Oh, and a special note to my fellow crazy fans: Any CD that features the correct lyrics to One-Winged Angel ( veni veni venias &c., and not whatever they replaced it with for other concert tours) is probably worth supporting. show will be in Chicago this March – or just order it from Amazon. You can get them when the Distant Worlds concert hits your town – the first U.S.
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The packaging is also very nice: There's a 12-page booklet with full credits, photos from the sessions, and messages from both Uematsu and conductor/producer Arnie Roth, whose company produced the CDs. He has achieved global recognition for his work on the FINAL FANTASY series that has been performed by worldclass orchestras around the world. ABOUT COMPOSER NOBUO UEMATSU Nobuo Uematsu is one of the most celebrated composers in the video game field. And if you're annoyed by audiences clapping after (or during) the music, you don't have to worry about that. Tickets for ‘Distant Worlds: Music From FINAL FANTASY. They had three days to perfect the music, go back and do additional takes, etc.
I think the advantage here is that while these tracks were recorded at the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden, they aren't just recorded from a live concert. It's less melodic and more like a film score.Īnd I was pleased, if a little surprised, to see the one piece of music that I actually remember from Final Fantasy VIII, "Fisherman's Horizon", on a concert set list for what I am pretty sure is the first time.
The title track, "Memorio De La Stono ~ Distant Worlds" from the MMO Final Fantasy XI, is an eight-minute song that sounds more like something out of Oblivion or some other American role-playing game. There are some tracks here that haven't appeared before anywhere.