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Music Works, the premier record label dedicated to releasing video game soundtracks, is proud to present four soundtracks perfect for the Forza Motorsport game fans. Featuring original music from composers Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen, the label will be releasing the Forza Motorsport 7 original game soundtrack digitally on December 12, 2017. Forza Motorsport 6 Porsche Expansion soundtrack, Forza Motorsport 6 NASCAR Expansion soundtrack and the Forza Motorsport 6 Ultimate Edition, will all be released in 2018.
Composers Cohen and Nielsen created a hybrid symphonic score for Forza Motorsport 6 and the subsequent Porsche and NASCAR expansions. "We approached Forza Motorsport 6 as if we were creating a huge film score," said Nielsen. "Almost as if you are a supernatural being looking in on your car collection. There were huge differences in musical dynamics from intimate to enormous."
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"For Forza Motorsport 6, the idea was to give the score a really filmic sense of depth and scope and to introduce themes to the franchise for the first time. It was a hybrid score recorded with a large 90-piece orchestra," Cohen explained.
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The Forza Motorsport 7 score is a complete departure from Cohen and Nielsen's approach to 6. "For Forza Motorsport 7, our conversations early on with Turn 10 Studios centered around the idea of 'humanizing' the game, from the GUI to the overall aesthetic look and feel and the music," Cohen described. "In thinking of the notion of humanizing the music, the game's audio director felt this could be translated into a band playing together in a room, which in turn after some creative discovery, led us down the road of writing essentially a vintage rock score."
"You can't just plug into a computer and get a gritty authentic tone for this kind of music. It's about moving air, and circuits being pushed to their limits, and fuzz and little electronic explosions," Nielsen added. "It was vital to have great players, in great sounding rooms, with great instruments."
ABOUT KAVEH COHEN AND MICHAEL NIELSEN
A rising force in feature films, television, video games and motion picture advertising, Kaveh and Michael have quickly become a first choice to create cutting edge and memorable scores across all genres.
Now in demand in the ever-growing world of video games, Kaveh and Michael very recently completed a unique rock score for a billion dollar motorsport franchise - Microsoft's "Forza Motorsport 7." They also scored Microsoft's "Forza Motorsport 6" which was recorded with a 90-piece orchestra and incorporated cutting edge electronic programming. Both scores are an adrenaline filled journey through the exciting world of motorsport. They also completed the score for "Splinter Cell Blacklist," Ubisoft's highly anticipated installment in their AAA Tom Clancy franchise. This was following up on the heels of "Splinter Cell Conviction" which was one of the highest grossing games of 2010 and featured over two hours of Kaveh and Michael's cinematic score recorded with the Hollywood Studio Symphony on the legendary Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage. They have provided scores for the tie-in to Warner Bros. Green Lantern movie, "Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters" for Warner Bros.
Interactive and Activision's "Battleship" game based on Universal's summer blockbuster film. They have also worked with Riot Games to provide scores for their wildly popular "League of Legends" and for "Road to the Cup" a custom piece written for the "League of
Legends World Championships" - a sold out event held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, streamed to over 32 million people and with over 6.75 million views to date on YouTube.
Kaveh and Michael's theme for "Splinter Cell Conviction" was recorded by The
London Philharmonic Orchestra for their best selling album "
The Greatest Video Game Music" which reached number 23 on the Billboard charts. Famed violinist Angèle Dubeau also recorded a new arrangement of the theme with her string ensemble La Pietà for her album "Game Music." Their theme for Forza Motorsport 6 received it's world premiere on the concert stage by the Hradec Kralové Philharmonic as part of a video game music concert.
The duo wrote a rousing theme for the History channel's highest rated special aired to date, the epic 12 part series "America: The Story of Us" narrated by Liev Schreiber. They also wrote the theme for "The Last Huntsman" for the Discovery Channel, produced by Skip Films. They co-scored Marvel's hit animated series "Wolverine and the X-Men" and have composed scores for dozens of Emmy nominated and award winning shows and mini series such as Jean- Michel Cousteau's "Ocean Adventures," "The
Crash of Flight 191," "Biography: John Travolta," "Red Flag," "Above and Beyond," "Probable Cause," "The Science of Star Wars," "The Chronicle" and many others. Not stopping there, Kaveh and Michael have scored numerous commercials for clients including Sony, SEGA, NBC, AT&T, Mattel and Six Flags.
Their feature film scores include "Crawlspace" for writer/director Josh Stolberg (Jigsaw, Sorority Row, Piranha 3D, The Last Airbender) and the award winning film "Generation P," a critically acclaimed feature adaptation of Viktor Pelevin's iconic book, directed by celebrated director Victor Ginsburg. Their haunting score for Lionsgate's cult classic, H.P. Lovecraft's "Beyond The Wall of Sleep" was also met with critical acclaim.
