Here, travelers will find the score developed for Kazak: 100 Blades, revealed as each volume is revealed and meant as an aural accompaniment to the series. All tracks are composed and performed by Richie DeVon and Thuy Nguyen unless otherwise noted.
For Volume I: (Origins-Marionette)
This first track is meant as a teaser for the series, an emblem to the sibilant sadness of the wastes and the weight of countless ages ground to dust and quiet. Though the songs of the desert peoples tinge the sky with impassioned rose, treacherous gold, and the laughter of living green, the grand, dull desert is seen by many as a place of ghosts and a place of forgetting, a sea of nothing that gnaws at the Empire's edges.
Desert Sorrow
This second track is meant to encapsulate the atmospherics surrounding one of the two protagonists of the series: Eeshi the former (and disgraced) killer for hire. Here, the tripartite tragedy that lead to Eeshi's transformation and subsequent 'fall' is held against the dualism that grips her: a ghost in a machine, or a machine ghost? Both are just echoes, nothing more than momentary resonance in a bell that has gone dead.
A Clockwork Heart
For Volume II: (Origins-Void)
This first track is Kazak's theme, and is in response to the essential journey that acts as an undercurrent to his and Eeshi's eventual enmeshed stories, that of finding/returning home. Kazak's identity as a 'placeless' consciousness, a being neither fully ukri nor fully man is itself a tenuous affirmation, a flux that keeps him wandering the tractless deserts, a stranger to all that he meets. What happens when we chase the mirage of the self?
The Winding Path Home
This second track is a teaser for the process that will entangle Eeshi and Kazak together. Theirs is a dream that itself is a sort of knot, an ending; both wish for revenge, but even they are not entirely sure against whom. It seems that for both, even the why is in question. As the city and the desert stare madness between them, so two will both of these wanderers walk in and out of dreams.
To Hunt a Dream