Obsidian Entertainment is proud to announce the release of Pentiment ’s soundtrack, available on some of your favorite streaming platforms — with a vinyl double album coming in 2023. To fit the game’s art style, the Pentiment team wanted to make sure that the soundtrack reflected the instruments and music of 16 th century Europe. To achieve this, the team worked with the early music ensemble Alkemie . Using shawms, hurdy-gurdies, and myriad other period instruments, Alkemie composed original music and adapted historical pieces from the 14 th to 16 th centuries for pivotal moments throughout the story. Accompanying Alkemie, the talented Lingua Ignota (Kristin Hayter) composed and performed the song Ein Traum for the game’s epilogue. Kristin drew upon 19 th century German Lieder traditions for the piano accompaniment and adapted a Heinrich Heine poem, ‘Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland’, for the lyrics. The result is a hauntingly beautiful song to close out the game’s story
