It seems like I can’t get enough of doing Hathaway music, so here is the last one before the movie and soundtrack come out. This is a recreation/cover of the track from the first proper trailer for the movie in March of last year, which has since been confirmed to be the main theme of the movie as well as Xi’s theme, as the title implies. I always thought it was neat how the organ and synth texture complimented Sawano’s usual bombastic orchestration style, but recently they played the full version of the track during one of the promotional livestreams, and I was blown away by how good it was. Sawano himself stated that Shukou Murase had a sort of Hollywood-esque direction, specifically a “Futuristic Orchestra” mix of Interstellar, Star Wars and Blade Runner. With the organ, Sawano was screaming Interstellar in this theme. Love the inspiration he took.
I tried to cover the track as accurately as I could from how much I could hear underneath all the talking in the livestream. I didn’t do the soundscape-heavy intro part, though. Couldn’t quite do the synth texture justice so I decided to leave it out and start right at the synth riff instead. There’s also the slower arrangement, mSgH, which played in January’s trailer and was likely going to be the 2nd half for Ξ based on how Sawano double track structures usually go. But with the original already being a little over 4 minutes long, it probably would have turned out too long. I didn’t cover it here for similar reasons, and we’ve also heard very little of mSgH for me to call it a “recreation”. But other than that, I’m quite happy with how this turned out.
Also, the most massive of thanks to my buddy J4F for handling the mixing and mastering of this track and getting it to sound better than I possibly could have with how much of a behemoth it is production-wise.
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