Nobuo Uematsu

• Game Music, Japanese, Reviews

  Guitar Collections – FINAL FANTASY IV (Review)

  November 8, 2018 | Harry Gill | 3 Comments Share this Guitar Collections – FINAL FANTASY IV (Review)

  

  I’ve had my eyes on FFIV’s Guitar Collections for a long time, and I’m proud to make this my first purchase to Scarlet Moon Records after reading Jason’s articles for so long and thereby being inspired to become a VGM article writer like him. I only wish I wrote as much as he did!

  Anyway, I am not familiar with William Reyes, and I’m not sure if I should be. But I really like what he’s done here; Scarlet Moon has surely picked the right man for the job. And what a great, fantastic job it is! In this review, I will cover tracks that stand out to me.
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• Anime, Game Music, Japanese

  Top 5 Works by Nobuo Uematsu (That Isn’t Final Fantasy)

  September 4, 2018 | Harry Gill | 4 Comments Share this Top 5 Works by Nobuo Uematsu (That Isn’t Final Fantasy)

  

  When people think Nobuo Uematsu, they think “Final Fantasy music” – and that isn’t necessarily always the case. Uematsu has done much and more beyond Final Fantasy, and I hope this top 5 list will broaden your horizons!

  This list will not only contain soundtracks, but also his other, original work!
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• Doujin, Game Music

  Pre-Order Guitar Collections FINAL FANTASY IV from Scarlet Moon Records

  June 28, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Pre-Order Guitar Collections FINAL FANTASY IV from Scarlet Moon Records Share this Pre-Order Guitar Collections FINAL FANTASY IV from Scarlet Moon Records

  

  Following up on the Prescription for Sleep: Game Music Lullabies series of albums, Scarlet Moon Records is now releasing a series of live classical guitar arrangements of iconic video game music in their Guitar Collections, starting with Final Fantasy IV.

  Guitarist William Carlos Reyes (of The OneUps) arranges and performs Nobuo Uematsu’s iconic themes from Final Fantasy IV to celebrate the game’s 27th anniversary. Key themes such as “Theme of Love,” “Welcome to Our Town!,” and the final dungeon theme, “Within the Giant,” are featured alongside an original composition by Reyes are included in the inaugural album.

  I’ve always enjoyed Square Enix’s Piano Collections FINAL FANTASY series, but I have a personal preference for the sound of the guitar. I wanted to produce a series of guitar albums starting with FINAL FANTASY IV, just as the Piano Collections series did. I also knew based on William Carlos Reyes’s past arrangements that he’d be perfect for this project with his ability to layer his performances in a very natural and pleasing way, and I couldn’t be happier with the result. I want Guitar Collections FINAL FANTASY to become a series, so we hope everyone’s as eager as we are to hear more! – Jayson Napolitano, Producer

  Guitar Collections FINAL FANTASY IV is currently available for pre-order on Bandcamp and will be releasing on July 19th.

• Game Music, Reviews

  BRA★BRA FINAL FANTASY VII BRASS de BRAVO (Review)

  June 8, 2018 | Harry Gill | 1 Comment Share this BRA★BRA FINAL FANTASY VII BRASS de BRAVO (Review)

  

  Since 2015, Nobuo Uematsu has been heavily involved in the recently incepted FINAL FANTASY BRASS de BRAVO concert. Just recently, news has it that the music to the FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE will be supervised by the man himself and performed by the same orchestra for this album (the Siena Wind Orchestra, a professional brass band that represents Japan).
  So, in many ways, this album could be a taste of things to come – or even the newly recorded music itself?

  In any case, I’d best get into the details!
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• Doujin, Game Music

  GameLark To Release Tribute Album to the “Chrono” Series of Games

  April 25, 2018 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on GameLark To Release Tribute Album to the “Chrono” Series of Games Share this GameLark To Release Tribute Album to the “Chrono” Series of Games

  

  Last year, the group GameLark released a tribute album to the composers of Rare and the music they produced over the developer’s tenure. This year, they plan to pay homage to a game series that has equally impacted video game music fans for an entire generation.

  At the End of Time: A Tribute to Chrono Crono Cross & Chrono Trigger is a 17 track arrangement album that blends a variety of genres into one giant accolade to the series and to the composers of Chrono Trigger (Yasunori Mitsuda) and Chrono Cross (Nobuo Uematsu). A combination of surf rock, progressive metal, orchestral and more are represented on the album by GameLark contributors such as Toxodentrail, Daniel Romberger, Xnarky and the rest of the community.

  “Our goal with At the End of Time was simple. We wanted to offer listeners a unique, memorable journey whether they’ve experienced these games or not. The album art also hints that no matter who you are, you are going to be pulled into this adventure, and you might not be the same when it ends.”- Allen Brasch, Producer

  The album currently is available to pre-order on Bandcamp, iTunes and Google Play for around $10 and will be releasing fully on May 8th.

• Doujin, Game Music

  Final Fantasy X Gets Massive Arrangement Album From Materia Collective

  August 21, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on Final Fantasy X Gets Massive Arrangement Album From Materia Collective Share this Final Fantasy X Gets Massive Arrangement Album From Materia Collective

  

  Video game music publisher Materia Collective have gone above and beyond with the release of their massive, 100-track Final Fantasy X album, SPIRA.

  Spread across two 50-track volumes titled Besaid Mix and Zanarkand Mix, SPIRA covers a huge variety of styles such as orchestral, electronic, and rock along with Bollywood, disco, gypsy punk, folk and irreverent chocobo choir from a large cast of musical talent includes Horizon Zero Dawn vocalist Julie Elven, composer Dale North, Pokémon Reorchestrated arranger Braxton Burks, the Triforce Quartet, and many others.

  The Final Fantasy X soundtrack already contains a lot of variations on a few common themes.We wanted to create a listening experience where it didn’t feel like you’re listening to ‘Hymn of the Fayths’ 20 times in a row, so all of our artists aimed to do something new on their track. For example, some artists arranged in an unfamiliar style, while others incorporated unique instrumentation. As a result, both SPIRA albums re-frame the classic themes from Final Fantasy X with a fresh perspective. – Joe Chen & Emily McMillan,  Project Organizers

  
  

  SPIRA: Music from Final Fantasy X is fully licensed and available today on Bandcamp for $12 apiece for both the Besaid Mix and Zanarkand Mix.

• Doujin, Game Music

  The Travelers VGM Release Prelude to a Fantasy EP

  April 4, 2017 | Brenna Wilkes | Comments Off on The Travelers VGM Release Prelude to a Fantasy EP Share this The Travelers VGM Release Prelude to a Fantasy EP

  

  The video game music cover band The Travelers VGM, who focus on arrangements done in a European folk style, has released a tribute EP to celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Final Fantasy series titled Prelude to a Fantasy.

  The original Final Fantasy, composed by Nobuo Uematsu and released on December 18th, 1987 for the Famicom, kickstarted a franchise of RPG fantasy games that continues to go strong to this day and has a powerful legacy and a strong fan following in both its game style and is music.

  “The music of all the early Final Fantasy games heavily influenced the beginning of my unique composition style. Their lush but powerful melodies still inspire my music to this day. I hope to continue to create beautiful covers and original pieces of music based on those wonderful game scores. I want the Travelers VGM to keep exploring the high quality composition tradition seen in both old and new Final Fantasy soundtracks.” – Masha Lepire, Co-producer

  Prelude to a Fantasy, produced by Josh Barron with assistance from Lepre and fellow co-producer Ian Martyn, features five tracks that offer tribute to specific songs within the Final Fantasy series, including franchise mainstay “Prologue”, which began with the first game and has persisted through the series within its three decade tenure. Certainly the music of the Final Fantasy series has inspired many past and present composers to enter into the realm of video game music.

  “Final Fantasy music got me to pay attention to game music. My first was Final Fantasy VII and then after that I have been hooked on game music. It even made me want to become a composer. I am who I am today because of listening to Uematsu-san’s music back when I was thirteen years old. It is a pleasure to be able to revisit the classics and give them unique arrangements and performances!” – Josh Barron, Producer

  Prelude to a Fantasy can be purchased for about $5 on The Traveler’s VGM Bandcamp and iTunes as well as streaming on Google Play and Spotify. You can check out the album’s full credits on their Materia Collective page.

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