By his own admission, Kapriélov grew up "in a very nasty place where it is illegal to be gay."
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When I ask what drew him to the project in the first place, Kapriélov tells me just how important the Tomb Raider series has been in his life. I had a big Cheshire Cat smile on my face and a phone in my hand explaining what I offered to Peter and that he said YES!" To see this content please enable targeting cookies. "I eventually managed to fall asleep and then, at 9am, I was going into the living room where all my friends were having breakfast. I always get crazy ideas at night time really."Īfter tracking down Connelly online, Kapriélov messaged him at 2am with the proposition. I got the idea of making a concert and album of Peter Connelly’s music then. "I was staying at my friends’ house in London – we had a big Tomb Raider sleepover. Kapriélov first had the idea to develop the project late one night in 2016.
And one of the tracks (it plays in a nightclub in TR: the Angel of Darkness) got a remix by Pete Hammond." We also have tracks featuring solo from Tina Guo and Julie Elven. "The main difference of the tracks is that music from Tomb Raider 4 and 5 was completely synthesised so we have some tracks rearranged and performed by the actual orchestra. The other 3 are remastered versions of the original tracks (remaster is a process when they make songs sound good on modern hardware etc etc, so the songs don’t change but the way they sound is improved) from Tomb Raider 4, 5 and The Angel of Darkness. "The main one (called The Dark Angel Symphony) is a collection of selected Tomb Raider tracks reimagined and rearranged by Richard Niles and then performed by the orchestra. "The Dark Angel Symphony is an assortment of four albums really," the project's co-producer Ash Kapriélov tells me over email. The new studio album features remakes of Connelly's original compositions from Tomb Raider 4, 5, and 6, developed with the aid of a group of die-hard Tomb Raider fans who Kickstarted the project last year.īut it isn't a direct copy of the original Tomb Raider games’ scores, as the music has been rearranged using techniques that simply wasn't available 20 years ago. Tomb Raider: The Dark Angel Symphony, a remake of the Tomb Raider soundtracks from original series composer Peter Connelly, is now available on music streaming services.