Taking over Soundtrack Duties for FAITH NO MORE´s Billy Gould
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Gould and Espen J Jörgensen have collaborated on the Fugly EP as well as the soundtrack for Jörgensen´s comic book documentary The Sequential Art.
Gould did the soundtrack for the zombie game Rebuild 2, but Espen is responsible for the soundtrack on the 3rd game.
The Rebuild Game Designer Talks about Billy Gould of Faith No More, Espen Rupert.
We spoke briefly with Sarah Northway, the producer of the Rebuild - a zombi game series, who just released the third game “Gangs of Deadsville” on PC/MAC.
Northway Games used music from Gould´s Talking Book for their second game. For the thirds instalment Billy Gould´s collaborator (Espen J Jörgensen) on the Fugly EP took over the soundtrack gig.
When you and Espen first spoke, the Fugly EP he and Bill did was on the table, so why did you choose to go for Espen and Rupert Lally's music instead?
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Espen got in touch with me when he and Bill first released the Fugly EP, and since I'd used Bill's music in an earlier game it seemed like a possibility. There was one track - I believe it was the Rupert Lally remix - that really caught my ear and fit the style I wanted for Rebuild 3. So when I heard that Espen and Rupert had other work with a similar sound (the two Stillium albums and Postcards from A Used Future) I was pretty excited. I still wasn't sure there was enough music to fill a full 1-hour soundtrack until they released This is Art. That sealed it. In the end I think I didn't include Fugly because it was a bit more upbeat than the rest and I wanted to keep things simple.
Can you say a little about how the scores in Rebuild 2 and 3 differ?
The Rebuild 2 soundtrack was taken from an album called The Talking Book by Bill and Jared Blum (of Gigante Sound). It's full of atmospheric soundscapes: drones, dissonant tones and layered samples that evoke the desolate, post-apocalyptic feel I wanted for Rebuild 2. I saw them perform it in concert at Thee Parkside in SF and I just kept closing my eyes and imagined playing Rebuild 2, thinking of the abandoned cities in the game and a slowly disintegrating world. I knew it'd be perfect. For Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, I wanted something with more energy and rhythm, with a bit more of an industrial edge that hints at the madness of a zombie apocalypse. I was lucky that Espen contacted me through our mutual connection with Bill.
The new soundtrack by Espen and Rupert Lally features layers of grungy noise and moody beats.
It's less like a standard game soundtrack and more of a compilation album. I'm really proud of how it turned out.
Rebuild 3 trailer: https://youtu.be/jxByczsUZ0w
More on The Talking Book: http://koolarrow.com/the-talking-book/
Free Streaming of the Rebuild 3 Soundtrack: https://rupertlallyespenjjrgensen.bandcamp.com/album/rebuild-gangs-of-deadsville-o-s-t
Listen to Fugly Here: http://espenjjorgensen.bandcamp.com/
More on the Rebuild games here: http://rebuildgame.com
PARADISE ONCE will be released on the 17th of August - Pre-Order now: www.rupertandespen.com
Gould and Espen J Jörgensen have collaborated on the Fugly EP as well as the soundtrack for Jörgensen´s comic book documentary The Sequential Art.
Gould did the soundtrack for the zombie game Rebuild 2, but Espen is responsible for the soundtrack on the 3rd game.
The Rebuild Game Designer Talks about Billy Gould of Faith No More, Espen Rupert.
We spoke briefly with Sarah Northway, the producer of the Rebuild - a zombi game series, who just released the third game “Gangs of Deadsville” on PC/MAC.
Northway Games used music from Gould´s Talking Book for their second game. For the thirds instalment Billy Gould´s collaborator (Espen J Jörgensen) on the Fugly EP took over the soundtrack gig.
When you and Espen first spoke, the Fugly EP he and Bill did was on the table, so why did you choose to go for Espen and Rupert Lally's music instead?
Espen got in touch with me when he and Bill first released the Fugly EP, and since I'd used Bill's music in an earlier game it seemed like a possibility. There was one track - I believe it was the Rupert Lally remix - that really caught my ear and fit the style I wanted for Rebuild 3. So when I heard that Espen and Rupert had other work with a similar sound (the two Stillium albums and Postcards from A Used Future) I was pretty excited. I still wasn't sure there was enough music to fill a full 1-hour soundtrack until they released This is Art. That sealed it. In the end I think I didn't include Fugly because it was a bit more upbeat than the rest and I wanted to keep things simple.
Can you say a little about how the scores in Rebuild 2 and 3 differ?
The Rebuild 2 soundtrack was taken from an album called The Talking Book by Bill and Jared Blum (of Gigante Sound). It's full of atmospheric soundscapes: drones, dissonant tones and layered samples that evoke the desolate, post-apocalyptic feel I wanted for Rebuild 2. I saw them perform it in concert at Thee Parkside in SF and I just kept closing my eyes and imagined playing Rebuild 2, thinking of the abandoned cities in the game and a slowly disintegrating world. I knew it'd be perfect. For Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville, I wanted something with more energy and rhythm, with a bit more of an industrial edge that hints at the madness of a zombie apocalypse. I was lucky that Espen contacted me through our mutual connection with Bill.
The new soundtrack by Espen and Rupert Lally features layers of grungy noise and moody beats.
It's less like a standard game soundtrack and more of a compilation album. I'm really proud of how it turned out.
Rebuild 3 trailer: https://youtu.be/jxByczsUZ0w
More on The Talking Book: http://koolarrow.com/the-talking-book/
Free Streaming of the Rebuild 3 Soundtrack: https://rupertlallyespenjjrgensen.bandcamp.com/album/rebuild-gangs-of-deadsville-o-s-t
Listen to Fugly Here: http://espenjjorgensen.bandcamp.com/
More on the Rebuild games here: http://rebuildgame.com
PARADISE ONCE will be released on the 17th of August - Pre-Order now: www.rupertandespen.com