Henri-Pierre Pellegrin, aka H-Pi, is a french composer/producer and sound designer. From 2005 to 2009, He was an in-house Composer/Sound Designer at Gameloft. He then he joined Game Audio Factory team in 2010, and eventually became a freelancer in 2015. He is best known for his work in Video Games and television including: video games Trackmania and Brave Frontier: The Last Summoner for which he made his first appearance on The Annotator in ep. 52. H-Pi has written two original scores for the Styx franchise: STYX: MASTER OF SHADOWS in 2015 and Styx: Shards of Darkness in 2017.

Styx: Master of Shadows is an infiltration game with RPG elements developed by Cyanide Studio for PC and was released on October 7, 2014. Styx is a Goblin two centuries old... the very first of all the Goblins, he's a master in the arts of stealth, theft, and murder. In the depths of the Tower of Akenash, where Humans and Elves hide and protect the sacred Tree, which is the source of a very precious Amber, is the best chance Styx has of quickly amassing a small fortune and, perhaps, discover more about his true origins along the way.

In this episode, H-Pi reveals details from his original score for the STYX: MASTERS OF SHADOWS including some of his diverse inspirations such as: fellow French video game composer, Olivier Deriviere, the Finnish symphonic metal band, Apocalyptica, Shostakovich and singer/song-writer Amy Winehouse. He also reveals how he came to work with Sinfonia of Pop Orchestra on this project and how playing his main theme for STYX on his in-laws grand piano ended up inspiring a bonus track for the game.

ANNOTATED TRACKS / SEGMENTS

02:19 - Prelude

03:10 - Styx Master of Shadows (Title Theme)

05:28 - Hideout

06:41 - The Atrium - Part I

1)34 - Heights of Akenash - Part II

13:17 - Exit Music

SOUNDTRACK

The official soundtrack was released on March 23, 2015 by the Game Audio Factory. It can be purchased on Bandcamp, Amazon.com or on iTunes and can be streamed on Spotify or Apple Music.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPOSER

You can find out more about and hear more music by H-Pi at his official site http://hpisound.com or follow him on twitter @hpisound

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