Rare veterans David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, and Kevin Bayliss have released a Christmas song
Three Rare veterans – David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, and Kevin Bayliss – have banded together in the spirit of the holidays to release a video-game-themed Christmas single.
Long-time Rare fans should immediately recognise the trio’s contributions to the studio’s beloved back catalogue; Wise, for instance, was responsible for many memorable tracks in the Donkey Kong Country series (and provided the sublime score for Nintendo’s Tropical Freeze), more recently composing music for Sumo Digital’s Snake Pass and Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee.
Kirkhope’s impressive credits include Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, Viva Piñata, and more recently, Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids, and Bayliss has designed characters for the likes of Battletoads, Killer Instinct, Diddy Kong Racing, and Yooka-Laylee. He was famously also behind Donkey Kong’s redesign.
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