⏺️ A concept album featuring covers of music from 15 great video game soundtracks, based around the “Travelers” melody from Outer Wilds. Airship Overdrive is a video game cover band with all parts performed 100% on live guitar and percussion.
00:00 | “Octopath Traveler Main Theme” from Octopath Traveler
02:44 | “Overworld Adventure” from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
07:03 | “Strange World” from Dragon Quest VIII
11:20 | “Guided by Wind” from Soulcalibur II
15:20 | “Jib Jig” from Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest
19:09 | “Secret of the Deep Sea” from Final Fantasy VII
26:28 | “Brinstar: Red Soil Swampy Area” from Super Metroid
32:20 | “Quillshroom’s Horrors” from The Messenger
37:19 | “Swiftly Through the Valley” from Airborne Kingdom
44:37 | “A Verdant Wind Blows” from Octopath Traveler II
49:50 | “See You at the Top” from A Short Hike
55:54 | “High Above the Land: The Flying Machine” from Shovel Knight
1:00:18 | “Apotheosis” from Journey
1:05:00 | “Reach for the Summit” from Celeste
1:11:56 | “Travelers” from Outer Wilds
🌎 “Travelers” tells an open-format version of The Hero’s Journey, taking a small group of adventurers from their home town on trains, ships, submarines, hikes, flying machines, and ultimately climbing to a literal mountain peak to achieve an unspecified goal. Along the way, our traveling party encounters friendly strangers, subterranean monsters, airship captains, and a tavern in the middle of nowhere.
🎵 Listen for themes borrowed and modified throughout the album, including the “Travelers” melody from Outer Wilds, the ostinato from “See You at the Top”, the Super Metroid radio signal, and the “Octopath Traveler” motif.
🎁 Special thanks to Alan Malunao Jr., Brian Mathew Kohlhoff, Brian Simmons, Jake Cecil (ocean recording for “Jib Jig” at Torrey Pines State Park), Courtney Danner (original Airship Overdrive logo and design), Paul Aubry, Eric William “rainbowdragoneyes” Brown, Katrena Laney, and everyone who supports local live music.
🎸 All pitched parts were performed and recorded 100% live on guitar and bass by Ryan Laney through a variety of effects pedals with minimal post-production editing.
⚙️ Primary Gear Used to Record “Travelers”: PRS 245 SE, Walrus ACS1, Empress Echosystem Dual Delay Engine, LPD Eighty7 Distortion, Wampler EGO Mini Compressor, Empress Phaser, Earthquaker Devices Data Corruptor, Asheville Music Tools AFG-1 Flanger, BOSS SL-2 Slicer, BOSS SY-1 Synthesizer Pedal, Garritan Sound Anthology for some percussion effects, recorded and mixed in Reaper at Skymouse Studio.
❤️ Dedicated to those who perished on the climb
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