Composer: Carlos Viola
Album: Blasphemous (Original Game Soundtrack)
Label: Bandcamp
Publisher: Team17
Developer: The Game Kitchen
Blasphemous is one of these strange conglomerations of games that mixes Castlevania: Symphony of the Night with Dark Souls with all of the best parts of "The Inferno" (the book, not the video game; but I did enjoy the video game). A lot of the music in Blasphemous fits in with the latter two comparisons as this music is significantly less jazzy than the music composed by either Konami Kukeiha Club or Michiru Yamane. A lot of the music is what you would imagine would play as you solemnly enter the church at 6:45 pm on a Sunday evening waiting to give your confession as the sun dramatically begins to set.
That is not this track. "Una Senda de Pasos Blancos" is the music that plays while you are in one of the brighter areas of the game (or at least in the first 33% of the game that I have made it to/through so far). In the area of Where Olive Trees Wither, you are along a snow covered mountain side, slowly working your way higher up the mountain. Something about the melody being carried by the piano just struck me as a beautiful contrast to the bloody masked man whipping himself or the half-woman half-plant corpse that bursts out of the ground while you try to avoid the jumping woman throwing acid at you.
There's a beauty in this song that is just dripping with melancholy and dread. It definitely made the trek up the mountain (over and over and over and over again) to the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage manageable (which is another great track that I may feature at a later date; next week?).
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
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