{"id":2187,"date":"2011-01-15T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2011-01-15T21:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T02:24:06","slug":"mp3-assassins-creed-brotherhood-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Assassin’s Creed – Brotherhood (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Rating: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label:\u00a0Ubisoft Music \/ Released: November 16, 2010<\/p>\n

Tracks & Album Length:\u00a020 tracks \/ (63:02)<\/p>\n

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Special Notes: Downloadable album contains bonus cut.<\/p>\n

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Composer: Jesper Kyd<\/p>\n

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Within film circles, Jesper Kyd\u2019s best known work is Cameron Romero\u2019s disappointing Staunton Hill<\/strong> (2009), but the composer\u2019s abilities are much better represented in Assassin\u2019s Creed: Brotherhood<\/strong>, Ubisoft Montreal\u2019s action & adventure videogame set in antiquity.<\/p>\n

Kyd\u2019s music isn\u2019t just action-oriented; using ethereal chorals, incantations, and a diverse instrumental palette, the game\u2019s score plunges one into a period of gloomy philosophies, a sense of paranoia, and confrontations in which a player\u2019s either confronting a few or a mass of combatants.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s any major mood that dominates Kyd\u2019s lengthy score, it\u2019s intrigue, and while some may find the music delves into trance terrain, there is a progression for the listener with pauses, assaults, pulsing flights from danger, and beautiful, mystical interludes. The style is generally modern orchestral scoring, with infusions of period, electronica, folk and liturgical elements.<\/p>\n

\u201cCity of Rome\u201d is dominated by a rustic violin solo, with subtle chorals and a thumping marching rhythm and meditative acoustic guitar, whereas in \u201cBrotherhood Escapes\u201d Kyd returns to his motif of shrill metallic sounds (evoking clashing swords and screeching armor plates), and a pumping contemporary rhythm with occasional choral backing.<\/p>\n

Synth cello provides a delicate lament in \u201cDesmond Miles,\u201d and the mood remains quite somber in spite of a continuous electric pulse, and eddies of bass tones swirling furtively in the background. Kyd creates a similar variation with synth violin and a repeated chime in \u201cVR Room,\u201d and the album closes with the brief kinetic bonus cut \u201cEnd Fight,\u201d wherein Kyd assembles antique sounds with choral samples, and a series of pounding percussion textures.<\/p>\n

Sumthing Else\u2019s CD offers a solid selection of cues, but what\u2019s important is the dramatic variety Kyd managed to craft for each player segment, and the care in integrating moody thematic statements within action cues. It\u2019s a great sampling of the composer\u2019s fluid fusion of modern and old world sounds, free from the bombast that lesser composers would employ..<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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External References:<\/p>\n

IMDB <\/a>— Soundtrack Album <\/a>— Composer Filmography<\/a><\/p>\n

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