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00:00This is a very big game. This is a very big soundtrack.

00:06In the musical universe of Shadows, there is the flight covering the score.

00:12There is Teke Teke doing music for Naoe's special key moments.

00:19There's Thunder Drum featuring Tig's doing Yasuke moments.

00:24I will keep this close. My thanks, Lady Nene.

00:29We also have source music in the game. That's traditional Japanese music.

00:38When we start any pitch process, we want to get a broad spectrum of composers to bring in their music.

00:43And then we scramble it and we do a blind listen.

00:45We didn't guess that it was the flight. The team just targeted in on their pitch.

00:49It was creative. It brought the world to life. So it was a slam dunk from the start.

00:54Rather than looking back at the history of Japan, it's looking at how the culture of Japan has influenced modern films, modern games.

01:05At the same time, we didn't just want to write Western Hollywood music and then have them play at the top of it.

01:12But we always want to kind of include those instruments.

01:16It's great having new instruments to work with because it keeps you fresh.

01:20Doing the stealth music for Naoe was really interesting and exciting.

01:25Joe had the idea of getting whispered vocals as if it was inside Naoe's head.

01:31Not what people would normally ask you to do because there's dialogue in the game and we don't want to confuse people.

01:35But it just works when you're creepy, especially if you play with headphones on. It's really cool.

01:40When I came on the project, I saw a sizzle reel with a song by Teke Teke.

01:52And the coolness factor was amazing. It's like, oh my God, this fits.

01:58It's funny that the audio team and music team and the development team find them almost at the same time.

02:10Then everyone was, we need that band and was just, this is perfect.

02:21They asked us to be us and to write music within the world of shadows.

02:27So in a way it was like working on a new album, kind of.

02:32So it was inspiring to interpret this shinobi a little bit different.

02:42So I wanted more real shinobi, what was their philosophy.

02:48It's different than Bushido. Bushido is for samurai.

02:52For example, in Bushido, die in a battle, it's honor.

02:57But for shinobi, death is too easy to escape from suffering.

03:03They have to survive to complete the mission.

03:06I wanted to bring that philosophy with the lyrics.

03:14At a certain point, the creative director said, let's associate Teke Teke with Naoe.

03:19Next question is, what could we do for Yasuke then?

03:23I was in a music festival in France and I met those two super nice guys, part of Thunder Drums.

03:31When I explained the type of music that we needed, the guitarist was like, we have to do this.

03:37We have to do this. I have all the gear.

03:39A few weeks later, we found Diggs, the author.

03:43We were really lucky.

03:45It was like a nice match.

03:52I was like, okay, here we go.

03:53Even though I'm Tanzanian, I've never written any of my songs in Swahili.

03:58So I had to just channel energy from somewhere else.

04:02You do the same.

04:05There's some really beautiful metaphorical stuff.

04:08I was trying to be poetic.

04:09Well, you were poetic.

04:10It was very poetic.

04:11You were very poetic.

04:13I can't.

04:15A lot of the tracks started with Felix and I jamming on a drum kit and a guitar,

04:20which is probably not how a lot of video game scores are written.

04:25I will have that.

04:27And it's something that Felix and I have done together for a decade.

04:29We've heard it so much.

04:31Is this going to work?

04:33And then Tiggs coming on and then the flute and it's just these little steps.

04:37Of course, like a lot of Taiko drums was a big part of how we wanted to blend

04:44a more traditional drum kit and Japanese influence.

04:49Certain words, if you translate them from English to Swahili,

04:52the word becomes ten times longer than what it is.

04:56It became a whole challenge of like keeping a certain flow.

05:00The clarity of the message and the story is just fantastic.

05:04It's also so catchy.

05:06Yeah, super catchy.

05:07Super catchy.

05:08If anything, we hope that people hear these tracks and when they come in they're like,

05:15whoa, like where did this come from?

05:17This is cool.

05:18And we have a version of the main team where Maya, the singer from TKTK and Tiggs

05:25the author are talking to each other in two different languages.

05:28And it gives really something special and something that when you listen to it, yeah.

05:33That's it.

05:34This is our game.

05:39We are using a lot of diegetic music.

05:42We did work, Benedict and I, with two producers, Japanese producers living in Canada.

05:48They were able to find a great musician like Yukihiro Goto, a master of the bi-war,

05:54that were great at crafting all the folk songs we needed.

05:58When we're looking at the traditional Japanese instruments,

06:00there's such a beautiful range of shapes and sizes and sounds.

06:05I'm really happy we were able to bring the importance of the Sushibue and Naoi's arc.

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