brisk action rather than heavy leaps and bounds, hence the emphasis on circular rhythms and up-front figures performed by a handful of strings. Any percussion is organic-based (light drums in \u201cOutpost\u201d with lovely hurdy-gurdy), and is enriched with backbeats on wooden blocks.<\/p>\n

Subtle voices appear in \u201cBasilica,\u201d and return in full for the (brief) closing track \u201cHiddenTemple\u201d as a choir, more mournful than triumphant, delivers lovely harmonics with support from strings. While the wrap-up may be a little too fast in an already brief album, Dead Kings<\/b> is a great little work that demonstrates the mood and emotions a composer can wring from a modest orchestra, emphasizing the colours of a mere handful of instruments over a massive orchestral-synth production.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2015 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a>
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