FrDougal9000
06-04-2019, 04:29 PM
Hello, everyone! I hope you're all doing well! This upload is a collection of orchestral music released in the Shiro's Songbook series of albums, composed by Shiro Sagisu. This was originally done as a special gift for the Big Orchestral Action Music Thread (Thread 57893), but I decided to make a thread made specifically for this collection on the advice of a fellow forum member. I hope you enjoy!
Shiro's Songbook Orchestral Selection
FLAC:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/96914sys4z1sncs/SSOS_FLAC.zip/file
https://mega.nz/#!9DhXTKpK!utHD0yvNnHiEn5e1wTn4mPpC3MyX-JqKfr3QP96hLWU
MP3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/276c6sj5xnql6jj/SSOS_MP3.zip/file
https://mega.nz/#!dPJ00Q6S!MF33ro5Icm7nerDvOcdUcayRUjJh1NsUBotKIQw3cYM
The original uploads for these tracks were done by bubbrubb666, megiddoryu and 17love, whose complete uploads of the first seven Shiro's Songbook albums can be found here: Thread 166505 and Thread 164333 (and for anyone who just wants MP3 versions, you can go here: Thread 142297)
I'd like to offer special thanks to Vinphonic, who helped with crediting the arrangers for each song based on his own experience and understanding when the album credits for certain songs didn't specifically attribute arrangers (for when a song featured multiple versions on an album). Super special thanks also goes to Spriggangirl, whose uploads of various Shiro's Songbook songs back in 2014 got me into these albums!
Some minor notes on the upload in regards to the FLAC version. I wasn't able to find FLAC versions for tracks 1 and 11, so I had to convert the MP3s into FLACs. The versions of tracks 3 and 7 are edited from their original versions, and were exported as FLACs. Tracks 1, 3, 7 and 11 are in FLAC at Level 0 compression because of this, while the rest of the original, unaltered tracks have Level 8 compression. This doesn't really mean much in quality other than that some tracks have larger file sizes than others; I thought it was worth mentioning.
Included with the upload is a list crediting who worked on each song, utilizing the album credits featured on VGMdb to the best of my ability and research (which occasionally don't offer much, for whatever reason). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find anything for track 6 beyond the back cover of the album it's featured on, so the credits featured beyond the performers are guesses based on the arrangement and info I managed to gather on the song it's based on. If the full album credits are found at some point, I'll adjust the credits accordingly.
Shiro Sagisu is a famed composer, arranger and producer best known for doing the soundtracks to anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Bleach, Kare Kano, the newer Berserk adaptations, and a lot more. But throughout his 40+ years in the industry, one area that often goes overlooked is his work on the Shiro's Songbook series of albums.
Starting off in 1999 as something of an extension of the collaborative work he had done with the artists on the infamous 1997 Evangelion Vox album (which took his music from Evangelion and rearranged it into gospel, R&B, and rap of all things), Shiro's Songbook allowed Sagisu to further experiment and refine on those ideas - even allowing him to redo songs he'd composed decades earlier. It was also where he would establish relationships with collaborators that carry to this day, such as lyricist Mike Wyzgowski and vocalists Loren and Hazel Fernandes.
From 1999 to 2013, seven albums would be produced featured new collaborators and explored further genres, making for a collection of albums that appeal to a wide variety of musical tastes. In 2017 and 2018, a pair of compilation albums were also released that included a few previously unreleased tracks, allowing both newcomers and longtime fans to experience Sagisu's musical history while discovering new works along the way.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this series, and to fit within the theme of this particular forum thread, I've put together a collection of orchestral pieces. The bulk of these tracks come from the 2013 album Shiro's Songbook Xpressions (which has the greatest variety of genres and styles out of the entire series, and is a 2-disc behemoth worth checking out), while the rest come from other albums.
The first half of this collection consists of purely orchestral pieces (and occasionally sporting the "four-person choir" typically seen in Sagisu's more recent soundtracks), all of which are arranged by Sagisu's regular collaborators:
Masamichi Amano (Giant Robo, Battle Royale, Stratos 4; he has been collaborating with Sagisu for the last decade, in works such as MAGI and Gridman)
Takayuki Hattori (Slayers, Martian Successor Nadesico, Intelligent Qube)
Miho Hazama (an up-and-coming composer who's worked alongside Amano in arranging Sagisu's soundtracks, including the Berserk movies and Evangelion 3.0)
Meanwhile, the second half is made of vocal songs accompanied by an orchestra (and on occasion, an particular instrument like a piano or an acoustic guitar). These songs feature the talents of Shiro's Songbook regulars:
Loren (best known for singing the ending version of Thanatos from End of Evangelion)
Hazel Fernandes (best known for singing the insert song Number One from Bleach)
Ian Michael G. Pitter (not particularly known for anything in anime or elsewhere, but he's got a very good range)
I've also included a bonus track in the upload that, while not part of the Shiro's Songbook series, will make a certain amount of sense when you get to it...
I hope you enjoy this collection, and that maybe it'll encourage you to check out the full albums and stumble across gems you'd never have found otherwise. Whatever happens, thank you for listening and have a great day!
Shiro's Songbook Orchestral Selection
FLAC:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/96914sys4z1sncs/SSOS_FLAC.zip/file
https://mega.nz/#!9DhXTKpK!utHD0yvNnHiEn5e1wTn4mPpC3MyX-JqKfr3QP96hLWU
MP3:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/276c6sj5xnql6jj/SSOS_MP3.zip/file
https://mega.nz/#!dPJ00Q6S!MF33ro5Icm7nerDvOcdUcayRUjJh1NsUBotKIQw3cYM
The original uploads for these tracks were done by bubbrubb666, megiddoryu and 17love, whose complete uploads of the first seven Shiro's Songbook albums can be found here: Thread 166505 and Thread 164333 (and for anyone who just wants MP3 versions, you can go here: Thread 142297)
I'd like to offer special thanks to Vinphonic, who helped with crediting the arrangers for each song based on his own experience and understanding when the album credits for certain songs didn't specifically attribute arrangers (for when a song featured multiple versions on an album). Super special thanks also goes to Spriggangirl, whose uploads of various Shiro's Songbook songs back in 2014 got me into these albums!
Some minor notes on the upload in regards to the FLAC version. I wasn't able to find FLAC versions for tracks 1 and 11, so I had to convert the MP3s into FLACs. The versions of tracks 3 and 7 are edited from their original versions, and were exported as FLACs. Tracks 1, 3, 7 and 11 are in FLAC at Level 0 compression because of this, while the rest of the original, unaltered tracks have Level 8 compression. This doesn't really mean much in quality other than that some tracks have larger file sizes than others; I thought it was worth mentioning.
Included with the upload is a list crediting who worked on each song, utilizing the album credits featured on VGMdb to the best of my ability and research (which occasionally don't offer much, for whatever reason). Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find anything for track 6 beyond the back cover of the album it's featured on, so the credits featured beyond the performers are guesses based on the arrangement and info I managed to gather on the song it's based on. If the full album credits are found at some point, I'll adjust the credits accordingly.
Shiro Sagisu is a famed composer, arranger and producer best known for doing the soundtracks to anime such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Bleach, Kare Kano, the newer Berserk adaptations, and a lot more. But throughout his 40+ years in the industry, one area that often goes overlooked is his work on the Shiro's Songbook series of albums.
Starting off in 1999 as something of an extension of the collaborative work he had done with the artists on the infamous 1997 Evangelion Vox album (which took his music from Evangelion and rearranged it into gospel, R&B, and rap of all things), Shiro's Songbook allowed Sagisu to further experiment and refine on those ideas - even allowing him to redo songs he'd composed decades earlier. It was also where he would establish relationships with collaborators that carry to this day, such as lyricist Mike Wyzgowski and vocalists Loren and Hazel Fernandes.
From 1999 to 2013, seven albums would be produced featured new collaborators and explored further genres, making for a collection of albums that appeal to a wide variety of musical tastes. In 2017 and 2018, a pair of compilation albums were also released that included a few previously unreleased tracks, allowing both newcomers and longtime fans to experience Sagisu's musical history while discovering new works along the way.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this series, and to fit within the theme of this particular forum thread, I've put together a collection of orchestral pieces. The bulk of these tracks come from the 2013 album Shiro's Songbook Xpressions (which has the greatest variety of genres and styles out of the entire series, and is a 2-disc behemoth worth checking out), while the rest come from other albums.
The first half of this collection consists of purely orchestral pieces (and occasionally sporting the "four-person choir" typically seen in Sagisu's more recent soundtracks), all of which are arranged by Sagisu's regular collaborators:
Masamichi Amano (Giant Robo, Battle Royale, Stratos 4; he has been collaborating with Sagisu for the last decade, in works such as MAGI and Gridman)
Takayuki Hattori (Slayers, Martian Successor Nadesico, Intelligent Qube)
Miho Hazama (an up-and-coming composer who's worked alongside Amano in arranging Sagisu's soundtracks, including the Berserk movies and Evangelion 3.0)
Meanwhile, the second half is made of vocal songs accompanied by an orchestra (and on occasion, an particular instrument like a piano or an acoustic guitar). These songs feature the talents of Shiro's Songbook regulars:
Loren (best known for singing the ending version of Thanatos from End of Evangelion)
Hazel Fernandes (best known for singing the insert song Number One from Bleach)
Ian Michael G. Pitter (not particularly known for anything in anime or elsewhere, but he's got a very good range)
I've also included a bonus track in the upload that, while not part of the Shiro's Songbook series, will make a certain amount of sense when you get to it...
I hope you enjoy this collection, and that maybe it'll encourage you to check out the full albums and stumble across gems you'd never have found otherwise. Whatever happens, thank you for listening and have a great day!