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Award-Winning Producer Luminist unleashes Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree (Original Soundtrack) LP

Award-winning producer and video game music composer Luminist released his new album Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree (Original Soundtrack) on the 27th of January via Infinite Hex. The Wildboy Studios’ game Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree was first released in 2019 alongside the launch of Apple Arcade. Later that year, Luminist won a New Zealand Game Award in the Excellence in Audio category for the soundtracks he produced, one of which was featured in the release date trailer for Atone on PlayStation’s official Youtube channel. Delivered under the publisher Untold Tales, the game is available on Nintendo Switch, PC via Steam, and PS4.

The producer first made a splash in the gaming space with his analog remakes of the 1986 video game Metroid’s official music, gaining attention from the leading gaming publication GameSpot as well as Killscreen. In 2022, he released a remix album titled Metroid Resynthesized, which was pressed on vinyl by the US label One Run Records. The first 300 copies sold out in 10 minutes, making it somewhat of a collector’s item for fans of the game. His music has also appeared on the popular Youtube channel Summoning Salt and accumulated approximately 3 million streams across platforms.

Born and based in Sydney, Australia James Shuar, better known as Luminist, got his start in the music business as an advertising jingle writer in London during his 20s. Having spent between 5 and 6 years as a chorister in the St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir in Sydney during his childhood, Shuar imbues his productions with the harmonic structures present in church music. The producer went on to release two original EPs, namely Simulations and Infinity Mirrors. In addition, he scored the 2017 animated short Jumpy and released his single ‘Plastic Sea’ under Mechanical Records in 2021. He draws inspiration from Rival Consoles, Steve Reich, and Jon Hopkins.