Obsidian Entertainment is proud to announce the release of Buses‘s soundtrack available on some of your favorite streaming platforms – with a vinyl double album due out in 2023.
To match the art style of the game, the Buses Team wanted to ensure the soundtrack would reflect 16’s instruments and musicth Century Europe. To this end, the team worked together with the ensemble for early music alchemy. Using shawms, hurdy-gurdies and myriad other historical instruments, Alkemie composed original music and adapted historical pieces from the 14th to 19th centuriesth until 16th Centuries for crucial moments in history.
Accompanied by Alkemie, the talented unknown language (Kristin Hayter) composed and performed the song Ein Traum for the game’s epilogue. Kristin moved on the 19thth Century German song traditions for the piano accompaniment and adapted a Heinrich Heine poem “I once had a beautiful fatherland” for the text. The result is a hauntingly beautiful song that closes the game’s story.
Taking the commitment to authenticity a step further, the soundtrack includes album cover artwork by the painter Benjamin Vierling, who uses a Renaissance-inspired mixed media technique, alternating layers of oil paint and egg tempera. The artwork is a portrait of Andreas Maler packed with symbolic elements from the game. Using traditional techniques, it took over 20 months to complete. For full thematic resonance, Benjamin even inserted a pentiment of the Mithraic Tauroctony below the winged bull of St Luke.
That Buses Soundtrack can now be found on multiple streaming platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. However, if you wish to purchase a digital copy, players can visit Buses‘s Steam page to buy the soundtrack today. Additionally, fans will be happy to hear that a vinyl double album will be released sometime in 2023, featuring Benjamin’s artwork on the cover, a gatefold with liner notes and the painting “Our Lady of the Labyrinth” by Buses‘s art director, Hannah Kennedy, on the back.
If that’s not enough for you, fans can now visit it Buses website
Buses is available now for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows 10/11 PC and Steam for $19.99. It’s also available with Xbox Game Pass and PC Game Pass.
Buses
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