The Forest Album

The music on this EP is about a character in the game – The Forest. Zak, Cora and The Darkness all have different ways of interacting with the player but The Forest only has music.

I began this album as a writing project. Each character in a story produces copious amounts of notes that the audience never sees but deeply affects the eventual production. In the case of The Forest, I wanted to build the character’s personality, backstory and day to day life in The Forest’s own language – music.

The Forest EP is the daily cycle of The Forest. What you hear in this piece is the “usuall” day of the forest – from dawn to the darkest moment of the night. I like to think of it as the very day before Zak arrives to finish his homework.

None of this music is in the game, you can only hear it here. Just as you don’t read my notes on Zak and Cora in the game, you won’t hear these notes (get it?) in the game either. But the “band” that you hear on this album is the same “band” that produces the music for the game. These band members are all in my head but they are: two percussionists, two string players a guitar / bass player. Some of them are pretty good with synths as well. It doesn’t matter which ones. Oh yeah someone plays a flute as well.

I learned how to make video games so that I could make the music for them – it’s a long story but that’s how I got here.