Want to get your hands on the latest Paul McCartney release? (And no, it is not One Hand Clapping which is due on Friday next week….)
It’s a track from the latest Destiny video game called The Final Shape, which was released earlier this week.
The original soundtrack from the game is also out – and it contains a song co-written by Paul. The track, ‘After All This Time’, is quite symphonic is style and there are no vocals.
‘After All This Time’ is co-written with (amongst others) Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, and Martin O’Donnell, and McCartney has collaborated with them before on the original Destiny soundtrack – most notably the closing credits song, ‘Hope For The Future‘.
Back then the creators of the Destiny franchise released the whole soundtrack as an impressive 6 LP set. No such luck this time. Looks like The Final Shape (including the track ‘After All This Time’) is only available as a digital download.
We have been on an email waiting list for about six months to be alerted to when the official vinyl release of The Music of Destiny – Volume 1 would once more become available.
That email finally came in this morning, stating that the 6-disc Collectors Edition Vinyl Box Set was now back in the Bungie online store. As Paul McCartney fans will know, he contributed to the soundtrack behind their video game called Destiny.
When we first clicked through the set was definitely showing an “Add To Cart” button. But when we clicked through again about two hours later, the Bungie order page was once more listing it as “Sold Out”. Strange.
There are two main McCartney contributions to The Music of Destiny. He shares a joint composing credit with Martin O’Donnell for the instrumental passages used throughout the game. This is called ‘Music of the Spheres’. Plus there was a new song recorded specifically for the game to accompany the extensive closing credits – much like those at the end of a movie. That song is called “Hope For the Future” and is produced by Giles Martin. The song was recorded at Abbey Road, and at Sir Paul’s own Hog Hill Mill studio in East Sussex, England.
The ‘Hope For The Future’ song (in a number of versions) was subsequently officially issued by McCartney himself as a 180 gram, 12″ vinyl extended single – this was way back in January, 2015.
Then, as some will know, about Christmas time last year, two fans took matters into their own hands and unofficially released their own compilation of the soundtrack to the video game. They also called this Music of the Spheres, and this was distributed on the web as a download.
Bungie finally came good with a limited physical vinyl box set released (we think – it’s a bit vague) in around June this year, though this wasn’t widely publicised. It’s the same 6-disc set linked to above. It too quickly sold out, and the email notification sign-up offer for news about when it would be back in print was made.
Now it seems The Music of Destiny – Volume 1 was briefly made available again for a few days but is once more sold out……
You can however still order a digital download of Destiny – The Official Soundtrack:
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