[News] Distant Worlds - new Final Fantasy concert series

A new Final Fantasy concert series will premiere in Stockholm December 4th. Nobuo Uematsu will be in attendance. The concert is produced by AWR Music Productions and will include the following pieces:

Final Fantasy series: Main Theme, Swing de Chocobo
Final Fantasy I-III: Medley
Final Fantasy III DS: Opening
Final Fantasy IV: Theme of Love
Final Fantasy V: Dear Friends
Final Fantasy VI: Maria and Draco (Opera)
Final Fantasy VII: One-Winged Angel, Opening - Bombing Mission, Aerith's Theme
Final Fantasy VIII: Liberi Fatali, Fisherman's Horizon, Love Grows, Don't be Afraid
Final Fantasy IX: Vamo' Alla Flamenco
Final Fantasy X: To Zanarkand
Final Fantasy XI: Memoro de la Stono - Distant Worlds

A second date has been announced: Chicago March 1th 2008. On the same day as the concert in Stockholm in December, a new album with select pieces from the concert will be released. The music is performed by Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The album will be possible to purchase through the official web site.

Read more here: Distant Worlds - music from FINAL FANTASY

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Oh neat, an album. =p

I wonder why it's so rare that those formation release one.

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Why have a concert series with nothing new? Only reason I would even attend it is I haven't met Uematsu yet.

*slaps Square-Enix* Bad Squeenix!

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Hey! A Final Fantasy concert! Amazing! Never heard that such ever existed!

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Keep in mind that Final Fantasy concerts are not that common around the world, only in Japan and USA. But even in the US, there has not been a Final Fantasy concert since 2005.

Of course, it would be nice with some new arrangements, like FFVI Ending, loads of tunes from FFVII and so on, but I guess that is kept for the future. And do not forget that the FFIII DS Opening is a new arrangement.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I don't see the FFIII DS Opening being mentioned either at the official site or over at spelmusik.net. Where does that from?

(vem från spelmusik.net är du förresten?)

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Must be nice for some people, but I've heard all that stuff in concert already over Dear Friends and More Friends. Also, the 20020220, More Friends in LA, and other orchestral FF albums have already covered all of these tracks, I believe. I think it's a shame there's nothing new.

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Originally Posted by seanne

I don't see the FFIII DS Opening being mentioned either at the official site or over at spelmusik.net. Where does that from?

(vem från spelmusik.net är du förresten?)

At the Program section of the official site:
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

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Originally Posted by Cogo

Keep in mind that Final Fantasy concerts are not that common around the world, only in Japan and USA.[...]

Okay, that's right. Well, let's see how they define worldwide. Next stop after Stockholm is Chicago. Wow...

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2002 : Fuck, we never get those awesome FF concerts they get in Japan.

2007 : Bah, another FF concert. Who cares about that shit anyway ?

Also, yeah, SWEDEN. And an album.

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Originally Posted by Revoc

At the Program section of the official site:
Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

Yeah, I made the mistake of thinking that the tracklist for the album reflected the entire concert program, yesterday =p

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My friend showed me this just a moment ago, and at the first glance I literally shouted out "I MUST GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" It has been my dream to see a concert with the FF music and here it is (including the guy who made it)! I'm definately getting the Greet & Meet tickets too so that I can meet with him :P I'M SO DAMN EXCITED!

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Kairi Li

[...]
Chrono concert
[...]

Ooooh hell yeah! That would be a great announcement, also I have nothing from it (excepting a CD). Don't know about Chrono Cross but Chrono Trigger was never released in Europe so only old RPG fans are knowing it. ;(

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Originally Posted by Kairi Li

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.

Yeah that's true, I'd absolutely love a concert with music from the Chrono games, I haven't really played Kingdom Hearts (yet) so I don't know about the music from there but ah well I'd be good to get some other CD material than FF concerts. But I don't really mind when I get to go see it myself which I've always wanted to do once. And yeah, I wouldn't mind going to a concert with Masashi Hamauzus music neither.

Anyways, I've gotten tickets for both the concert and the Meet & Greet now so I'll just have to endure the excruciating wait for it It's gonna be soooooooooooooooooo fun

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Yeah, I would like to see some Saga Frontier II, Unlimited Saga, or his FFX contributions performed. Hamauzu's music sounds the best when performed, imo ! A Kingdom Hearts concert would be cool too!

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I would agree that it would be kind of refreshing to hear some newer tunes orchestrated, and even at a FF concert, I begin to wonder why they still only choose Uematsu-tracks. I mean, since FFX there are many other composers included in the FF-series, which seem to replace Uematsu somehow anyway, so why not choose something composed by them (Hamauzo, Nakano, Sakimoto etc)? I would definetly love to hear something related to the newer games instead of the same classics again and again and again (the arrangements won't be new anyway, I assume).

But... overall I think it's still great that there are concerts like that, even with that kind of track lists, defienetly better than no concert at all.

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Why no new music. That is incredibly stupid.

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Well, even if they wanted to just put out Uematsu music... at LEAST orchestrate new pieces. I'd love to hear numerous pieces from FF 6, 7, 9, and even 10.

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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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Originally Posted by Kairi Li

I mean, since Square hasn't made anything new themselves for a while, why take the same risk with the musical concerts?

Squenix doesn't even have anything to do with these concerts, this one is being put on by Arnie Roth's own Production company, so there's no risk for S-E whatsoever.

(and Arnie doesn't exactly know much about VGM series, so that's why there's no variety... He's simply cashing in on what's already on the plate)

While I enthusiasticly supported the previous Chicago concerts, I don't agree to being milked into paying for the exact same shows again. No sale this time.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah... where's the FFXII music?

I guess it's more of a Uematsu concert then.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Evenstar

Why no new music. That is incredibly stupid.

I think the classics would be a great idea for the concert, but I agree that, when it comes to the cd release, if there's nothing new people probably won't buy it.
You never know, they may surprise us with some crazy arrangements.


If they came to England I'd be amazed. *dreams*

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FFXII music sucks ass anyway (even though the opening and ending themes were great orchestrations by Matsuo), has no emotion.

Ticket bought. \o I'll be there, like every time. This will be so much fun.

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Kishin: See you in Stockholm! And yes, it will be great indeed.

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