Month: March 2010
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Whispers of the Plains: Keith Burgun
Dinofarms Games is an indepedant games company who have just created a new RPG title called 100 Rogues and have released their soundtrack for free…
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Video Vault – Brendan Perry
This not an official video but its just all kinds of fantastic so I simply had to post it and thus end my Brendan Perry…
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Imogen Heap Covers Tori Amos
Imogen has performed a unique and original interpretation of Tori Amos’ “Cornflake Girl”. Watch the cover here. It’s nice to hear the song completely reworked…
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Live Vault – Tegan and Sara
I’d not heard a single song from these lovely identical twins before but one listen of this fantastic acoustic version of “The Con” had me…
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Live Vault – Brendan Perry (New Songs From Ark)
Well I’ve had a listen to the whole bootleg recording (aren’t I naughty) and Brendan continues to perform like an absolute dream. Brendan has such…
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Garry Schyman – “Bioshock 2 Score” Review
Garry Schyman’s Bioshock score was one the best scores under 20 minutes I’ve heard in the last 10 years. With a full scale Bioshock 2…
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Live Vault – Nina Nastasia
Whilst thoroughly rediscovering “Run to Ruin” I found this beautiful live performance of one of my favourite Nina Nastasia songs “This is What It Is”…
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Normand Corbeil – Heavy Rain OST Review
Heavy Rain, a game which polarises most gamers, is more an emotional interactive film experience than a gameplay game and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with…
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Buzz! Dino Den & Buzz! Monster Rumble Walkthroughs
Buzz! Junior has some great mini game collections, aimed for children, but the adults can certainly enjoy the games too. Here are the walk throughs…
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Yasunori Mitsuda – Chrono Trigger Orchestra Extra Soundtrack
As a preorder bonus in 2008, Chrono Trigger had a 2 track promotional bonus CD of two orchestrated songs. The first is “Chrono Trigger” which…
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A New Site From This Author
Just a quick plug to say my fourth (and final!) site I Love Disaster Movies is now fully up and running. Pop over to http://www.ilovedisastermovies.com…
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Gregory Douglass New Album In Works
Gregory Douglass, who released the great Battler last year, has announced he’s already working on his next album. Although its not available until 2011, what…
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Video Vault – Ooioo
Normally I don’t have two video vaults in a week, but I just stumbled across this and had to post it. I’ve yet to discover…
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Sarah McLachlan – New Album
What, not quite six years between releases?! Sarah McLachlan, boviously spurred on from her Olympics performance and being confirmed for Lilith Fair, her new album…
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Salta Shakes It Up With Red Steel 2 Soundtrack
Tom Salta has written and composed the score for new wii game Red Steel 2. Looking set to potentially be one of the most intresting…
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New Kate Bush Book Coming
A new Kate Bush entitled “Under the Ivy” looks like it is finally on its way to her fans. You can preorder it here but…
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Garry Shyman: Dante’s Inferno OST Review
Garry Shyman has been a busy bee of late and so this will be the first of two soundtrack reviews of the composer. Dante’s Inferno,…
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Video Vault ~ St Vincent
St Vincent, is the latest lady to have an album bought by myself, so I thought I should give Annie some love and share with…
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Jun Senoue To Compose Sonic 4!
Fans of the Sonic world rejoice, Sonic 4, the new side scrolling version of old skool Sonic due to hit our next gen consoles in…
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Whispers of the Plains: Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney is a talented singer/songwriter, band musician and composer for TV and radio too! Whilst he keeps himself a very busy man, we were…
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Game Review: Heavy Rain
For the first time in a while I’ve found myself glued to my PlayStation 3 screens as I am emmersed in a new world and…
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“Music Creation for the PlayStation” Promo CD Review
Back in 1998 a certain game caused a riot on PlayStation called “Music”. Essentially it was the first proper music creation program for a console…
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Video Vault – Emiliana Torrini
Another video vault from Emiliana Torrini this week purely because so many of her music videos feature single versions of her album tracks and this…
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Higher Plain Games Hits 1 Million!!!
A massive thanks to everyone, Higher Plain Games yesterday got its 1,000,000th video view! What a number for little old me. We get about 4,000…
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Lisa Gerrard – “The Black Opal” (Ltd Edition) Review
Since Lisa went completely onto her own distribution label, things appear to have changed. “The Black Opal” faced delays in distribution and other troubles too…
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Video Vault – Goldfrapp
Back with their first single from their new album, this is the music video to Goldfrapp’s “Rocket” which I think is very, very 80’s indeed!…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – New CD & DVD Releases
Ayumi Hamasaki never ever, ever sits still. Another year, another CD and live tour DVD release are pretty much a certain bet. “Rock n Roll…
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Sitorimon – Runeology Released
Time to do some self promotion! My debut album Runeology, recorded back in 2006 is now available to buy from amazon as an mp3 album.…
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Most Viewed: February 2010
Well February 2010 saw our busiest month ever at Higher Plain Music as we hit a record number of views on the website. Thank you…