Final Fantasy VI in concert: pain and frustration

I am mondo unhappy right now, and all because I just learned that an entire concert dedicated to orchestral performances of music from Final Fantasy VI has come and gone in a single night in Japan. No recording available, not even another live performance planned. A flash in the pan behind closed doors for the privileged few.

see: Original Sound Version Blog Archive Final Fantasy VI Orchestral Concert in Japan: Meet the Littlejack Orchestra!

No doubt the people involved made a recording, which will likely end up sitting in a vault to be heard by no one because they neither want to sell it nor let people have it for free.

Meanwhile, with the Distant Worlds album, they've released like the 10th recording of One Winged Angel and a bunch of other previously available material, yet again. Whatever the reason for this marketing strategy, to me it seems ridiculous. People like me listen to this stuff because we want to hear tracks that have never been played by an orchestra freed from their 16-bit and 32-bit prisons. If I had to, I would pay a hundred bucks for a CD of this FF6 concert. I know I'm not alone. The demand is high.

Half the material for concerts like Distant worlds comes from albums like FFVII: Reunion Tracks and FFVIII: Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinsec anyway. When will there be another album of this nature, dedicated to adapting new material from the wealth of musical ideas each FF game represents? An album for The Final Fantasy VI concert that was heard on August 23 2009 would be the first of it's kind in 10 years, and a much-needed supplement to the mixed bag that wass Grand Finale.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You might be aware already, but some further impressions of the concert were posted here.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This is my first time hearing about this concert. If they had any decency about them, they would release an album with the music. Of course, I could see reasons why they wouldn't.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The article said that the band is an amateur one and it wasn't exactly authorized. I doubt they'll be allowed to release anything commercially.

Unless, Japan is more lenient towards copyright stuff like that?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

So they can sell tickets but they can't sell cds...

Capitalism, you so crazay

I was speaking idiomatically.

To be able to sell cds you need proper recording equipment, somewhere to press/burn the discs, someone to make liner notes, etc, etc. It's not just something you whip out of your back pocket. Remember, this is basically just some dudes performing some tracks from a game - it was likely not meant to be anything overly serious.

How ya doing, buddy?