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Learn Final Fantasy Music For Banjo… Or Guitar, Whichever You Prefer!

September 19, 2008 | Jayson Napolitano | 3 Comments Share this

In a pretty sweet announcement, wappa over at the Dog Ear Records blog published a photo and tracklist for an upcoming guitar learner book featuring music spanning across the entire Final Fantasy series. It’s called the Final Fantasy Official Best Collection CD Book for solo guitar. You’ll likely have to import this one from Japan if you want to get your hands on it, with the official price point being 2,500 yen.

The book apparently comes with a CD to help you figure out those tough spots. The tracks featured are some of my favorites, including “Matoya’s Cave,” “The Rebel Army,” “Searching for Friends,” and “Fisherman’s Horizon.” It’s quite a collection at 25 songs.

Are you going to be looking for ways to import this book from Japan? Are there songs that you feel are sorely missing from the list here?

Hit the jump for the fully translated list of songs that will be included. (more…)
Game Music, Indie Music

Review: Travel the World With KALAYCILAR from Dog Ear Records

September 9, 2008 | Jayson Napolitano | Comments Off on Review: Travel the World With KALAYCILAR from Dog Ear Records Share this

What a coincidence. It was just yesterday that we posted about the KALAYCILAR samples featured on the latest episode of Inu-mimi Radio, and right on cue, the limited CD we mentoned a few weeks back arrived on our doorstep. After all the waiting (hopefully it will hit iTunes any day now), we have finally prepared our thoughts regarding this short-but-sweet album.

Performed and arranged by Keita Egusa and produced by wappa over at Dog Ear Records himself, there’s just under fifteen minutes of music to enjoy. Yeah, not a lot, but enjoy it you shall! It seems as though wappa is excited about it as it’s one of his first producer credits.

Hit the jump to find out why you should hunt down this rare disc from Dog Ear Records. (more…)
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Dog Ear Records Presents Inu-mimi Radio #009: KALAYCILAR and monkey breaks Samples

September 8, 2008 | Jayson Napolitano | Comments Off on Dog Ear Records Presents Inu-mimi Radio #009: KALAYCILAR and monkey breaks Samples Share this

So, there are a couple interesting things here. First is that while the trio of digital releases that includes KALAYCILAR, Anata wo Yurusanai, and monkey breaks has not hit iTunes in the United States yet (thanks iTunes!), there are some samples of both KALAYCILAR and monkey breaks available in the latest DER broadcast of Inu-mimi Radio. The tracks featured include:

Opening song: saRu(Ian Hartley)/optionz
song1: Keita Egusa / KALAYCILAR
song2: saRu(Ian Hartley)/tha breaks
Ending song: Keita Egusa / AISHA

The second interesting thing? I never knew Inu-mimi Radio existed! This is already episode #009! Looking back a few episodes, it seems they’re quite long, and they seem to be having some healthy discussion. Too bad my Japanese is too poor to understand what’s going on. It makes me think we need some kind of podcast though…

So, what do you think? Do these samples get you excited about either monkey breaks or KALAYCILAR? Do you think OSV should follow suit and develop its own podcast?

[via DERBLOG]
Game Music, Indie Music

Another Point For Japan: Dog Ear Records Announces Limited CD Release For KALAYCILAR

August 20, 2008 | Jayson Napolitano | Comments Off on Another Point For Japan: Dog Ear Records Announces Limited CD Release For KALAYCILAR Share this

Last month we reported that Nobuo Uematsu’s studio, Dog Ear Records, was preparing three releases for iTunes, including a solo piano EP by Keita Egusa titled KALAYCILAR. While the music has hit iTunes in Japan, we are still waiting for it to come to the US iTunes store.

Well, score another point for game music fans in Japan because Dog Ear Records has announced that they are selling a limited printing of physical CDs to customers located in Japan. DER staffer wappa is pretty confident that this is going to become quite the collector’s item. I know that I definitley want one!

While we wait for KALAYCILAR overseas, I’d recommend heading over to the official website to hear samples and watch more videos of Egusa’s impressive piano playing.

Have you been following the three iTunes releases DER has planned for the US? Are you going to try to get your hands on one of these physical CDs?

[via DERBLOG]
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Uematsu’s “Dog Ear Records” on iTunes, New Original Album

July 26, 2008 | Patrick Gann | 1 Comment Share this

Dog Ear Records, the label publishing almost all Uematsu-related projects these days, has announced that as of August 2008, they’re going to have a presence on iTunes. DER will put out three new albums, one of which being an all-new original album.

After the jump, find out what the albums are! (more…)