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- Santaolalla continued to use his signature instrument, the ronroco, as he felt that it enhanced Ellie's qualities; the game's main theme also uses a banjo, which he felt reflected its American setting and origin.
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Oct 13, 2023 · Santaolalla even dedicated an entire album to this instrument: his 1998 album, Ronroco, which features fresh-sounding instrumentals created using the ronroco and other instruments like the...
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He provided the instrumental music for the soundtrack to the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain, from which "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" won the 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. Santaolalla received the 2006 Academy Award for Original Score for Brokeback Mountain. [3]
Jan 26, 2024 · As a young boy, Santaolalla was given a ronroco, a small ukelele-shaped folk instrument, which he constantly returned to even as he fell in love with rock ‘n’ roll and drifted away from his...
Aug 28, 2023 · Santaolalla transports the audience into the dystopian nightmare with one constant sound: the warm twang of his ronroco —a stringed mandolin that he calls “this wonderful little instrument from the Andes Mountains.” It can be heard throughout the “Last of Us” theme song and in almost all of the composer’s projects.
Aug 25, 2023 · Santaolalla wrote the distinctive motif at the very start of his work on the game. “It came, *he snaps his fingers* like this. I woke up and I went directly to the ronroco,” he recalls, specifying the instrument the theme was written and played on, an Andean stringed instrument from the lute family closely related to the charango.