There’s bands that are heavily nerd-identified, like John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. But it was fun to stretch it and push it and see where else it could go. And we did have one Relapse band, Red Fang. “I can call up Relapse Records and get like 10 bands in about five seconds right now who would be lining up to do this. “I think that record would have been really fun, and really easy to make,” he continues. But D&D has gone so far beyond that, which I think is great. I grew up in the white, cis male world of D&D. “That’s the world I grew up in,” Funk says. Numero Group’s excellent Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles-a compilation of thumping proto-metal made by stoned, white, male, D&D-obsessed teens-leaps to both our minds. It’s certainly possible to imagine a less all-over-the-place D&D soundtrack. It has its own life, and people assign their own images to it, and it goes just all over the place.” It’s kind of a love song, but really it was inspired by a couple characters, and that’s what they came up with. And I think that’s the fun part about music too is when you hear lyrics, like that Lucius song, for example. Sure, there’s some art in the books, but it really can take on any form. It’s group storytelling, so therefore everyone’s got their own image in their mind of what this place might look like. “The best dungeon masters don’t have a prescribed outcome. “That’s what I like about D&D,” Funk says. Shabazz Palaces, initially tapped by Funk to deliver “a straight-up hip-hop banger,” instead contributed a Hans Zimmer-inspired, 11-minute slow burner called “The Door to Endlessness.” Musically, SPELLJAMS is all over the map, but it’s easy to tell that every artist is authentically channeling the imagery that their chapter put in their mind’s eye. The remainder of SPELLJAMS delivers folk songs and experimental electronic tracks heartbreaking ballads and geeked-out psych freakouts. Reggie Watts crashes the party with a ridiculous, impressive William Shatner impression, embodying the role of Captain-Kirk-as-dungeon-master over a spacey funk groove. After that, SPELLJAMS goes off the rails, in the best way possible. (“The Stranger Things sound,” Funk muses.) That’s followed by “Arena of Blood,” a bloodthirsty garage-thrash ripper by Osees, the long-running band led by D&D obsessive John Dwyer. The album begins with a burbling, atmospheric synthwave tune by the Boise trio Magic Sword. I was thinking about different genres of music, to step outside of the straight-up nerd rock, Game of Thrones soundtrack, and try to go a little bit further and just let people do what they do.” “ D&D is a diverse game, both the people who play it and also the worlds it encompasses. “I was really trying to think about it as musically diverse,” Funk says. The resulting album defies any preconceived notion of what a Dungeons & Dragons soundtrack might look like. Once an artist was on the hook to contribute, Funk and D&D product manager Chris Lindsay would jump on a call with them to explain the chapter of Spelljammer that they’d be using as a jumping-off point. The interest was so strong that he ended up with 19. Originally, he wanted 12 songs, one for each chapter of the Spelljammer module. With Perkins’ blessing, Funk started reaching out to artists to ask them to participate in the SPELLJAMS project. And he was like, ‘Maybe this is the one.’” “And then Chris Perkins wrote Spelljammer, and he was listening to a lot of Queen in the background-Queen from the 1980s Flash Gordon movie. “Originally, we were going to do it with another module-slash-storyline, The Dungeon of the Mad Mage, and it just didn’t pan out,” Funk says. Spelljammer is a bit of an outlier within the broader D&D lore, which made it ripe for the kind of freewheeling, adventurous track listing Funk assembled for the album. The Decemberists guitarist wasn’t tasked with soundtracking just any old D&D campaign: SPELLJAMS is a companion piece to the newly rebooted Spelljammer setting, an outer-space-set oddity that’s become a cult favorite since its introduction in 1989. That’s the fundamental question at the heart of SPELLJAMS, a new compilation album curated and produced by Chris Funk. Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).Pre-order buy pre-order buy you own this wishlist in wishlist go to album go to track go to album go to track Get the embed code Worwyk - Shadows Black Album Hill3.Gone and 7.Pathetic8.Paths to Follow9.Shadows Black10.Stolen InnocenceWorwyk Lyrics provided by They try to tell you what is the right path to choose I play the hand I'm dealt don't try to walk the lineĪs you choose to close your mind I choose to open mine Our freedom and our choices time to make a stand.cause And as we walk through life the paths we follow in this land
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