Red vs. Blue SEASON 14 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK / Red vs. Blue SEASON 14 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK / Red vs. Blue SEASON 14 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Music by Trocadero & David Levy

TROCADERO
Nicolas Audy-Rowland - guitars, baritone guitars, synthesizers, arpeggione, drums.
Steve Scully - drums, percussion.
Violet Heart - guitars, piano.
Meredith Hagan - vocals, piano.
Laura Reed - violins on 13-14.
Giovani Goulart - percussion on 14.
Lauren Urban - oboe on 13.
Brandon Erdos - drums on 16-17.
Wendy Mittelstadt - keyboards on 16-17.
Burnie Burns, Yomary Cruz, Dan Goodwin, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, Jason Saldaña - vocals on 11-14.

DAVID LEVY
David Levy - drums, percussion, guitars, bass, keys, programing.
Moe Levy - organ on 07.
Connor Pickens - ukelele on 20.
Brian Behm - saxophone on 04.

PRODUCTION
Music written by Nicolas Audy-Rowland & David Levy except:
Tracks 4-8, 20 (Levy)
Tracks 15-17, 22, 25 (Audy-Rowland)
Tracks 11-13 (Audy-Rowland & Miles Luna)
Track 17 (Audy-Rowland & Mittelstadt & Erdos)

Additional arrangements and production for Red vs. Blue by Miles Luna.

Recorded at Studio 2600 (Seattle, WA), Tuna Mansion (Austin, TX) and Yellowsound (Cambridge, MA).
Mixed & mastered by David Levy in Austin, TX & Nicolas Audy-Rowland in Seattle, WA.
Mastered by Dave Locke at JP Masters (Seattle, WA).

ART
Design by Courtney Brenek.
Template design by Jon Risinger. Cover art by Cinedigm.
Trocadero "Gun Heart Gun" logo design by Heather Cristofaro.

THANKS
Thank you to everyone who worked on this, to our families and friends, to the people who enjoy this music, and to Burnie Burns and the gang for helping make this all possible. Special thanks to Koen "The Rock" Wooten and Hummin' Miles Luna for everything and then some.


TRACK NOTES

M-01 - "This tune was written for the trailer for Season 14, and was used as an intro to some of the episodes."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro Companion
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-02 - "An intro to Slingshot (feat. Meredith Hagan.)"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Bass VI
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-03 - "From RVB14E13 and Season 14 end credits. 'Oh yeah, just .03 milliseconds too slow.'"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Meredith Hagan: Vocals
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Moog Source
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples
   Violet Heart: PRS guitar

M-04 - "From RVB14E09, and featuring Brian Behm on saxophone."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-05 - "From RVB14E10."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-06 - "From RVB14E10."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-07 - "From RVB14E10, and featuring Moe Levy on organ."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-08 - "From RVB14E10."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples

M-09 - "We frequently get requests for instrumental versions of our songs."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Moog Source
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples
   Violet Heart: PRS guitar

M-10 - "A shortened, guitar-centric version of Aperture, this was the intro to some of the episodes in RvB Season 14."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro Companion
   David Levy: Drum samples

M-11 - "From RVB14E18. This was the first of four tunes for the RvB "Musical" episode of Season 14, which featured Geoff Ramsey, Gus Sorola, and Matt Hullum on vocals. Miles flew up to my studio in Seattle, and we spent three days conceptualizing the story as well the lyrical and melodic basis for these songs. We wanted the intro to be short, raw, and with minimal instrumentations."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Luna)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro baritone guitar
   Violet Heart: Steinway piano
   Steve Scully: Drums

M-12 - "From RVB14E18. This tune features much of the red team singing as their respective characters: Matt Hullum, Gus Sorola, Geoff Ramsey, Dan Godwin, and possibly Miles Luna or Burnie Burns as Lopez.
Some of the lyrics, specifically the various names for a rocket launcher, were crowdsourced by Miles on social media "what are some of your favorite names for a rocket launcher" and recorded later that day by Miles at my studio — in fact, I have a recording with Miles singing ALL of the parts which were then distributed to the voice actors as a template."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Luna)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro Companion, Arpeggione, Danelectro baritone guitar, Drums
   Violet Heart: Steinway piano

M-13 - "From RVB14E18. This tune is brooding, introspective counterpoint to the upbeat and exuberant Red Rockets. Again, Miles and I wrote and recorded the vocals here in Seattle over a long weekend, and then the demo was sent for the cast to record in Austin under Miles' direction.
We'd agreed early on that we wouldn't tune any of the vocals to keep everything authentic. It's a challenge for any actor to sing in character, and because ballads are brutally unforgiving, Burnie Burns probably had the toughest job of anyone involved in the musical.
Much of blue team is also featured in the tune: Jason Saldaña, Joel Heyman, Yomary Cruz, and Matt Hullum as Doc."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Luna)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro baritone guitar
   Violet Heart: PRS guitar, Steinway piano
   Lauren Urban: Oboe
   Laura Reed: Strings
   Steve Scully: Drums

M-14 - "From RVB14E18. After writing and recording demos for the first three songs for the Musical episode, Miles and I ran out of time as he had to fly back to Austin. We nevertheless agreed on a basic concept of a groovy "dance" song as the resolution / finale for the episode, and I played him a basic demo in the car on the way to Seatac.
Plan D went through many iterations and revisions and was a great learning experience in remote collaboration. On the early versions, we were erring on "aloof", "cool", "ambient", almost "melancholy", but weren't hitting the groovy notes. This was my fault, because the subdivisions I was hearing in my head hadn't been recorded... yet.
Once Mr. Goulart played and recorded the percussion instruments everyone was on the same page.
Meredith Hagan provided the template vocals that were used to help situate Yomary's vocals, Violet played the sad piano, funky rhythm guitars, and searing four-part leads at the end, and I turned Laura Reed into a 70s strings section."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro baritone guitar, Omnisphere, Moog Source
   Violet Heart: PRS guitar, Steinway piano, Fender Rhodes
   Giovani Goulart: Percussion
   Laura Reed: Strings
   Steve Scully: Drums

M-15 - "Goofy take on a goofy intro, but higher."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Danelectro Companion

M-16 - "For your karaoke-ing pleasure."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Danelectro baritone guitar
   Wendy Mittelstadt: Moog Opus 3
   Brandon Erdos: Drums

M-17 - "For your karaoke-ing pleasure."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Mittelstadt/Erdos)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Danelectro baritone guitar
   Wendy Mittelstadt: Moog Opus 3, Casiotone CT-380
   Brandon Erdos: Drums

M-18 - "This was a tune Levy and I put together at his studio while at RTX. Meredith provided some fun vocals."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Roland SH-101, Moog Source, Danelectro baritone guitar
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples
   Meredith Hagan: Vocals

M-19 - "From RVB14E13. This [is] our original pass for the Meta vs Carolina fight sequence. It is different enough from the final version ("Slingshot") that we thought we'd include it. It's an interesting little study on the difference that drums can make on the same track."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Meredith Hagan: Vocals
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Moog Source
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, String samples
   Violet Heart: PRS guitar

M-20 - "This tune is from RVB14E15 and features Connor Pickens on ukelele and David Levy on kazoo, toy piano, toy xylophone, shaker, and other cool instruments."
   Credits: (Levy)
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, Percussion

M-21 - "From RVB14E07. 'Where others see a spaceship, you see a wine bar.'"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Omnisphere, Fender Bass VI
   David Levy: Drum samples, String samples, Percussion

M-22 - "From RVB14E19. 'Mr Brown sounds like...'"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Yairi baritone guitar, Danelectro baritone guitar, Percussion

M-23 - "From RVB14E12. '...but I'm pretty sure there are that many stupid people in the universe.'"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Omnisphere
   David Levy: Drum samples, String samples, Synth samples

M-24 - "This is a medley from the music we made for the Triplets episodes in Season 14."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Danelectro Companion, Moog Source
   David Levy: Drum samples, String samples, Synth samples

M-25 - "This was the little outro from RVB14E05, the Brick Gulch Chronicles."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Danelectro Companion

M-26 - "A medley from the music for RVB14E24. '...type this in... m.e.a.t.s.p.i.'"
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro Companion, Danelectro baritone guitar, Arpeggione, Fender Rhodes, Omnisphere
   David Levy: Drum samples, String samples, Synth samples, Percussion, Drums, Percussion programming
   Meredith Hagan: Vocals

M-27 - "Because of the wide variety of content and directors, Season 14 posed new challenges: by the time we got to writing the score for the closing monologue, Levy and I were pretty much on auto-pilot, and we wrote and recorded this bit over the course of an evening."
   Credits: (Audy-Rowland/Levy)
   Nico Audy-Rowland: Fender Telecaster Deluxe, Danelectro Companion, Danelectro baritone guitar
   David Levy: Drum samples, Synth samples, Drums, String samples