In 2013, the composer worked again with director Fabrice Blin, for his film documentary Super 8 Madness, about the genesis of Super 8 horror films in France. The second collaboration was a better one, and in 2010/2011, Gesqua signs his first soundtrack for a feature film, with the Livid ( Livide) film, produced by La Fabrique 2, and released in theaters in France, on December 7, 2011.Ī double CD limited edition of the soundtrack has been released by "Kronos Records" in 2017. This first experience resulted in a failure, producers rejected the composer's work.
He then composed the soundtrack for the first film of the duo, Inside (2007 film) / A l'intérieur), the horror film presented at Cannes Film Festival in 2007, starring Beatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, and Nicolas Duvauchelle, among others. He also composed the music for Glory Days and Glory Days 2, for which he won two nominations on the IGN site, in 2007, for best soundtrack, facing The Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass, the Nintendo game.įrom 2003, Gesqua began his career in movies, and met then worked with several directors, such as Fabrice Blin, Thomas Lesourd, Christophe Monier, and Julien Maury, from the directors duo Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, with whom he worked twice on his shorts. Pop Island soundtrack (Odenis Studio) earned him a nomination for Milthon 2009 awards, for Best Soundtrack.
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Again, Moto Racer has remained best world selling French videogame ever for several years.Īfter the Delphine Software period, Gesqua resumed his status as an independent composer, and created the original music, sound effects, and voices for various titles, like Marvel Super Heroes 3D, Code Lyoko, Horse Life, the DodoGo! series, Pop Island, the Cocoto series, and many other titles. Fade to Black and Moto Racer also got, in addition to their music, their sound effects entirely made by Gesqua.
Nutz, a side-scrolling platformer released for Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy, which was a great success and went out of stock, just days after its release.Ĭollaboration with Paul Cuisset also continues immediately, and the composer entirely composed and arranged the music for Shaq-Fu (featuring the famous basketball player Shaquille O'Neal), Fade to Black (direct sequel to Flashback), and Moto Racer, as a sound director of company Delphine Software International. He also worked twice with Pierre Adane, creator, among other things, of the Top Spin video games series, and for which he composed the soundtracks of Snow Bros video game, for Commodore Amiga, in 1991 (that production was cancelled for at the last minute for legal reasons), and in 1993, for Mr. The game has remained the world's best selling French video game.
The composer worked with game designers, such as Paul Cuisset, for whom he arranged the soundtrack of the video game Flashback, for the Commodore Amiga, in 1992.
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Raphaël Gesqua's professional career began in the video games industry, in the early 1990s, under his real name Raphaël Gesqua, after he was previously known in the middle of the 16-bit demoscene, under the Audiomonster pseudonym adopted in 1989.