Wherever the Wind Takes Me - Album Release!

“This ‘dungeon nylon guitar’ album ranges from early music pastiches to soundtrack-like music, or fantasias if you will. A great way to start this ‘dungeon crawl’ of game soundtracks.”

A river surrounded by trees and somewhat cloudy blue sky above.

Figure 1: “Wherever the Wind Takes Me” album cover by Konsta Airisto

To preview the album (then go grab the album for “name your price” in Bandcamp!):

I had this idea of “dungeon nylon guitar”, reflecting the “dungeon synth” genre. I wasn’t thinking of dungeon crawlers much: retrospectively I was overly music theoretical, inspired by Robert Gjerdingen’s Music in the Galant Style and such. But speaking of game soundtrack quality, even if there would be many pieces that would pass in certain game situations, I’d say “Fireflies Circling in the Rain” and “Crystalline Chaotic Caves” are the examples to explore further in my next game-music-specific (is that even a word?) custom albums.

Overall, this album is a result of 19 on-the-spot compositions, some of the pieces utilizing early music techniques and some just motivic development in a more general sense. Thus the overall sound ranges from early music pastiches to soundtrack-like music, or fantasias if you will. Let’s see where the wind takes me next. I crafted this album by engraving the musical motifs in LilyPond and producing the music with Csound. More LilyPond-Csound madness to come.

I write blog posts for each piece separately. You can find them in: Wherever The Wind Takes Me (Album)

I also published a YouTube playlist of the album recording sessions:

I also compiled them into a single YouTube video: