Another favorite track of mine is “City on the Mesa”, which has a beautiful violin melody that stays in your head, written on top of a good foundation of guitars. Great examples of this are “The Good News” (featuring futuristic sounds and brilliant violin patterns), “Victory,” “Homecoming” (with beautiful piano and cello), “Song for Aloy” (which is an a cappella vocal solo), and “Will Against Will.” Joris de Man has also written a number of tracks without her voice that are fantastic to listen to, like “Her Breath, Her Land,” with a nice section played by a flute. Fortunately Elven makes regular appearances on the album.
It is therefore, as the title states, a prologue to my personal favorite track of 2017: “Aloy’s Theme.” The melody in this theme, sung by Elven, simply touches me on an emotional level. In “Prologue” you can hear beautiful flute and violin melodies and vocalist Julie Elven is introduced here with her fantastic, soothing voice. If I am honest, I think the music written by Joris de Man is the strongest, as is evident from the outset of the score. It’s easy to see where everyone’s talents lie. This is split into four parts, which are divided among De Man and his team. You can entertain yourself for hours in the game, resulting in 4 hours of music on the album. The game gives its red-haired protagonist, Aloy, an opportunity to find out what’s going on, and it gives Joris de Man and his fellow composers to write beautiful music while this is happening. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where mankind has fallen back to a primitive lifestyle, but where, for mysterious reasons, large beastly robots walk around and have to be defeated. Horizon Zero Dawn is made exclusively for PlayStation 4 and was developed in the Netherlands by the games studio Guerilla Games. An example is the soundtrack of the game Horizon Zero Dawn with music written by a number of people, including the main composer Joris de Man from the Netherlands. Sometimes you have soundtracks waiting in a pile that you really want to review, but that you simply do not have time to get around to.
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