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  David Saulesco Improves Upon Gaga & Beyonce

  September 20, 2012 | Patrick Gann | Comments Off on David Saulesco Improves Upon Gaga & Beyonce Share this David Saulesco Improves Upon Gaga & Beyonce

  Back in January, this crazy-huge a capella group from Slovenia called “Perpetuum Jazzile” performed a concert that only recently made it to YouTube. One of their selections was a cover of the song “Telephone” by Lady Gaga & Beyonce.

  This particular arrangement was put together by David Saulesco (follow him on twitter! @withaknife), the composer for Derek Yu’s Eternal Daughter and other indie games (see our interview here).

  On a personal note, I’ve loved David and his work for years, but I frankly had no idea he had this kind of choral arrangement prowess locked away inside him. He needs to do more of these arrangements! Maybe one for a VGM vocal theme! Imagine what Saulesco would do with One Winged Angel or Liberi Fatali…

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  Unsung Prodigy: David Saulesco’s Eternal Daughter (Review)

  October 18, 2011 | Patrick Gann | 5 Comments Share this Unsung Prodigy: David Saulesco’s Eternal Daughter (Review)

  

  I recently played through a fantastic indie PC game. Perhaps you’ve heard of it. It’s called Aquaria. The whole game was put together by two people: Derek Yu (art and design) and Alec Holowka (sound and programming).

  But I’m not here to tell you about Aquaria or its soundtrack. I think many of us already know just how good that soundtrack is (though I’m a little late to the game). Rather, I’d like to go much farther back in Derek Yu’s career, to his indie platform-adventure game Eternal Daughter, which he created with Jon Perry.

  When Yu put this game together, he had a few wet-behind-the-ears composers help him out. This was roughly one decade ago. As things panned out, the majority of the music was written by then-sixteen-year-old David Saulesco.

  I met Saulesco earlier this year at MAGFest. Fellow young-and-prodigious composer Josh Whelchel introduced him to me, citing his work on Eternal Daughter as the big claim to fame. I’d heard of the game, and dabbled with it in college, but never really caught onto the soundtrack.

  That, too, changed after Saulesco released the Eternal Daughter Original Soundtrack for free via, you guessed it, Bandcamp.

  After the jump, my short take on the soundtrack that will hopefully convince you to take the time to click some links and download the soundtrack. And while you’re at it, you can hit up Saulesco via Twitter (@withaknife) and beg him to do another full soundtrack! (more…)

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