Album Of The Day: Riven: The Soundtrack by Robyn Miller

The Soundtrack album - Against the backdrop of a red sunset with a purple sky at the top, the decorative hilt of a dagger is in the foreground, with a handle with a circular design around it. In the background, surrounding the fancy dagger handle, can be seen a series of very oddly-shaped rock formations, where large rocks are sitting on very small, unlikely bits of rock as they near the ground. Beyond, by the sky, can be seen the sea.

Released 28 years ago yesterday is the soundtrack to the sequel to Myst, Riven. Myst and Riven are some of my favorite computer games of all time. They were an exploration of fantastical, magical worlds and through that exploration, you uncover a dark story of greed, anger and wielding of powers against others that left these places in ruins. The instrumental music for this game is haunting, otherworldly, and captivating, and in the game it helps build suspense as you explore. Riven is a game I played mostly 27-28 years ago, and this is only the second time recently I've listened to the soundtrack, but I like it and it brings me right back to exploring those digital worlds. Robyn Miller worked on the design and story of Myst and Riven with his brother Rand Miller. Robyn also composed and created the music, mostly on keyboards and computers. In 2024, video game studio Cyan released a remastered version of Riven, and Robyn also released a remastered, expanded soundtrack and the new cover art is here as well.

Release Year: 1998
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Buy the deluxe, remastered album on Bandcamp

The Soundtrack Deluxe album - On a dark green background, a lighter green circle is shown. Inside the circle is a pentagon, and each corner of the pentagon is a drawing of a book. From the center and going out to the book's center is five leaves, one for each book, and they also look like a fountain pen as well as a leaf. In the middle there's another circle with 5 smaller leaves just outside it, and inside the circle is an orange geometric design, it looks like a box with a horizontal line through it.

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