And if in time you found that.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. JAPANESE BREAKFAST: (Singing) You play a part. JAPANESE BREAKFAST: (Singing) But if you're bold and trying to find.įADEL: That was musician Michelle Zauner performing as Japanese Breakfast, who created the soundtrack for the new video game "Sable." She told her story to NPR's Vincent Acovino. And I think that with songs like "Glider" and especially "Better The Mask," it made me realize that I could compose music that was really moving without having to tap into that. ZAUNER: I always felt like I had to excavate personal trauma in order to make some music that was compelling. ZAUNER: It's a really special song for me because it's the first song that I have composed the string arrangement for in its entirety. (SOUNDBITE OF JAPANESE BREAKFAST SONG, "BETTER THE MASK") ZAUNER: "Better The Mask" is one of my favorite songs on the soundtrack, and I think is maybe the most beautiful song I've ever written. (SOUNDBITE OF JAPANESE BREAKFAST SONG, "REDSEE (DAY)") ZAUNER: I was really inspired by the chill quality of all of the Yo La Tengo beats. (SOUNDBITE OF YO LA TENGO'S "GREEN ARROW") ZAUNER: I always joke that I think Yo La Tengo has the greatest, like, library of shaker sounds known to man. ZAUNER: That sounds so homey to me, so I knew I wanted all of the villages and the camps to have this nylon-string guitar. ZAUNER: I was listening to a lot of Ichiko Aoba at the time, and she has these really beautiful, quiet classical guitar albums. (SOUNDBITE OF JAPANESE BREAKFAST SONG, "EXPLORATION (RUINS)") ZAUNER: And then these sort of monumental spaces that feel a little bit more ancient and organic - I used a lot of voice and vocal pads and woodwinds. (SOUNDBITE OF JAPANESE BREAKFAST SONG, "EXPLORATION (SHIPS)") ZAUNER: I knew that I wanted the atomic era, where you explore these kind of ancient ships, and it feels, like, more metallic to feel very industrial and futuristic. (SOUNDBITE OF JAPANESE BREAKFAST SONG, "GLIDER") ZAUNER: So we knew really early on that we wanted to have this moment where a track with vocals and lyrics came in at this peak moment of the game, which is when you leave your home village and exit what you think to be, you know, a big part of the world and realize that the world is much larger than you thought. I'm caught between the wind and parts of the unknown. JAPANESE BREAKFAST: (Singing) Come in to me, show us the way. ZAUNER: The basic premise of "Sable" is that you are a young girl who lives on a desert planet and has this sort of coming-of-age ceremony where you have to go out and explore this world and leave your village that you've grown up in. Gregorios Kythreotis, who is the creative director, comes from an architecture background, so a lot of the buildings are very intricate and interesting to explore. The creative design was largely inspired by Studio Ghibli and Mobius and Tintin. And I - even just from seeing those, I was pretty much in right away. ![]() ZAUNER: At the time, there was only a couple of GIFs, animated GIFs, of the artwork. ZAUNER: The developers of "Sable" wanted to bring on a composer that was separate from the game world but also wanted someone that had a passion for games. That was definitely something I really wanted to try and replicate the feeling of with the "Sable" soundtrack. ZAUNER: There's a kind of seriousness to that music. And I think that was the first time that I realized that games could be a real art form. And it was, like, a real journey that you can go on together. ZAUNER: After school, at night in the den, my dad and I would play this game. ZAUNER: The two of us really loved this RPG called "Secret Of Mana." ZAUNER: I grew up playing video games since I was probably 5 years old. MICHELLE ZAUNER: A game takes many years to come together, and you have to walk in step with the developers in a way, that putting together an album is something that you kind of do as a self-contained thing.įADEL: But Zauner says her inspiration for the soundtrack goes back even further. Zauner wrote and performed the music for Sable, a process that began in 2017. The game follows a young girl as she leaves her village and explores the sand dunes and ruins of her planet. ![]() Today a new video game called "Sable" launches on multiple platforms. Just this year, she's released a new studio album and published her memoir. Michelle Zauner, better known as the musician Japanese Breakfast, has been busy.
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