I wrote the first song for Ilomilo at the same time we were working on the first conceptual trailer of the game. Back then the world of ilomilo was still young and under development, but Simon had already created this wonderful art style and we felt the music had to be equally unique to somehow match. There weren’t much time for me to start experimenting so we had to find some inspirational music that were very close to what we wanted in the game. We went through all kinds of tracks, I’m not going to list them here, but finally one of my old favorite bands from Iceland came up; Múm. Together with some other inspirations it felt like a perfect match. I have always wanted to create a project close to what they do, so it felt quite natural to take the music in that direction. Simon provided me with some toy sounds he had recorded earlier. I used them to create some nice instruments.
The track I ended up writing became the theme of ilomilo. I like to think it later inspired the rest of the team to further develop the world. You can hear it on the title screen and parts of it in various songs thought the game. It is also used in the first official trailer here on the blog. I’ll leave it at that for now. Keep checking this blog for more posts about the music and sounds of ilomilo.
Listen!
ilomilo main theme
Now that we finally got this blog up, we figured that it might be a good idea to tell you a little bit about what ilomilo is.
