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Songs of Light and Darkness
A tribute to the music of games like Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia, Actraiser, Soul Blazer and Robotrek. These unique games made by Quintet in the 90s for the SNES. Totally unforgettable masterpieces with awesome soundtracks that rarely gets any love from other VGM musicians (we'd add an exception for Actraiser here, tho). So here we are to make some justice.
Once again it's hard to define this in terms of genre or style. I move mostly into metal as usual, but so much of variety and influences both inside and outside metal... And some tracks go just a bit too far from the line this time. My previous VGM album, "Songs of Phantasia", is now pretty conservative in comparision!
So you may expect lots of rock and metal but also lots of clarinets, flutes and other things. Just like its title "Songs of Light and Darkness" suggests, you may also expect lots of dark and light stuff, oftentimes combined in a same vibe.
There's plenty of quality, quantity and variety, and not a single second of boredom of repetitiveness. 15 tracks and still place for some bonus tracks with demos and "not so cool" arrangements of even more tunes from these great games.
This time I'm also lucky to count with someone (The Vodoú Queen) who helped on the mastering to make these tracks to shine, so you'll notice all sounds better than my usual stuff. Besides her, the album has a lot of talented performers in all tracks, as usual for my VGM arrangements.
Are you ready for the journey? You'll go throughout a bunch of dark and light moments. Moments when you are impulsively headbanging, moments when you want to cry, moments when you want to just chill around, moments when you want to dance... there's a lot of stuff in barely 40 minutes of music, you are warned! ;)
