arrangers: []
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Game
category: Game
classification: Original Soundtrack
composers: []
covers:
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discs:
- disc_length: '123:44'
  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Shoreline
    track_length: '3:57'
  - names:
      English: Rite
    track_length: '5:48'
  - names:
      English: Discovery, one
    track_length: '18:26'
  - names:
      English: Discovery, two
    track_length: '17:22'
  - names:
      English: Awakening, one
    track_length: '12:20'
  - names:
      English: Awakening, two
    track_length: '9:15'
  - names:
      English: Truths, one
    track_length: '12:32'
  - names:
      English: Truths, two
    track_length: '12:11'
  - names:
      English: Tenacity, one
    track_length: '12:52'
  - names:
      English: Caves
    track_length: '3:39'
  - names:
      English: Tenacity, two
    track_length: '7:29'
  - names:
      English: Island
    track_length: '7:53'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/965
  names:
    en: Bandcamp
    ja: Bandcamp
    ja-latn: Bandcamp
  role: retailer
link: album/106986
lyricists: []
media_format: Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2020-12-04T09:06
  edited_date: 2025-03-20T21:12
  fetched_date: 2026-05-28T08:23
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 2013
name: 'The Pathless: Meditations'
names:
  en: 'The Pathless: Meditations'
  ja: 'The Pathless: Meditations'
  ja-latn: 'The Pathless: Meditations'
notes: '"Because THE PATHLESS has an open world design in which the player has great
  freedom to explore, the music in-game is designed to be very flexible and expansive.
  As you roam, the score has various methods by which it remixes and rearranges material,
  to avoid anything ever feeling repetitious or fatiguing.

  The initial soundtrack album focused on the primary narrative beats of the story,
  specifically the Hunter''s journey from start to end. As a result, a huge amount
  of the music was cut or heavily abbreviated. This album provides most of that cut
  music, and is also more representative of how one might experience it in-game. That
  said, the more exciting variations that are possible are skipped here too, to make
  for a hopefully very relaxed, introspective listening experience."

  Original Music Composed and Produced by Austin Wintory

  The Alash Ensemble:

  Bady-Dorzhu Ondar (vocals and igil)

  Ayan-ool Sam (vocals and doshpuluur)

  Ayan Shirizhik (vocals and murgu, shoor and kengirge)

  Additional soloists:

  Nyckelharpa: Morgan O''Shaughnessey

  Dizi, xiao, bansuri, tin whistles, bamboo flutes and oboe: Kristin Naigus

  Oud, lute, sitar: Tom Strahle

  Double bass: Eric Snoza

  Baritone violin: Paul Cartwright

  Flute and alto flute: Amy Tatum

  Bass clarinet: Andrew Leonard

  Contrabassoon: Anthony Parnther

  Viol de gamba: Malachai Bandy

  Percussion: MB Gordy

  Vocals: Uyanga Bold

  Additional vocals: Psamathes

  FX Vocals: Bastiaan Van Bentum

  Additional guitar: Enoc Benitez

  Additional guitar: Joel Finney

  Additional percussion: Joshua Roberts

  Bass Kazoo: Austin Wintory

  Strings performed by the Macedonian Symphony Orchestra at FAMES recording stage
  (Skopje, Macedonia)

  Conducted by Oleg Kondratenko

  Textural chamber ensemble recordings performed by The Fifth House Ensemble (Chicago,
  USA)

  Alash Ensemble recorded at John Kilgore Sound & Recording (New York City) and Bias
  Studios (Washington DC)

  Orchestrations by Susie Seiter and Austin Wintory

  MIDI prep: M.R. Miller

  Music copyist: Steven Juliani Music

  Score mixer and album mastering: Steve Kempster

  ProTools recordist and music editor: Kevin Globerman

  Assistant engineer: Matt Friedman

  Album art direction by Matt Nava

  Special Thanks: Matt Nava and Giant Squid, Matt Fielding, Erica Ishijima, Annapurna
  Interactive, Sean Quirk, iam8bit, Peter Hollens, Joris Hoogsteder, Sarah Kovacs
  and Kraft-Engel Management, Dallas Crane, my amazing partner in SoundCrime Steve
  Green, my family and my muse, Angela Bermudez.'
organizations:
- &id002
  names:
    en: Austin Wintory
    ja: Austin Wintory
    ja-latn: Austin Wintory
  role: publisher
- *id001
performers:
- link: artist/70361
  names:
    en: The Alash Ensemble
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picture_small: https://medium-media.vgm.io/albums/68/106986/106986-6346793f9816.jpg
picture_thumb: https://thumb-media.vgm.io/albums/68/106986/106986-6346793f9816.jpg
platforms:
- Apple iOS
- PC
- Sony PlayStation 4
- Sony PlayStation 5
products:
- link: product/18041
  names:
    en: The Pathless
    ja: The Pathless
    ja-latn: The Pathless
publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related:
- catalog: N/A
  date: '2020-11-12'
  link: album/105933
  names:
    en: The Pathless
    ja: The Pathless
    ja-latn: The Pathless
  type: game
- catalog: 8BIT-8135
  date: 2021-09
  link: album/105558
  names:
    en: THE PATHLESS
    ja: THE PATHLESS
    ja-latn: THE PATHLESS
  type: game
release_date: '2020-12-04'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: USD
  price: 6.0
reprints: []
stores:
- link: http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/the-pathless-meditations
  name: Bandcamp
- link: http://www.deezer.com/album/190485832
  name: Deezer
- link: http://open.spotify.com/album/4yiHFt7swBz8qxvvaprPok
  name: Spotify
vgmdb_link: https://vgmdb.net/album/106986?perpage=99999
vocals:
- link: artist/33525
  names:
    en: Uyanga Bold
votes: 0
