Ballad of the Goddess is the central piece of music from Skyward Sword. It plays at many crucial points in the game and has both big, bombastic versions and more lyrical, quiet ones.
For my Celtic arrangement, I wanted to emphasize the emotive character of the piece, in both its biggest and most intimate moments. After a large-scale initial statement, supported by some lovely orchestrations courtesy of ZREO: Second Quest’s Ari and Sam, a half-time breakdown in the middle brings the track back to earth before taking off once again for a soaring climax.
From the mind of the one-Man-Celtic-band, Tim de Man, ZREO: Second Quest is pleased to present Hyrule Highlands II - A Zelda tribute album styled in Folk and Celtic arrangements. It's a sequel to his Hyrule Highlands (2020) album and sports the same Celtic and Folk flare with studio-level care. We’ve worked directly with Tim to create each track from the ground up.
Tim de Man is a Dutch game music composer and multi-instrumentalist. He plays piano, drums, accordion, guitars, mandolin, and tin whistle, and has a vocal range of more than 3 octaves. Tim finally embraced his passion for old-school melodic game music in 2016. After seeing the first Breath of the Wild trailer, Tim took the plunge into making YouTube videos. Since 2020, he's focused only on game music, both on his channel and in his composing practice.
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Originally founded in 2004, ZREO: Second Quest is the next generation of the Zelda Reorchestrated project. We are a music reorchestration group creating performances of songs from The Legend of Zelda video game series composed by Koji Kondo, Toru Minegishi, and others at Nintendo as they would have sounded with live players. This is the first project of ZREO Studios, a collaborative music label with the goal to produce professional arrangements of popular video game music.
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