The official soundtrack for Crimson Dragon is now available on iTunes:
- New Zealand iTunes Store (NZ$18.99)
- United Kingdom iTunes Store (UK£7.99)
- United States iTunes Store (US$9.99)
It appears that the soundtrack is not available in all regions yet. In particular regions that do not yet have the Xbox One may not yet have the soundtrack, although I have not checked every version of the iTunes store.
There’s also an article which explains Jeremy Garren’s involvement with the soundtrack:
Working on the Crimson Dragon score was a great opportunity to add my creative voice to many of Kobayashi-san’s wonderful melodies and to ultimately orchestrate and unify all of the the fine live performances recorded for the project, says Mr. Garren.
Although I have not listened to the full soundtrack yet, the tracks I’ve listened to so far have significantly less of Saori Kobayashi’s distinct Panzer Dragoon style in them (which was prominent in Crimson Dragon: Side Story). While the soundtrack is beautiful, this fact is deeply saddening to a Panzer Dragoon fan.
Kobayashi’s version of soundtrack was updated in collaboration Pyramind Studios and Microsoft Studios, with Jillian Aversa performing the vocals for the soundtrack’s main theme, along with The New York Film Chorale contributing to a number of tracks, led by Dwayne Condon. Condon explains his contribution:
My charge, musically, was to fuse together a sense of Draco, the new game world, with the history of the Panzer Dragoon series and the work already done by the original composer, continues Mr. Garren, in particular, I tried to capture the huge scale, danger, and outright crisis posed by those massive beasts.
The soundtrack, titled simply “Crimson Dragon”, contains 15 tracks and is a total of 58 minutes and 26 seconds long.