Gordy Haab's INDIANA JONES AND THE GREAT CIRCLE (Video Game 2024)

[Manakin Skywalker 5,729]

Gordy's back with the LSO, as expected!

 

 

 

[Jay 43,901]

Source?

[CGCJ 561]

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

Source?

 

[Jay 43,901]

Thank you.

[Manakin Skywalker 5,729]

Sorry, I was waiting for the livestream to end (when they usually post the individual trailers)

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

So happy we have Gordy for this, and man, the Indy theme variations sound amazing. 

[Jay 43,901]

Is all the music in the trailer from his recordings?

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

Seems like it. I think they've just added digital percussion to make the main trailer "epic" sounding compared to the rest of it. I'm hearing a lot of material that's definitely "theme material" and it's great.

[Laserschwert 627]

Fucking amazing choice. He channels Williams SO well.

[Bellosh 4,322]

Fuck I forgot this was today. This is good news.

[Luke Skywalker 2,262]

lets hope this time they release the score WITH williams themes, not cutting them out...

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

I asked Gordy on Twitter, we’ll see if I get a response. I’m not sure how good he is with responding to Tweets

[DarthDementous 1,427]

Gordy Haab is a bit of an uninspired choice. It'll sound like Williams but won't really be elevated beyond pastiche at least based on his past solo work.

[Groovygoth666 1,163]

 

Joking aside this looks like it could be good. But the cynic in me is always weary of buying games at launch. Unless I missed it but who did they get to play Indy? They sound pretty good in the footage shown. 

[Bellosh 4,322]

but think about the bikini Spalko and Elsa mods 

[The Score Cleaner 8,460]

4 minutes ago, Bellosh said:

but think about the bikini Spalko and Elsa mods 

Irina Spalko Femme Fatale Mod uploaded by JBaby1932

[Brando 2,629]

The developers seem to be really huge fans of Indy, can't wait to see how all this hard work turns out.

[Cerebral Cortex 3,363]

Wow, that variation of the Indy theme at 3:17 is fantastic! That's really inspired.
 

 

[DarthDementous 1,427]

3 hours ago, Groovygoth666 said:

 

Joking aside this looks like it could be good. But the cynic in me is always weary of buying games at launch. Unless I missed it but who did they get to play Indy? They sound pretty good in the footage shown. 

 

Troy Baker

 

He sounds convincing for most lines, but some I just hear nothing but his normal voice

[Groovygoth666 1,163]

2 minutes ago, DarthDementous said:

 

Troy Baker

 

He sounds convincing for most lines, but some I just hear nothing but his normal voice

Thanks, now you've said that I can definitely hear it's his voice emulating Harrisons, causioningly waiting to hear the rest of his performance though. 

[Tydirium 1,483]

Are we sure it’s the LSO? At least from the horn section, looks like London studio players to me.

[ThePenitentMan1 1,381]

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[TheAvengerButton 179]

8 hours ago, Tydirium said:

Are we sure it’s the LSO? At least from the horn section, looks like London studio players to me.

 

Given the majority of Haab's Star Wars work has been with the LSO (outside of The Old Republic and Squadrons) this one will most likely be no different.

[Gabriel Bezerra 666]

11 hours ago, Cerebral Cortex said:

Wow, that variation of the Indy theme at 3:17 is fantastic! That's really inspired.
 

 

That cue at 9:00... it's from Raiders isn't it?

[Jay 43,901]

Gordy Haab says:

 

Here's a little project I've been working on for the past couple years! I'm excited about this one because my first video game score was Indiana Jones, so it's full (great) circle for me to rejoin the franchise!! #IndianaJonesandtheGreatCircle

 

https://www.facebook.com/gordy.haab/posts/pfbid03pLoPaAMDN78Q11grnxxXJtkyUy7aEPZATPUcFMaXUtGpoJLrXcCCLNgWC5qC4aKl

 

A couple YEARS?

 

 

5 minutes ago, Gabriel Bezerra said:

That cue at 9:00... it's from Raiders isn't it?

 

Yes that's 1M2 The Cave (released as "The Idol Temple" on the Concord edition, "In The Idol's Temple" on the DCC edition, and partially in "The Well of the Souls" on the OST album).

[Tydirium 1,483]

2 hours ago, TheAvengerButton said:

 

Given the majority of Haab's Star Wars work has been with the LSO (outside of The Old Republic and Squadrons) this one will most likely be no different.

 

Jedi: Survivor wasn’t the LSO; it was a contracted freelance orchestra.

[Edmilson 10,994]

So this will be the first time since 1981 than a new recording of an Indy score will be done by the LSO huh

[Tydirium 1,483]

I mean, like I said, it doesn’t look to be the LSO. Lol. The first chair horn player there in the video is Richard Watkins, a top London freelancer who usually plays first on Powell’s scores over there, and who played first on Jedi: Survivor.

 

EDIT: From what I can see, not a single horn player in the video is an LSO member.

[Laserschwert 627]

Let's hope:

 

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

You beat me to it! Made some of my own, but yours look fantastic.

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

Did a very rough rip of the introduction (beginning with TH’s introduction before the trailer). A friend of mine noticed that the Flight To Venice fanfare part made it in. (It’s at the very end)

[DarthDementous 1,427]

34 minutes ago, LB Makes Stuff said:

Did a very rough rip of the introduction (beginning with TH’s introduction before the trailer). A friend of mine noticed that the Flight To Venice fanfare part made it in. (It’s at the very end)

I really loved that musical moment in the trailer...I shouldn't be surprised that it was actually Williams material

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

New music!  

 

[crocodile 9,348]

I hope it is fun. There are some portions of the new scores for Jedi games that I liked, especially when they explore new material. I hope it doesn't emulate the JW too close. While fun for 5 minutes, it is artistically pointless to ape someone. I would, however, enjoy someone's more personal take on Williams' vernacular (like Powell, for example). As long as it is creative, I am happy.

 

Karol

[Luke Skywalker 2,262]

On the contrary i want him to ape wiliams. An indy score with new themes. Not cut and paste DOD prologue like.

 

i want the same style not the composers own…

[Pieter Boelen 1,030]

Hope the guy takes some inspiration from Emperor's Tomb.

Now THAT'S an Indy score!

I like it better than the last two Williams ones.

 

Haab's Star Wars stuff has yet to make any impact on me though.

And his original Staff of Kings wasn't very inspiring either.

For background during gameplay, sure... it's functional, I suppose.

Does fit the style.

But doesn't take any life of its own.

[Luke Skywalker 2,262]

The game had to many tracks from the films so it is disjointed

 

and it was his first job…

[Bellosh 4,322]

2 hours ago, Pieter Boelen said:

Hope the guy takes some inspiration from Emperor's Tomb.

Now THAT'S an Indy score!

I like it better than the last two Williams ones.

 

Hey bud, hey pal, hey friend....

 

I'm gonna need you to walk back that statement....like right now. Okay?

 

[Pieter Boelen 1,030]

9 minutes ago, Bellosh said:

 

Hey bud, hey pal, hey friend....

 

I'm gonna need you to walk back that statement....like right now. Okay?

 

I don't like it any more than you do.

I love Indiana Jones.

I love John Williams.

But the final two scores don't come anywhere close to the first three.

[Luke Skywalker 2,262]

Emperors tomb suffers from synth underscore tracks though.

 

and it has no Jungle chase 🙂

 

but it was great. I spent hours editing it.

[Pieter Boelen 1,030]

30 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

Emperors tomb suffers from synth underscore tracks though.

True, that.

Budget was showing, I guess...

At least it got a mostly orchestral score.

Unlike the little bit in Infernal Machine...

 

30 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

and it has no Jungle chase 🙂

That one doesn't impress me so much either.

Apart from the unused alternate ending, which is really cool.

 

31 minutes ago, Luke Skywalker said:

but it was great. I spent hours editing it.

[artguy360 2,129]

Gordy is the go-to video game composer for a JW soundalike. If the music played under the featurette is his music, then he's done a very good job.

[TheAvengerButton 179]

On 19/01/2024 at 10:15 AM, Tydirium said:

 

Jedi: Survivor wasn’t the LSO; it was a contracted freelance orchestra.

 

I was not aware!

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

 

More music coming from the cheesy marketing!

[Suro-Zet 18]

Thank you for the link.

[Laserschwert 627]

 

[TheAvengerButton 179]

Love those! I should get around to organizing my Emperor's Tomb sound files sometime to actually make a cohesive soundtrack. If anyone has any tips on that, that would be great.

[LB Makes Stuff 337]

Throwing in my take on an album cover for the game. One of my layouts is similar to the one posted here previously. I’m mainly happy with the last one.

2 hours ago, Laserschwert said:

 

That looks awesome! What titles did you come up for the track list?

[Holko 11,673]

17 minutes ago, TheAvengerButton said:

Love those! I should get around to organizing my Emperor's Tomb sound files sometime to actually make a cohesive soundtrack. If anyone has any tips on that, that would be great.

Oof, I made an album I adore but I'd have to reacquire all the files to reconstruct what I did and hope yours have the same titles. I organised the location-specific cues into chrono chunks and went through them location by location, dropping in stingers or non-locationspecific Indy cues where needed.

[Laserschwert 627]

2 hours ago, TheAvengerButton said:

Love those! I should get around to organizing my Emperor's Tomb sound files sometime to actually make a cohesive soundtrack. If anyone has any tips on that, that would be great.

Actually, about 20 years ago, I ran a website called LucasArts Soundtracks. For that I edited the complete music from the game (in fact, a rip from the Xbox version, as the audio files had a higher bitrate than the PC version) into a 2-CD album. I even used playthroughs of the game as a guide to make the track titles as sensible as possible.

 

 

 

It's been uploaded to YouTube here:

 

2 hours ago, LB Makes Stuff said:

That looks awesome! What titles did you come up for the track list?

I gave ChatGPT a description of the game, its locations and characters, and told it to come up with a soundtrack playlist in the style of Indiana Jones soundtrack releases. Then I edited it a bit afterwards