The music also shows the geopolitical smallness of Polania set between two empires. Polania sounds more romantic and melancholic, almost like its music was a heritage of Polish aesthetic of the 19th century orbiting Mickiewicz’s poems and Chopin’s music – one of the main artistic icons of Polish struggle for independence in modern history. Both, choir and the balalaika cooperating side by side can be found in Mother Rusviet, for instance. On the other hand, to add even more Russian flavour we can hear Aleksander Grochocki playing balalaika in Heinrich House Studio in Legionowo. All the male vocal choir parties in Rusviet tracks were sung in Russian by an orthodox group Katapetasma recorded in Juice Sound Studio in Warsaw. In Iron Harvest tsar’s Rusviet is a bit more “red” then, but it fits perfectly to the character of the dieselpunk Rusviet Tsardom. Only Soviet era forced composers to make more military scores and founded Alexandrov Red Army Choir. At that time artists such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky influenced western popular music with their melodic style and vice versa, they were influenced by western artists like Franz Liszt. The music in Russia was nicely developing its own character, although the style was created only a few decades earlier by five great composers (calling themselves The Mighty Five). In real life, during the leadership of Nicholas II (the last tsar of Romanov’s dynasty was killed in 1918). Despite the action taking place in the 1920s, in Różalski’s alternate history a tsar is still in power. Rusviet sounds huge and pompous, blending gigantomania with nostalgia typical for Russian music. They feel the story very well! So just like the developers set Różalski’s images in motion, the composers add another layer. It was a clever move to choose experienced musicians from a country which is a center of the game’s setting. The whole trio took part in creating each song in the game.
The music was created by Polish composers – Adam Skorupa (The Witcher series), Michał Cielecki (Shadow Warrior) and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz (Bulletstorm). Such sticking to details and trueness of archetypes is clearly seen in the music as well. Though the names of the countries are fictional, they still keep some qualities of each nation with which we can simply associate them. That’s the setting of the 1920+ universe and Iron Harvest lets us choose which side we want to join on.
Saxonian Empire, Rusviet Tsardom and Polania Republic between these two.
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