The soul of The Last of Us is in Gustavo Santaolalla’s music

When fans nervously tuned successful to ticker HBO's adaptation of 1 of their favourite video games, determination was 1 acquainted beingness that instantly calmed their nerves: the mournful guitar of Gustavo Santaolalla. As definite communicative beats changed and beloved polygonal faces were replaced with caller actors, the beating bosom of The Last of Us - its mesmerizing, tension-ridden people - survived the modulation to TV intact.

"[Series creator] Neil Druckmann has said that my euphony is portion of the DNA of The Last of Us," Santaolalla says. "I deliberation the information that we kept the sonic cloth - that we didn't bash an orchestral people for the bid - has been instrumental successful keeping those fans of the games fans of the series, too."

Born and raised successful Buenos Aires, Santaolalla archetypal started releasing euphony erstwhile helium was 17. Loving some English stone bands and the accepted Argentine people euphony that helium was raised on, Santaolalla melded some into his ain unsocial sound, portion of a genre called stone nacional. Before helium could afloat marque his mark, Santaolalla's household fled the Argentine junta dictatorship successful 1978, moving to Los Angeles, wherever his unsocial dependable soon caught the attraction of filmmakers. Snapped up to sc …

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