fresh!FROM R.R.
The Banner Saga
The Dallas Winds
with YouTube soloists
vocalists Malukah and Peter Hollens
and
violinist Taylor Davis
FR-708
GRAMMY®-nominated,*BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory created an earthy, multi-layered orchestral score for the single player role-playing tactical game from Stoic Studios, currently available on PC and Mac. The soundtrack score features the Dallas Winds (America's Premier Windband), recorded by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson and the Reference Recordings team at the Meyerson Symphony Center,in Dallas, TX. In addition the score features a trio of famous YouTube soloists: vocalists Malukah and Peter Hollens, and violinist Taylor Davis.
Austin Wintory is an American composer who has scored over 40 feature films, a dozen video games, and numerous concert works. In 2012 he received A GRAMMY® nomination for 'Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media'(the first ever for a video game) for the game soundtrack from “Journey.” His film efforts include the scores to the 2009 Sundance hit “Grace”, as well as the 2008 Sundance Audience Award winner “Captain Abu Raed”, which put Wintory on the short list as a contender for the Academy Awards for ‘Best Original Score.’ He was also nominated by the International Film Music Critics Association for ‘Breakout Composer of the Year.’
THE BANNER SAGA is the first-ever video game soundtrack recording from independent audiophile label Reference Recordings, on its FRESH! from RR series.
FRESH! is part of Reference Recordings' mission to encourage new artists and give them a strong platform for promotion and sales nationally and internationally. Says Executive Director Marcia Martin, “It is exciting to add this avenue to RR Technical Director Keith O. Johnson's life-long role in mentoring new artists. We also are pleased to feature exceptional producing/engineering teams from outside our company on Fresh!”
* BAFTA is the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Fresh! from Reference Recordings is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading