Tchia: The Beach-Sides, by John Robert Matz

Tchia: The Beach-Sides

by John Robert Matz

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1.	Hymn Theme 02:13		buy track
2.	Home 00:57		buy track
3.	Melancholy Uma 01:24		buy track
4.	Birthday Gifts / Sunset 01:32		buy track
5.	A Day with Tre 04:07		buy track
6.	Evenings in Aemoon 00:43		buy track
7.	Lonesome Weliwele 01:54		buy track
8.	Cooking with Gaby and Louise 01:19		buy track
9.	Weliwele Morning 00:31		buy track
10.	Mountaintops 01:39		buy track
11.	Rockbalancing 01:56		buy track
12.	A Fowl and a Photograph 01:18		buy track
13.	Gutu Island 02:33		buy track
14.	Quiet Hunahmi 00:58		buy track
15.	White Clay Swamps 03:11		buy track
16.	Ieiji Sinoë / Meeting Kavere 02:59		buy track
17.	Into the Banyan Tree / Echoes of the Past I 04:15		buy track
18.	Learning from Kavere / Setting Out Again 03:03		buy track
19.	The Hacker Kid 01:58		buy track
20.	Forests 01:47		buy track
21.	Tingeting Afternoon 01:56		buy track
22.	Echoes of the Past II 04:05		buy track
23.	Meditation 03:06		buy track
24.	Tre's Camp (Empty) / Uma (Graveside) 02:47		buy track
25.	Children's Encampment 02:44		buy track
26.	In the Belly 01:03		buy track
27.	Memorials 01:49		buy track
28.	Uma Refuge 04:13	lyrics	buy track
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Hum Kökötre Hum Ameleene Hum Kökötre Hum Ameleene Hum Kökötre Hum Ameleene Lapa ka cahae ce Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Xatuane kökötre Xatuane ce Xatuane ixatua Lapa ka cahae ce
29.	Adventures Yet to Come 01:14		buy track

about

Conceived of as a companion piece to the main album, "The Beach-Sides" is a relaxing, chill journey through Tchia's tropical archipelago, focusing on gentle, ambient environmental cues, and presented on a canvas that incorporates the lush sound design of the team of audio wizards at A Shell in the Pit. With more than an hour of additional music, we invite you to kick off your sandals, sit back, and relax on your own private island tour with "Tchia: The Beach-Sides".

A word from the composer:
As I was putting together Tchia's soundtrack, I began to realize two things: one, presenting the more than four hours of music that I'd written for the game would require a deft touch, and two, the beauty of the ambient environmental audio captured and created by my friends Em, Millie, and Michelle from A Shell in the Pit truly enhanced the experience. I simply had to feature their work, somehow. After careful consideration of track order and flow, the album internally called "Tchia and Tchill" was born (I'm so sorry), a sort of "B-Sides" album featuring many of the more ambient cues I'd written, and allowing us to take a different, more relaxed path than the mainline album's journey of adventure.
Tchia's world was a beautiful and wonderful one to create music for, and I am incredibly proud to have been a small part in it.
Enjoy your time in the archipelago.
Oléti!
- John Robert Matz

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released May 5, 2023

Music composed, orchestrated, and mixed by John Robert Matz
Lyrics by Marilou Lopez-Aguilera
Mastered by Alec Justice

Choir:
Messaline Wahnuhnu
Honoré Bearune
Georges Wahnuhnu

Orchestra:

Guitar (Track 05):
Erik "Viking Guitar" Peabody

Strings:
Violins, Violas - Andrew Steffen
Cellos - Andrew Stern
Basses - Travis Kindred

Brass:
Trumpets, Horns - John Robert Matz
Trombones - Daniel Romberger
Tuba - Alex Hill

Sonaï and Kanak Flute: Thomadra Jules Thoane

Flutes, Winds, Keyboards, Guitar, Ukulele, Additional Vocals and Instruments: John Robert Matz

Sound Design by A Shell in the Pit
Em Halberstadt
Millie Wissar
Michelle del Mundo

Studio Recordings

New Caledonia
Studio Mangrove Recording Engineer: Alain Lecante
Studio Audio Vibe Recording Engineer: Maxime Brillou

France
Studio Baco Recording Engineers: Paul Lemaire, Damien Courtout
Studio Mel Recording Engineer: Soria

An Emperia Records US release. ℗© 2023 John Robert Matz under exclusive license to Emperia Records, a division of Emperia Sound and Music, Inc. d/b/a Emperia Music Group. All rights reserved. FBI Anti-Piracy Warning: Unauthorized copying is punishable under federal law.

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John Robert Matz Chicago, Illinois

I write music for games.
Also, films.
Also, bands and orchestras.
I write music for everything.

And you can't get it out of your head.

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