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YES YES YES HOLY FUCK YEEEEESSSSS

Thanks so much. You rock.

Seriously.

No. Really. You rock. Hard. Cue the :metal: smilies.

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Oh. I was going to post an mp3 mirror...but it looks like you are already ahead of me.

Well, what the hell. Here's a SECOND mirror!

Download links for ZNT1.rar - Mirrorcreator - Upload files to multiple hosts (http://mir.cr/R1VH0N3S)

Shit!

My prediction failed! 2 days before the expected!

THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANKS!

:) Thanks for this!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH :D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My God, every note this woman writes is pure magic. I am really impressed with this.

Thank you !

Scans added.

Thanks for this too, Akashi :)

Made a cover image, in case anyone is interested:

Thanks, Tazer. I really like the clean look. Could you also do a back cover image?... :D

Not as clean. But here's a go:

You should move the centered text at the top and center it in the image and shrink the text on the bottom right so it fits in the black area. Otherwise that is really good.

Followed your suggestions, Sirusjr, and I think they're definite improvements. Thanks!

EDIT: Think I'm going to move the image text down slightly. Will test when I get home from work today.

Seriously, awesome OST and now im starting to wish seeing the whole anime show... Umm, yes. I'll do it!

The back cover looks great! That's an excellent choice of background image there. Not so sure about the font, but it will do. Thank you!

thanks for the upload :) you guys have any info when the vol. 2 is coming out? there is one track I absolutely have to listen to, the orchestrated version of Beethoven's tempest sonata and it seems that one isn't in this volume :(

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It has been announced that the 6th DVD/BD volume will contain a recital of Shakespeare's Tempest. Anything after that will be a fair game (7th or 8th, most likely)

Tweaked the back cover a bit. I think I'll probably leave it alone now, though.

And, because I haven't said it yet, this score is amazing. Thanks for sharing, Akashi San. :)

It has been announced that the 6th DVD/BD volume will contain a recital of Shakespeare's Tempest. Anything after that will be a fair game (7th or 8th, most likely)

Well, we could also seem something between 3 and 5 as well. Just because they haven't announced anything for those volumes doesn't mean nothing is in the works.

Aniplex's bundled soundtrack releases are usually dated 3~5 months apart. The 3rd volume will feature a recital of Hamlet and the 4th and the 5th are probably going to be character songs. Believe me, I would love it if Aniplex does something out of the ordinary and releases the second soundtrack with the 4th volume, but examining their release history does not reveal any probability of that happening.

Aniplex's bundled soundtrack releases are usually dated 3~5 months apart. The 3rd volume will feature a recital of Hamlet and the 4th and the 5th are probably going to be character songs. Believe me, I would love it if Aniplex does something out of the ordinary and releases the second soundtrack with the 4th volume, but examining their release history does not reveal any probability of that happening.

Ugh. What a buzz kill. :(

The 3rd volume will feature a recital of Hamlet

They really want to push those Shakespeare references, don't they?

Sorry, Doublehex - didn't mean to be a buzz kill there...
I vaguely remember allusions to Shakespeare's work in the show. The sad part is that I don't think they advance the plot or character development in a meaningful way. I think the show overall is meh besides Oshima's music.
Anyway, check this thread in 3 months for the second soundtrack, or at least the announcement of it.

Well, in regards to the show, you are right in that the Shakespearean references are mostly just colorful filler. They really don't add anything meaningful to the thematics of the show. With that said, I still feel the show is pretty decent. It's not a great work by any stretch, but you are engaged by the characters, the writing isn't absurdly stupid, and I like how many conflicts are resolved by talking instead of combat.

Sometimes the guys look like girls though.

I know that two many cooks spoil the broth, and all that... but since I was already working on this, I thought I'd post them anyway so you have a choice. With the greatest respect to Tazer, of course, here are my own covers for Tempest:





As coincidence would have it, my choice of cover picture was the same as Tazer's but my back cover is a variation on the same theme. Additionally, the font is correct - Tazer's was close, but this is the right one - it's called New Renaissance, if anybody's interested. I have also tried to carry over some of the design and marketing from the official artwork; that is, to refer to the show as "Blast Of Tempest" in English and only "Zetsuen No Tempest" in Japanese. Other differences; I have carried over the Red/Green colour scheme, added a little more commercial-esque design aesthetic. "VOL. 1" becomes the easier-on-the-eye "Volume 1" and is moved to the corner of the front cover and not at all on the back cover - though it is on the spine. The performance credit now reads "Performed by (new line) The Russian State..." rather than "Performed by The (new line) Russian State..." - so make slightly more grammatical sense. Oshima receives her conductor/orchestrator credit on the back cover. (No conductor is explicitly credited in official artwork; the classical convention is that if this is the case, one assumes the composer has taken the role. Additionally, Oshima almost always conducts her own scores - including the Moscow scores - so I think this is a fair assumption.

Oh yes, and there are some minor translation improvements: Appearance becomes Emergence. Collapse becomes Decay. Sudden becomes Surprise, because whilst I understand the desire to keep with Oshima's one-word cue titles, "Sudden" makes no sense. The original Japanese means more like a sudden event, an unexpected occurrence... and I guess the easiest way to condense that down to one word and have it still coherent in English... is to use the word "Surprise". Emergency becomes Accident because I think it fits better and because, with track 6 getting re-christened "Emergence" I figured I should pick a different word. Most are purely down to personal choice... but I think they work a little better with the tone of the show, the tone of the music, and Oshima's own tendencies.

Anyway... enjoy. No intention of pissing on Tazer's great cover - just adding my alternatives which I had already started making before I saw Tazer's. :)

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When I translate Japanese to English, I try to be as literal as possible to retain the nuance of original words/expressions/phrases. What I lose in this manner of translation is contextual phrasing that show up in most official, localized products. So in the context of the anime and English usage, Tango's revised track names will work better.
I'm still listening to the entire soundtrack at least twice a day with a total play count of no less than 10. Roll tide, OST Vol. 2!

EDIT: A belated look-over at the scans made me see that Oshima also had a session with LCO Paris. It's not just the Russian orchestra performing all tracks, it seems.

Yeah... people translating is as easy as going along a line of text with a dictionary and saying "O" is "I", "gh" is "am", "jghpis" is "going", "riuoweid" is "swimming" - I am going swimming! Job done! It bloody well isn't. Japanese doubly so. Oshima's tendency to give tracks one word titles is a blessing and a curse... on one hand there's not complicated grammar to sort out, but on the other you will find she's used a Japanese word that means twenty different things in English, or describes something conceptual that isn't easily expressed in English.

This is why I doubt I'll ever reach any level of competence with Japanese. I know enough to get myself out of trouble whilst travelling, enough to seem like a smart-ass in front of somebody who knows nothing, and enough to have at least a vague idea what's going on in anime if there are no subtitles... I know basics which are useful in correcting machine translations... but fluency? Hahaha, never in a million years. I just don't have space in my brain for all that insanity... ;)


Oshima also had a session with LCO Paris.

I wonder what that is? The orchestral tracks we've had so far all sound like Moscow. Searching for "LCO Paris" yields nothing... I suspect it's not an orchestra. Maybe it's something we haven't heard so far... or it could be the percussion overdubs in track 5. Most curious, all the same... By the way, has anybody else noticed Oshima chanelling Mahler in track 3? Amazing stuff...


Konstantin D. Krimets (1939-2008). I just looked him up. Thought he was conducting Tempest, but...

A great shame... famous primarily as a classical conductor, secondarily for his numerous Japanese projects... and only 69 years of age, as well. I had no idea he'd passed away. Thank you for the information. :(

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I wonder what that is? The orchestral tracks we've had so far all sound like Moscow. Searching for "LCO Paris" yields nothing... I suspect it's not an orchestra. Maybe it's something we haven't heard so far... or it could be the percussion overdubs in track 5. Most curious, all the same... By the way, has anybody else noticed Oshima chanelling Mahler in track 3? Amazing stuff...

It could just be a makeshift orchestra. There is clearly a section in the artwork (http://vgmdb.net/db/covers.php?do=view&cover=167179) that credits LCO Paris under "Paris Recording Staff" (パリ録音スタッフ). The Paris recording took place in a separate studio called Studio Guillaume Tell (http://www.guillaumetell.com/). I do also find it puzzling because the orchestra(s) used sounds pretty uniform throughout the soundtrack.


Adiantum Blue(s). Was the last score he conducted for Oshima, besides a Lipovitan D commercial and TV Music Best in 2006. I think I'll try getting some of the soundtracks he conducted :'D
Krimets also conducted a symphonic arrangement of a yaoi game soundtrack called Hana Ki Sou (http://vgmdb.net/album/6637). If you haven't heard it yet, I could upload in lossless for you.

That studio is a shit hole... we'd know if something was recorded in there.

I was just about to say that it makes no sense to go to Moscow and then hire another orchestra in Paris for fill-in... but this is Japan we're talking about... the country that records French horns in London and strings in Tokyo... the country that records an orchestra in Tokyo and a choir in Los Angeles. The country that records 99% of the score in London and a few extra minutes in Warsaw. The country that sends Masamichi Amano to Los Angeles to record end credits music for a Mario game.

Anything is possible... Absolutely ANYTHING.

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Haha!

Yaoi:
"Hikaru... walking with you... watching your smile... the way the glimmering moonlight looks reflected in your eyes. I could melt..."
"Shh, don't say any more, Daisuke."
"But, Hikaru! When I'm with you, I feel like a different person! I feel whole, I feel... alive!"
"Daisuke... I love you. I've always loved you, since the first time we met on that dreamy November evening; as the day drifted into night and the first snowflakes of winter fell, I saw you in the mist... I knew then, that my heart would belong to you always."
"Hikaru..."
"Hold me, Daisuke. Take me in your arms, and tell me you love me back."
"Hikaru... I love you. Until the day I die, until the end of time itself, I will love you..."
*they both cry*

Hentai:

"Hikaru! Get over here!"
"Yes Daisuke."
"Get your cock out. I want it, NOW!"
"But... Daisuke... I'm embarassed!"
"BWAHAHAHA! Are you going to cry? I derive sexual arousal from your humiliation! Now, SUCK my eighteen inch pixellated penis!"
"Daisuke, wait... Mmm, Mmph, Urgh! Nrghghghgh!"
"You're quite a natural, aren't you, Hikaru!"

I think I would classify Hanasikou as the former and Blue Wolves (which I actually watched all the way through) as most emphatically the latter... ;)

What charming summaries! Your short script for Blue Wolves gave me quite a laughter. :'D

Conveniently, the booklet of the Hana Ki Sou album contains a short list of Japanese orchestral albums that Krimets conducted.

I'll edit this post later to transcribe that list into English.

And here's a quick dump of the download links for Hana Ki Sou Symphony:

FLAC/CUE/Front and Back Scans Only

Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yayc24qzujo4o3t)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?9et7butnucgvl15)

Full list here, Akashi San :'D

http://www.tmp-room.com/heart/konstantin.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20091104133612/http://www.tmp-room.com/heart/konstantin.html)

That is quite a lot of albums there. Let's see... WOW, Oshima had a ballet suite called "Crystal Princess". Hattori Takayuki's "Kura", "Selected Pieces from Inuyasha" by Kaoru Wada, and the list goes on and on...
I have never heard of more than half the items in that list. The one I want to hear the most is Oshima's TV best, which has been uploaded here in this forum with a dead download link. :(
When time permits, I'll go back to that list and pick out some other promising ones.

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News: OST Vol. 2 will be bundled with the fifth volume of LE Blu-ray and DVD. May 22nd is the date.

Wow. Way sooner than I expected. Fantastic news!

Akashi-San,

Would you upload Hana Ki Sou Symphony again? The current links lead to MediaFire error messages. Thank you for uploading it to begin with! It's great to discover new symphonic Yaoi soundtracks! They're not exactly a dime a dozen...

Edit: I found a lossy version for download at Thread 73556

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hey guys, thanks for the rest of these scores, I heard Volume 1 and can't wait for 2 and 3. Just wanted to share a custom cover that will serve for all three volumes. Nothing too fancy, but artwork is cool. Enjoy!

Blast of Tempest (2012-2013 TV series)
Composed by Michiru Oshima

Credit goes to the original rippers/uploaders.

OST Vol. 1 (http://vgmdb.net/album/36936)

APE link by Akashi San (Thread 57893) / Re-Up: https://mega.nz/#!sF1hwK4b!aieYTjcrsrpLzE6wOSGuLiN4lGsl8qbQHNv1UgQbvZU

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OST Vol. 2 (http://vgmdb.net/album/38643)

FLAC link by nextday (Thread 57893)

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OST Vol. 3 (http://vgmdb.net/album/41246)

FLAC link by nextday (Thread 57893)

Thank you, Herr. Exactly what I was looking for. :)

Thanks.

Thank you, Herr Salat!