Orchestral
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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…
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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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Live Vault – Chris Huelsbeck
The man who could with the C64, this weeks like vault comes from Chris Huelsbeck and the arrangement of his R-Types theme from a camcorder…
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Whispers Of the Plains: Garry Schyman
Inbetween all of his project’s he’s been doing, Higher Plain Music was able to grab a very quick five minutes with Garry Schyman! In order…
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“Halo Legends OST” Review
Halo Legends, the anime collection from the massively popular game series, has landed a soundtrack of its own and has a generous mix of reconstructed…
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Dark Void Soundtrack Announced
Sumthing Else are busy again, today (in the UK) saw the release of Dark Void and now we have the soundtrack coming. Composed by Bear…
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Game Review: Musaic Box (PC)
Musaic Box is an interesting take on music games and a small shout out to independant game studios that all kinds of weird and wonderful…
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Tom Clovin – Sudeki Soundtrack Review
Sudeki, a multi character platformer on the Xbox had the priviledge of having a soundtrack release as a double disc format. Disc 1 is the…
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Darksiders Soundtrack Announced
Award-winning composers Cris Velasco (God of War series, Clive Barker’s Jericho) and Mike Reagan (God of War series, Conan) have created the original music score…
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Lisa Gerrard – “Balibo OST” Review
Lisa Gerrard’s recent soundtracks have seen a real return back to her roots and that starts with the astounding “Balibo Soundtrack”. There is a CD…
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Jesper Kyd – “Assassins Creed II OST” Review
Following on from the epic score of the original, Jesper Kyd returns for Assassins Creed II’s OST and this time we’re going back in time!…
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Jesper Kyd to Score Assassins Creed II OST
The title says it all, Assassins Creed’s composer is back for the sequel and with the new game set in the Renaissance era I’d expect…
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Whispers of the Plains: Winifred Phillips on the Making of Spore Hero’s Soundtrack
Winifred Phillip’s latest soundtrack “Spore Hero” was released this week and we gave it two thumbs up! We were lucky enough to get to ask…
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Winifred Phillips – Spore Hero OST
Last time we spoke to Winifred Phillips she dangled a carrot over a possible secret EA project – well that carrot has blossomed into the…
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Live Vault – Christopher Tin
This week’s live vault is Christopher Tin with his fantastic “Baba Yetu” taken from his album “Calling All Dawns”. The sheer power of the track…
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Whispers of the Plains – Christopher Tin
Having absolutely devoured every sound in his debut solo album “Calling All Dawns”, HPM were dying to chat with Christopher Tin and lucky us, we…
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Christopher Tin – “Calling All Dawns” Review
Christopher Tin, well known VGM artist (“Baba Yetu” from Civ IV) and musical talent returns with his first solo album “Calling All Dawns” and its…
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Garry Schyman – BioShock Score Review
Garry Schyman’s “BioShock Score” was released as a free downloadable CD containing a selection of the orchestral music from the iconic game. Sadly, of the…
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Whispers of the Plains – Interviews With OverClocked Remix Project Leaders!
Yesterday saw OverClocked Remix release “Summoning of Spirits”, a massive arrangements project that spans 4 discs (plus 3 bonus tracks) covering the Namco “Tales Of…”…
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Hiroki Kikuta – Soukaigi Soundtrack
Soukaigi’s music is as beautiful as it is overwealming. From a game I know nothing of, sometimes there can be a small barrier if you…
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Wojciech Golczewski – Linger In The Shadows OST Review
A man in desperate need of an easier name to spell, Golczewski has been scoring soundtracks for a while but recently popped up on the…
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Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite Review
Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite is a fully orchestrated album, showcasing songs from Final Fantasy I-III. Epic is the name of the game here, as everything…
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Winifred Phillips – SimAnimals Soundtrack Review
We (ok just me then) at Higher Plain Games have our second pre-release review in our short 9 months of life, however this is our…
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Higher Plain Music’s Top 10 Music Releases of 2008
Well in the previous post we told you what we’d bought, now its time for our top 10 countdown. There were some excellent releases this…
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Wataru Hokoyama – Afrika OST Review
Afrika, the Safari game for PlayStation 3 (which desperately needs releasing over in the Western World please), finally has its soundtrack released on a two…
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Chris Hulsbeck Symphonic Shades Samples Online
Clips from the Symphonic Shades CD are online for those us thinking that £18.51 is a lot of money to part for one CD! You…
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Live Vault – Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi is this weeks live vault artist with a beautiful rendition of “Ashitaka Sekki”, one of the main theme’s from Anime “Princess Mononoke”. DVD’s…
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Risa Ohki & Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy Pray” Review
Final Fantasy Pray was the very first vocal collection of Final Fantasy songs. The songs were taken from FFI-VI and have been transformed from classic…
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Hideki Sakamoto – Echochrome OST Review
The various works of Hideki Sakamoto had passed by my radar until I purchased the game “Echochrome” for the PS3. Here I was introduced to…
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Taro Hakase – “Final Fantasy XII Symphonic Suite” Review
The first real release of Final Fantasy XII music comes courtesy of Taro Hakase whom has apparently not been releasing music for many years and…