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Wise initially worked as a freelancer and assumed his music would be replaced by a Japanese composer because of the importance of Donkey Kong to Nintendo. Rare asked Wise to record three jungle demo melodies, which were merged to become the "DK Island Swing", the first level's track. Wise was subsequently offered the job to produce the final score.
The story begins as the protagonists are awoken by a volcanic eruption [7] on Donkey Kong Island, after a group of evil Tikis known as the Tiki Tak Tribe arrive and play music to hypnotize the animals into stealing Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong's bananas. Since Donkey Kong is resistant to the Tikis' music, he works with Diddy Kong to retrieve ...
David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and he was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a dedicated following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series.
Particularly notable classical performers on the marimba include: This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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The Classical Marimba League is dedicated to the marimba, a keyboard percussion instrument. The Classical Marimba League (CML) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of the marimba. The musical repertoire for the marimba in the classical concert venue is quite young and sparse.
The mix was picked up by Virgin Records for an official release, which hit Number 4 in the UK charts. [28] David Wise, composer for the 1995 video game Donkey Kong Country 2, has said that the track "Bayou Boogie" was inspired by "In the Air Tonight", adding that he was "trying to get the SNES to sound like the Roland CR78" Collins used on the ...
Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his ...