“Kingsglaive” features a lot of twists in story - changing loyalties, treachery, betrayals that are not exactly betrayals, sacrifice and loss. There is magic, technology, changes of time and there are many characters. Each one propels the narrative and everything is linked.
The feeling that characters are gripped by fate, or at least by a clash of civilisations that is a conflict far beyond their individual control, gives a sense of inevitability and power to their trajectory, and the music has to express that feeling of power, darkness and size.
We used a large orchestra for the score, along with electronic elements, guitar, the human voice - the entire arsenal. Musically the score moves back and forth between dark and light, reflecting the ambiguity and changing position of both the characters and even the place, Lucius, where much of the action occurs.
Overall, the score reflects sorrow and loss - these characters are caught in the current of events they cannot control. Their actions remain important because they show strength - or weakness - of character and because they create conditions that are important for the future, but their own personal benefit or loss is often out of their hands. The score seeks to convey that sense of scale, fate, and inevitability.
『KINGSGLAIVE』の物語は多くの複雑な要素が存在しています。 忠誠心の変化、裏切り、犠牲や損失など…。 また、魔法や科学技術、時代の変化や様々な登場人物などといった様々な要素が絡み合って物語を紡ぎ出しています。
個人の力でどうすることも出来ない対立する文明の衝突や、運命に翻弄されていく登場人物たちの心情が、この物語に必然性や力を与えます。 音楽もそれに説得力を与えるべく、力強さ、暗闇、壮大さといったものを表現する必要がありました。
今回、楽曲を制作にするにあたって、電子楽器、ギター、人間の声など様々な要素を加えながら、大規模なオーケストラを編成して収録しました。 暗さと明るさが混ざり合った音楽的な表現は、この物語や対立する人物達の抱える複雑な状況と、戦場となるルシスの命運を表しているのです。
全体的に、登場人物が逃れられない運命に巻き込まれて経験する悲劇や損失といったものが本作の音楽には表現されています。 彼らは自らの運命にあらがうことはできませんが、人間が持つ強さや弱さを見せつつ、各々が思い描く未来のために行動します。 本作の楽曲が、この物語のスケールや登場人物達の運命といったものを伝える一助となれば幸いです。
John R. Graham
“Kingsglaive” features a lot of twists in story - changing loyalties, treachery, betrayals that are not exactly betrayals, sacrifice and loss. There is magic, technology, changes of time and there are many characters. Each one propels the narrative and everything is linked.
The feeling that characters are gripped by fate, or at least by a clash of civilisations that is a conflict far beyond their individual control, gives a sense of inevitability and power to their trajectory, and the music has to express that feeling of power, darkness and size.
We used a large orchestra for the score, along with electronic elements, guitar, the human voice - the entire arsenal. Musically the score moves back and forth between dark and light, reflecting the ambiguity and changing position of both the characters and even the place, Lucius, where much of the action occurs.
Overall, the score reflects sorrow and loss - these characters are caught in the current of events they cannot control. Their actions remain important because they show strength - or weakness - of character and because they create conditions that are important for the future, but their own personal benefit or loss is often out of their hands. The score seeks to convey that sense of scale, fate, and inevitability.
John R. Graham