The album got released on digital music platforms on September 28, 2020, and the proper release on the official Genshin Impact YouTube channel occurred on November 2, 2020. The next soundtrack album, City of Winds and Idylls ( 风与牧歌之城), is dedicated to the Mondstadt Chapter and commemorates the release of Genshin Impact. All fifteen soundtracks in the album were composed by Yu-Peng Chen. The first original soundtrack album to be produced for Genshin Impact was The Wind and The Star Traveler ( 风与异乡人), which got released on June 19, 2020. Nick Wollage, Genshin Impact OST - Behind the Scenes with the Artists They really pulled out all the stops and it was really quite amazing actually. It's very difficult and we were under a bit of a time pressure. The musicians on this score have really risen to the occasion because it's absolutely phenomenal playing. When you take a step back and de-focus slightly, it sounds incredibly simple but it really isn't. The thing that struck me most about this score in particular is Yu-Peng's facility for incorporating some incredibly difficult writing. At AIR Studios, Chen had conducted the 'Genshin Impact Main Theme' himself.

Lei Zhang ( 张磊), the founder of Lei Cine Music Management, joined Yu-Peng Chen and HOYO-MiX director Jinhan 'Zoe' Cai ( 蔡近翰) for the recording in London. The recording sessions took place from September 16 to 18, 2019, at AIR Studios. The coordination with the orchestra was done by Lei Cine Music Management ( 擂闪音乐事务所), with preliminary communication taking place five months before the recording. The Mondstadt soundtrack was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Robert Ziegler as the conductor, and Nick Wollage and Laurence Anslow as music engineers. In composing the combat music, he used various composition techniques such as polyphony and taking orchestration elements from composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven. In composing the music for Mondstadt, Chen borrowed the language and rhythm of Impressionism and used the piano, tin whistle instruments, and medieval-style lutes. On top of idyllic rural scenery, medieval European architectural styles and cultures inspired the design of Mondstadt. During the pre-release development stage, the game only featured Mondstadt and Liyue, two of the planned seven regions. In composing the music for these regions, Chen chose a style that integrates elements of traditional folk music with Western musical arrangements.

The game has an open-world environment that features areas referred to as regions, with visual designs inspired by different world cultures. It was Chen's first major video game work, and he described the project as a difficult challenge. In 2019, video game developer company miHoYo got composer and music producer Yu-Peng Chen ( 陈宇鹏), also known as Chen Zhiyi ( 陈致逸), to produce the soundtrack for their title Genshin Impact with their in-house music studio HOYO-MiX.

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