COLOURS by Rafael Dyll
Live piano performances and brand new arrangements of video game music. For the first time available as a digital download for non-backers, the Colours project was realized between 2017 and 2019, featuring music from video games, composed by Rafael Dyll.
The performing pianist Kordian and Rafael met in 2016, during Kordian's live stage performance of Rafael’s compositions, which led to a collaboration between the two – initially planning just a handful of piano pieces with no commercial aim. With many of Rafael’s soundtracks originally produced for eastasiasoft, it was soon discussed that an actual piano album could be realized with support by the Hong Kong-based games publisher.
Late 2017, the decision was made to produce a full-blown piano album on Vinyl and Compact Disc and soon it became clear that such a project would only work as a crowd-funding campaign.
The final album features major titles from Rafael's work across a 12-year career to date. The first four compositions are unique piano arrangements from Rainbow Skies. In total, we have carefully selected 13 pieces from various games such as Rainbow Moon and Skies, the Söldner-X franchise and also some music from other independent games Rafael scored, including some to this day never heard piano versions of his less known work.
Kordian’s beautiful performances are piano arrangements that underline the heart of the melodies and display a very wide scope of emotions and storytelling using the entire spectrum of a piano’s sound. Hence, the album title Colours.
Note: The physical Vinyl features the 10 main tracks due to limitations of the medium. The CD also includes the bonus tracks, in sum 13. The digital album is also full length.
Tracklist
Credits
Limited LP originally released via a Kickstarter campaign.
Music composed by Rafael Dyll.
Music arranged for piano by Rafael Dyll and Kordian Więcek.
Music performed by Kordian Więcek.
License
All rights reserved.
German-based composer and producer Rafael Dyll produces electronic/trance music and provides audio and sfx for games. He's written acclaimed soundtracks since 2006, including the Söldner-X series and Rainbow Moon on PS3, plus other indy mobile and console games. His soundtrack for the hit `Final Prototype´, was nominated for `Best Contemporary Soundtrack 2010´ by SEMO and gamemusic.net