Lakeshore Records is set to release 
Tales of Kenzera: ZAU—Original Soundtrack featuring music by Emmy-winning composer Nainita Desai (14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible). Desai combines orchestra, electronics, African traditional instrumentation and soaring vocalizations to convey the grief and ultimate joy unfolding in the game created by EA Originals and Surgent Studios. The album will be released digitally on April 26 and the game will be available on April 23. An instant grat track, “Every Story Begins at the End of Another,” will be available with every Apple and Amazon album preorder and as a single on other DSPs beginning today.
Unfolding in the beautiful, yet treacherous, lands of Kenzera, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU is inspired by Bantu tales, rich with untold lore of chaos and order, memories of ancient shamans, sacred spirits and fascinating creatures. Players can wield and expand cosmic powers from the Sun and Moon masks to defeat restless spirits in rhythmic combat; they can manipulate time and crystallize enemies using the Moon mask powers, or launch fiery spears with the Sun Mask – all in meticulously hand-crafted animations. Set to multi-award-winning composer Nainita Desai’s enchanting original score, Zau’s quest to become a worthy spiritual healer takes place across several unique and vibrant environments.
Notes Desai: “What attracted me to the game is that even though it covers very deep areas of human relationships and is about the transformative power of love, grief and loss, the game is not gloomy or dark. In fact, it is wrapped in the rich colourful world of African Bantu mythology and the African diaspora of art, culture and music. We wanted a score steeped with orchestral elements fused with African traditional instrumentation with voices to bring in the feel of the ancestors and afrofuturism represented by very modern synths and beats.”
Track List:
- Zau (feat. Sipho Mhlanga)
- A World I Once Knew (feat. Sipho Mhlanga)
- The Boy and Death
- These Humble Waters
- Patakatifu (feat. Zamasina Jantjie)
- Impiyeza
- Kalunga, Hear My Plea (feat. Zamasina Jantjie)
- The Dance of the Shaman
- Ikakarumba
- The Spirit of the Sky
- I Have Lost My Path
- A Rain Dancer
- The Road To Kivuli
- Heart of Fear
- The Spirit of Nature
- The Searing Sands
- Greatness
- Mercy is a Rare Bloom
- Mount Ikshoka
- The Spirit of Mankind
- Mtoto Wangu
- A Lost Soul (feat. Zamasina Jantjie)
- A Place of Peace
- God Of Death
- A Shaman’s Duty
- Every Story Begins At The End Of Another
Single: https://lnk.to/TOKZ-single
Watch the Visualizer here: https://youtu.be/PTWE8SMZLYA
Album pre-order/pre-save link: https://lnk.to/TOKZ-ost
ABOUT NAINITA DESAI
An acclaimed Emmy-winning composer with two additional Emmy nominations, Nainita Desai is an RTS and World Soundtrack Award 2021 winner of Discovery of the Year. A double BIFA and Cinema Eye Honors nominee; BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and IFMCA Breakthrough Composer of the Year 2019, Nainita was described by Empire Magazine as one of the Top 5 Composers to Watch for 2022, and also won the Women In Film & TV Award for Creative Technology award in 2022.
Amongst various BAFTA, Oscar, and Emmy acclaimed productions, Nainita’s recent projects include the hit Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (Executive Produced by Oscar winner Jimmy Chinn) for which her score earned nominations for a Primetime Emmy, Hollywood Music in Media Award, and ASCAP Composer Choice Award.
Her recent project is Oscar winning John Battsek’s feature documentary The Deepest Breath (A24, Netflix) that World Premiered at Sundance 2023 and earned Desai nominations for Best Original Score with the Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and Best Original Title Theme at the SCL Awards 2024.
Her other notable credits include Oscar nominated and BAFTA & Cannes winning feature doc For Sama, Sundance winning film The Reason I Jump and the Emmy nominated score for Body Parts. Recent dramas include BBC1 action thriller series Crossfire, Sky comedy drama Funny Woman (Gemma Arterton), landmark natural history series Predators for Sky/Netflix and the iconic Call of Duty video game franchise.
2024 projects include upcoming fantasy action-adventure series Nautilus for AMC and ITV Drama The Tower S3. Nainita has also scored Nocturnes that World Premiered in competition at Sundance 2024, upcoming landmark natural history series Earthsounds for Apple TV+ and James Cameron’s BBC / Nat Geo series Ocean Xplorers, as well as premium feature docs for Netflix, and Universal, series for SKY and video games for Sony Interactive and EA Originals.
Following a degree in Maths and studying sound for film at the NFTS in the UK, Nainita began her career as a sound designer on feature films for directors including Werner Herzog and Bertolucci, as well as assistant music engineering for Peter Gabriel. Nainita moves seamlessly between working with orchestras, to scores utilizing her collection of custom-made instruments, incorporating electronics, found sound, and experimental sound design which has informed her experimental, deeply immersive approach.
ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS
Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group. Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Drive, Stranger Things, The Old Guard, Cyberpunk 2077, When They See Us, The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, Les Miserables, Mandy, Narcos, Logan, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Bill and Ted Face the Music, Red Dead Redemption 2, Legion, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk and The Hurt Locker and many, many more.
Lakeshore Records works with the most respected, award-winning artists and composers such as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Nicholas Britell, Hans Zimmer, Grimes, Common, Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi, Tim Hecker, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Sam Slater, Stephanie Economou, Willie Nelson, Alexandre Desplat, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Run the Jewels, PJ Harvey, Philip Glass, Aloe Blacc, Willie Nelson, Rhiannon Ghiddens, Daniel Lanois, Nicholas Britell, Ziggy Marley, Danny Elfman, Giorgio Moroder, Aska Matsumiya, Clint Mansell, Bootsie Collins, Thomas Newman, Kris Bowers, Cliff Martinez, Randy Newman, James Horner, Gunship, Mark Isham, Kathryn Bostic, Carter Burwell, Bear McCreary, Emile Mosseri, Rolfe Kent, Josh Homme, Gustavo Santaolalla, Nina Kraviz, Dario Marianelli, Mark Mothersbaugh, The JBs, Gazelle Twin, Mary J. Blige, Christophe Beck, Rachel Portman, Amanda Jones, Jeff Russo, Henry Jackman, Marco Beltrami, Ben Lovett, Keegan Dewitt and many many more.
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