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I don't know if anyone of you is interested in this, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway. I have found two videos of Afrika, a new ps3 game, which surprised me with some great music! ;) If the whole soundtrack is as good as these two cues than it can rival with the soundtracks of Outcast and Call of Duty :) Here are the links:

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/07/afrika...iana-jones-ish/

http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/07/21/new-af...bout-the-music/

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Sounds like yet another case of people embracing a decent but unremarkable orchestral score just because it's orchestral. It happens to us all. This doesn't sound like anything special to me.

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Hm, Wataru Hokoyama. Never heard of him, but if that's him conducting I can see why, he looks pretty young. It's decent enough, the main theme is very catchy.

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I'm a friend of Wataru, and he's really awesome and talented (that is indeed Wataru conducting the orchestra at Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City...technically not really that close to Hollywood w/ all the horrible LA traffic). His score for the short film Chiyo brings tears to my eyes...you can hear it on his myspace page. He's definitely one of my favorite composers!

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I've just discovered this really good videogame score. Very Williams-esque. This guy has some great compositional chops, he surely knows how to write for orchestra. The whole CD is a very engaging listen. Check out a couple of cues, it's definitely worth a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIk-PBk4hpA

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Hm yeah if he did the orchestration on his own, it's not bad.. but the rest is the very typical soapy, cliche, lazy hollywood chordprogression.. something like taht doesn't attract me anymore

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Gimme schmaltzy Hollywood orchestrations any day of the week in lieu of the boring wall-of-sound approach that plagues most of contemporary Hollywood film scores...

I agree.

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