| Back in 1998 Bob and Barn had never written what was effectively a ‘film score for a game’, so it was an interesting challenge both artistically and technically. The music that came out of the prequels was an eclectic hybrid of film music by Danny Elfman, John Williams and Wojcech Kilar, with a healthy dose of ’70s horror and a tinge of gothic humour.
The fundamental difference between the score to the prequels and the latest incarnation is that the previous titles were scored using electronics to mimic the sounds of an orchestra, whereas this version finally allowed Bob and Barn to realise their musical ideas without any synthesised inhibitions using the sound of a mighty 86 part orchestra and 48 piece choir. They once again journeyed to Prague to re-assemble the “Primal™” dream team of producer and fixer James Fitzpatrick, orchestrator and conductor Nic Raine, engineer Jan Holzner, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, and Gareth Williams as music editor and mastering engineer. The gang was back together two years after Primal™, producing a ground-breaking, live orchestral score for PSP.
The music is a combination of refined tracks from the prequels and a whole heap of new ones. Bob and Barn get more emails requesting a soundtrack to MediEvil™ than any others; they hope it’s been worth the wait.
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