[News] Distant Worlds - new Final Fantasy concert series

This is only good news if people actually get to listen it live. For others who can only get the album, well, nothing's new. I'm in Australia so obviously I can't go hear it live...

I personally want a Kingdom Hearts or Chrono concert. But that's just me. Or at least one that focuses on Mitsuda or Shimomura's music... Uematsu isn't the only game composer in Square ya know.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well its just like when people go to a John Williams concert, its always Star Wars, Harry Potter etc etc, rather than the ones that may be more obscure like Catch me if you can. Cause its more popular and famous.

Still, you'd think there would be a Chrono or KH concert by now. While Chrono is probably a little old, we all saw how popular and famous KH became...

I guess its inevitable that rehashing the same popular music is much safer than trying to arrange something new. I mean, since Square hasn't made anything new themselves for a while, why take the same risk with the musical concerts?

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Dammit why can't more concerts be like VGL with their meet and greets? They let anyone with a ticket in, just for a limited time, then they keep rotating people in and out. All it takes is a little organization and everyone can have a chance to the meet and greet. And VGL's meet and greet has more people than Distand Worlds....

Oh well, gratz to those who were the lucky 150.

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

This is probably considered late, but I've just listened to the Album, and my god, best performance and recording quality, ever. Trumps even the old FF orchestral studio recorded albums. Probably the only flaw to me was the choir not having the epic sound like the original Liberi Fatali from the game soundtrack.

Excellant album, I hope they do one for other FF and game arrangments at this amazing quality.

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

Thing is, it doesn't take actual training to come up with a nice melody or tune, but it takes alot of training to arrange it in the most beautiful and provocative way. I don't think its about the technology, but actual training.

I mean, we all hum and whistle tunes as we walk on the street, but to then take that tune and arrange it for a band, orchestra? Takes lessons AND talent, which most of us lack.

Personally, while I love Uematsu's tunes, he is unfortunatly not that good at arranging them half the time. To me, the better composer/arrangers are people like Mitsuda, Shimomura, Sakimoto etc. Nobuo its good at creating nice memorable melodies, and that's about the extent to how much I like his work. Hamaguchi is the one that makes his music shine.

Though speaking of technology, I wish Sakimoto can work with better synths, like, Jeremy Soule style synths. The man's work is just hindered when its done with the PS2 crappy synth. I mean god, compare FF12 with Romeo X Juliet, which do you think SOUNDS better in its execution?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Phatcorns

Just listened to this cd for the first time. WOW! I was totally ready to write it off as yet ANOTHER cd of these old ass arrangements. But it really is the definitive version with this recording.

Although the climax to Maria and Draco is not as good as the one in More Friends, but it's still pretty good.

I feel the same, I dunno if its the recording or the singers, but I felt the climax was more epic in More Friends as well.

But soundwise, this concert CD has the best sound and best recording. Every instrument can be heard crisp clear, instead of the percussions being a bit muffled in the background or something.

Originally Posted by Arcubalis

It's unrelated, but Kairi, Samurai Pizza Cats are AWESOME! Cool avatar!

Thanks, its part of the GFF Samurai Pizza Cats Avatar/Sig Chain.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?