Sheet music We are entering into the dream world, the zone where normal things don’t happen very often. Or in this case, the world of spells, witchcraft and alchemy that are meant to be the… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Cheato’s Theme
Sad trombone, happy fanfare The duality of man (bear). First, for the wounded victims of Mr Vile we have the universal loser anthem, the sliding down trombone that has mocked contestants since ancient times whenever… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Lose/Win Mini-game
Vile Building Pop Mixing manic circus energy, show tune standard stock snippets and endearing 50s harmonies, Grant Kirkhope brings another mini-game to life. In this case it is none other than the one presented by… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Mr. Vile’s Game
Bubblegloom Sounds Back to the deepest, now darkest wilds; this time thicker than ever. And that also means back to the very beginning since the enemies found here are the first character presented to us… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Bubblegloop Swamp
Nasty Club Time to get to the seedy underbelly of society. Or at least the underbelly of a literal whale accompanied with the continued emphasis of the cabaret aspects; but this time with the sultriness… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Inside Clanker
Jiggies against the clock The good ol’ mini games within the games. How could they not be present? They seem to be an elemental constituent of various video game genres. And here we reach the… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Bottles’ Puzzle Challenge
Overt fairy tale The most difficult decision Grant Kirkhope had when it came to musicalizing this unambiguously good natured fairy godmother was a matter of choosing between the harp or the celesta (same goes for… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Brentilda’s Theme
The importance of musicality for a banjo and a kazoo A new success, a new fanfare. And not any success but one of the great successes on the game since you are either actually getting… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Musical Notes / Note Door Fanfare
Feeling kind of blue “The blues is a low-down, aching chill; if you ain’t never had ’em, honey, I hope you never will” Following on the steps of the other mascot platformers from Rareware, Grant… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Lose Life / Game Over
Echoes of a previous theme The troops are marching, marching to the rhythm of the blues, a very creepy blues indeed. One of the few remaining vestiges of the original musical direction for the game,… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Inside Ticker’s Tower
Jinjo! Da Dun Din The fair folk of the Banjo-Kazooie series, the pixie-like creatures known as Jinjos (alongside their mean counterparts, the Minjos) cohabit this wonderland with the bear, the bird and the witch. Just… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Collect Jinjo
Bluesy chant “Oomenacka” And so ritual complete. Bear and bird transfigured. As Grant Kirkhope also says: when in doubt, use marimba. The thing just works; cartoonish, tribal, primitive, exotic, spooky, caribbean…doesn’t matter, it has you… Read More »Inside The Score – Banjo-Kazooie – Mumbo’s Hut