Obsidian Leisure is proud to announce the discharge of Pentiment’s soundtrack, accessible on a few of your favourite streaming platforms — with a vinyl double album coming in 2023.
To suit the sport’s artwork fashion, the Pentiment staff needed to guarantee that the soundtrack mirrored the devices and music of 16th century Europe. To realize this, the staff labored with the early music ensemble Alkemie. Utilizing shawms, hurdy-gurdies, and myriad different interval devices, Alkemie composed authentic music and tailored historic items from the 14th to 16th centuries for pivotal moments all through the story.
Accompanying Alkemie, the proficient Lingua Ignota (Kristin Hayter) composed and carried out the tune Ein Traum for the sport’s epilogue. Kristin drew upon 19th century German Lieder traditions for the piano accompaniment and tailored a Heinrich Heine poem, ‘Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland’, for the lyrics. The result’s a hauntingly lovely tune to shut out the sport’s story.
Taking the dedication to authenticity one step additional, the soundtrack options album cowl artwork by painter Benjamin Vierling, who makes use of a renaissance-inspired Mischtechnik, alternating layers of oil paint and egg tempera. The paintings is a portrait of Andreas Maler that’s filled with symbolic parts from the sport. Utilizing conventional methods, it took over 20 months to finish. For full thematic resonance, Benjamin even included a pentiment of the Mithraic tauroctony beneath the winged bull of St. Luke.
The Pentiment soundtrack can now be discovered on a number of streaming platforms equivalent to Spotify and iTunes. Nonetheless, if you wish to buy a digital copy, gamers can go to Pentiment’s Steam web page to purchase the soundtrack as we speak. As well as, followers shall be delighted to listen to {that a} vinyl double album shall be launched someday in 2023, that includes Benjamin’s paintings on the quilt, a gatefold with liner notes, and the portray of Our Girl of the Labyrinth by Pentiment’s artwork director, Hannah Kennedy, on the again.
If this isn’t sufficient, followers can now go to the Pentiment web site to obtain the newly added fan equipment, which incorporates wallpapers for gamers to make use of on their digital gadgets.
Pentiment is accessible now for Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One, Home windows 10/11 PC, and Steam for $19.99. It’s also accessible with Xbox Sport Move and PC Sport Move.
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Artwork Imitates Demise
Step right into a residing illustrated world impressed by illuminated manuscripts and printed woodcuts in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of nice non secular and political change. Stroll within the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a grasp artist who finds himself in the midst of murders, scandals, and intrigue within the Bavarian Alps.
Illustrated world
Expertise sixteenth century Europe because the grasp artists of the time noticed them. Artwork impressed by nice illuminated manuscripts and the earliest printed books turns into a residing, respiration world in Pentiment.
Uncover mysteries
Select totally different educational and social backgrounds and meet a colourful forged of characters as you uncover the tales and secrets and techniques that lie inside the small Bavarian city of Tassing and close by Keirsau Abbey.
Affect a altering world
In an period of nice non secular and political change, every resolution you make can have a profound impression on the group’s future. Discover your individual means via this turbulent time and see the implications of your selections play out over generations.
