An Exclusive Free Download from the Where the Water Tastes Like Wine Soundtrack
When I talked to Johnnemann Nordhagen about his game Where the Water Tastes Like Wine earlier this month, he discussed how important folk music was to his game, and how the ever-changing, fundamentally mysterious nature of songs and folk tales before audio recording existed influenced the game’s approach to storytelling. To deepen Where the Water’s connection to the premodern era it’s set in, composer Ryan Ike was tasked with writing songs and music that could credibly resemble a large variety of different regional musical idioms. And to further that sense of the adaptability of folkways, Ike recorded multiple different versions of the game’s most memorable number, “Vagrant Song,” with each one arranged in a traditional musical style from a different part of America. And that brings us to “Vagrant Song (Deep South),” which you can download for free exclusively at Paste.