The Window Box (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
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Taylor Ambrosio Wood
Jazz, Classical, Piano
17 Songs
Released February 7, 2019
The Window Box is a surreal visual novel about a group of estranged friends trapped in a house where they must confront the conflict in their lives. Debussy-inspired piano with a sweet hint of jazz reflects the pastel image the characters paint of themselves. However, distorted synths and dissonant piano lines reflecting the women’s inner turmoil stir below, as their rosy image begins to crack…
© 2019 Taylor Ambrosio Wood
Tracks
The Window Box
Chit Chat
Awkward Small Talk
Interlude - Chit Chat
Meeting Notes
Paige’s Dream
Roundtable
Fairy Godfather
Interlude - Awkward Small Talk
Dark Secrets Emerge
Exploring the Soufflé
Fairy Godfather Meddles Again!
Soufflé Puzzle
Interlude - Storybook
Storybook
Elsa in Wonderland
The Window Box (Piano Version)
Review
“The Window Box had me engaged from the very first track – a turn-of-the-century piano-led ensemble piece with distorted synths (that sound like a vibraphone) and a simple progression that gives the track a staying power that made me yearn for more. The ensuing pieces follow an expertly arranged flow between cool jazz and chamber music, its overall serenity pinpointed by small dissonances that in classical terms hint at unresolved tensions, unconscious disruptions of a center that will not hold. The game, a visual novel about a group of women trapped in a house, forced to confront their inner and outer demons, presents us with an equally classical (even Victorian) theme of femininity restricted, of the sinister undercurrents of the spaces of domesticity in which silence seeps and creeps beneath every social mask. With a somber twist about half-way through, the soundtrack turns melancholic, the happy melody that powered the first track coming to be reinterpreted as a sad, equally striking motif. Nothing is the same after the masks fall off, in the sense that the last few tracks sway with moving little piano melodies that have resolved the tensions of the past in favor of the acceptance of an underlying, grounding, vital sadness. The waltz in “Storybook”, the penultimate track, is not the romance of victory and conquest; the depth that the jazz contrabass grants the composition turns its romantic undertones towards the sweetness of tears, a bliss earned in the admission that something has always been broken, that dissonant dream being life itself.” — A Closer Listen
Credits
Album art by Christina Ellis
Clarinet performed by Luke Peña