HITMAN COMPOSER SCORES ALBUM DEAL
Copyright 2005 Jesper Kyd Press Release

[ April 14th 2005 ]

BAFTA award-winning composer Jesper Kyd has partnered with Hollywood film soundtrack label La-La Land Records to release the original score from the first Hitman video game, Hitman: Codename 47. The 2-disc set also features a re-mastered version of the classic symphonic score to Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, regarded as some of the best music ever recorded for the genre.

Presented here in its first official CD release, the soundtrack from Hitman: Codename 47 features Kyd's dynamic blend of electronic and cinematic music - which he developed further on the darker, BAFTA award-winning Hitman: Contracts score - and is the latest collectable for fans of the best-selling Hitman games.

The Hitman 2: Silent Assassin score, recently celebrated in GameSpot's A History of Video Game Music: The Hitmen of Budapest, was recorded with 110 musicians of the Budapest Symphony and Choir. In 2004, the music of Hitman 2 was performed during the "GC" Game Music Symphony concert in Europe, the first event series of its kind outside of Japan.

The Hitman series is developed by IO-Interactive and published by Eidos. Jesper Kyd is currently scoring the latest installment in the multi-million selling series, Hitman: Blood Money.

For more information please visit www.jesperkyd.com.