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.

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

Capitalism, you so crazay

There's nowhere I can't reach.