Grim Fandango Soundtrack- 'Companeros'
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Uploaded by TheWilsonator on Oct 13, 2007
"Companeros" is one of the pieces that plays at the Day of the Dead Festival in Year 1. The name roughly means "comrades" and alludes to Salvador and his Lost Souls' Alliance, since the festival takes place right above LSA headquarters. To me, all of the traditional folk-sounding music in the game somehow connects to the LSA or to the Temple in Year 4, either as Music of the People or as sacred music. The style is a sort of blend between rural folk music and the sounds of a Mexican mariachi band. To get inspiration and understanding of this kind of music, I did a lot of listening, both to recordings of Mexican folk tunes, and to live mariachis.
San Francisco has an area called the Mission District which has an incredible mix of Latin and Anglo-American cultures. Depending on the club you walk into, you can hear live swing, salsa, modern jazz, acid jazz, punk rock, folk, blues and mariachi bands nearly any night of the week. Most of the musicians who played on the Grim Fandango sound track either live in the Mission District and play these clubs regularly, or were found through contacts I made there. The mariachi musicians who perform in "Companeros" are among these. The band includes trumpet, violin, guitar, a small tenor guitar-like instrument called the vihuela, as well as a beautiful bass guitar called the guitaron.
-Peter McConnell
Grim Fandango is © Lucasarts
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amazing game, amazing soundtrack
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@MasterJayStarcraft What do you say about 2012? Great game indeed.
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Check out my piano renditions of Outlaws & Sam & Max Hit the Road!
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Who in the hell dislike this?!
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fuck it im downloading this on pirate bay
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Run, you pigeons, it's Robert Frost!
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thanks? thank you so much !!!!
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A toast to all my companeros here, and to the good times we have all shared.
1 month ago 4
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This is the best Mexican song ever. I love Grim Fandango! lol
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Who's watching this in 2011?! Miss Grim Fandango so much
2 months ago 4
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how many did you have? -
Five! -
Until Five - As many as you want"
One more bread to honor the death.
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R.I.P - LUCAS ARTS!!!
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