Obsidian Entertainment is proud to announce the discharge of Pentiment’s soundtrack, obtainable on a few of your favourite streaming platforms — with a vinyl double album coming in 2023.
To match the sport’s artwork type, the Pentiment group needed to guarantee that the soundtrack mirrored the devices and music of 16th century Europe. To obtain this, the group labored with the early music ensemble Alkemie. Using 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 gifted 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 art work is a portrait of Andreas Maler that’s filled with symbolic components from the sport. Using conventional strategies, it took over 20 months to finish. For full thematic resonance, Benjamin even included a pentiment of the Mithraic tauroctony underneath the winged bull of St. Luke.
The Pentiment soundtrack can now be discovered on a number of streaming platforms akin to Spotify and iTunes. However, if you wish to buy a digital copy, gamers can go to Pentiment’s Steam web page to purchase the soundtrack at present. In addition, followers might be delighted to listen to {that a} vinyl double album might be launched someday in 2023, that includes Benjamin’s art work on the duvet, a gatefold with liner notes, and the portray of Our Lady 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 package, which incorporates wallpapers for gamers to make use of on their digital gadgets.
Pentiment is offered now for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11 PC, and Steam for $19.99. It can also be obtainable with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
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Art Imitates Death
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. Walk 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
Experience sixteenth century Europe because the grasp artists of the time noticed them. Art impressed by nice illuminated manuscripts and the earliest printed books turns into a residing, respiration world in Pentiment.
Uncover mysteries
Choose completely different tutorial and social backgrounds and meet a colourful solid of characters as you uncover the tales and secrets and techniques that lie throughout the small Bavarian city of Tassing and close by Keirsau Abbey.
Impact a altering world
In an period of nice non secular and political change, every choice you make can have a profound influence on the neighborhood’s future. Find your individual manner by way of this turbulent time and see the results of your selections play out over generations.
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