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Milan Records releases Rise Of The Rōnin (Original Game Soundtrack) with music by award-winning composer Inon Zur

Milan Records releases Rise Of The Rōnin (Original Game Soundtrack) with music by award-winning composer Inon Zur.

Available everywhere, the album features an original score written by Zur for the new video game set in Japan’s Edo period. Zur drew inspiration for the score from the game’s 19th century setting, combining Japanese instruments and soloists with a more traditional orchestra to infuse the music with a sound authentic to the game’s storyline.

Developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Rise of the Rōnin debuts today and is available for the PlayStation®5 console.

Of the soundtrack, Inon Zur says, « To reflect the game’s unique world, story and gameplay, I drew upon the musical influences of the period, recording authentic Japanese instrumentation with soloists and percussion players like The Isaku Kageyama Taiko Group and blending with the European symphonic tradition recorded at Abbey Road Studios to represent the influx of western influence, whilst embodying a respectful approach to the traditional Japanese instrumentation and musical legacy of the period. »


About Rise Of The Rōnin :

Embark on an epic journey across war-torn 19th-century Japan in this combat-focused open-world action RPG from Team NINJA, the veteran studio behind Nioh and Ninja Gaiden.

Japan, 1863. After three centuries of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s oppressive rule, the Black Ships of the West descend upon the nation’s borders and the country falls into a state of turmoil. Amidst the chaos of war, disease and political unrest, a nameless warrior forges their own path, holding the very fate of Japan in their hands.

About Inon Zur :

EMMY award-winner and three-time BAFTA-nominated composer Inon Zur is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful composers in the media industry today, internationally renowned for his emotionally dynamic original music scores for blockbuster video game franchises including Starfield, Fallout, Dragon Age, Prince of Persia, and The Elder Scrolls.

Hailed as “The year’s [2023] best video game score” and “One of the best sci-fi scores ever created” by New Musical Express, Zur’s latest opus, Starfield, is the first new universe in over 25 years from Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series. Set hundreds of years in our future, Starfield is an epic about hope, our shared humanity, and answering our greatest mystery.

Inon composed over five hours of original score for Starfield, encompassing a classical symphonic palette, to echo the grandeur and mystery of space, together with crafted, organic electronic synth sounds, comprising minimalist elements from the environment, to build the soundscape of this epic sci-fi adventure.
The philosophy was to encapsulate the contrast between the vastness of space and the human individual as the main drive for the score, whereby the music conjures emotions to reflect the mystery and new revelations of infinite outer space.
Composition-wise, through live symphonic movements and electronic music suites, Zur created a Starfield musical universe with sonic shapes, harmonious and non-dissonant, that evoke a combination of human emotions but most of all curiosity of the unknown.
The creative process started with a conceptual piece written very early on which inspired the Bethesda Game Studios team during the game's development process and was the basis for the now recognized theme with a six-note motif from which the score evolved.

Zur’s iconic themes and avant-garde scores for the Fallout series have been described as “Sophisticated and atmospheric” (Classic FM) and received two BAFTA nominations.
His top-selling soundtrack for Fallout 4 was celebrated as one of the best original video game scores by BAFTA, The Game Awards, and Classic FM. Zur’s original score for Fallout 76 was also released to universal praise, described by critics as “Superbly atmospheric music” (PushSquare), “Hauntingly beautiful” (IGN) and “An amazing ambient soundtrack,” (Kotaku) with Game Informer (the world’s #1 video games magazine) hailing his latest score as “The best soundtrack for the series yet.”

Classically trained with a flair for powerful, melodic orchestral writing, Inon conducts and records with the world’s most prestigious orchestras and his music is performed in symphonic concerts worldwide. He has collaborated with artists such as Imagine Dragons (‘Children of the Sky: A Starfield Song’) and Florence + The Machine (Dragon Age II’s ‘Varric’s Theme’) and his debut major label album release with Sony Masterworks, Into The Storm, was selected among Classical KUSC’s best albums of the year. Inon also composed the ethno-classical score for celebrated comic artist/writer Benoît Sokal’s Syberia: The World Before (DECCA Records), featuring performances by GRAMMY award-winning virtuoso pianist Emily Bear, and premiered his music for Starfield with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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