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Akoto's Offer

from Elysian Road by Caleb M. Powers

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This was the track that gave me the most trouble, I think. I had issues choosing the right instruments, developing the middle section, bringing the track to a compelling conclusion, and a dozen other smaller difficulties until I was satisfied with the way it sounded. The beginning theme with the bells was always the same, and the first thing I developed at the inception of the track. I also knew I wanted to end with the same instrument, but getting back to that point without feeling like it hadn’t really gone anywhere yet was an issue that kept me up late into the night.

The break-through came for me after I had already put this track on hiatus and gotten to track nine, “Dylan’s Crash/Xanlis Murder Beast”. I used a particular deep bass synth in that track to represent the hovercycle that Odd and Dylan ride in that scene, one that had a great sound and gave the track a lot of intensity. One day I was trying to work on the middle section of this track and I remembered that Odd and Akoto (the character this track is about) rode on a hovercycle in a scene between them as well, and that’s when it all clicked. I grabbed the same synth and made the middle section a sort of score for the scene of them traveling through Bratislav’s only city on a hovercycle.

To back up briefly and give you some context (you know, the point of these blurbs), this track is about Akoto, an agent for the White Sun Brotherhood, a rebel alliance sort of faction in the Elysian Road universe, and her interaction with the crew of Void’s Grace during their visit to Bratislav, a moon base under the control of the Thousand Island
Imperium. Much of Akoto’s story is unknown and yet to be discovered, but I liked putting a bit of weight behind her track here to give a sense of depth hiding behind the music. The third section of the track goes fully orchestral, with brass, strings, cymbals, and timpani drums, and represents the entrance of the White Sun Brotherhood itself.
I tried to make the section tragic but heroic, since that’s pretty much the White Sun Brotherhood in a nutshell, and I also had the bells from earlier in the track come back here to play the Void’s Grace theme, signifying the clashing of the two groups aboard the ship. We then end with a return to Akoto’s theme as she slips away from the ship, leaving the crew behind.

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from Elysian Road, released June 16, 2019

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Caleb M. Powers Moscow, Idaho

I'm one of those creative people you've been warned about.

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