Hollens, likewise, has worked on several solo and collaborative pieces based on music from Skyrim, World of Warcraft and Portal. Malukah famously caught the attention of Skyrim fans back in 2011 with her haunting rendition of The Dragonborn Comes and has released numerous other game based music pieces in the years since. Not that this should be taken as a slight against the new cover which skillfully employs multiple vocal tracks and percussion to capture the grandiose scale and feeling of the orchestrated song.īabu Yetu is, of course, just the latest piece of gaming music to be recreated by Malukah and Hollens. Their take on the song lasts a little over four minutes and is somewhat more minimalist than the original version composed by Christopher Tin. A wonderfully appropriate and atmospheric song it’s been a mainstay of the Video Games Live concert series for years and, most recently, was the subject a cover version recorded by musicians Peter Hollens and Malukah. The arguable cream of that particular crop is Baba Yetu, the Grammy winning theme song from Civilization IV. On the whole, the Civilization titles have produced a ton of songs that fans have come to love almost as much as the games themselves. Civilization IV (also known as Sid Meiers Civilization IV) is a 4X turn-based strategy computer game and the fourth installment of the Civilization series, and designed by Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and his video game development studio Firaxis Games. Some meanwhile, as with most great games, fall in love with its music. Others value its challenging experience of leading a society throughout the ages of human development. Many love the depth of gameplay it provides. This version is what the table below is based off.Malukah and Peter Hollens have released a version Civilization IV‘s Baba Yetu created almost entirely with vocals.Ĭivilization is a franchise that countless gamers cherish for a variety of reasons. Unofficial copies can still be found on YouTube, and the official soundtrack is on sale on sites such as iTunes or Amazon Music. Unlike the vanilla game and the Rise and Fall expansion, the whole soundtrack for Gathering Storm was not posted in its entirety on the Civilization YouTube Page. All tracks were performed by the Prague Filmharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Andy Brick, and orchestrated by Geoff Knorr. The Korean Performing Arts Academy of America The soundtrack of Civilization V was written by Geoff Knorr and Michael Curran, and features new compositions as well as folk songs and famous compositions. The official Rise and Fall expansion soundtrack is found on YouTube. Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin and Geoff Knorr The soundtrack when purchased from digital music distributors such as iTunes or only includes 38 of the 76 songs. The main theme, ' Sogno di Volare', is not found in this soundtrack. This is the soundtrack of Civilization VI as released on YouTube by Firaxis.

Tin premiered the song at a London concert in July 2016. This group boasts 145 members and, according to the pre-performance banter, they are from. The theme was written to capture the spirit of exploration not only in 'seeking new lands, but also the mental exploration of expanding the frontiers of science and philosophy'. The song recently resurfaced on Americas Got Talent, where it was performed by the Angel City Chorale.

Main Theme Ĭhristopher Tin, composer of the Grammy winning Civilization IV song ' Baba Yetu ', wrote ' Sogno di Volare ' (translated as 'The Dream of Flight'), the main theme of Civilization VI. The themes of each civilization are played as different variations of the same song throughout the eras, with simple single instrument melodies in the Ancient Era turning into modern songs by the Atomic Era, symbolizing the evolution and growth of one's civilization throughout the ages. The soundtrack of Civilization VI was written and orchestrated primarily by Geoff Knorr, who was assisted by Roland Rizzo, Griffin Cohen, and Phill Boucher.

Civilization 4 theme song