Raw Eastern European folk instrumentation just bleeding through every track. The Witcher 2's Empik preorder disc collects eight cuts that sound like Adam Skorupa and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz jamming in a stone cellar somewhere.
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"Nocturnal Forest" opens with these low strings and a wooden flute line that immediately puts you in the Pontar Valley. "The Scent of Battle" builds from a slow percussion crawl into full combat tension. Then "A Tavern on the Riverbank" just...
exhales. Lute, soft vocals, the whole medieval pub thing done right. Only eight tracks but they all hit. If you loved the main Witcher 2 score and haven't tracked this one down, fix that tonight.