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 Member 38 Level 16.30 Mar 2006 
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Yes. Some of it is just the initial hype of discovery, I'm sure, but right now I'm ready to put this on an equal level with stuff like Xenogears Creid and declare it one of the best releases in years. I'm especially enjoying Somnus, and Kairi Li is spot on with The Other Promise.
Here, here's snippets of impressions I wrote for another forums, whose members are far less up-to-date on the VGM scene. ---------- Anyways, getting to the point, she recently released in Japan an album featuring arrangements of some of her personal favorite tracks: Drammatica - The Very Best of Yoko Shimomur. And it's blown me away to the point where I actually felt the need to come online and tell you people to all listen to it, heh. It's gorgeous stuff; it's fully orchestrated and yet it retains the variety of styles she's known for. Too many orchestrated albums end up droning on with tracks that aren't always distinguishable from one another, and the same boring sound throughout - not so here. We get quite a lot of stuff from Legend of Mana and Kingdom Hearts, as well as Front Mission and a few others, ranging from sweeping drama to lighthearted. And I do believe that every single track on this album will make it onto my ipod. There are only two other albums or soundtracks that have ever accomplished that: Xenogears Creid and the Jets'N'Guns soundtrack (by Mitsuda and Machinae Supremacy, respectively). Two songs especially impressed me. The first was "The Other Promise", from Kingdom hearts, which was simply sweeping, dramatic orchestra at it's very best. The other was "Somnus," the 16th and final track on the album. Some of you will recognize it as an extended and slightly arranged version of the music from the last Final Fantasy XIII Versus trailer. It's a darker, beautiful track, with some amazing choral work that had me sold right away. I'm usually one to steer away from the Squaresoft/Final Fantasy music hype; it usually doesn't deserve the praise it gets. But this piece is incredible. In the end, I don't hesitate to proclaim this one of the best releases that the world of game music has seen in years. Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by lord-of-shadow; Apr 10, 2008 at 01:30 AM.
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