IGN offers download of Emminence Radical Dreamers arrangement

Guess who played the violins? Hiro, who on this forum uses the name Seraph! He played both parts and they were mixed together in Procyon Studios in Japan.

The arrangement is defintly lovely along with the performace, violins are the closest musical instrument that resemble the human voice, and Hiro plays it with the right melacholic and sad emotion that the song represents. The last harmonic part is just as heavenly as Mitose's angelic singing.

I bought tickets to Night in Fantasia 2007, games edition, I cannot wait! Must get the CDs when I'm there! (Bye bye shipping fees!)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Mr. Maul

Sorry, Yura, not trying to continue a feud, but I really didn't like the arrangement. The violin, though pleasantly performed, didn't fit the theme like the vocals did, in my opinion. The guitar accompaniment got very stale, even if the performance was impeccable. Though I don't mind the fact it was straightforward, some variety would have helped, as it got repetitive quickly. To me, the piece was a guitar and violin reduction with nice performances rather than a proper arrangement.

But Mr. Maul, the original version would have a repetitive guitar as well, both versions play a different variation of the same chord, but both repeat it over and over again and there isn't much variety. So in a way, it sounds like you might not have like the original to begin with.

Arrangmemt wise it wasn't that far off from the original, that I'll agree with, but it was a very lovely rendition of Radical Dreamers. Now that I relisten to the vocals, it seems that the singer wasn't as harmonised as Hiro played at the end. The original had the advantage of having lyrics, but Hiro played the song with much more emotion than the singer, you can FEEL the melancoly and the nostalgia in his playing. Mitose has a lovely voice, but comparing to Hiro's playing, she lacks the emotion. I mean, its like a choir boy, they sing BEAUTIFULLY, but the only emotion they sing is a sacred, holy like tone.

I doubt they were intending for a major remix, it was simply a rendition of Radical Dreamers with acoustic intruments, intended for a live performance.

We all have opinions of course, but I felt your point on the repetitiveness is kinda silly, when the original was just the same.

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