EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate
| Published by | Infloresce Records |
| Release type | Game Soundtrack - Official Release |
| Format | 1 Digital - 9 tracks |
| Release date | March 07, 2025 |
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All music composed & performed by Lena Raine
Trumpet on Track 6 - Nahor Gomes
Soprano Sax on Track 6 - Cesar Roversi
Album art by Amora B
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Earthblade was formally revealed in December of 2022, and canceled in December of 2024. It was in development for a number of years, and over that period of time I wrote quite a few pieces—both conceptual, and implemented tracks—that began to depict the world of the game. Because we’ll never get a chance to tell that story in game form, I decided to cobble together every bit of music I’d written for the game to the point of its cancellation in order to tell my own version of it.
Across the Bounds of Fate, more so than a soundtrack, is a concept album. The music I wrote for the game is highly dynamic, in the tradition of what I wrote for Celeste. I took it many steps beyond, in ways that temporally-constrained pieces of music can’t really do justice. But I did my best to arrange them into the emotional arc of their progression, much like I would for any soundtrack release.
A lot of my inspiration for the overall sound of Earthblade came from older animation and film. The huge Yamaha synths of Vangelis. The weird textures and combination of old synths & live strings of Joe Hisaishi’s score for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The haunting saxophone and percussive textures of Yoko Kanno’s work on Cowboy Bebop & Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. It’s a combination of sounds I really love and hope to explore on some other project in the future.
For now, tuck in and enjoy around 30 minutes of music that paint the picture of what I hoped Earthblade might be.
Trumpet on Track 6 - Nahor Gomes
Soprano Sax on Track 6 - Cesar Roversi
Album art by Amora B
--
Earthblade was formally revealed in December of 2022, and canceled in December of 2024. It was in development for a number of years, and over that period of time I wrote quite a few pieces—both conceptual, and implemented tracks—that began to depict the world of the game. Because we’ll never get a chance to tell that story in game form, I decided to cobble together every bit of music I’d written for the game to the point of its cancellation in order to tell my own version of it.
Across the Bounds of Fate, more so than a soundtrack, is a concept album. The music I wrote for the game is highly dynamic, in the tradition of what I wrote for Celeste. I took it many steps beyond, in ways that temporally-constrained pieces of music can’t really do justice. But I did my best to arrange them into the emotional arc of their progression, much like I would for any soundtrack release.
A lot of my inspiration for the overall sound of Earthblade came from older animation and film. The huge Yamaha synths of Vangelis. The weird textures and combination of old synths & live strings of Joe Hisaishi’s score for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. The haunting saxophone and percussive textures of Yoko Kanno’s work on Cowboy Bebop & Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex. It’s a combination of sounds I really love and hope to explore on some other project in the future.
For now, tuck in and enjoy around 30 minutes of music that paint the picture of what I hoped Earthblade might be.
| 1 | ACCEPT YOUR FATE | ||
| 2 | Child of the Earth | ||
| 3 | DEFY | ||
| 4 | Verdant Mysteries | ||
| 5 | DEPOSE | ||
| 6 | Poison in the Roots | ||
| 7 | LINEAGE | ||
| 8 | Earth's Cry | ||
| 9 | RECURSION |
