I'm totally against Jeremy Soule.
I'd love to hear your explanation of why... Jeremy Soule has so much experience in the field and such a wide variety of soundtracks to his name (I absolutely love the Icewind Dale one)... given the large scope I can understand that you dislike a few of them, but that doesn't explain why you'd be completely against Jeremy Soule?
Well, for once I think it should be a European composer since Divinity is a traditional European franchise. Another reason is that I want a composer who would honor Kirill's legacy and spin the new soundtrack about the already existing sound patterns for the series. I don't think Soule would be willing to do so, given his track record. He's to "big" for that, too well known. He would probably want to do his own stuff completely and I don't like this idea. And then, from a pure musical point of view I think that much of his music is too pompous in the grand picture of things. While he can write great epic music, I don't like his more ambient, calm and silent tracks that much. But of course, that's on opinion thing.
Weren't you the one who recommended Kai Rosenkranz, whose only real experience in the field is the Gothic/Risen series (which are all fairly similar) ? I really hope the D:OS2 soundtrack will sound nothing like those!
It's funny how you want me to explain my reasons while you say that you don't want Kai on the project without giving any real reasons yourself for that...
Do I want that DOS sounds exactly like Gothic? Of course not. But Kai surely had the talent and skills to write genuine stuff for DOS, including and building upon Kirill's legacy imo.
