The live orchestra really makes "The Empire" stand out on this album and I love how Philippe has brought the Celtic vibe to the fore in its newest iteration. For most of the tracks I think this is the case and the best examples of this happen to be "Opening for LBA", "Hamalayi" and, my personal favourite, "The Empire". The Uncle Art album "A Temporal Shift" brought the majesty of the Frontier: Elite II themes to life and I was hoping for more of the same with this album. There is not much more I can say about the original LBA 1 and LBA 2 soundtracks that I haven't already said: most of the music here I remember fondly and some would obviously benefit from receiving the live orchestral treatment.
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The CD case also comes with a rather chunky booklet which not only has the track list but many pages of the Adeline Software team reminiscing about their days working on the Little Big Adventure games.
The second disc has 9 tracks from the original LBA soundtrack and 6 tracks from the LBA 2 soundtrack, with four piano solos in between performed by Nicolas Horvath. The first disc is the "Symphonic Suite" disc and contains 12 new arrangements or interpretations of music from the original soundtracks, played by a live orchestra. I received the CD Edition of the soundtrack as a gift from a very generous sister-in-law (thanks sis) and the 31 tracks are split across two discs. There's even some funky disco music thrown in for good measure! Best of all, all this music was recorded in Red Book Audio, which meant while the game data was stored on one of the tracks of the CD-ROM, the remaining tracks operated much like a regular audio CD to the point you could pop the game CD into a CD player and it would play the soundtrack! Listening to a game soundtrack with CD quality music back in the early 90s was definitely a treat which is why I believe soundtracks to the LBA games should be considered amongst the best of that decade. The music ranged from warm, whimsical pieces you'd expect from a world filled with anthropomorphic characters to dramatic, epic ones often found as background music to war films. I have fond memories of the soundtracks to both of these games. Four piano solos are also included and performed by pianist Nicolas Horvath. To commemorate the occasion, the composer for the game Philippe Vachey released an album that would not only include music from the original soundtracks for Little Big Adventure and its sequel Little Big Adventure 2 (aka Twinsen's Odyssey) but a rearrangement and rerecording of some of these tracks by an orchestra at La Seine Musicale (a relatively new venue in Paris).
Little Big Adventure (aka Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure), an action-adventure developed by French studio Adeline Software and released back in 1994, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019. Little Big Adventure Symphonic Suite and Original Soundtracks (CD Edition)
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