When fans tuned to watch nervous Customization of one of his favorite video games by HBOThere was an familiar presence that immediately calmed his veins: Gustavo Santolla’s condolence guitar. Like some story beats change and dear polygon faces were replaced with new actors, The Beating Heart of the Heart Last of us -Its mesmerizer, survived infection for stress-stress score-TV.

,[Series creator] Neil Drukman has said that my music is part of DNA Last of us“Says Santolla.” I think the fact that we placed a sonic fabric – that we did not score an orchestra for the series – have also played an important role in keeping fans of the series sports fans. ,

Born in Buenos Aires and grew up, Santolla first started releasing music at the age of 17. Both English rock bands and traditional Argentina’s folk music, which they raised, melted both of them in their unique sound, which was part of a style called Rock National. Before he could fully make his mark, Santolla’s family fled the Argentina Junta dictatorship in 1978, which went to Los Angeles, where his unique voice soon attracted the attention of the filmmakers. Spread to score 2000 film Amorus parose And 2003 21 grams, Santalala composed the soundtrack due to his success Human error And ChildL, both of them won her Oscars.

Santola’s sonic secret? Hugging the eloquence of silence. Santalla says, “I work a lot with silence and location, because silence can sometimes be loud than a note that you are playing.” “I remember Human error When I first sent him music, the manufacturer said, ‘I thought you were pulling my leg first, because you wait for so long to play the next note!’ ,

After winning two Oscars back, Santolla carefully considered the move of his next career. Despite being a self-profit “terrible game”, Santalla tells me that he always loves to see his son playing, mesmerized by on-screen coast. “I always thought that if someone connects it at an emotional level with a player, it is going to be a revolution.”

It is revealed that the universe raised Santollah’s newest interest. Post-Oscars, they were contacted by many game companies to music, but they were rejected because “I am very agile about the work I do.” This includes an attractive gaming project that he is careful not to name. “Everyone thought I was crazy!” That chakli. Nevertheless, Santolla quietly hoped that a more emotionally resonant project would become physical.

“So, I was waiting … and then Neil appeared,” says Santolla. “When Neil told his colleagues that he wants to do this to me, [his colleagues ] Said, no, Gustavo is not interested in – he won two Oscars! But when indigo [told me] The story, and he wanted to do a game that connects with people at an emotional level … I was sold.

However, Neil Drukman was also not designed, however, Gustavo’s music would be as a significant appearance in the form of Ellie and Joel. A post in the apocalic world where life is rare and threatened around every corner, silence hangs in the air like a danger. Santolla’s scuffed notes, disorder melodies and scary freight slides again on the streets of the dilapidated city, who were feeling unexpected as the world’s Ellie and Joel Niwas.

“I love the use of flaws, even errors or mistakes,” Santolla explains. “When they are recording, any professional guitar player is meant to avoid all types of noise; when you run your hand on the freightboard or small glitter in your game.

In Second gameThe music of Gustavo becomes a physical part of imagination, with Ellie took a guitar during her discovery for vengeanceShe takes the equipment out during the welcome moments of downtime, offering cathic relief. And like the score of Gustavo, these beautiful vignates break the harsh silence, Which is in the second season of the show,

Santalalala says, “I also like the TV series.” “For the show, Neil associated himself with another incredible talent, Craig Magin – the man who did the man Chernobyl – Who knows that media and that language. I think it was a big, big challenge, because when you go from one media to another, people say no, I like the original! Therefore, I think, once again, that the way we have used music, it is playing an important role to attach that fan base. ,

He says that “I think when a story is really great, like a dramatic piece – like Shakespeare – it doesn’t matter who plays the character. Obviously Pedro Pascal’s Joel is different from Joel, but the character’s substance is so powerful that they are only superficial.”

Now, as Santalla finds himself by releasing his own instruments – guitaroco – it seems like the culmination of the music journey that began as a teenager. Traditional Bolivian 10 String Ronoroco, while mailing with a factor as a fender stratekaster, Gustavo feels proud like a father for his music building: what happened to a 73 -year -old man Last of us He has given him at this level in his career.

“I am blessed with the fact that I am associated with an audience because I was too young,” he says. “But the way I join with fans Last of us And the way they connect with music … here is a special devotion that is really beautiful. I have this new audience who is fantastic, and I love that they do not know me as an artist or as a film musician! Now they seek my music, and they search for these things. This is a gift for me, at this point – after everything I have been through – to join with such a project. ,