Orchestral
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Tori Amos Live London 2012 Review & Clips
Quite simply – the night was an absolutely transcending magical experience from start to end. I felt all kinds of emotions running through me to the point…
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Live Vault – Sarah Slean
With the Art of Time Ensemble – let’s hope a DVD is released of this!
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Penka Kouneva Releases Instrumental Album
I always am fascinated when composers release material that’s their own and not part of a game or a film. Penka Kouneva, best known to…
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Video Vault – Tori Amos
“Flavor” originally from Abnormally Addicted to Sin is now the latest single for “Gold Dust” the orchestral reworking album coming out 1st October. I like…
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Tori Amos to Release Collection “Gold Dust”
Tori Amos certainly has gone all things orchestral lately and it seems to suit her. Now she’s revisiting old songs for a fully orchestrated re-imagining. The album…
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Tori Amos – “Night of Hunters ~ Sin Palabras” Review
Initially I wasn’t going to review this because readers will know that I fell in love with Night of Hunters from day one but “Sin…
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Jesper Kyd Darksiders II Music Samples Online
Jesper’s always busy – this time with the highly anticipated Darksiders II game. I loved the soundtrack to the first game and will be hotly…
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Austin Wintory – “Journey” Soundtrack Review
Having already raved about the game, the soundtrack is equally fantastic. Austin Wintory’s exquisite soundtrack is a wonderful collection of strings, Eastern wind instruments and some wonderfully emotive…
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Grant Kirkhope – “Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning OST” Review
Kingdoms of Amular: Reckoning has been a game on many people’s radar for a while and now its out, one thing many will agree on…
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Hirokazu Tanaka – “Kid Icarus / Metroid Original Orchestra Version” Review
“Kid Iracus (Partena No Kagami) & Metroid” is a very old and rare cassette from back in the 80’s taking just 6 tracks and…
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Soundtrack Proceeds To Charity!
Whoever said gaming doesn’t pay once again loses today as Activision and CoD MW3 composer Brian Tyler will be giving all proceeds to a non-profit…
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Deux Ex & LOTR: War of the North OST’s Confirmed
Sumthing Else will be distributing soundtracks for both Deux Ex Human Revolution and LOTR: War of the North. Deux Ex is composed by Michael McCann…
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Tori Amos – “Night of the Hunters” Review
Tori Amos never sits still. This latest album see’s her drop band instrumentation altogether and produce an absolutely sublime orchestrated album. Underpinned by the trusty…
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Live Vault – Soap&Skin
I’ve not seen this fantastic ensemble live version of Soap&Skin’s “Marche Fenebre”. It’s absolutely delicious!
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“Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine” OST Announced
Cris Velasco and Sascha Dikiciyan famous for the God of War and Tron: Evolution scores respectively have teamed up together to create Warhammer 40,000 Space…
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Yoshiki Aoi – “Drag-on Dragoon 2 OST” Review
Drag-on Dragoon 2 is the completely orchestrated soundtrack from Yoshiki Aoi. The 22 tracks are a complete attack on the sense’s as an entire orchestra…
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Whispers of the Plains: Interview with Laura Karpman
Congratulations on recently completing the soundtrack to the game Kung Fu Panda. Thanks! Now the projects finished, how do you feel about it as…
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Inon Zur Composes for LOTR: War of the North Game
Inon Zur continues to score the epic RPGs this year. Hot off the heels of a episodic release of the Dragon Age II soundtrack, Zur…
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Video Vault – My Brightest Diamond
One of my new artist discoveries for 2011 is My Brightest Diamond. “A Thousand Shark’s Teeth” is phenominal and “Inside A Boy” is fantastically dramatic.…
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Nobuo Uematseu – “Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale” Review
Final Fantasy VI had some stunning pieces of music in them and the soundtrack recieved a fully orchestrated arrangment album with “Final Fantasy VI Grand…
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Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi – “Final Fantasy X-2 Eternity Memory of Lightwaves” Review
Final Fantasy X-2’s single takes the unique route of actually being a non-vocal single at all! The three tracks on the CD are all taken…
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Jesper Kyd – “Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST” Review
Main staple composer of the highly respected and much loved Assassins Creed series, Jesper Kyd returns for more dramatic high-jinx in this riviting score. “Master…
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Winifred Phillips – “Legend of the Guardians OST” Review
Winifred Phillips is no stranger to big theatrical scores with pizzazz and kitchen sink attached but Legend of the Guardians is full on cinematic treats…
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Jesper Kyd to Release Assassins Creed Brotherhood OST
Jesper Kyd returns with Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Soundtrack which is due for release on 16th November. Since the game takes place in the Renaissance period,…
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Live Vault – Tori Amos
Everyone on this webpage knows I’m a massive fan of Tori and she gets plenty of dollops of love here but a new heart goes…
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Vincent Diamante – “Flower OST” Review
To describe the Flower soundtrack is really quite difficult. It has eight tracks, most of which are in the same vein. It’s a gentle breeze…
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Halo Reach OST Due 28th September
Halo soundtracks have always had an extra pinch of epic sauce on them so the latest soundtrack in the series Halo Reach will be much…
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Petri Alanko – “Alan Wake” OST
Alan Wake has been a game so long in production, it could have been called Alan Will Be Awake Shortly and no one would have…
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Live Vault – Yasunori Mitsuda
PLAY! Concert is one of a couple of touring video game orchestral performance troupes and their rendition of Yasunori Mitsuda’s Chrono Cross/Trigger melodies are fantastic.…
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Brendan Perry – “Ark” Review
For many (myself included) Ark at one time just seemed to be an album that would never be made. I for one am just grateful…
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“Age of Mythology Soundtrack” Review
Sometimes when you listen to a soundtrack, it can sweep you away to places other than where you body can go. At least with me,…
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John Williams : Making of Memoirs of a Geisha Soundtrack
I absolutely adore the soundtrack (and film) to Memoirs of a Geisha. This video I found on old faithful tube, is taken from the DVD…
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Whispers of the Plains ~ Aubrey Ashburn
Aubrey Ashburn is a lady millons of gamers will have heard but not always have been aware of the fact. Aubrey is a prolific theme…
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Michael Giacchino To Perform Lost Finale Concert
We all know him somehow, but Michael Giacchino is busy preparing for a one off concert of Lost music ahead of the final ever episode…
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Noriko Matsueda & Takahito Eguchi – The Bouncer OST Review
The Bouncer OST is one that is full of life and energy. Coming across like something from late Tekken soundtracks rather than the fighting/RPG hybrid…
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Tom Salta Composes Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands
Tom Salta has been a busy bee. Not only has he just composed the score for Red Steel 2 (talking of which a review and…
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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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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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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…
