Feather 'n' Flame: Phonic Home

Feather 'n' Flame: Phonic Home
Album cover art
Soundtrack album by Neon and the Argie Bees
Released	TBA
Recorded	2024–
Studio	Studio RGB-Newt
Genre	Electronic
Label	Fishal Project Records
Producer	NeonWabbit The-F0X
Compiler	NeonWabbit
Neon and the Argie Bees soundtrack chronology
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Feather 'n' Flame: Phonic Home is the soundtrack album for F.F.: The Harpy & Dragon, composed by Neon and the Argie Bees. Currently unreleased, the album features all the tracks from the Atari Jaguar game, rendered in an enhanced fidelity than what is included in the game itself, which is achieved by re-rendering the songs directly from the tracker software.

Select tracks are also presented in "reimagined" versions, where their MIDI/tracker data is rearranged and played through other higher-quality digital/virtual instruments, on the compilation album Soundtrack to Flye 'n' Frie's Retro Remains — Reimagined.

Like the title of the game, the title of the album is semi-based on a reference to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, that being the phrase "phone home" being mixed with the audio term "phonics".

Background

After listening to the soundtracks of at least 15 Atari Jaguar games, it was decided to have the soundtrack for F.F.: The Harpy & Dragon have a sound that matched the Commodore Amiga demoscene.

A selection of orchestral samples was chosen from the "256-sample pack" version of Versillian Studios' freeware VSCO 2: CE library, and these are used throughout the entire soundtrack.

Composition

The album was composed using the Windows version of PT2-clone, a ProTracker 2 clone written in C by Olav Sørensen (@8bitbubsy), after following YouTube tutorials on ProTracker created by wasp / PACiF!C^Powerline, due to this software being period-accurate to games released for the Atari Jaguar in the 1990s that also had their music composed on a Commodore Amiga using ProTracker.

It also relied on the separate tracker software OpenMPT, as it was quicker to load samples, loop them, and edit certain notes using that program. Each song only has 4 channels due to software and hardware limitations of the Jaguar, the MOD format, and the tracker software.

Production

Album artwork

The album cover art reuses the box art for the original Atari 2600 version of the F.F.: The Harpy & Dragon game, with layout and text changes to match the album.

Of additional note, the glowing rainbow originally seen emanating from the coloured half of the pixel art of Flye's face in the game's box art is missing, for legibility reasons.

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Darien Brice Dickinson.

No.	Title	Notes	Length
1.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: OPENING LOGOS / INTRO"	Based on the Studio RGB-Newt ident card / logo theme, "Accordio Nyah", and The Fishal Project's ident card / logo theme "Really Neat!".
2.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: TITLE / MAIN MENU"
3.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: LEVEL SELECT"
4.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PASSWORD ENTRY"
5.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PUZZLE START JINGLE"
6.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PUZZLE BGM 1" (Tutorial Music)
7.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PUZZLE BGM 2" (Easy/Medium Puzzle)
8.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PUZZLE BGM 3" (Hard/Boss Puzzle)
9.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: PUZZLE SOLVED JINGLE"	Based on "Flying Free", the franchise's theme
10.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: SOLVED WITH NO HINTS JINGLE"	Same as above track
11.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: COLOUR REVEAL"
12.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: CHAPTER COMPLETE"
13.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: NEW CHAPTER UNLOCKED"
14.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: LORE LIBRARY BGM"
15.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: ALL PUZZLES SOLVED"	Also based on "Flying Free", the franchise's theme
16.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: CREDITS"
17.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: SECRET MINIGAME UNLOCKED"
18.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: MINIGAME BGM"
19.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: MINIGAME COMPLETE JINGLE"
20.	"F.F. NONOGRAM: UNUSED SONG" (Bonus Track)	Included in ROM, but unused in-game

Personnel

•  Darien Brice Dickinson - Composer, arranger, musician, tracking software wrangler, writer, etc.

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Worldwide	TBA	Fishal Project Records	Digital download	NW-S23FFR01

See also

• Music from the Harpy's Hard Drive, another soundtrack album emulating the sound of the Amiga demoscene, due to its related game being developed for the Commodore Amiga.