Project Cars Soundtrack is now released
The eagerly awaited soundtrack to Slightly Mad Studios’ number one best selling game Project Cars has been released on iTunes & Amazon
Stephen commented, “Like all authentic racing simulation titles, there is no music during gameplay; car engines always take precedence. My job as composer is to try to enhance the player’s sense of immersion in this world of racing and deepen their emotional and psychological responses to it by ‘preparing’ them for the race. The music in the menu system is therefore dramatic, gripping, epic, gladiatorial and is infused with race day sounds – cars, crowds, tannoys – so that it links directly to the sound world they will be exposed to whilst racing. It tries to get inside the head of the racing driver and represent the range of emotions they feel – fear, excitement, nerves, adrenaline pumping, and danger. Imagine what it is like driving at Le Mans at 330 kph in the dark as you slice your way through traffic! As a result, it’s a varied score and reflects many facets of motorsport.”
Recorded and mixed by Nick Taylor (Thor, Mr Turner, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit) at Air-Edel Studios in London in November last year, Principal Vocal performances are by Susan Legg whose opera engagements have included Bayreuth, Glyndebourne, Wexford, and Ischia with additional vocal performance on “Ferrari” by Louise Walsh who sang the lead role in Phantom Of The Opera in London and whose operatic engagements included Royal Opera House, La Monnaie in Brussels, and StaatsOper Stuttgart.
Jonathan Plowright re-recorded the piano solo for the Liszt/Beethoven Symphony 7 which we used in the Gamescom Trailer in 2014. Jonathan was described by Gramophone Magazine as ‘one of the finest living pianists’ and is currently recording the definitive Brahms Piano works for Bis records.
Drums were played by Chris Blackwell. Chris played drums on two world tours with ex Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant with whom he recorded several albums; Now & Zen, Manic Nirvana, Knebworth (the Live album), Fate Of Nations, Sixty Six to Timbuktu and the 2006 boxed set entitled Nine Lives. From these Platinum selling albums came many worldwide hits co-written by Chris, including Tie Dye On The Highway, Watching You, and a Grammy-nomination for Calling To You.
John J Harvey played guitar and co-composed the track “Green, Green, Green”. John J Harvey’s credits include Ripper Street (additional composition) and The Walking Dead: Assault (co-composer).
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