What are the best Yuki Kajiura songs?

After hearing her work from Xenosaga, I’m in love. The scale of epicness mixed with a haunting beauty is just amazing. The few that I have include:

– Communication Breakdown (Xeno 2)
– Fatal Fight (Jin and Margulis) (Xeno 2)
– Promised Pain (Xeno 3)

– Mezame (Mai-Hime)
– Song of Storm and Fire (Tsubasa Chronicles)

If anyone can relate to this style of music, I would appreciate it greatly if you could tell me some of the "epic" songs that she’s done. However, I don’t know where to download songs from Anime from. Any help would be appreciated.

Nice to see a fellow Kajiura fan introduced by Xenosaga. Here’s some of my favourite of her "epic" tracks (excluding the ones you mentioned)

Zodiacal Sign (Aquarian Age)
Kasukanari Aogi no Sai (Erementar Gerad)
The Main Theme of Petit Cossette (Le Portrait de Petit Cossette)
Nowhere (MADLAX)
Kagutsuchi Kourin (Mai-HiME)
Duran Shoukan (Mai-HiME)
Shukuteki (Mai-Otome)
MATERIALISE (Mai-Otome)
Yami no Shuryousha (Mai-Otome)
Salva Nos (Noir)
Lightseekers (Hokuto no Ken)
Break the Sword of Justice (Tsubasa Chronicle)
Sacrifice (Tsubasa Chronicle)
Prove Yourself (Tsubasa Chronicle)

Great, thanks for that.

However, I’m not entirely sure where to acquire those songs. Is it against the rules for you to give me a link to a site? Or is it within GH itself?

Thanks in advance!

I’ve got a whole thread of Yuki Kajiura, groups she’s been a part of, and related artists. Check it out: Thread 42821. Of the ones you’ve mentioned, I’ve got Tsubasa, Aquarian Age, and Madlax there, and Keegan has the rest of those, I think, that aren’t up yet. The goal is to gather everything she’s done…we’ll see how close we actually get.

I love Salva Nos(Noir) and Mezane(Mai-Hime)..thanks for the thread! I just started listening to Mezane last night and loved it!!

Going by some of the selected few but many on my ipod the ones that strike me as epic are.

Le portrait de petit Cossette ost –
Main Theme of Petit Cossette

Noir ost-
Salva Nos
Indio (ends really epic)

El Cazador De La Bruja ost-
El Cazador

Elementar Gerad ost-
Beauty and the Beast
Colours of a Faint Stir

Mai-Hime ost-
Mezame

Tsubasa Chronice ost’s-
Moebius
Once upon a time there was you and me
Voices Silently Sing
My Dear Feather
Break the Sword of Justice
Dream Scape
Hear our Prayer
I talk to the rain
A Song of Storm and Fire
Best Years of Our Lives

Xenosaga II
Fatal Fight
Sweet Song
Lamentation
Communication Breakdown
Strained II- Albedo II
Image theme of xenosaga II
U-Do~Febronia(not that great)

Xenosaga III
Shes Coming Back
We’ve got to Believe in Something
Testament
The Battle of Your Soul
Godsibb
Hepatica ~ I Believe in You
Promised Pain

and some unreleased suff from Xenosaga III, particularly the kos-mos vs. Omega music with vocals, The piano & vocal of Fatal Fight and the first yuriev battle theme.

theres a variety of different types of epic among them but theyre all epic in some way. Kajiuras work with Emily Bindiger on the .hack//sign albums is also unreal.

Also if you can find a download of "the Serenata" choir version by immeadiate music you wont be dissapointed. Nothing to do with yui Kajiura but damn its epic.

Thanks for that, guys.

Destai, I’ve got Serenata, and it’s great! Also, is there anyway of downloading/streaming the unreleased XSIII tracks? I keep hearing of their greatness, but it’s a shame that I haven’t got the game.

Thanks for that, guys.

Destai, I’ve got Serenata, and it’s great! Also, is there anyway of downloading/streaming the unreleased XSIII tracks? I keep hearing of their greatness, but it’s a shame that I haven’t got the game.

Im not sure if this is the same rip I have but the unreleased tracks are the last link on the first post. Thread 30315

Im not sure if this is the same rip I have but the unreleased tracks are the last link on the first post. Thread 30315

That link is dead, but you can still get it from my topic:

Thread 43505

It’s a gigasize link though, since my megaupload link was also deleted. Gigasize is kinda slow, but hey, it’s something.

To be on-topic, not a big fan of Kajiura myself (and anime BGM in general). There are only a few songs that really stand out, and those were already posted.