Yooka-Laylee is, by design, a spiritual successor to the N64's beloved Banjo-Kazooie – and it's being made by many of the very same ex-Rare folks that created the bear/bird combo we all love. One of those developers returning for Yooka-Laylee is composer Grant Kirkhope. He kindly provided the first sampling of the new game's soundtrack. Hear it in the video above, and while you do, read on to hear what Kirkhope had to say about the piece.
I told Kirkhope I got a kind of Caribbean vibe from the track, and he said, "Erm...it’s only the first bit that sounds that way maybe, the rest of the music is skewed towards each area that it fades to like in the original Banjo-Kazooie, and I think that Caribbean feel that you’re hearing might be because I’m using the marimba for the main melody at the start. I used the marimba because it features so heavily in both the BK games."
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I told Kirkhope I got a kind of Caribbean vibe from the track, and he said, "Erm...it’s only the first bit that sounds that way maybe, the rest of the music is skewed towards each area that it fades to like in the original Banjo-Kazooie, and I think that Caribbean feel that you’re hearing might be because I’m using the marimba for the main melody at the start. I used the marimba because it features so heavily in both the BK games."
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