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Former Origin composer George Oldziey is back home after his work in Europe last month to record the new Wing Commander album. There's still a lot more work yet to do, including the choral recording next month, but he's put together two samples of WC3 and Prophecy tracks to give fans an idea what to look forward to. It's just an early preview, but the music is already sounding great! If you pledged for the album during the initial Kickstarter campaign, log in for download links to the samples.
Greetings all! I just recently received the session files from the recording in Budapest and thought I'd "tinker around" with a couple of them. I've done a lot of mixing over the years but this time around I might have someone who actually does that for a living do that for the project. Actually, I'm having discussions with the recording and mixing engineer for a very iconic film score composer (will reveal later if it happens) about doing the mix for me!In the mean time, I thought I would share two VERY rough mixes that I did from what we recorded, the opening from Wing Commander Prophecy as well as a mission piece from WC3. Please bear in mind that both will have major choir parts added next month so all the elements aren't there, but I thought especially the mission piece should be intriguing because the playback on that back in 1994 was, well, what it was for the time. BTW, THIS was the very first piece I composed for the entire series that got approved by Chris Roberts early in the production of WC3, and ushered in, at least for me, the Wing Commander sound. After this piece I RARELY had to do a version 2 of any gameplay or cinematic music.
The Prophecy intro music , IMHO, was barely audible in the original mix, so much that super fan Matt Hiltner, who was there in Budapest, never knew that the Kilrathi theme was in the intro. I put it in the score because the narration was about a Kilrathi prophecy so it seemed logical.
Anyway, please understand that these are NOT finished mixes. Once the choir is added and everything is mixed together it will sound fantastic.
Love to all,
George
