Assassin's Creed Shadows (Original Score) - The Flight [VINYL]

Ubisoft and Laced Records have renewed their adherence to the brotherhood to bring the music of Assassin’s Creed Shadows to vinyl. 

Assassin’s Creed Shadows transports players to the rich setting of feudal Japan, anchored by a soundtrack that uses traditional instruments as well as playful modern production techniques, nodding both to the time period and the series’ sci-fi, time-travelling themes.

Composer duo The Flight (Joe Henson and Alexis Smith) return to the Assassin’s Creed series to provide a score that fuses traditional instrumentation with contemporary orchestral and electronic elements, creating a distinctive sense of time and place while playfully nodding to the series’ science-fiction themes. 

The dual protagonists of Assassin’s Creed Shadows are represented with different instruments and musical approaches: stealthy shinobi adept Naoe by her in-game instrument of choice, the clay flute (tsuchibue) and disembodied whispering during stealth moments; and legendary samurai Yasuke with the sharper sounds of the stringed Shamisen and rhythmic intensity. 

The Flight turned to master players for the performances of Japanese instruments, including Keiko Kitamura (koto) and Hibiki Ichikawa (shamisen). Other performers include vocalist Akari Mochizuki; flautists Kristin Naigus, Oriol Singh and Andy Findon; and The Flight’s musical collaborator on Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Michael Georgiades.

TRACK LIST:

Disc 1 
Side A 
Shadows Main Theme
Welcome to Kyoto
The Long Shadow of Oda Nobunaga
The Fujibayashi Legacy
Morning Training
Auntie Matsu
Becoming a Shadow
What’s Been Hidden
 
Side B
Tomiko
Steel and Shadows
Into the Shadows
Naoe Attacks
Death of a Legend
An Assembly of Enemies
Rise of Yasuke
 
Disc 2 
Side A
An Oath Fulfilled
Master Sorin
Sacred Ground
A Song of Remembrance
Bamboo Grove
Masked Enemies
The Incident

Side B 
Busy Streets
Code of the Sword
A Moment of Sweetness
Chasing Demons
Akechi Mitsuhide
Matters of the Heart
Yasuke’s Past