Oof! Thank you for the upgrade! These really are great albums. Grand Finale definitely benefits from the presence of a full orchestra. I LOVE Takarano's voice. That is a genuinely talented singer. Not your typical stupid pop vocalist voice, but a powerful, effortless, trained voice. And Ali Project's songs - excellent music even in their original incarnations - literally scream out for Hirano's arrangement.

Whereas some projects which feature Hirano as orchestrator do so in order to prop up an inferior composer, this one clearly represents nothing less than a perfect collaboration between artists.

Thanks for your thought, Tango. :) I added Les Papillons to the post to have all of Hirano's arrangements available.

I know this is a tad bit late to the party, but I made some alternate covers for the three Berserk films, since I felt the others were a bit bleh (as well as being in low resolution).

Bersrk Golden Age Covers - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/Iwotw)

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:laugh: Fixed
Also, only two more days until Zetsuen no Tempest Soundtrack 1! :zillayay:

And partly because it is coming out tomorrow, but mostly because I was in the mood, here's a cover for Zetsuen no Tempest!



Edit: Oh, and here's an english tracklisting. So none of you have an excuse to give us a .rar with kanji filenames.


1. Zetsuen
2. Reminiscence
3. Irritation
4. Encounter
5. Shiver
6. Emergence
7. Collapse
8. Transactions
9. Natural
10. Nostalgia
11. Samon
12. Summer House
13. Collision
14. Sudden Change
15. Suspicion

Kosuke Yamashita
Nobunaga no Yabou Tendou Original Soundtrack
Composed, Arranged and most likely conducted by Kosuke Yamashita
Performed by the Tendou Orchestra and Choir (I had difficulties gaining any profitable information regarding this mysterious orchestra,
but they play well enough)

Should please those allready enamoured by Yamashita, or simply lovers of beautiful music.
Though not the soundtrack of the century, it's filled with adventure, enjoy


Nobunaga Tendou.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/22937362/Nobunaga+Tendou.rar)
mp3 320kbps

Edit : Will upload Nobunaga no Yabou -Kakushin- Original Soundtrack as soon as i can.

Link doesn't work, can you reupload it, please? (actually, none of those Gamefront links actually work.., :/)

Link doesn't work, can you reupload it, please? (actually, none of those Gamefront links actually work.., :/)

Its because country restrictions, try anonym link with Hotspot shield, im from Spain and works with that method.

hanzouq, Nobunaga Tendou on Mega:

https://mega.co.nz/#!UIlWiQCD!O8V8hHoNjpR5g92Qd5yWpTJxrNBKCq10L66fQgR _5-I
(https://mega.co.nz/#!UIlWiQCD!O8V8hHoNjpR5g92Qd5yWpTJxrNBKCq10L66fQgR _5-I)

Does anybody know some good orchestral scores which feature dramatic action, along with bittersweet melodies (romance or drama or tragedie all of them) and some lighthearted slice of life/daily life pieces?
Mitsumune Shinkichi's Yugioh Duel Monster Scores fit into that pretty well, also Kou Otani's Shakugan no Shana.
Unfortunately Otani doesn't really seem to have done anything similiar to Shana and Shinkitchi doesn't have many news scores, either.

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No further need to mention oshima scores, lol.
Through I am generally not that much a fan of Oshima's action pieces. They usually have a sort of dissonant feeling to them. Probably exept the Tempest Theme from Zetsuen no Tempest, but since that is a orchestral Beethoven cover it doesn't really count. (Same for Hirano's action scores, through in a slightly diffrent manner)
Nanase Hikaru and Taku Iwasaki also fill the bill pretty well, but I know pretty much everything of them, too. Kawai's Fate Stay night also fits in well, but I know pretty all of his scores, too. And FSN also turned out to be more of a exeption, his newer scores all feel like carbon copies of Gundam 00. (Or whatever was there first.)

Otani's scores never felt quite memorable to me, shana and colorful being the only exceptions. (Haibane Renmei has no real action at that, haha.) But colorful is anything else than action.

If I were to name a sample piece:
Shakugan no Shana OST 2 - Art du sabre - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xsQZHsafw)
has action+suspence+dynamic+dramatic+passionate feel to it. Especially do I like how the mid-melody at 0:40-1:05 is mixed in.

I am rooting for the Arata Kangatari score to be more like Shana. Plot/Elementwise it should feel similiar.

If I were to name a sample piece:

Ow, my ears... and my brain...

lol. That was almost my reaction back then, when I first heard it, too.
I guess I only came to like the Shana score, because I watched the series and together they worked out pretty well, especially in the last season. They kind of really did blend in well. (Saying as much, the feel I get may as well come from the series scenes then rather the melody itself. haha....)
Still searching for something that has that sort of feel to it...

News time:

Well, Sahashi's new Sentai score (Kyoryuger) has now been running for just two episodes and already it has comprehensively whipped Go-Busters' arse. How effortlessly he slips back into that old, familiar style! But better than that, this is Sahashi at his most extravagantly tuneful since Gundam Seed. Of course, the release will be the typical Sentai mess of unmitigated horseshit interspersed with symphonic gems... but make no mistake, this will turn out to be one of Sahashi's finest orchestral scores.

Dear Japan - the recent cases of short-changing Sahashi's music budgets (his last few drama scores, and Saint Seiya) has been very, very worrying... Hope you're listening to Kyoryuger and that it reminds you that the guy is still worth giving real human players!

Akashi San Ali Project: Grand Finale [FLAC]

Congratulations

Does anybody know some good orchestral scores which feature dramatic action, along with bittersweet melodies (romance or drama or tragedie all of them) and some lighthearted slice of life/daily life pieces?
Mitsumune Shinkichi's Yugioh Duel Monster Scores fit into that pretty well, also Kou Otani's Shakugan no Shana.
Unfortunately Otani doesn't really seem to have done anything similiar to Shana and Shinkitchi doesn't have many news scores, either.

A lot of great anime soundtracks will meet most your requirements. From my recent playlist: Haruhi the movie score (a personal favorite), Space Brothers, Fractale, Escaflowne, Turn a Gundam. There are many more options if you are willing to listen to western scores as well - Korngold, Herrmann, Rozsa, etc. But, they don't have what you call slice of life/happy-bouncy tracks. I do want to add that I might just have a different taste from yours since I don't like any of the composers you mentioned except Oshima and Hirano... :D

And about Zetsuen - I really, REALLY hope the dramatic cue from episode 13(?) is in the just-released soundtrack... I'll be a sad man if it isn't. :sad:

atsusa, here's some real Kenji Kawai "epic shit" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bD45pZjmQCE) :'D

I'm rather fond of Avalon... great film, and for a change Kenji Kawai completely nails it for me. Ever seen it, Mr Salat?

For atsusa's request... picking out scores which don't feature dissonance somewhat narrows the possiblities... I fear all of Akashi San's suggestions will meet with disapproval... I'm afraid the only way I can think of to come up with something is to go through my mental list of scores I utterly despise and recommend those... ;)

For Tempest, the real standout (if I had to pick something out of that score, which is uniformly brilliant) is the "The prison of time... It's been broken!" (spoiler-free line selected deliberately) cue from episode 12. Two minutes of glory. Just amazing...

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For Tempest, the real standout (if I had to pick something out of that score, which is uniformly brilliant) is the "The prison of time... It's been broken!" (spoiler-free line selected deliberately) cue from episode 12. Two minutes of glory. Just amazing...

YES! That's the cue I meant in my post. I am hitting the refresh button on Nyaa every hour to see if it has been uploaded, while hoping some crazy Chinese man would rip the damn thing already... :D

atsusa, here's some real Kenji Kawai "epic shit" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=bD45pZjmQCE) :'D

The only good thing he ever shat out...reminds me of Preisner...except not really.

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Violin Concerto 'Out of Nowhere', NYX
FLAC/CUE/LOG

Composed and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Performed by Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Violinist: Leila Josefowicz


Album Information (http://www.amazon.com/Salonen-Out-Nowhere-Violin-Concerto/dp/B008W5TDP8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361929999&sr=8-1&keywords=salonen+out+of+nowhere)

LINK (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0oq5r5wyme09ftj)

I have only listened to this once while doing work, so I can't quite comment on what the music is like, but it is on the heavy side for sure. If you are not familiar with Salonen, he is known more for his work as a conductor and I liked his account of Herrmann's and Stravinsky's music. Salonen once suggested that his music is more similar to that of Debussy and Ravel than that of Stravinsky, and I find this work to be "teetering on the edge of tonality" (quoted from a reviewer). This is beautifully played by the Finnish Radio Symphony and Leila Josefowicz, at least enough to warrant the score of 10/10 on ClassicsToday. Even if you don't find this very pleasing, I would keep this for "academic" purposes... :D

Enjoy!

Shakugan no Shana OST 2 - Art du sabre - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7xsQZHsafw)


It's difficult to accept that this is the same person who composed the delightfull Haibane Renmei and Shadow of the Colossus...

I've been listening to a lot of Otani just to be able to hear more of the same kind of charm, but you know how it is.


And i cannot go back in time and make better use of that particular time, wich is just, sad.

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I like this. So here you flippin' go. :D

Gottfried Metro.rar | Game Front (http://www.gamefront.com/files/23004308/Gottfried+Metro.rar)

Metropolis by Fritz Lang-lang. Music by Gottfried Huppertz.

The only good thing he ever shat out...reminds me of Preisner...except not really.

The Ghost In The Shell scores were rather good, especially Innocence. Loved the pounding drums and epic female chorus in that.

Atsusa - I suggest you listen to my Loveliness, Elegance and Nobility compilations - see my signature. After that, hit me up with the tracks that really grab you and I'll let you know which ones are worth grabbing the full score.

The Ghost In The Shell scores were rather good, especially Innocence. Loved the pounding drums and epic female chorus in that.

Regardless of my previous statement, i do concur, but it's a different thing entirely, for me at least :) The music for Ghost in the shell is the kind of music to internalize and respond to in a quiet and meditative fashion, it just gently touches the surface of ones soul, wich is a nice thing. There is room for the listener to venture about and respond honestly to it, but the kind of soul shattering, merciless thing he tries to emulate with Avalon is what i love the most. Where my soul is destroyed and shattered into a thousand pieces and then restores it's inherent harmony again, as a true catharsis.

Regardless of my previous statement, i do concur, but it's a different thing entirely, for me at least :) The music for Ghost in the shell is the kind of music to internalize and respond to in a quiet and meditative fashion, it just gently touches the surface of ones soul, wich is a nice thing. There is room for the listener to venture about and respond honestly to it, but the kind of soul shattering, merciless thing he tries to emulate with Avalon is what i love the most. Where my soul is destroyed and shattered into a thousand pieces and then restores it's inherent harmony again, as a true catharsis.

...well, I was just going to say that it's good minimalistic music. But yeah, that too.

I believe any composer (who is not a complete amateur) can make great music when the people who hire him have a deep passion for their work and want the music to shine as well. See Ni No Kuni, that was a match made in heaven because there was great passion and care for the project (oh boy does it show, the little details all over this game!). Same with Shadow of the Colossus, that was an ambitious project by Fumito Ueda, moving from the intimate and heartwarming Ico to a grand quest of slaying giants while still maintaining an emotional core. This was accomplished beautifully and all the passion and vision of Ueda shows in the music too.

Ol' Kenji Kawai confuses and infuriates. On one hand, he writes some of the most generic, mindless trash... but there's something very earnest about it that's convincing. And Avalon, well... the score, the way it's actually used in the film... I just find it magnificent. It doesn't quite stand as tall away from the film, but it works so damn well in the film. Ash and Murphy's final confrontation, intercut with the Warsaw Philharmonic concert, is a piece of genius film making. The score and the story become one. The film and its storytelling devices - the mechanics behind it - are drawn in to the plot. Glorious stuff.

A lot of great anime soundtracks will meet most your requirements. From my recent playlist: Haruhi the movie score (a personal favorite), Space Brothers, Fractale, Escaflowne, Turn a Gundam. There are many more options if you are willing to listen to western scores as well - Korngold, Herrmann, Rozsa, etc. But, they don't have what you call slice of life/happy-bouncy tracks. I do want to add that I might just have a different taste from yours since I don't like any of the composers you mentioned except Oshima and Hirano... :D

I know the Haruhi movie score and yes, it's great. Through it doesn't feel that much like action.
Fractale sounded bland to me. (Probably due to not liking the series.) I'll listen into Space Brother.
Escaflowne and Turn A Gundam have this kind of high fantasy feel to it. And unfortunately I am not that much of a fan of that genre...

I also don't nescessarily require "slice of life/happy-bouncy tracks". It more like having something in to lighten up the mood, so that it that the mood doesn't appear to dreary and one sided. If I were to use colours as an matapher, something that fills in a broad spectrum using all primary colours.

I know the avalon score, too. (Never watched the movie through.) It's fine, but doesn't stike me as that memorable. Or rather, the feel when listening to is that it's an extension to the FSN score. (Probably not far off anyway since FSN is about some King Arthur lol.)

As for dissonance, let's say not completely feature it.
Something like in "Le tempete" from the Sora no Woto score especially like at 1:20 is not really my piece of the apple pie. (I sorts of get the an almost similiar creepy feeling when listening to chalk or fingernails scratching on a board.) It works fine with the visuals to have the intended effect, but I don't really like listening to this sort as a stand alone.
Iwasaki's "In Memories" from the Kenshin Tsuiokuhen score would be a dramatic-action piece with not as much of such dissonance.


That linked discussion is by the way also a nice one and probably explains quite good one of my general predicaments. I am, in a way, a loser to music, you could almost say I am tone deaf and the only subject I ever an F grade would be music. I find myself rather unable to appreciate music for its quality itself, but go instead by subconscious feels and linked associations. (Which is one reason I almost always fail to appreciate classic music, if not used in scores or any other context.) It's quite seldom, that a piece of music is self-associating to me. (Vocal tracks usually have it a bit easier, but even they usually link to the circumstances I listen to the tracks.)
For soundtracks that's usually not such a huge problem. My associations just go to where the work is the soundtrack for. Which leads to another predicament, if the work, which the score is part of sucks, the score will likely not please me either. (Exceptions prove the rule.) At that for instance I can't find myself liking the Haibane Renmei score all to much. Simply because I was quite bored when watching the series back then and simply feel reminded of the boredom I felt upon listening to it. Shana on the other hand didn't sound great to me before I watched the final season, but ever since I kind grew fond of listening to it from time to time.
(With some componists, who tend to clone their own works this also leads to very funny kaleidoscopic association chains. The score from oda Nobuna no Yabou by Yasuharu felt like Suite Precure, Naruto Shippuden and Toward the Terra have been squeezed into one pot. That was quite a hilarious sensation to imagine.)


At any rate, I was just thinking of listening to more nice dramatic action pieces, that don't get me into this slightly "scratching on a blackboard"-like feeling. The Shana score, which has some of the type, just reminded me that there should be more who don't have that much dissonances.
I also know anything from Sahashi on that note. The Simoun score does fit into that bill very well, too. Or the Beethoven Tempest cover from Zetsuen no Tempest, as mentioned before.
Hiroyuki Sawano's scores also don't have too many of said dissonances, but his action pieces kind of usually sound like dramatic epicness, similiar to how trailer music feels to me. Which can be nice, too, but is not quite what I am looking for right now. (Kawai sometimes has the same feel to it, too.)
Oh, there is also Hitomi Kuroishi. She also has both, but "Sky to Recovery" from the Last Exile Gunyuu no Fam Score as a sample would fill the bill quite well, too.
Hashimoto Yukari has also some damatic pieces, but they are sort of a bit more seldom and don't have too much of an action feel to them. (Through I really like the Mawaru Penguindrum score and some samples from Tora Dora and Sankarea.)



@Sirusjr
Since I know half of the compilations already:
Kokia has some tracks I really like. Her Nanase Hikaru collaborations aka the OP/ED to phantom requiem pleased me a lot. Aside that "Fate" ist just epic. "Tatta Hitsotsu no Omoi", "Chouwa Oto", "Ai no Field" (which just totally has the same feelinf to Sakamoto's "more that words") are great and "Daiji na Mono wa Mabuta no Ura", "Oto no Tabibito", "EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/." pleased me very well, too. The rest is unfortunately either just a nice listen, that won't sink into my memory or even just boring.
As for Sahashi, my favorite of his soundtracks is the one from Simoun. That's also the only one I can recall by memory at that. The main theme of King of Thorns, was also nice, but that never got a OST release, too bad. Gunslinger Girl is a fine listen, too, even without me having watched the series yet. Zipang had some somewhat memorable main themes, but the rest was rather bland. The big O was classy in the series, but doesn't seem to outstanding as a stand alone and Katekyo Hitman Reborn was a major let down, when I listened to it before I even knew what Reborn was about. (Through, after watching the series my option leveled up a bit. At least it has gained an enourmous recognition value.) At my current point, the whole Gundam scores have a overrated feeling to me. But I guess the fault of that is within the fact, I still haven't watched any of them and the scores thus seem rather pale in their effect.
As for Angela Aki, I have listened to quite a bunch of albums some years ago and all I can remember that they almost all bored me enourmously or some made me get a picture of gaudy romance. As far as I can remember the Blood+ Ending with her track was also one of those I notoriously skipped....
I don't know Sun Yatsen yet through, I'll check them out.

Ol' Kenji Kawai confuses and infuriates. On one hand, he writes some of the most generic, mindless trash... but there's something very earnest about it that's convincing. And Avalon, well... the score, the way it's actually used in the film... I just find it magnificent. It doesn't quite stand as tall away from the film, but it works so damn well in the film. Ash and Murphy's final confrontation, intercut with the Warsaw Philharmonic concert, is a piece of genius film making. The score and the story become one. The film and its storytelling devices - the mechanics behind it - are drawn in to the plot. Glorious stuff.

An even greater and wondrous variation of this kind of "experience" is the work by Zbigniew Preisner and Director Kieslowski, on many of the films, but especially Blue and La Doble vie Veronique. when i first saw Avalon, the grand scene with the Orchestra when they play Voyage to Avalon reminds me so much of how Preisner and Kieslowski used to work together, especially on those two films, the music is a part of the films organic tissue from start to finish. the music is a character in itself, wich one could say about a lot of things, but if you want another experience like you had with avalon Tango you should really check those two out, especially Blue, to see what i mean.
But yes, Avalon is great, even though i have only seen it once, many years ago with my grandmother, when they showed it on a channel called silver, wich either showed many different anime films, and kitano films or just plain old french-canadian erotic "art" films...my grandmother really thought the latter to be actual porn...


klnerfan : i understand what you are saying, and i don't disagree, allthough there are many other obscure factors that may, or may not come into play in situations like that...i think otani locks away his real passion and well of emotional understanding until really great and ambitious and emotional and intelligent projects come along, as you said Klnerfan, both Haibane Renmei and shadow of the colossus was all of these things, and Otani managed to write some really great nostalgic and beautiful things, so he has these things inside of him...i just hope he get's the opportunity to score music for things in the future that inspires him and commands his respect, so that he WANTS to create great things.
Being a taurus and all, he has to work in order to eat, and i guess he doesn't feel like throwing pearls for pigs, or something like that. :D
Oh and i completely concur when it comes to the subject of Ni no Kuni, even though Hisaishi was undoubtedly inspired by the Directors passion and the plethora of ideas and images that was planted in his conciousness from this meeting, i don't think he could ever write anything that didn't sound wonderfull, but yes, ni no kuni was a match made in heaven. Made in flippin' heaven :)

@amayadori - I think you got confused. While those artists are nice I was suggesting specifically the first link in my sig which goes to these:
Thread 118491
Thread 124020
Though you did ask for anime scores I think you will find the film compilations are eye-opening as well.

oh, indeed.
From the list I should know almost all of the tracks already, but I guess, I'll take a try in this order.

Here's Nobunaga Tendou on Mega:

https://mega.co.nz/#!UIlWiQCD!O8V8hHoNjpR5g92Qd5yWpTJxrNBKCq10L66fQgR _5-I
(https://mega.co.nz/#!UIlWiQCD!O8V8hHoNjpR5g92Qd5yWpTJxrNBKCq10L66fQgR _5-I)

Thank you very much!

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Edit: Delete this please xD.

There's nothing to rip. Just a bunch of track titles.

There's nothing to rip. Just a bunch of track titles.

Ah ok, my flas wasnt properly working and thought it was ready in Xiami. Sorry then.

Kenji Kawai had an interesting score in The Sky Crawlers too.

I can appreciate Kawai on the best of days, though he is about as hit-or-miss as Otani, perhaps even more so just by virtue of how stupendously vast his discography is, the large majority of it I have no interest in pursuing. He doesn't knock everything he attempts out of the park, but there's something about the way he uses strings that can be very relaxing, thrilling or even therapeutic. There's little in the way of virtuosic, sky-high exuberance or Iwasaki-style densely harmonic, sawing breadth. Just lovely, languorous, cooly sighing melodies, like the strings are sifting in through the speakers like hermetically sealed air. Nothing special, they they entrance in their own way.

I appreciate Kawai the same way I appreciate Sawano and even Zimmer on occasion; because I don't hold them to the same lofty standards I would a Mahler or Kanno or Barry or Oshima. If they were trying to write in a similar grand, sumptuous orchestral style in the Classical tradition and just sucked at it, that would be one thing. But as a glance at any of their respective bodies of work indicates, symphonic orchestral grandeur simply isn't a sound any of them are remotely interested in emulating, and that's perfectly fine by me. I have plenty of reliable sources for that.

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My favorite Kawai(i) track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QN8CZzjTXA&list=PLF4590459D4753AB2). I loved the anime, so even this track which I wouldn't normally like became ingrained in the whole experience. I still listen to it while driving sometimes.

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Thanks for this share. I don't think I had this one before.

MICHIRO OSYMER SETSOIN NO TIMPOST donwlaod FALC pls!!!!!!!!!!!!

MICHIRO OSYMER SETSOIN NO TIMPOST donwlaod FALC pls!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feel the same xD

In the past 24 hours, not even a picture of a Japanese blogger posting his/her newly delivered Tempest Blu-ray has appeared. I'll keep checking both the Japanese and Chinese web for the score.
I shall be waiting "patiently" until then >>>
:happycroc:

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INTERNET YOU FAILED ME SO WHY IS THIS FOR ALL OF THE GREAT PORN YOU GAVE ME? WELL I TAKE IT ALL BACK! GOODBYE REDTUBE! FAIR THEE WELL FAKKU! JUST GIVE ME ZETSUEN NO TEMPEST!

"Or hopefully one day they can become as popular as K-anno, K-ajiura (though I noticed her Magica and Sword Art Online scores are also Bonus CDs), K-awai and always get real CD releases..."

Oh, you mean the KKK?.............................................. ........

..............................Pretty sure Jormugand got a CD release.

Hahaha!

Yes, Aniplex have something of a reputation for rarely putting out soundtracks - and when they do it's invariably months or even years after the event. Even for sure sellers. Weird...

Now, in all seriousness... WHERE THE @#�& is Timpost? I want it, I want it, I want it. :D

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Called it. Don't worry, just another couple of months to wait ... (screams internally and bangs head against wall)

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So.... I seem to remember that a while back when Hamauzu had his concert in Paris. When I posted the video arthierr inquired about the Michiru Oshima concert. Well I seem to have come across something along those lines ;).

Zelda Twilight Princess - Don't want you no more (piano violin) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnweXEsgSrY) \

Full Metal Alchemist - Brother - Piano Violin - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyrep0kx9iQ)

These are the same guys that performed Hamauzu's music in Paris.

Oh and since I know how well you all like Sahashi's music from Gundam SEED here is this video as well:

Gundam Seed DESTINY - Mission Kaishi - Piano Violin - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYXUjs2pggE)

Emiri Miyamoto: tears
FLAC

She recently got married. :sad:

Album Information (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=SICC-10076)

Translated/Romanized Tracklist (Composer's name in parenthesis):
1. Tears (Shin Kono)
2. Les enfants de la Terre~Children of the Earth(Takayuki Hattori)
3. Canon (Johann Pachelbel)
4. Ave Maria (Charles-Fran�ois Gounod)
5. Kazabue (Michiru Oshima)
6. Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra (Nigel Hess)
7. Cs�rd�s (Vittorio Monti)
8. Mist's Tear (Taro Iwashiro)
9. Beautiful Days (Takeshi Seno)
10. Andante Cantabile (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
11. Jealousy (Jacob Gade)
12. Les enfants de la Terre pour Violon et Piano (Takayuki Hattori)
13. The story of Solarbear (Takefumi Haketa)
14. Chaconne (Tomaso Antonio Vitali)
Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rcvk5dkc264yrei)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wgl8ds89ta71gso)

Sample: Track 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?3m7ym1q5hauf5gd)

In spirit of Herr Salat's upload of Yoko (洋子) Kanno's albums, I wanted to follow the suit and upload this rather classical easy-listening work by the violinist Emiri Miyamoto. For those who missed it, I uploaded her tracks with Oshima and Iwashiro here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/454.html#post2268504). About this album - do expect a lot of vibratos and emotions that take the forefront. She always picks accessible melodies to feature in her albums and this is no exception. I expect a lot of you already being famiiar with the classical compositions in this album. My favorite here is Track 2 by Hattori - glorious opening and an extremely moving violin solo... I love it. :D
Emiri Miyamoto also collaborated with Oshima for Tenchijin Soundtracks. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZnChAHRtB8) is her live performance of an emotional violin piece from Tenchijin OST 2 (Track 2, me thinks); a shaky performance, but the music is still excellent.

Happy listening!

Aliens: Colonial Marines | -= KEVIN RIEPL MUSIC =- (http://www.kevinriepl.com/wordpress/index.php/aliens-colonial-marines)

So I have always liked Kevin Riepl's music and felt that it was an extreme disservice that Epic Games only allowed him to compose Gears of War 1 and brought on Steve Jablonsky in his place :(. However, it is good to see that he still is writing. His latest work is above and has some samples. I really like the Main Theme and the tracks Rescue Mission and Retreat. However, the exploration compositions are kinda "meh". It is nice to see actual orchestrations from Western game music instead of the synthy Hans Zimmer sounds.

A blu-ray rip of Tempest has appeared on the Japanese web. LET'S EXPECT THE SCORE TO BE OUT WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

A blu-ray rip of Tempest has appeared on the Japanese web. LET'S EXPECT THE SCORE TO BE OUT WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

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Iwashiro Taro (岩代 太郎) best album: Tact II - Soundtracky

re-up please someone

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Understandable. Joj's sound direction is essentially "put on playlist, hit shuffle". It's like the show's terrified of silence.

Wait, ottocycle is Mitsuda?

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So, I just might have an addiction. Here's a cover for Broken Blade.

A blu-ray rip of Tempest has appeared on the Japanese web. LET'S EXPECT THE SCORE TO BE OUT WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS.


Zetsuen No Tempest Original Sound Track Vol. 1
[APE/CUE/LOG]

Music by Michiru Oshima
Performed by Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra AND LCO Paris


Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/36936)

APE Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mp4kbm7dgn6vvp7)
APE Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ua8b6409g8d3z48)
MP3 V0 Encode (http://www.mediafire.com/?cbx8h0dv4a2lmiw)
SCANS (http://www.mediafire.com/?yxxzc6q199o0bj4)

The APE file tags are completely in Japanese (100% English tags for the MP3 encode). Use this English tracklist if you wish (slightly different translation from the one on VGMDB):
1. Zetsuen
2. Reminiscence
3. Uneasiness
4. Encounter
5. Shiver
6. Appearance
7. Collapse
8. Deal
9. Sudden
10. Nostalgia
11. Samon
12. Natsumura
13. Conflict
14. Emergency
15. Suspicion
Credit goes to the original ripper/uploader

Happy listening!

Despite the fact that my favourite cue is missing (I have no doubt it'll turn up on the second volume) THANK YOU! Best anime score of the 2012, and one of the best ever. And 2012 was a good year.

Who'd have thought, back last July when we discovered that Oshima was working on Tempest, that we'd be here six months later listening to one of her finest works?

Oshima sometimes scares me. This is one of those times.

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I almost shed a tear listening to the first track. So f*&kin' beautiful... The cue from Episode 12 IS missing from this one, but Track 13 is glorious enough to make up for the absence.

The first track, which I dub the "Aika theme", was my most favorite cue from the show. It expressed so much about the relation between the three main characters - Mahiro, Yoshino and Aika. Their melancholy, the romantic twists and turns they made. It's like the theme was more about their memories, that these two men cherish so much, instead of the actual events. And as they move along it becomes a tragic cue. Because neither can let go of their memories.

Such a great piece of music.

EDIT: Here's an MP3 mirror of Zetsuen, with proper tags.

http://mir.cr/R1VH0N3S

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Finally! THANK YOU!

A shame it ends on a musical cliffhanger but I won't complain since the music is finally out. So which limited edition has the second OST?

It hasn't been announced yet. My guess is the 6th (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%B5%B6%E5%9C%92%E3%81%AE%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%8 3%9A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-6-%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E7%94%9F%E7%94%A3%E9%99%90%E5%A E%9A%E7%89%88-Blu-ray-%E5%AE%89%E8%97%A4%E7%9C%9F%E8%A3%95/dp/B00AQMB6WI/ref=pd_sim_d_3) or the 8th (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00B8A20E0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_d0_i4?pf_rd_m=AN1VRQENFRJN5&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1AJ9QARQ8WZP6RCZ1NMW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463376756&pf_rd_i=489986) volume (months away).

It hasn't been announced yet. My guess is the 6th (http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E7%B5%B6%E5%9C%92%E3%81%AE%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%8 3%9A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88-6-%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E7%94%9F%E7%94%A3%E9%99%90%E5%A E%9A%E7%89%88-Blu-ray-%E5%AE%89%E8%97%A4%E7%9C%9F%E8%A3%95/dp/B00AQMB6WI/ref=pd_sim_d_3) or the 8th (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B00B8A20E0/ref=s9_simh_gw_p74_d0_i4?pf_rd_m=AN1VRQENFRJN5&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1AJ9QARQ8WZP6RCZ1NMW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=463376756&pf_rd_i=489986) volume (months away).

wat

Japan, what is wrong with you. Let us buy it! There are people who would!

The only way I could see this business model making any amount of sense would be if there was such a huge amount of media music fans over there that would be more than willing to pay $80 for 40 minutes of music. I mean, if they tried that over here it would just be a disaster.

I don't know. I'm pretty gullible for good music... :)
To most people, anime soundtracks are anime soundtracks. We are in the severe minority who would actually pay and listen to orchestral anime soundtracks, or just anime soundtracks in general. It is quite perplexing to see those horrid anime OP/ED songs are selling thousands and thousands of copies while "background music" is facing the end of commercial release. Last time I visited 2ch (the biggest Japanese forum for everything including music), the only soundtrack threads to have a decent number of posts were ones dedicated to Goldsmith and Hisaishi. During my years of studying Japanese, I haven't met a single Japanese person who owns an anime soundtrack. You also have to consider the negative connotation associated with anime in Japan. A sad world, indeed.
On that note, I will most definitely import the next BD volume that contains the second soundtrack to at least support the dying industry.

Don't lose all hope Akashi. The anime market here in the West, at least in the US was booming up until 2007-2008, which was when the credit crisis happened. I'm fairly sure once things settle down again we'll get our domestic music releases again. Just a damned shame that Suncoast is gone, but then it was thriving in an era before the internet REALLY took off with online shopping etc. Also bummed about Tofu Records going bye bye too. Guess Sony decided it wasn't making enough money for them. Even saw ads for their releases on Cartoon Network when Adult Swim was still awesome and so was Toonami. Christ I'm getting nostalgic again, lol. Anyway, if they do nearly entirely stop physical CD copies, they may go to digital distribution of high definition audio formats. I just hope those pillocks don't try charging the same as a physical CD there. But considering what Microsoft EA Games and the PSN has been up to, we'll likely have to be thankful IF a digital distribution scheme is implemented and just hand over our money, if with a considerable grumble.

Agreed... the soundtrack market isn't dead or even dying; it's changing and it's also in something of depression right now as a result of Japan's economic problems. Whatever we're going through in the West, they've got it ten times worse.

Despite that, 99.9% of Japanese soundtracks get released somehow - even if it's as a bonus CD. Somebody out there still thinks it's worthwhile mastering the album, pressing the CD, putting it in the Bluray box, and promoting it as a desirable feature.

Quality is so far unaffected. Availability has got more difficult. I will not buy these Bluray sets because I don't speak Japanese; unless they have English subtitles they're just a very large box of people talking gibberish with a soundtrack CD inside, which cost me five times as much money as the CD would have on its own. Would I buy the Tempest box for �70 + �10 postage + �30 customs fee? Not a chance in hell. Would I buy the complete score as a FLAC download with digital booklet for �20? Sign me up, right now.

Japan doesn't adapt well to new ways of doing things; since it's the world capital of bureaucracy and red tape. Things have to be done this way because that's the way they're done. This attitude meant that CD popularity and record stores are hanging on longer there than in most other parts of the world... but eventually, as we've seen, the shift will be worldwide.

I don't want CDs to die out, not at all. But, if CDs have to die so that recorded music can survive, I'll happily say goodbye to the CD. Digital distribution is an immature technology. In twenty years everything will be available everywhere, and it will be available losslessly. At this point, CDJapan - and domestic Japanese retailers - will start selling FLAC downloads. Assuming the economic downturn reverses, at least partially, sales will pick up. Hopefully prices will go down. When scores move to digital distribution in Japan (and they will; they have to - otherwise the music industry will die) they will sell worldwide. This will encourage more Western sales - even if the prices remain exactly the same, for me, as an importer, that's a price reduction of 50% once I factor in the delivery fee and customs release charge. I can't be the only person who thinks this way.

I think everything will work out... it may take some time, and when I say "work out" I mean "change irrevocably but we still get what we want" - not "everything will go back to the way it was in 1990".

What's important to me is that, at this stage in the game, GOOD SCORES are still being made - even if they no longer consider soundtrack sales as viable as they once were. There was a danger that executives could've said "Well, we don't sell the soundtrack CDs any more, so why the hell should we spend �20,000 recording Tempest in Moscow? Do it on a keyboard for �30." - but they didn't. Budgets - whilst tighter now than ever before - still allow for a Tempest, or a Magi, or even a Code Breaker, a Fractale, or a Tanken Driland.

That's good news, to me... :)

Any chance of a mirror for this? I don't like Mega with their having to do this and having to do that.

Scans added to my Tempest post - see the previous page.

I guess I have been very pessimistic about this whole shebang. As you said, great scores are still being made, and 2012 was one of the best years for orchestral anime soundtrack. I, too, am dearly hoping for a digital platform with an ability to buy from abroad PLUS lossless encode with digital booklet included. I am wondering how production companies are able to fund for a large orchestral project with news of dismal ratings and low merchandise sales going on about... Japan first got to do away with the ridiculous pricing to have the mass-market appeal...

Holy S**T, look at this... Whilst reading up about the Russian State Symphony Cinema Orchestra...

Some items of considerable interest on their "Recent Credits" page...


"Haru" animation film, Michiru Oshima composer, Wit Studio, Japan, 2013
"Little Wich Academia" animation film, Michiru Oshima composer, Trigger, Japan, 2013
"Patema" animation film, Michiru Oshima composer, Asmic Film, Japan, 2012
"Tempest" animation film, Michiru Oshima composer, Sony, Japan, 2012

WOT? Little Witch is a Moscow score... Haru is a Moscow score... AND Patema - which I've never even heard of and didn't know Oshima was working on - is ANOTHER Moscow score?

Seriously? Four of these in a period of twelve months? Oshima's been a busy little bee, hasn't she...

:happycroc:

Splendid news! I absolutly love the sound of this orchestra. So warm and vibrant ... that reminds me, has Hana Ki Sou been shared in FLAC here before?
I also don't mind to wait a few more months for Tempest, because this is NOTHING like waiting over two years for a new Hellsing CD, especially after watching OVA 10. There is about an hour of orchestral music still unreleased with no sign of even a blueray bundle. This would be the perfect antidote for Matsuo's rather mediocre JoJo. My last straw is the (possible?) Hellsing OVA VI - X collection.

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Zetsuen No Tempest Original Sound Track Vol. 1
[APE/CUE/LOG]

Music by Michiru Oshima
Performed by Moscow International Symphony Orchestra

Happy listening!

Thank you for everything

Emiri Miyamoto: tears
FLAC


Thank you Akashi San

Les enfants de la Terre～地球のこどもたち♪　宮本笑里
Les enfants de la Terre (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuTJjpDRULc)

Hey, guys, check those two links below. You can find there two pieces from upcoming album of a guy named Woodkid. His piece "Iron" was used in some Assassins Creed trailer, but I missed it. My friend didn't. And boy, I'm glad he didn't.

It's basically some kind of "indie" music. With vocal, drums and... with orchestra. You may not like guys voice, you may be annoyed by simplistic, tribal-like drumming, but the orchestral arrangements are fantastic - the buildup near the end of "I love you" is just stunnig, so much emotions, so much power. I had goosembumps...

And even if U won't like it, you will at least watch wonderful videos;).

Woodkid - Run Boy Run (Official HD Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0)

Woodkid - I Love You (Official Video) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQu8FOjJXdI)

Destiny: Dreamer's ALLIANCE
FLAC


Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/5696)

LINK (http://www.mediafire.com/?ha57cocbtca7oqx)

For those who still haven't heard the intimate chamber ensemble version of Sakimoto's Romeo x Juliet. The circulating APE encode gave me a CRC error and stopped playing, but this one is fine.
Enjoy!

Made a cover image for Tempest, in case anyone is interested:

In other news, I am quite impressed with the music for OZ by Danny Elfman. On first few times through it I really like the theme and the general vibe of the score. A lot better than I expected.

In other news, I am quite impressed with the music for OZ by Danny Elfman. On first few times through it I really like the theme and the general vibe of the score. A lot better than I expected.

This has been one hell of a week for us orchestral music lovers. It would be the best damn week ever if I didn't run into problems with my rip of Age of Conan: Secrets of the Dragon's Spine.

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Words can't describe how much I love this music. I have a feeling this year will top even last year with ease with Hisaishi, Oshima, Sahashi and Watanabe back in top form. Even Hollywood has now decent scores (still not good in my book but enjoyable nonetheless).

Guys, what have I been telling ya? It was only a matter of time before music started to be good again! I bet in 5 years, even Tango will be saying a Western score was his favorite of the year. Who still doesn't have faith in Star Wars Episode 7? :D

Love Little Witch.

Oshima must be getting one hell of a good deal out of this Moscow orchestra, suddenly... 2004, FMA. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 - nothing. 2012 - Tempest. 2013 - Little Witch, Patema, Haru...

Edit: Oh, bugger... it seems to be a short film. No score release, then... and no doubt barely any music...

Well, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if she had spent at least some of 2011 in preparation for her latest offerings. Composing them, getting the deals with Moscow squared away, contracting individual players, etc. They were probably recorded closely together as well.

25 minutes for Little Witch, apparently. Maybe we'll be lucky.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if she hadn't spent at least some of 2011 in preparation for her 2012 scores. Composing them, getting all of her affairs with Moscow squared away, contracting individual players, etc. Heck, chances are she had probably recorded all of her Moscow scores in close proximity with each other as well.

Anyways, I just got done speaking with Mr. Haugen, and he told me that the two themes he put up on his SoundCloud made up the vast majority of his work for Age of Conan: Secrets of the Dragon's Spine. I have already extracted them from the site, but at the cost of them being just 128kbps. Would you guys like me to upload that soundtrack as-is, or would you like to wait on me possibly getting my technical issues with my rip squared away?

Well if you upload 128kbps rip, just make sure you identify it as 128.

Well if you upload 128kbps rip, just make sure you identify it as 128.

Have you ever known me to do anything less? :D

But I won't unless the rest of you are cool with it. I still feel a little off with posting something that is less than the very best quality I can get, but music as meh quality will always be better than no music at all.

RYOTA KOMATSU
GUSKŌ BUDORI NO DENKI
(THE LIFE OF GUSKŌ BUDORI)

MP3 320kbps + SCANS | 16 Tracks | 01:05:42 | 173 MB

Release Date: 23.05.2012
Label: Sony Music Japan International
Catalog Number: SICC-1550
VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32189)



01. "The Life of Guskou Budori" Main Theme (Opening)
02. Life
03. Frost Damage
04. Kotori
05. Factory Manager
06. Dream I
07. Akahige I
08. Akahige II
09. Akahige III
10. Dream II
11. Dr. Kubo
12. Sanmutori Volcano
13. Carbonado Volcano
14. Decision
15. "The Life of Guskou Budori" Main Theme (Ending)
16. Umare Kuru Kodomotachi Notameni (Instrumental)

Playlist (Xiami) (http://www.xiami.com/song/play?ids=/song/playlist/id/1771037659%2C1771037661%2C1771037663%2C1771037665% 2C1771037667%2C1771037668%2C1771037669%2C177103767 0%2C1771037671%2C1771037672%2C1771037673%2C1771037 674%2C1771037675%2C1771037676%2C1771037677%2C17710 37678/object_name/default/object_id/0)

Track 16, composed Kazumasa Oda

Wonky translation. Scans from VGMdb.

Source: Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/516138)

DOWNLOAD
https://mega.co.nz/#!ZNMzUaLD!Y4WMwEHVc18WtLbZ334ZYRz30IcdmfvvMCWXhMA BhlY

EDIT: FLAC by nextday shared here (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/ryota-komatsu-gusko-budori-no-denki-life-128585/#post2301820).

Intrada just released a stereo Max Steiner score, also their first Steiner release, and it sounds stellar.
THOSE CALLOWAYS (http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8017/.f)

To go with it, if you like OZ, the CD is only sold through Intrada.
OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8018/.f)

Herr Salat - This is a very interesting share. Quite challenging and yet not in the same way as many scores. This is certainly a composer to watch now for me.

Does anyone have The Naked and The Dead by the Maestro ?? Could you be kind enough to upload and send a link on my pm

Made a cover image for Tempest, in case anyone is interested:


Thank you Akashi San

TazerMonkey 'll tear your soul apart. :'D

*rattles chains*

Herr Salat - thank you so much for the Ryota Komatsu score... what beautiful work it is! I know I go on about such things, but this is a masterclass in what you can do with an ensemble of just 19 players. Glorious, just glorious. :)

IN other, slightly scary news... I am almost enjoying not one, but two brand new mainstream Hollywood scores. I might be going soft... but Elfman's Oz is surprisingly competent - the only thing it's really missing is a theme, but all the same it is, for me, the nearest he's got to revisiting his early 1990s style... it's dark and romantic Elfman, not dark and wacky Elfman... and John Ottman's Jack The Giant Slayer is also... surprisingly competent. Sorry, that's the best complement you're going to get out of me for the time being.

And it has themes. Themes, not motifs. Themes that last longer than one bar. What matters is they're trying - and when you hear what they're saying about these scores, it's quite encouraging. They're not saying they wanted retro or old-fashioned... They're saying they want a return to film music with character; film music not film scores. These scores are getting through. They're still living in the restrictive world of 21st century Hollywood... but every time we edge just a little bit closer to getting something genuinely good.

Even action flicks are dipping their toes into the waters of decent scores... Kraemer's Jack Reacher was pretty dull as it goes... but I found that I could actually listen to it and not get angry... ;)

Hopefully, movies will get good again, too...

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IN other, slightly scary news... I am almost enjoying not one, but two brand new mainstream Hollywood scores. I might be going soft... but Elfman's Oz is surprisingly competent - the only thing it's really missing is a theme, but all the same it is, for me, the nearest he's got to revisiting his early 1990s style... it's dark and romantic Elfman, not dark and wacky Elfman... and John Ottman's Jack The Giant Slayer is also... surprisingly competent. Sorry, that's the best complement you're going to get out of me for the time being.

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Tango, thanks to post your reviews and comments in the related threads. This will be the last warning.

Can't tell if joke...

If I had placed a smiley I would have totally ruined it ! Mwwwwhahahaaaaaaa !!! :D ;) Now you can tell. :)

... Errm. Sorry guys.

LOL, OK. ;)

I suppose in hindsight I really should trust people with Ginrei avatars...

In case you wonder... the reason I don't is because it's a lesson I learned long, long ago. With a handful of exceptions, people on this forum don't want reviews or opinions or in fact any textual content in a thread besides "Thanks!" and "Awesomest score EVAR!!!"

Back in the day, when I used to venture outside of this thread, I'd invariably get ignored, told to keep conversation and other such appallingly destructive fascist concepts out of the download thread, or informed that my "snobby arrogance" and "miserable whining" (not quoting NaotaM there, just in case anybody wondered) wasn't at all welcome...

So... nowadays, I keep 99% of posts that require the engagement of grey matter to this forum... this policy has vastly reduced the number of FFshrine-related headaches and psychotic meltdowns I experience... ;)

I see very well... Sad but true. :/

... And no matter my avatar, you should trust someone who's definitely not the least power to throw a "last warning"(while it's the first) to you as I did lol !... So in any case never lose your sense of humor please, not even in front of a bunch dorks if it has to happen. You'll find out easily what's behind the posts this way anyway. ;)

JOHAN DE MEIJ
SYMPHONY NO. 3 "PLANET EARTH" (2006)
The North Netherlands Orchestra and Concert Choir, conducted by Otto Tausk
Joris de Man, electronic samples

FLAC + CUE + LOG + SCANS | 3 Tracks | 00:48:56 | 273MB

Recording Date: April 18 & 19, 2006
Label: Amstel Music
Catalog Number: Amstel Classics CD 2006-01




Johan De Meij
Symphony No 3 (Planet Earth) - 2006
mega.nz (https://mega.nz/#!RcFggCaY!GyeNDSq4ZzNNMbh4V-lZ-nt4R6Eg8zH4XNkikwx_G7s) (MP3 -V0)

1st Movement: Lonely Planet (start - 17:00)
2nd Movement: Planet Earth (17:00 - 29:05)
3rd Movement: Mother Earth (29:05 - end)

This is a live recording (unreleased) of the world premiere of the piece - I believe the orchestra is the North Netherlands Philharmonic. They have recorded it in the studio, and this CD is available - and is no doubt sonically superior to this recording, which was made from the Dutch radio broadcast of the premiere concert. However, there is a certain vitality to this recording - that live excitement that you never quite match with a polished, perfect, studio performance.

About this symphony...

This is a massive piece, clocking in at nearly fifty minutes. De Meij intended it as a companion piece to Holst's "The Planets" - whereas Holst looked at every planet but the Earth, De Meij composed his symphony as an ode exclusively to our very own planet. The choral writing is, in places, reminiscent of Holst - indeed, there is even a quote from Neptune, but this is very much De Meij's piece. It's scored for full symphony orchestra, choir, plus electronics - pre-recorded sound on tape, and synthesisers. Incidentally, Joris De Man (Killzone) helped out with the electronic sections of this symphony. This piece has a considerably more modern feeling about it than the first symphony - De Meij is channelling John Adams (a great deal) and Phillip Glass (to a lesser extent) here as the piece is essentially minimalist in construction - a handful of motifs and melodies, repeated and expanded throughout the piece. If you like the way Ravel's Bolero builds and builds, you'll like the way this piece is set out. If you like John Adams, you'll like this. If you like the sound of an enormous orchestra, noble brass, and anthemic lyricism, you'll like this. Give it a try - it's a wonderful piece written about a wonderful planet. :)

About this recording...

This recording was made, as I have noted previously, from Dutch radio. Please, do not download this if less than perfect sound quality offends you. It is nowhere near bad - but it's not absolutely flawless. The recording came to me mere days after the concert - in mono, and in absolutely appalling condition. I spent six months arriving at the fully remastered edition I'm uploading for you today. I have performed noise reduction (there was low frequency hum and tape hiss present all the way through) as well as re-equalised to bring out the midrange and higher frequencies, calm down the lower frequencies, and generally provide a bit of breathing room to what was initially a pretty boxy recording. I have also applied a light reverb, once again, to try to give the piece a little breathing space. It's not perfect, but it's definitely listenable, and it's also RARE!

DOWNLOAD
mega.nz (https://mega.nz/#!8YtAGKgL!cN4kLH_puYo5e5voJOAsZA99ub5ImbL9RWbemyoCxuk)

Herr Salat - thank you so much for the Ryota Komatsu score... what beautiful work it is! I know I go on about such things, but this is a masterclass in what you can do with an ensemble of just 19 players. Glorious, just glorious. :)

IN other, slightly scary news... I am almost enjoying not one, but two brand new mainstream Hollywood scores. I might be going soft... but Elfman's Oz is surprisingly competent - the only thing it's really missing is a theme, but all the same it is, for me, the nearest he's got to revisiting his early 1990s style... it's dark and romantic Elfman, not dark and wacky Elfman... and John Ottman's Jack The Giant Slayer is also... surprisingly competent. Sorry, that's the best complement you're going to get out of me for the time being...
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Indeed Tango. THIS is the sort of small ensemble work I want to hear. I don't care how big the orchestra is as long as the music has enough going on that it can keep me interested.

Jack the Giant Slayer does indeed have a great theme, I just wish it wasn't so dark in parts.

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EDIT: Actually, you know what? That wasn't at all relevant to the discussion at hand.

Thanks for the soundtracks Herr. I'll take a listen to them soon. Been listening to a bunch of dark orchestra as of late...I think it's about time I take a gander at something a little more WAFF.

AAAAGH what did you say that wasn't relevant? This is going to bug me forever now...

Now you know how *I* feel!

I was pretty much bitching about how MEGA puts all of my downloads in the Users/Matt/Download folder, instead of my D:/Temp. Downloads where I put all of my...well, temporary downloads.

EDIT: Anyways, I think I am becoming more like the rest of you crazy music pedants. I just can't get into any of Jaosn Graves' new stuff, no matter how much I want to. Tomb Raider bored me to tears, and the majority of Dead Space 3 was not nearly as satisfying as 1 and 2. So much of his music is essentially RC-lite. I wonder what happaned to the guy who composed Dungeon Siege III. :(

Same thing with Bear McCreary! He hasn't done anything halfway decent ever since BattleStar Galactica. Human Target was good, but the way it was presented on the album was utter crap. Walking Dead may as well have NO music for all the good it does. I want to believe in Defiance and Da Vinci's Demons...but I just don't know.

I'm turning into a pessimist. Well, more so than I was before. Ugh.

A bit of orchestral lovey-doveyness coming up soon.

The recent episode of Manyuu Maou Yuusha has some really good pieces, as well as a fundamental speech for Humanity, Freedom, Equality ... ironically much less corny than I expect from anime, rather moving actually (although the rest of the series was kinda meh). It's not a great score by a long shot but still pleasant enough to my ears. I will check out the soundtrack.

EDIT: Ah we're back, so here it is.



Yuji Nomi
The Hungarian Symphony Orchestra




Dowload CD1 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/R9UDQFMJ/Nichijou_-_Original_Soundtrack_(2CD).part1.7z_links)
MP3 / V0 / 46 Tracks / 70 min

Download CD2 (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/J21PWHI5/Nichijou_-_Original_Soundtrack_(2CD).part2.7z_links)
MP3 / V0 / 48 Tracks / 72min

It was a pain in the ass to collect all volumes of Nichijou with the score but now it's complete, making for a nice 2CD soundtrack. Perhaps we will get something like Star Driver in the future but until then I hope this will do. Whenever a japanese composer records a score in eastern europe, wonderful and magnificent things happen. Truely an amazing classical score, beautifully played by the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra (In a perfect world all Sound-Inn scores would be rerecorded in eastern europe). It has everything you could ask from an orchestral tour de force, there's even a full blown sifi score on disc two. The rest is every bit as lovely as the show itself. One of the best (if not the best) anime scores of 2011. Wonderful, bombastic and Yuji Nomi's best work to date.

Enjoy

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I don't even know where you got all those scores. As far as I could tell I only had the first two volumes and they didn't add up to being that much music. Still, I appreciate you posting a combination version like this.

EDIT: Though I very much appreciate this score, I should note that the tags are closer to what I typically see in a classical score with the orchestra tagged as the artist. To each his own but if you are particular about your tags have a look at them before copying it into your collection.

Same thing with Bear McCreary! He hasn't done anything halfway decent ever since BattleStar Galactica. Human Target was good, but the way it was presented on the album was utter crap. Walking Dead may as well have NO music for all the good it does. I want to believe in Defiance and Da Vinci's Demons...but I just don't know.

You don't like the score to Walking Dead? I love the music! Especially from Season 3 in some of the sadder moments. BSG was really good and right now La-La Land is having a sale until the full release of Caprica and the mini-series BSG: Blood and Chrome. The piece called Apotheosis - The Differently Sentient is such a wonderful work! Da Vinci's Demons sounds really interesting, but I can't really hear the score in the featurettes. You should check out Dark Void (the normal one, not the 8-bit). I don't know, I find Bear McCreary to be an up and coming composer. His music is still better and more refined than half of the crap I'm used to hearing in Hollywood and on TV. In fact, he uses REAL instruments and I am all for that and not that Hans Zimmer synthesized garbage ;). There is still hope, Doublehex!

From the number of likes and the sheer number of downloads, I am going to venture a guess that many of you liked my upload of Salonen's Violin Concerto (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/461.html#post2286265).
Salonen's music mesmerizes me in a similar way Stravinsky's music does, which shouldn't be too surprising because Salonen seems to absolutely admire Stravinsky. Here's another Salonen goody that some of you may appreciate.


Esa-Pekka Salonen: Wing on Wing
FLAC/CUE/LOG

Composed and Conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Performed by Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra


Album Information (http://www.amazon.com/Esa-Pekka-Salonen-Wing/dp/B000787WYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362715006&sr=8-1&keywords=salonen+wing+on+wing)

FLAC Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ahftdgdq5bvd19v)
FLAC Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zzud4agakx25j68)

No scans because I suck and my scanner is out of commission. Have fun listening nonetheless!

EDIT (REQUEST): Could someone upload the back cover image of Adiantum Blue (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/206.html#post1477052) (Tango's upload)?

The only half decent music in The Walking Dead was during Season 1, and it was only during that one episodes with that black guy that WE NEVER SEE AGAIN struggles with putting his zombiefied wife out of her misery. I cannot honestly recall a single thing about the rest of the score.

Like I said, I *liked* BSG. But that was the only good thing he has done! Human Target was good but presented in the absolute worst fashion. The only thing good about Dark Void is the main theme - the rest is pretty unforgettable, unfortunately.

I still have hope. I mean, McCreary IS a good composer. He just seems to be in a rut. I want to think that with Defiance he will be back in his A game. But I've been wrong before.

Actually, guy showed up in last Sunday's episode :P. Perhaps the score to the show will eventually get released by AMC is shuffling their feet in doing so. Well at least you still have hope for the guy. I haven't listened to all of Human Target so I can't really comment on that one. He does seem to be working on more projects that involve more of an orchestra approach. I certainly hope both Defiance and Da Vinci's Demons will be good, but I guess time will tell, eh?

Could someone upload the back cover image of Adiantum Blue (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/206.html#post1477052) (Tango's upload)?


Note about scans: The back cover scan () is very blurry; this is because LED scanners are crap. Every time I try to remove a back cover from its jewel case, I either break the case or rip the cover - so I do not even bother to try any more. I just stick the whole case in the scanner. Sorry it's not perfect; but as far as I'm concerned it's better than me wrecking my CD collection.

It's infinitely better than nothing. Thank you so much, Herr Salat and of course, Tango for the original upload of the album.
I'll hopefully upload a FLAC rip of Gokusen 2005, Garasu no Kantai, and an Oshima score that has never seen the light on the Internet. The shipment, which was supposed to have reached my mailbox many days ago, is still missing without a method to track its whereabouts. If it indeed has gone astray due to a blunder made by the seller or the shipper, I'll have hell of a time trying to resolve the issue as I don't live in Japan to directly submit a "missing shipment" complaint.

klnerfan, the Chinese character 日 (sun/day) is missing on the front cover ^^"

Dear God, am I busted? (But Endless Everyday has a nice ring to it, don't you think ;))

Akashi San: Aaargh... hope it turns up soon... :(

My mind can not even compute how anyone would have difficulty removing the slip from behind the disc in a jewel case. I haven't broken a single case and I've been taking out the slip to scan for years now.

Well, good for you! :awsm:

I don't consider myself physically clumsy, but I have not had a great deal of luck; broken cases, ripped inlays, crooked inlays, etc... so I decided it wasn't worth doing. I still scan the back covers - and as you can see from the above, my new scanner doesn't have a problem scanning through the plastic... If anybody's still pissed off because they're not getting the strip, they can kiss my arse.

I have not yet broken the back side of a case...mostly because I am way too scared that I *might* to even attempt it. I mean, that thing is locked in there like it was sealed with glue or something. And jewel cases aren't exactly renowned for being the most stable contraption conceived by man.

EDIT: In other news, I am giving Tomb Raider another shot. First time I listened to it I was getting hooked again on Dark Souls, so it was hard for me to listen to anything that wasn't full on epic chorus battle music. Four tracks in, and I am much more optimistic now.

Thanks for the higher-quality back cover! I normally wouldn't bother myself with album art images, but having Foobar display both front and back covers makes for a delicious eye candy while listening to music.
I have been furiously re-downloading some of the albums posted here to retrieve just back cover images - at the huge expense of monthly bandwidth. It's all worth it, especially if you have a pretty sizable monitor!
For those that might be interested, here's my setup of the godlike music player that is Foobar.

Any chance for a reup?

Thanks in advance!




Garbo: El Esp�a by Fernando Vel�zquez:

Review (from MundoBSO (http://www.MundoBSO.com))

For this magnificent documentary the composer develops his score in two well-defined and established dramatic levels: first, and in a dominant position, an ironic, sarcastic, playful tone; secondly, an austere and evocative dramatic music. The first level is substained in a retentive principal theme, of jazz air and with the use of a whistle, who knows many variations and which is applied with the clear intention that the viewer empathize with the nerve and insouciance with which the character unfolded in lands as sensitive as dangerous, but not frivolizing but highlighting his picaresque.

In the second, Vel�zquez places his creation at the epicenter of the tragic events of the war and its consequences on the defenseless population. He does this with emotional and heartfelt music, warm and also loving, where stands out the use of a cello and that reminds, although only as a reference, the music of Georges Delerue. Overall this is a solid work, adequately applied and structured, which includes some songs (pre-existing and also by the author, who also sings one of them).

http://s3.subirimagenes.com:81/otros/previo/thump_5033651garbospymms10013.jpg (http://www.subirimagenes.com/otros-garbospymms10013-5033651.html)

Track listing

1. The Man Who Saved the World (01:34)
2. Garbo: The Spy (01:58)
3. Spanish Civil War (01:30)
4. Don Quijote (00:47)
5. Lisbon Lies (01:23)
6. Malta Siege (02:31)
7. The Nazi Menace (01:15)
8. The Illusive Spy (02:02)
9. The Early Years: Barcelona (01:35)
10. The Net in Motion (03:30)
11. My Contribution to Humankind (00:59)
12. Garbo's Vivace (01:39)
13. Operation Dream (01:44)
14. Network of Spies (01:09)
15. Assignment: Venezuela (02:00)
16. Road to Caracas (01:19)
17. Peccatoribus (Non Est Qui Adjuvet) (04:00)
18. Nihil Sum (05:55)
19. Mars in Ball (02:04)
20. End Credits: Garbo's Theme (04:52)

Total Duration: 00:43:46

Format: wav

RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting (http://rapidshare.com/files/414737673/Garbo__23-08-2010_22-54-28_.rar)

http://www.multiupload.com/5ZXDI2R4J6

...I was getting hooked again on Dark Souls...

Now I know what to play this month ;)
Regarding Dark Souls, this is especially for you, Doublehex DARK SOULS - Additional Music Manual (https://mega.co.nz/#!2pwz1KAI!f4r5UQJXUdKj7xnKycB65Fy-NHUZEAlfqkg6rYuwuU4)

Samples: Painted World of Ariamis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_HIDv61qM), Tomb of the Giants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Js6j31hEW8), New Londo Ruins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12XRpxAxEd8), Blighttown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVPhqZ86uo), Dark Sun Gwyndolin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPQ24C3wrQ)

Well, good for you! :awsm:

I don't consider myself physically clumsy, but I have not had a great deal of luck; broken cases, ripped inlays, crooked inlays, etc... so I decided it wasn't worth doing. I still scan the back covers - and as you can see from the above, my new scanner doesn't have a problem scanning through the plastic... If anybody's still pissed off because they're not getting the strip, they can kiss my arse.

You can scan however much you want. As long as I have a cover image I don't really care beyond that most of the time. But a tip for removing the tray, stick your fingernails between the tray and the sides while lifting up the side closest to the hinge. The other part just comes right off after that.

Akashi-San that looks nice but would be a pain to get set up because I'd have to go back into all my scores and put the back cover in the folder with the music. Cover art alone is enough for me. How do you get the images to display so large on your screen? Mine is always 300x300 or something small like that.

EDIT: In other news, I am giving Tomb Raider another shot. First time I listened to it I was getting hooked again on Dark Souls, so it was hard for me to listen to anything that wasn't full on epic chorus battle music. Four tracks in, and I am much more optimistic now.

The soundtrack to the forth game The Last Revelation was really good, especially since it was all synth. But not cheaply or hastily done synth. And I HATE fake orchestral synth, with a passion. Unfortunately it's only on the game CD in lossy wav, yes lossy wav exists. Still really good. I could have a go at posting it if anyone's interested. Is Gamefront still stable as a file hoster? I might try that.

e I'd have to go back into all my scores and put the back cover in the folder with the music. Cover art alone is enough for me. How do you get the images to display so large on your screen? Mine is always 300x300 or something small like that.

Do you use Foobar? You can customize essentially everything including the looks. It took me 10 minutes to make this simple, functional layout. If you do use Foobar, go to "View", scroll down to "Layout", and then click on "Enable Layout Editing Mode". You will then be able to replace or re-size every element in the layout.
And it really is a pain to put the back cover image to every folder when you have a huge library. Since I don't have time to go through my entire library, I just do this for only special albums that I enjoy listening often.

Now I know what to play this month ;)
Regarding Dark Souls, this is especially for you, Doublehex DARK SOULS - Additional Music Manual (https://mega.co.nz/#!2pwz1KAI!f4r5UQJXUdKj7xnKycB65Fy-NHUZEAlfqkg6rYuwuU4)

Samples: Painted World of Ariamis (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F_HIDv61qM), Tomb of the Giants (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Js6j31hEW8), New Londo Ruins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12XRpxAxEd8), Blighttown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVPhqZ86uo), Dark Sun Gwyndolin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPQ24C3wrQ)

Gah! And here I thought you were gonna give me a guide to trick the game into playing music during the zones! The playlist trick has been with me for a long, long while klnerfan. Have you SEEN my League of Legends playlist? Heck, look at my Secret Word one! Or Diablo III!

Do you use Foobar? You can customize essentially everything including the looks. It took me 10 minutes to make this simple, functional layout. If you do use Foobar, go to "View", scroll down to "Layout", and then click on "Enable Layout Editing Mode". You will then be able to replace or re-size every element in the layout.
And it really is a pain to put the back cover image to every folder when you have a huge library. Since I don't have time to go through my entire library, I just do this for only special albums that I enjoy listening often.

Yeah I got most of that but it doesn't seem to give me an option to resize my cover art image.

Not so much about the 'trick' itself but rather the suggestion of what music to play. I made that list for a friend as well who wanted some music for the zones that fit so I searched a few hours for fitting music and I believe it turned out well. In hindsight I probably should have skipped the instruction part altogether in this instance :-P.

Umm, speaking of Dark Souls, there was a game which went to be fully composed by Motoi Sakuraba in this '13. I think it was an RPG game and everybody was expecting a lot, and yes, cannot figure now the fucking name, sorry, im lame. I'll edit in a few hours...

Sirus: I have no fingernails. As a nervous wreck most of the time, I pick incessantly. ;)

I could probably do it now, with a bit of patience... I guess I just thought early on "F**k it!" and developed a routine. I've got all sorts of pre-selection scan templates set up now so the whole process is almost 100% automated. I can do a whole CD (covers, booklet, etc) in about five minutes. I'm a creature of habit, I think... :)

Yeah I got most of that but it doesn't seem to give me an option to resize my cover art image.

If you are using one of the default layouts, that should be normal as it locks the resolution size of album art. I made mine from scratch.

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Where be samples for Valvrave? All I see are quite fashionable Japanese singers under the "Music" tab...


Symphony "Hanakisou"
FLAC/CUE/Front+Back Scans

Composed by Akiko Shikata
Arranged by Akiko Shikata and Kousuke Suzuki
Performed by Moscow International Symphonic Orchestra
Conducted by Konstantin D. Krimets


Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/6637)

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

A unique-sounding (very folksy) orchestral album for a yaoi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi) video game... Enjoy!

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TOMORROW? :D I didn't think this thing was starting until April...

Oh, right. My bad. Was so excited :'D

Most likely, we are going to hear a news report of how a British man killed a man in Germany over getting him excited about a false alarm.

Well, I do know where he lives... ;)

Tango, do you still have Oshima's Television Best album? It would be absolutely appreciated if you could upload it as searching for it has been pretty fruitless...

I think Mr Salat had been planning to upload this from Xiami... and somebody may have provided him with a FLAC copy to upgrade from the Xiami rip at 320kbps...

From Xiami: MP3 320 kbps: https://mega.co.nz/#!VYdyUKpI!Vql12iUI12uv7KM8jBr0e3fJDKl0prSxk7U-u6pm3wM. Tango has it in FLAC. Not sure why it takes so long. Maybe he's writing an essay again gushing over Michiru Oshima :'D

Edit: Essay. Just think about it. Or maybe not. I don't know. Perhaps just a one sentence review like "Oshima. Period. *drops mike*" :'D

I sent it to you, you dope! So you could post that one instead of the Xiami rip. ;)

Here is the FLAC: https://mega.co.nz/#!R4xBzSJQ!AA1uUVZlgB99oLlNV-kG9ACEYrNzUMhpfrUpXwrl0Vk

An essay, by Tangotreats:

I love Michiru Oshima. Not as much as Yoshihisa Hirano or Yasuo Higuchi, but she's pretty close.

The End

I misinterpreted Herr Salat's post and thought that he doesn't have it but you do. Thank you SO much, guys. It's no secret that I am an Oshima fanatic so this makes me tremendously happy. :D
Just one word for my essay: E.P.I.C.

Michiru Oshima: Cinema Music Best



Performance: Moscow International Symphonic Orchestra
Conductor: Konstantin D. Kremits
Label: Columbia Music Entertainment
Catalog No.: COCQ-83877
Source: Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/536011)
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320kbps
Size: 95MB
Booklet scans: Not available

Track Listing:

1. PRIDE/Moment of Destiny - Main Theme
2. WOMEN OF GOKUDOU/The Yakuza Wives: Main Theme
3. I WANT MY GRAVE!/Ohaka ga nai!: Anata ni A ete Yokatta Wa
4. KULTA: Main Theme
5. GODZILLA VS MECHA-GOSZILLA: G Theme
6. NAGASAKI BURABURA-BUSHI: Main Theme
7. COPYCAT KILLER
8. DON/Shuryou ni Natta Otoko: Main Theme
9. PARADISE LOST
10. PICARESQUE: Main Theme

Total Duration: 00:41:28

Wonky translation/Romanization with the help of the back cover. ()

DOWNLOAD
http://www.mediafire.com/?mec32qbe73w31cs

TAKASHI NIIGAKI
(attrib. Mamoru Samuragochi)
Symphony No. 1 "HIROSHIMA"
Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Naoto Otomo



My rip. FLAC Level 8. Booklet scans (in English and Japanese) included.

https://mega.nz/#!gswXVbyY!4TPZJrT4K4cWPjrWLr6bUWmKTReTboX405FdJlLoGoQ


Samuragochi has a handful of game scores under his belt; Onimusha probably being the most famous. He's not a prolific composer... but he is a superb composer. The key is in the photograph; man, pencil, manuscript paper. The tools of a genuine musician.

You can thank bad weather in Tokyo for this CD. I'd just finished in Tower Records, went to leave, and took one step outside into a terrific rainstorm. Knowing what Japanese storms can be like (on my first visit I walked out of the airport straight into a monsoon and my Metro map disintegrated under the battering rain) I decided to wait it out inside the store... so I went back in Tower Records for another browse. This CD caught my eye. I put it on at the listening post and I didn't turn it off until the 2nd movement started and I realised that I'd been standing there motionless for over twenty minutes. I pulled it off the shelf and bought it there and then, walked outside the store, and was greeted by clear skies and sunshine; fate...? (On the way back to the train station, I stopped for a few minutes by the Hachiko statue outside Shibuya station - whilst sitting enjoying the sudden burst of sun - I was approached and interviewed by Fuji TV who were doing one of their "Let's talk to the crazy foreign guy in Tokyo and ask him why he thinks Japan is ZETTAI SUGOI!!!!!!!!!!!!" shows - so if it hadn't rained I wouldn't have got this CD and I wouldn't have been on TV... Definitely fate.)

So, what have we got here? Well, a massively long (82 minute - on one CD - didn't even know that was possible) late-romantic style symphony that retells the tragic story of the infamous Hiroshima bomb. It doesn't pull its punches. The composer unleashes all hell and fury when the time comes, and the effect is all at once startling, mesmerising, and chilling. It holds on to tonality for dear life - don't worry, this isn't some condescending dissonant noise; for the subject matter, the symphony is quite melodic - and at the end, the most wonderful thing happens... all the death, destruction, pain, misery, war, is swept away... and we receive the gift of a Mahlerian hymn to peace - a noble melody that builds to a glimmering crescendo and a stirring major key finale. It's powerful stuff, even taken out of context... but when taken as a whole, after the preceding movements, the effect is pure magic.

The work is cast in three movements - they are titled only as 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Movements. They are 20:03, 34:37, 26:55 in length respectively.

(Edited to reflect recent revelations regarding Mamoru Samuragochi's fraud and now credited to the actual composer. I still love this symphony and I think it deserves hearing just as much as it did before, regardless of recent circumstances...)

Enjoy. :)

WHAT? A SYMPHONY BY OSHIMA? *DIES*

EDIT: Clearly I mis-read your post but very interesting!

Kaori Muraji: Amanda
AAC/No Booklet Because iTunes is Bleh

Arranged for Guitar and Strings by Michiru Oshima
Performed by Kaori Muraji and Orchestre des Virtuoses de Paris


Album Information (http://www.amazon.co.jp/AMANDA-DVD%E4%BB%98-%E6%9D%91%E6%B2%BB%E4%BD%B3%E7%B9%94/dp/B000NDFKD6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362869726&sr=8-1)

Tracklist (Composer names in parenthesis):

1. Le Ciel (Toshiaki Matsumoto)
2. This Girl's In Love With You (Burt Bacharach & Hal David)
3. Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Ennio Morricone & Andrea Morricone)
4. Go Between (Michel Legrand)
5. Juin (Toshiaki Matsumoto)

My iTunes purchase. DOWNLOAD LINK (http://www.mediafire.com/?fvjr6chdbz464xl)
I will also share Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez played by Kaori Muraji. Enjoy!

EDIT: That album sounds extremely interesting, Tango. Thank you!

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If you fell asleep during the 23 minute symphony, this doesn't bode well for the 82 minute symphony. ;)


Kaori Muraji: Amanda

Oh, crap... I'm in love again. *swoon*

I was approached and interviewed by Fuji TV who were doing one of their "Let's talk to the crazy foreign guy in Tokyo and ask him why he thinks Japan is ZETTAI SUGOI!!!!!!!!!!!!" shows - so if it hadn't rained I wouldn't have got this CD and I wouldn't have been on TV... Definitely fate.

I would like to see a footage of this please. :)
And about the symphony: Mahlerian but not too Germanic with many cinematic moments. I like it!

So would I! They did their business and left. I have no idea if it's even aired yet (this was December 2012) - if it has, I don't know what the show was called. I suppose my chances of ever seeing it are fairly slim. I've had a few Japanese friends looking out for it, but nothing as yet. They probably cut me down to fifteen seconds or something silly like that... It wasn't massively exciting - I told them about some of my favourite restaurants, did the "I've come all the way from England because Japan is so cool!" thing that they love so much, conveyed my respect and admiration for the way Japan responded to the earthquake tragedy, and that was about it. Then they spotted some other foreign-looking guy (an American) and started talking to him - and I made my exit.

Shame, really. Half of me wants to see it. The other half really doesn't because I can only imagine how bloody awful it would look... I can just picture it. Lots of sound effects, brightly coloured graphics, tongue-in-cheek Gaijin music playing in the background... Ugh...

So, Heart of the Swarm just got released today.

I am 3 tracks in.

I am hating it so far.

Further updates shall happen as necessary, but so far I advise you all to save some bandwidth and avoid it.

WHAT? A SYMPHONY BY OSHIMA? *DIES*

If the For the East booklet is correct about the title, it's called "Orashio".

大島ミチル「交響曲第１番“御誦”」より第１楽章 (http://ceron.jp/url/www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm4732380)
大島ミチル「交響曲第１番“御誦”」より第２楽章 (http://ceron.jp/url/www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm4732420)
大島ミチル「交響曲第１番“御誦”」より第３楽章 (http://ceron.jp/url/www.nicovideo.jp/watch/nm4732508)

Crikey... before Oshima discovered any sense of individual style. Still fascinating... This may be some of the earliest music we've ever heard from her... Thank you!

Yeah it is typical put you to sleep classical symphony based on the first movement.

Thanks, that makes it all worthwhile.

In all seriousness, I think that sort of comment says more about your personal preferences than it does about the symphony...

Well that's why I prefer film scores to symphonies in general. They have more explicit themes and more in your face emotions. Though at times this reminds me of Tempest interestingly enough.

I think the biggest issue I have with this is that it doesn't seem coherent. Going off of the first movement, she just jumps from one mood to the next. We start off with something that seems straight out of Penderecki, then we get something a little more optimistic in the vein of Prokofiev, then something cheery and comical... It's all over the place.

Are we talking about that crazy Oshima symphony, or the Samuragochi symphony I posted a few hours ago?

The crazy Oshima symphony.

See I was totally talking about this Hiroshima symphony.

But...but...you said


Yeah it is typical put you to sleep classical symphony based on the first movement.

right after Tango said


Crikey... before Oshima discovered any sense of individual style. Still fascinating... This may be some of the earliest music we've ever heard from her... Thank you!

So...what I mean to say is... WTF

Aah! I think Sirus may be talking about the other one - but the comments about Tempest similarities made me wonder. :)

Either way... yeah, it's a right mess. It sounds like something a young and naive composer would come up with when bowled over with joy at getting a live performance. Trying to shove everything and the kitchen sink into a short space... no progression, no development, no coherence... just a melange of ideas reeled off one by one, and on to the next. I can forgive her, because a) I know what a formidable composer she turned in to, and b) I think this was written in the early 80s... making it thirty years old and the work of Oshima only just out of her teens... :O

The thing is, each individual "identity" sounds nice. None of them are terribly written. The problem is that have no sense of coherence with one another. If this was a soundtrack that would be one thing. But a classical symphony demands a progression, and this doesn't have that.

But, it is a very nice piece of academia on one of the best composers working today. I doubt Shakespeare's first play was anything decent.

Age of Conan: Secrets of the Dragon's Spine
KNUT AVENSTROUP HAUGEN
2 files | 128 kbps (Extracted from Soundcloud | 5'49


1. Knut Avenstroup Haugen - Theme of the Dragon's Spine (3:13)
2. Knut Avenstroup Haugen - Combat (2:36)


https://mega.co.nz/#!7BwBxTTD!JDt001ZqeL4wN6qdKlS4sRGy3lg6yyhYJg9M4VD xNxE

As you have seen above, this was extracted from Mr. Haugen's SoundCloud. I had attempted to extract the music files from the adventure pack, but alas Funcom has decided to do a new sort of encryption method on their .ogg files now. It is completely unplayable in standard media players, and Infernus Animositas was unable to figure out how to convert them to a playable format. I will post a link to a .rar containing all of extracted .ogg below, in case any of you want to take a crack at it.

But enough of technical woes...let us talk about the music. And by the ghost of Basil Poledouris, what music this is! This is the music that bloody, savage dreams are made of. The theme opens up with a small array of horns, summoning heroes to explore the lands of Stygia. Strings begins to compliment and the music becomes bolder, more assured and heroic until we get a trio of heroic trumpet fanfares. Chimes and drums introduce us to the savagery of this new world, the horrors that hide beneath the sands of Stygia. A unified duo of horns and percussion give us a sense of something else...a hero rising on the horizon.

Then the chorus. Oh, sweet mother of God, the chorus! Something that has a harmony of chorus and action is absoltuley superb. Poledouris' influence is all over this, but this is also Haugen. Unlike some lesser composers who would essentially try to write like Poledouris, Haugen pays "homage" to the man. This is an evolution of the musical language that inspired composer evoked in "Conan the Barbarian" and our ears are better for it.

The music is brief, but more is said here than lesser soundtracks will say in 60 minutes.

I installed flashplayer like mega asked and downloaded Age of Conan, but now cannot find the file on my computer. Any ideas?

OK, guys. I've worked it out.

Doublehex: Surprisingly decent... even if it rides far too close to Poledouris' Conan almost constantly. It's nice to hear essentially Basil Poledouris' 1982 style thirty years later... but conversely... I wonder why Haugen feels the need to stick so closely to a musical style established by another composer for another franchise. There's more than one way to score Sword and Sorcery... and I have yet to hear Haugen's attempt... only an (admittedly skilled) Poledouris pastiche...

Kaori Muraji: Viva! Rodrigo
FLAC/CUE/LOG

All tracks composed by Joaqu�n Rodrigo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Rodrigo)

Guitar Solo: Kaori Muraji
Conductor: Victor Pablo P�rez
Orchestra: Galicia Symphony Orchestra


Album Information (http://www.amazon.com/Viva-Rodrigo-Joaquin/dp/B000YCLR7Y)

FLAC Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?l4yfh4wkx8220ao)
FLAC Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1hafvmi23vfabbc)

Short description of this album: Spanish classical music composer Rodrigo's best known work performed by a cute and talented Japanese guitarist
Remember Kanno's Darker than Black? A piece named "Kuro" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQa8j9jiYTg) (one of my favorites of all time - it gets me so emotional ^-^) is loosely based on the second movement of Concierto de Aranjuez
(listen to the last 3~4 minutes of Adagio from Concierto).

I immensely enjoy the Spanish sound and hope you guys do as well. Enjoy!

Mediafire Captcha: Tickled Ivories

I'm sure somebody there has a sense of humour...

Thank you very much for posting this wonderful album made by mai waifu.

A very interesting thread, I stumbled upon Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (page 408) but mediafire says "permission denied", I'm afraid.
Is there any chance of re-uploading (or am I doing something wrong @ media fire?)
Thanks in advance!
Greetings Jay

Doublehex: Surprisingly decent... even if it rides far too close to Poledouris' Conan almost constantly. It's nice to hear essentially Basil Poledouris' 1982 style thirty years later... but conversely... I wonder why Haugen feels the need to stick so closely to a musical style established by another composer for another franchise. There's more than one way to score Sword and Sorcery... and I have yet to hear Haugen's attempt... only an (admittedly skilled) Poledouris pastiche...

Surprisingly decent...the biggest understatement this side of the century.

As for why he composes in a style that is an extension of Poledouris', it is because it is the same universe. The fact that Poledouris composed for a film that was essentially totally different from the works of Robert E. Howard is just a mere technicality. He was infused by the works of Howard, and Age of Conan takes place in the same setting as the novellas and short stories. So it made sense that Haugen would make it thematically similar - they are in the same setting, albeit Age of Conan greatly expands on the Hyborian age. It's no different than when composers take a crack at Star Wars they write music that is Williams-eqsue. It would be a musical disservice otherwise.

EDIT: In other news, I have gotten into Doctor Who. No, not the music - that's been a part of my music library for the longest time. I'm talking about the show. Good Lord. It's British as Fuck. His time machine is a phone booth! A phone booth!

And I never thought I'd be so scared of a giant tin can on wheels...but 1x06 did it. That was a crazy good episode.

I stumbled upon Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker (page 408) but mediafire says "permission denied", I'm afraid.



TCHAIKOVSKY - THE NUTCRACKER
Valery Gergiev, Kirov Orchestra


MP3-V0 + Scans
https://mega.co.nz/#!UcUzERaR!W9x8GFeEQraIYKXknoLbuEiWjWJsZqjc6urACow yOuk

For what it's worth, this recording gets the Lens Seal of Approval. Gergiev's Nutcracker is vivid and energetic, and will put whatever listening apparatus you have (be it ne'er so humble) through its paces! I've retagged as best I could for less confusion after discovering the previous lot were the usual freedb mess.

In case no one has heared of it yet, there's a concert in stockholm this week with symphonic suites of One Piece, Full Metal Alchemist, Escaflowne etc. with Special Guest: KOHEI TANAKA

Anime The Concert 2013 - Kungliga Akademiska kapellet, Uppsala University (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l9_WfVTQSWo)

A shame that all we're gonna get are most likely LQ camrips on youtube :(

Hey Tango, the captcha I got was "You're not listening." Funny.

Speaking of concert, Oshima has a concert on 3/19 in which her themes for various anime and drama series will be played (Tempest and Little Witch are included). I wish I could teleport to Japan for just one day... :awsm:

Or to a world where every concert is released on Blueray (Hisaishi in Budokan is still a miracle).

Fuck me, Hirano's Driland is excellent. I have a nasty feeling we'll never get to hear it. The first "character song" CD featured a grand total of four minutes of score... and hasn't turned up online, despite being released in December... and despite the fact that it was labelled as "Volume 1" no further releases have materialised. The fact that the CD only had 28 minutes also suggested an intention to produce more... but if sales were shit, they'll probably not bother. The anime is still running (we're on episode 34) but I have this sensation that it's not doing too well... which means there's a good chance Yoshihisa Hirano's miracle of 2012 will go completely unreleased - even as a stinky bonus CD.

Either way, it's an absolute corker. The show is a stupid kiddy thing about children who run around a poorly illuminated castle getting chased by scary things (I think - I only skim the episodes to hear the score) but Hirano's music - fully orchestral and performed by real people - plays it as high adventure. If you like cheerful bouncy Ouran-style Hirano, it's here. If you like classical-pastiche Hirano with just a hint of Schoenberg, it's here. If you like frenetic brassy action, unleashing the fires of hell in crashing dissonance and polytonal insanity Hirano, it's here. If you like early Hunter x Hunter Hirano, it's here. Damn, it's got everything.

And it's in a stupid kids show based on a mobile phone game that's falling through the floor, ratings wise, and will probably never see the light of day except by watching the show.

Bloody buggering hell.

Japan - a bastion for great music at the best of times, and a place for utter frustration at the very worst of times.

If you like frenetic brassy action, unleashing the fires of hell in crashing dissonance and polytonal insanity Hirano, it's here.

This is the Hirano I would die to hear more. :D Japan, please!

The Classical Music of Knut Avenstroup Haugen


https://mega.co.nz/#!nJgwQIJY!cqlAkl7YrbQhNBgygUdvXFo8vVpIcqCHLE2ku-CbxoI

From the vaults of the internet I have managed to scavenge three pieces of music: the choral suite Under Verden, Piano Concert No.1, and the choral poem Fakkelens �ye...or at least 8 out of the 11 parts of it.

Haugen is most famous for his work on Age of Conan. However he first got his start as a classical composer in Norway, which just goes to explain why his incidental music is just SO. DAMN. GOOD. Get a man who knows orchestra to give you a score and he will give you music to remember. Get a man who just pounds at the keyboard and you will get shit.

Interesting snippet of a documentary coming out about Immediate Music, the trailer music company.
How to Score an Epic Movie Trailer (http://gizmodo.com/5990220/how-to-score-an-epic-movie-trailer#13631839300573)
Cue Tango criticizing them for being generic.

Interesting snippet of a documentary coming out about Immediate Music, the trailer music company.
How to Score an Epic Movie Trailer (http://gizmodo.com/5990220/how-to-score-an-epic-movie-trailer#13631839300573)
Cue Tango criticizing them for being generic.

They are generic!

But they can be nice too. Sometimes.

Here we go again... (I actually like Two Steps from Hell, volume one in particular)

Hey! I said they can be nice!

Sometimes.

I know you all probably listened to this when it was broadcast, but I hadn't listened to these versions until two days ago. I didn't think that there could be any improvement to John Barry's originals, but Nicholas Dodd managed to add a little more lushness to these versions. For example in Somewhere in Time, I love the flute solo playing the melody instead of just the piano. It adds more passion to it, in my opinion. I just wish John Barry were still alive...

Somewhere in Time (Memorial Concert Version 2011):
John Barry: 'Somewhere in Time' Main Theme (John Barry Memorial Concert at Royal Albert Hall" - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPWB3J6nVGM)

And why not include Out of Africa? This theme is so gorgeous with the french horns and the celli. It doesn't need to get loud to be powerful.

John Barry: 'Out of Africa' Main Theme (John Barry Memorial Concert at Royal Albert Hall) - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LEbtO_Vn4)

I see people were talking about Little Witch a while ago, so we've all seen these right? I can't remember if they were posted.

??????2013?????????????????? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zqBssEBpihA)

??????2013?????????????????????? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siI44zxkRUs)

(This video also cropped up about it, but I doubt this music is Oshima) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcHS3e_TpR4 [Edit: Looking further into it, looks like this video is just a general trailer for this year's young animator training projects, which Little Witch Academia is one of)

It's amazing the difference between the live orchestra and the mockup, no? And with regards to the Russian State Cinema Symphony, I might be headed there later this year (or to the Bratislava Symphony) for a visual novel project I've been working with. I'll give you the gossip and details in due time...

It's amazing the difference between the live orchestra and the mockup, no? And with regards to the Russian State Cinema Symphony, I might be headed there later this year (or to the Bratislava Symphony) for a visual novel project I've been working with. I'll give you the gossip and details in due time...

Please do tell us more about it! I loved reading some "visual novels" (known as "美少女ゲーム" or "エロゲ" in Japan) but never quite liked the theme-less synthy music in any of them.

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I loved reading some "visual novels" (known as "美少女ゲーム" or "エロゲ" in Japan)
That's incorrect. Both eroge (erotic game / adult game) and bishoujo games (which are primarly targeted for a male audience) are a subset of VN. There are also various other type, such as otome game (which targets the female audience). Non of these terms is synonymous for VN, just more descriptive.

Well then, I stand corrected... :) Thanks for the clear-up.

My pleasure. I was also a bit puzzled by your statement ("but never quite liked the theme-less synthy music in any of them"), because you very recently posted the Hanakisou arrange album. And this one is through and through VN (otome IIRC).

That's an arrange album which features tracks that were never used in-game. Plus, I have never played Hana Ki Sou. :D The music from ones I have played and VN music in general just don't have that orchestral oomph and brilliance. If you have some recommendations of "good" VN music, I would love to give them a listen. And as far as I know, Hana Ki Sou is just one of those extreme rarities that received an orchestral arrangement (you could count Air as one of them, but the symphonic arrangement used tracks from the anime, not the VN).

That's an arrange album which features tracks that were never used in-game.
Can you source this bit? It's the first time I heard that.

In fact I don't like this symphonic arrange album at all. I prefer the OST over it any time. Therefore I don't think I can give you any good recommendations here. Anyway, I usually like the music coming from the Key Sounds team (with emphasis on Jun Maeda). The eroge stuff by Hiroki Kikuta (Love Relaxation, etc.) is also nice. Nothing that fits the theme of the thread though.

Only in a sense that they are arranged. Sorry if that bit confused you. I find the symphonic arrangement much more digestible than the original soundtrack. Akiko Shikata's style is not endearing to me; even the symphony album had many moments I do not particularly enjoy. And I did try to listen to the original soundtrack many years ago and ended up dumping it... :)
I actually attended LiSA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiSA)'s concert where she performed songs from the anime Angel Beats (Jun Maeda wrote the songs for her, I think). Some fun songs they were!

I fear we won't find a common denominator then: You can usually throw just anything Shikata has done at me (apart from maybe the orgel stuff, that's just too simplistic more me) and I just love it. Her vocals and also how she uses them by multi-layering, I find that very unique, but I also understand that it's not for everyone.

Concerning Angel Beats!, I found this one of the weakest Key soundtracks. The anime was already below mediocre (some nice ideas but very poorly executed) and the score didn't really do anything for me. Maybe also because large parts were done by ANANT-GARDE EYES and not Maeda. I'm not saying that it has to be him all the time. E.g. Kud Wafter has this Key-ish sound to it, although it's entirely by Jyunichi Shimizu. I also enjoyed the Girls Dead Monster formation, at least in the studio versions (I even own the Keep The Beats! album). I've seen some bits from the live DVD... but honestly, I don't think that LiSA can really sing. She's the average JPop girls whose voice you can bring into an "acceptable" form in a studio environment. But she's not suitable for real live performances, and by real I mean performance without any technical "cheats".

I'm listening to Bear McCreary's latest score Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome... I really like it so far! I guess that isn't too surprising since I like the music of BSG, but there is a HUGE difference from previous scores from this universe and that would be the fact that there is synth. It isn't used a lot or in excess, just to add to the mood. So rest assured that it doesn't reek completely of synth like a Hans Zimmer creation ;). Tracks that I really love include "Dear Dad", "The Galactica", "Archeron", "Last Battle of Osiris", "Coker's Interlude", "Coker's Photo", and of course "Apocalypse: Blood and Chrome" which is basically a more powerful rendition of the Main Theme from "The Plan". All in all it's a nice return to the music of this universe with a dark twist. This will keep my appetite sated until the release of Caprica comes next month. If you want to download it, go here: http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/battlestar-galactica-blood-chrome-bear-mccreary-%5Bvbr-129264/#post2300743

Couldn't find an English tracklist for both volumes of Space Brothers, so I made one for fun. :)

English Tracklist

VOL. 1
1. Theme of Space Brothers
2. The Way to Space
3. Life Outside Spaceship
4. The Nanbas
5. Shaggy and Aloof
6. Forgotten Desire
7. Danny Boy
8. Promise
9. Sharon
10. Half-Fragmented Dream
11. Intermittent Hope
12. Kept Away Feelings
13. Appointment Dash
14. Cheery Mutta
15. Twisted Tie
16. Only Mine is Little!
17. Boiling Man
18. Dad's Imitation
19. Closed Environment
20. Green Card
21. The Earth Below
22. Space Center
23. Countdown
24. Lift Off!
25. Lunar Orbit
26. Realized Dream
27. Rocket Load

VOL. 2
1. Flying Shaggy
2. Cansat Production
3. Blue Suit
4. Heart's Note
5. Continuing the Dream
6. Desert Night
7. The Rock that Lived
8. Tears of the Star
9. And We Vowed
10. Pico
11. Mr. Hibitto
12. Leave it ta me!
13. The Choice to Returning Alive
14. Survival
15. Desolate Silver
16. Oxygen Level Zero
17. Omen of Darkness
18. Beyond Sadness
19. In Black Chasm
20. Frozen Look
21. Grandpa in the Control Room
22. Prayer
23. Incurable Illness
24. Hell that is like Heaven
25. Emergency Call
26. 11th Mail from a Friend

Kritzerland just released a delightful score, one of Alfred Newman's best works. How Green Was My Valley is a classic film in its own right and the music is indeed quite lush and warm. Music from the motion picture "How Green Was My Valley" with Music by Alfred Newman (http://www.kritzerland.com/greenValley.htm)


Newman’s score stands high at the top of his many brilliant achievements. His main theme is one of the most memorable and beautiful works he ever created. The score is simply one brilliant cue after another, each capturing the humanity and warmth of the characters, setting the mood, underscoring the drama and pathos and humor as only Alfred Newman could.

Tanaka-san rocking the concert hall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7yOBe0O-MA)

So, Heart of the Swarm just got released today.

I am 3 tracks in.

I am hating it so far.

Further updates shall happen as necessary, but so far I advise you all to save some bandwidth and avoid it.

I don't know why it is commonplace to leave the better music off the score release? There are better pieces hear in the game than the garbage that is the official release. A damn shame... Would it be too much to still ask for that complete rip, Doublehex? You should listen to the music for the cinematics as those are the diamonds in the rough, imo.

ANNO 2070
Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach


ECO


1. Tilman Sillescu - Project Earth (3:35)
2. Alexander R�der - Untamed (2:21)
3. Tilman Sillescu - A First Bridgehead (1:55)
4. Tilman Sillescu - Cascading Colours (2:20)
5. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Growing Seeds (2:13)
6. Tilman Sillescu - Walking Barefoot (2:15)
7. Alexander R�der - Forces of Nature (2:08)
8. Jochen Flach - A New Beginning (1:55)
9. Tilman Sillescu - Earth Sleeps (1:53)
10. Alexander R�der - Daydreaming In a Parking Lot (2:07)
11. Tilman Sillescu - Every Ending Needs a Beginning (1:57)
12. Tilman Sillescu - The Diva Performs Tonight (3:09)
13. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Inside the Womb (2:12)
14. Markus Schmidt - The Last Sanctuary (2:18)
15. Tilman Sillescu - Lifelines (1:00)
16. Tilman Sillescu - Seamus and the Secret of Life (1:28)
17. Tilman Sillescu - Closer to God (2:24)
18. Tilman Sillescu - We Will Carry You (2:17)
19. Tilman Sillescu - Power Nap (2:04)
20. Alexander R�der - Our Borrowed Time (2:08)
21. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Perfect Order (1:07)
22. Alexander R�der - Sheltered (3:06)
23. Tilman Sillescu - A Future Named Hope (2:43)
24. Tilman Sillescu - Release (1:51)
25. Alexander R�der - Distant Shore (2:12)
26. Tilman Sillescu - Slumbering Hillside (2:12)
27. Tilman Sillescu - There is Light Below (3:12)
28. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Rest Your Head (2:11)
29. Jochen Flach - Victorious (1:01)
30. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Surely Dr. Devi Knows (1:19)
31. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - The Secret Formula (2:03)
32. Alexander R�der - Tumbling Raindrops (2:08)
33. Tilman Sillescu - An Elderly Woman Speaks (2:22)
34. Tilman Sillescu - A Helping Hand (1:03)
35. Markus Schmidt - World Beneath the Surface (3:01)
36. Tilman Sillescu - What a Glorius View (2:25)
37. Tilman Sillescu - God Smiles (2:37)
38. Tilman Sillescu - God Smiles Vocal (Italian Vocals) (2:28)
39. Tilman Sillescu - God Smiles (English Vocals) (2:30)


TYCOON


1. Markus Schmidt - Grinding Teeth (1:07)
2. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Anybody Need Anything? (1:03)
3. Tilman Silescu - Wasted Soils (2:38)
4. Jochen Flach - Avoiding Morality (2:02)
5. Tilman Silescu - Collateral Damage (1:59)
6. Markus Schmidt - Barracudas (2:04)
7. Tilman Silescu - Defeated! (1:14)
8. Tilman Silescu - Her Headache is Gone (2:20)
9. Markus Schmidt - Desolation Waltz (2:16)
10. Tilman Sillescu, Alexander R�der, Markus Schmidt, Jochen Flach - Dominion (2:21)
11. Markus Schmidt - Modern Times (2:43)
12. Tilman Silescu - Observe Your Neighbour (2:11)
13. Alexander R�der - Faceless Fear (2:09)
14. Tilman Silescu - Worlds End (1:48)
15. Tilman Silescu - The Black Tide (1:59)
16. Alexander R�der - Monolith (2:10)
17. Markus Schmidt - Asymetric Warefare (2:00)
18. Markus Schmidt - Fluid Gold (1:18)
19. Markus Schmidt - Global Cure (2:09)
20. Tilman Silescu - Confidence (2:00)
21. Alexander R�der - Follow the Stream (2:11)
22. Markus Schmidt - Industrial Landscapes (3:03)
23. Tilman Silescu - The Ebashi Trench Mystery (1:10)
24. Alexander R�der - Drowning Memories (2:10)
25. Jochen Flach - The City Never Sleeps (2:06)
26. Tilman Silescu - Drone Predators (2:04)
27. Alexander R�der - Phoenix Rising (2:05)
28. Markus Schmidt - Sweating Bullets (2:12)
29. Alexander R�der - Programmed To Rejoice (2:04)
30. Markus Schmidt - Skylars Masterplan (1:11)
31. Tilman Silescu - Scorched Earth (2:07)
32. Markus Schmidt - The Old World Order (2:22)
33. Jochen Flach - There Is Blood On Her Hands (1:05)
34. Tilman Silescu - The Signal (2:10)
35. Jochen Flach - Civilian Casualties (1:53)
36. Tilman Silescu - Where Are My Sleeping Pills (2:16)


http://mir.cr/01HFKV2T

So, let's talk a tad bit about this rip. The soundtrack, when it was originally released back in 2011, was essentially complete. The vast majority of cues were released, and we got a very consistent summary of the music from the game. However, there was around roughly ten or so themes that weren't released - including the main menu theme, "God Smiles" sans chorus. Luckily, all of the excluded themes were included in the game's archives fully named! This made it very easy for me to plug them onto each disc.

However, what wasn't included were the composers of the new cues. With the exception of God Smiles and the English chorus variant, I just put in all of the composers' name for the tag.

Now, about the music...well, what is there to say? Despite the modern elements Dynamedion decided to employ, this is still a very orchestral score. It uses synth, but as a supplement to the orchestra instead of one that overwhelms the music. Frankly, if you are going to do a "modern" score, this is how you should do it.

And in case you were wondering, no, this does not include the music from Deep Ocean. Ubisoft will be putting out that soundtrack in their "ANNO 2070: Complete Edition" package later this month. I won't be getting my hands on that because it is EU EXCLUSIVE. But I'm sure someone will put that out eventually.

I don't know why it is commonplace to leave the better music off the score release? There are better pieces hear in the game than the garbage that is the official release. A damn shame... Would it be too much to still ask for that complete rip, Doublehex? You should listen to the music for the cinematics as those are the diamonds in the rough, imo.

Maybe. I probably just got a job, so I'll be saving up for the Collector's Edition (I'll be damned if I miss that art book). We'll see how I feel about the music after playing through the game.

Debussy, Sibelius, Sch�nberg, Faur�: Pell�as et M�lisande
FLAC|CUE|LOG|2 DISCS~111:58
Source: My CD

Conducted by Serge Baudo
Performed by Czech Philharmonic Orchestra


Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LV6CM8/ref=dm_dp_cdp?ie=UTF8&s=music)

These two discs contain music based on Maurice Maeterlinck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Maeterlinck)'s Symbolist play Pell�as and M�lisande (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pell%C3%A9as_and_M%C3%A9lisande), which is a story of a forbidden love among 3 characters. The play became widely popular and was adapted by Debussy as a landmark five-act opera. It also inspired Schoenberg to write a symphonic poem, Sibelius to write nine-part incidental music, and also Faur� to write incidental music, from which he later made an orchestral suite. Debussy's work presented here is a truncated "symphonie" arrangement by Marius Constant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marius_Constant). Constant's arrangement captures the essence of Debussy's original work in a very efficient way. Schoenberg's and Sibelius' are also romantic and finely structured to give you the perfect imagery of Maeterlinck's story. Most of you will recognize Sicilienne from Faur�'s concert suite; it's a melodic, tender piece that you surely have heard somewhere in its original form or another. There are better performances of each work out there, but these two discs are a nice selection of GREAT performances in an affordable package. Baudo's recordings are fine enough so that you will be able to grasp each of the great composers' individuality and magnificence. I do, however, want to recommend this recording of Schoenberg's Pelleas (http://www.allmusic.com/album/arnold-schoenberg-pelleas-und-melisande-op-5-erwartung-op-17-mw0002388062), as it's one of my favorite classical works.


In-short, this is two hours of non-stop excellence that you should definitely give a try if you haven't already. :)



Download Link
Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?qo3xb83goobgk64)
Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?3mgflzn3fecfacn)
Part III (http://www.mediafire.com/?g0g4ehecs8cdof9)
Happy listening!

Thanks for the extra tracks and the composer cue credits! Here's a quick cover I made back when this came out in case anyone wants it.

I'm so damn happy right now. Soul Sacrifice is exactly what I hoped for and money well spent. Hiroshi Takaki's score for the second season of AKB0048 not only gets a soundtrack release in june/july but he's now scoring Precure as well! Not that I didn't enjoy Takanashi's style (Smile in particular, it has even some Sahashi moments) but as much as I am a fan of rock/metal with strings and trumpets, it is not quite the same as a real orchestral score. Samples can be found here: Thread 129403. Takaki is a composer I just can't get enough of and now he has projects left and right, just wonderful news.

Thanks for the extra tracks and the composer cue credits! Here's a quick cover I made back when this came out in case anyone wants it.

Very nice! I use each respective faction's cover for each cd, but I can use this for the main folder that those two sub folders are included in.

Hmm, you were hoping for a noisy, percussive score that's literally drowning in tired cliches and banality? Well, awfully pleased you got what you were after. Seriously... what the hell? Soul Sacrifice is complete and total shit... with maybe thirty seconds worth of saving graces across its entire length. Need I remind that Wataru Hokoyama wrote Afrika? Don't even get me started on Yasunori Shitsuda's contributions. Dear lord...

As for Takaki... well, yes, he's on Precure... which isn't exactly going to offer him endless opportunities to write the next Tytania. And unless you know differently, there isn't a single note of new orchestral score in the second series of AKB0048 and even if there was, I think we can live without "anemic keyboard-brass and twenty strings play lowest common denominator J-Pop Shit"...

:(

Hmm, you were hoping for a noisy, percussive score that's literally drowning in tired cliches and banality? Well, awfully pleased you got what you were after. Seriously... what the hell? Soul Sacrifice is complete and total shit... with maybe thirty seconds worth of saving graces across its entire length. Need I remind that Wataru Hokoyama wrote Afrika? Don't even get me started on Yasunori Shitsuda's contributions. Dear lord...

Tango, were we listening to the same score? Because I am on "A Certain Magician's Life" and it achieves a balance between tales of forlorn hope and hinting of something darker, all the while having a beautiful singer. This is Mitsuda's return to form from Xenosaga I.

I wouldn't call it "complete shit." Some bits of Hokoyama's output were competent, but the rest sounded like a typical modern score with no moving theme. This is the kind of score that focused too much on the music's texture, not melody... :)

Klnerfan, That particular Precure soundtrack will be uploaded here by a generous Shriner later. Let's hope it's good. :D

I'm starting to think I have no idea what a "modern score" is, because Soul Sacrifice is the last thing I think of when that term pops up.

I wasn't expecting anything like Afrika in the first place to be honest. The I'm happy part is more for Takaki scoring precure BUT I still think Soul Sacrifice is a good score, except for a few ambient tracks, I'm enjoying it. It's no Xenosaga and definetly nowhere near Kid Icarus Uprising but this "musical texture" is what I'm looking for at the moment.

Regarding Anno: It's downright criminal that the scores for 1701 and 1404 were not released and 2070 is getting 3cds. Don't get me wrong, it is nice music but not in the same league as 1701 or 1404. After all this time there's still no score release, even on the dynamedion store. I don't understand what is going through their minds, at least give us something more than the sound files from the game.

Yeah I agree it isn't an Afrika, BUT I still think it is a nice cohesive score. Hokoyama's offerings are complex and even though they don't really reference a main melody or theme they still show his competency when it comes to orchestration. Just look at the track "The Sky Used to Be Blue". Oh and I love his March of the Dead. The violin solo was unexpected! Mitsuda's main theme is obviously a highlight as well as "Even If This Body Falls to Ruin" which sounds like a nod to Xenosaga. There are nice flowing compositions also such as "That Which is Left on the Battlefield" and "Sigh of Relief" which takes me back to Chrono Cross. There is a lot to love with this, but I guess I am blooming with optimism :P.

EDIT: My only complaint with Soul Sacrifice would be that the tracks were too short often times leaving me wanting more development and elaboration.

Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/03AYAHXY/Eureka_SeveN.zip_links)
MP3 / V0 / 40 Tracks / 80min

To be honest I always dislike how most scores are presented on japanese OSTs, I can bear with OP/ED but Eureka Seven is a good example of how to do it wrong. Strangely, the movie score did it right with all the techno/trance tracks on a separate disc but the score for the series is constantly interrupted by them and scattered on four discs. Which is a shame because Eureka Seven (with Pocket of Rainbows) is among Sato's absolute best.

You know how it goes, I made my own cd version and here's just the score. Again more like a film score because that's how I like it best.
Oh and the cover is something I made in 30sec so if you have a better one feel free to post it, I know there are plenty of skilled photoshoppers around here ;)

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Haha! that's what you get for typing without thinking ... and fixed :p

Oh and the cover is something I made in 30sec so if you have a better one feel free to post it, I know there are plenty of skilled photoshoppers around here.

Oh God.

klnerfan, do my eyes a favor and next time tell me what you are concocting so I can make you a decent cover. Please. I don't want my eyes to bleed again.

Please do tell us more about it! I loved reading some "visual novels" (known as "美少女ゲーム" or "エロゲ" in Japan) but never quite liked the theme-less synthy music in any of them.

Sure. If you're familiar with visual novels, you probably heard of Hatoful Boyfriend and its creator, Hato Moa. I ended up involved in her latest project, Black Holmes, off some work I'd done in the past. I can't really say much about the project in general at the moment, because she hasn't publically released much information- but I'll tell you a few things from my side. Firstly, when we started talking about the project, we agreed that it would be good to have a more 'substantial' score. Most visual novels really don't take full advantage of the medium, nor are they given high production resources- I can't really name that many VN soundtracks that had a live recording. Of course, not being a large studio like Key, it's really both me and Moa investing our own hard cash into the project. Recording the soundtrack for it will cost a lot of money, and it'll have to be done in (eastern) Europe, of course. Even then, it'll still run to tens of thousands. We're currently looking at the RSCS like I said, as well as Bratislava and City of Prague (who have surprisingly generous rates, for who they are). We'll see. We're scraping together the budget for it, but it might float up to be less than what we need. If that's the case we'll have to find a source to fund the remaining amount that we need, or seriously cut down on what we want to do (urgh). Fingers crossed! Moa has told me she'll be revealing more about the project quite soon, so hopefully I'll be able to say more then. And I might bring some previews with me, too...

Of course, iuf you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Although like I said, there's a lot of things that can't be said at the moment.

Many thanks Klnerfan. His scores to Eureka Seven really do need to be cut up seriously. If you made one for the series scores I would like to see it posted as well. I picked a few of the major cues on my loveliness, elegance, and nobility volume but it is always better to have it in an easy package.

BTW: My new avatar is the new singer for Kamelot, one of my favorite metal bands. I got tired of the old one and this jumped out at me in the booklet the other night.

EDIT: Also Tango I don't know what you are on about. Soul Sacrifice is fantastic. Seriously, Mitsuda is back and Hotoyama rocks it.

Aoiichi_nii-san:

Tens of thousands? Jesus, how much score are you recording? Not every cue has to feature the full orchestra. Just about every low budget project you care to name chops things up.

You'll have one session with the full orchestra where you do your big cues. Then half the orchestra will go home and you'll do another session with maybe just strings, or strings and woodwind and chamber brass. Then most of them will go home and you'll have another session with a string quartet or a piano quintet or something like that.

Unless you're recording literally hours and hours of music (advice: don't) or are planning to use a lunatic-sized ensemble (advice: don't) or are hiring a battery of orchestrators (advice: don't) I can't see how your budget would need to be this high. Hopefully you're doing your own orchestrations... so think about what you need out of every cue and think about what combination of instruments will enable you to express that best. If it's a harp, two flutes, and a muted trumpet... then that's all you need. If it's 50 strings and a full-throated Slavic brass section, all well and good... but less is more. Save your big guns (and your money) and bring in the ginormous ensemble when you need it. As an up-and-coming composer on (I assume) a first orchestral project, it's tempting to think "HOLY CRAP LET'S DO EVERYTHING" but smashing people over the head with full symphony orchestra all the damn tiime will make them get sick of your score very, very quickly.

To get the most bang for your buck, try the Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, otherwise known as F.A.M.E.S. Project. They are cheap as hell and well equipped for remote recording. They can even arrange orchestra-sharing sessions where you get the ensemble for, say, 30 minutes - if you're only got a few minutes of music to record. If you don't want to go there or can't afford to, you just email them PDFs of your score and they deal with everything. You can observe (and participate in) the session through Source Connect or you can simply send them the stuff and wait for them to send you the finished recording. Deals are shockingly good.

Depending on the... uh... competence of your music (no offence - but I don't know if you're Ramin Djawadi or Yoshihisa Hirano) putting down silly money for an A-grade group like the Moscow orchestra will be a big fat waste of time and cash. You must drive your orchestra... not the other way around.

To give you some idea of more conservative budgets... I had a quote in Brno for �7,000 for two sessions - one with full orchestra and one with strings only, for 60-70 minutes of finished score.

I managed to negotiate �5,000 for the same ensemble size here in England if I used a semi-professional orchestra (still excellent quality), arranged my own engineering, and provided a recording venue.

If I took a few more hits - conduct myself, use synthesised percussion, re-fit the two 90 minute sessions into one two hour session and sacrifice 30 minutes of rehearsal time, the price would've gone down to �3,800... but I drew the line at �5,000 because it seemed fair and anything else would have probably hurt the quality of the finished product.

Point is... you can do this stuff for surprisingly low budgets.

Good luck!

God damn. Tango, that was one of the coolest posts I've seen in The Thread. As someone who has fantasized about having a soundtrack for the book I am writing, I was always curious just how, if all of the stars aligned, I could financially manage such a feat. I would still need stars to line up just right, but by the looks of it I'll need less than I previously theorized.

Aoiichi_nii-san:
Good luck!

Thanks for your comments- and while I don't mean to sound offensive- I already knew most of that. Hiring an orchestra doesn't mean everything is going to be tutti, all the time- of course, you know that too. I'm well aware of who F.A.M.E.S are as well as plenty of other orchestras and contractors, we're looking round and trying to see who's the best for what we want to do now.

Originally, I planned to record a string quartet, wind quintet and a brass octet and then hybrid/layer the parts, conduct it myself at a local venue and have it engineered by a friend (at "mate's rates"). This would have run to about under �2000. Alternatively, we would have recorded just the main theme and trailer at something such as Dynamedion's shared sessions. However, after discussing it, we agreed to significantly increase the budget and just go for it, in the region of approx. the mid-higher side of the �10,000s and the smaller side of the �20,000's (perhaps tens of thousands was too dramatic then? heh). The final figure it'll come out to depends on where we go and how they do things- some of the orchestra's we've been round demand all musicians present but a lower charge per head, some have costs for printing, venues, while others include them etc...

The first option with the small ensembles locally actually didn't sound that bad, did it? You might call us insane then for deciding to spend multiples of that, but this has turned out very much to be a labour of love for both me and Moa. She's great to work with and allows me a lot of control over my music, something I know won't happen very often. I decided I might as well go all out for a project I actually care about, because I predict it'll be a long time before something interesting comes along again.

I don't blame you for feeling the need to spell it out, though! With the state of much (admittedly western) media music, things are in a dire state, with too many people who have no knowledge of either music or the practicalities doing too much. Hopefully I don't fit into that category. I used to teach a little bit on the side, and there's a nice extract from Batman Begins- it's something like 8 or so violin sections, half a dozen cello sections and basses, all playing Bb below middle C, staccato quavers, for about 32 bars straight. Or something like that, my memory's a bit rusty- but I told my students this was a prime example of what not to do. Maybe Berlioz could get away with it if he were alive today. Maybe. I doubt I'm some Hirano, but I'm not really a subscriber to the movement of EPIC monotony™.

I have no idea what you just said.

And it was awesome.

Best of luck to you Aoiichi!

Aoiichi_nii-san - my post was more designed as a "value add" thing - a vague sort of primer on cheapo orchestra recordings - rather than as some attempt to teach your grandmother to suck eggs. :)

I feel that posts like yours might scare the shit out of anybody who's thinking about a budget project.

I also know (from experience) that people with more money than sense - or, at least, higher budgets than creativity - put down utterly batshit insane sums on some "interesting" project - and for the same reasons you have. "When will I have this opportunity again? LET'S DO EVERYTHING!" sounds fantastic in your mind right up until you're in the recording studio with your 140 piece orchestra and your bill for twenty grand... and it dawns on you that you could've done it for a quarter of the money. Or, worse still, the orchestra starts playing and you think "Oh, shit... this music is crap!" and you wonder why you got all these people.

The orchestra-tinted spectacles are very, very real and very, VERY dangerous. ;)


Originally, I planned to record a string quartet, wind quintet and a brass octet and then hybrid/layer the parts, conduct it myself at a local venue and have it engineered by a friend (at "mate's rates"). This would have run to about under �2000.

Similar sort of arrangement to my domestic quote. I am fortunate enough to have access to a concert hall with a nice acoustic, and also to digital recorders and people to operate them. To hell with engineering. A good orchestra in a good acoustic requires two microphones. That was the really low budget option - and I would like to keep it in this country if possible... but there is something comforting about going to some recording factory in Eastern Europe.

I plan to do a mini-session this year as a test (in Macedonia) and I plan to not be there! ;)

(So, if it's a big balls up I don't lose face, and I haven't sunk a big pile of cash.)


some of the orchestra's we've been round demand all musicians present but a lower charge per head, some have costs for printing, venues, while others include them etc...

Yeah, you've got to be careful about that. Most of those I've spoken to have been quite flexible about varying the ensemble size, as long as the sessions themselves are static. IE, I can't record ten minutes of orchestra and then send half of them home for a budget reduction... I have to keep the full orchestra for a whole session, then at the next session X number of players go home, etc, etc. If they're there, they might as well be playing something. Three hour session = 30 minutes of finished music, if you get your skates on... so that worked out quite well for my project because I wanted half an hour of orchestra and half an hour of strings... so, two sessions, one orchestra, one string ensemble, done.

That's one of the reasons I like FAMES. The price you're quoted is how much it costs. No bullshit. The last thing you want is to get there and find there's a copyist's fee and a librarian's fee and a conductor's fee and an engineer's fee and a venue hire fee and a translator's fee and all that old crap. Their attitude of "With this sum of money we will turn PDFs of music scores into CDs of recorded music" takes away so much of the stress. You tell them how many and how long, they tell you how much, you send them the scores, they do it. It's a bit heartless... but it's cheap and they're a good orchestra.

I've got two projects currently on the go - I'm not sure which one is going to happen first. The first is a the demo album - that's the stuff I've been talking about. The second is an animated short. I hallucinated the story ten years ago during a bout of depression and have been trying to get it made ever since. So, I really really want that one to happen because since it's my film I know I can write whatever the hell kind of music I want without getting told what to do! ;)

The film is going to be half an hour, with about 15 minutes of score - full orchestra.


there's a nice extract from Batman Begins- it's something like 8 or so violin sections, half a dozen cello sections and basses, all playing Bb below middle C, staccato quavers, for about 32 bars straight.

I remember that one. Dear God, that made me depressed.

GOOD LUCK, sir, with your project!

And if you fancy inviting some nosy parker from England to your recording sessions, you know... he'd be very grateful. ;)

RICHARD STRAUSS
METAMORPHOSEN, study for 23 solo strings
TOD UND VERKL�RUNG, tone-poem for large orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan

FLAC + CUE | 2 Tracks | 51:41 | 230 MB



Here are two works by Strauss, given resplendent accounts by Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.

The first (and IMHO better work), "Metamorphosen," is extremely intimate and elegiac. This was written towards the end of Strauss's life and was inspired by the firebombing of Munich and in particular the destruction of that city's opera house, the Bavarian National Theater. Filled with despair and tragedy.

"Tod und Verkl�rung" (Death and Transfiguration) is the more famous of the two, written much earlier in Strauss's life. It takes a more positive perspective on death as a joining with the divine.


https://mega.co.nz/#!NtpzEaLB!cre7WD0STFbTLx0JXKRBrXDW1TE5nKt_4XwLs3W 01Uc

Dear God, Chihayafuru 2 is delightful. I'm loving every minute.

And you are not alone with that opinion ;)

My only complaint about Chihayafuru is WHY SO ****ING SHORT??? :(

33 minutes of score on that CD. Surely they recorded more than that... Could there be an OST 2 on the horizon? Even if there's more coming, 33 minutes of music on one CD is a p*** take.

As for the music... Oh, Kousuke... Every single note dripping in class. What's that wonderful choral anthem (track 6) all about?

Plus some lovely variations on that magical theme - particularly 15!

Just needs to be four times as much as there is! ;)

I'll be damned, Tango was right again, Gundam Age Vol.4 out on 21.11.12. Unfortunately no new Hellsing Soundtrack CD, my only hope now is the blueray collection of OVA VI-X.

Naoki Sato
Fireboys: Megumi No Daigo

http://d2oz5j6ef5tbf6.cloudfront.net/cd/small/Fireboys_SRCL5661.gif

Download (from xiami) (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/162TR5N8/Firefighters.zip_links)

This is just the orchestral stuff.

Holy crap. Is there any way you could please reupload this, with the complete soundtrack? I can't find it anywhere except Japanese iTunes. I'd really, really appreciate it. :)

Tsutomu Aragaki - "Sugar Cane Field" ｢さとうきび畑｣

1. カロ・ミオ・ベン
2. オンブラ・マイ・フ
3. 主の祈り
4. 平城山
5. さとうきび畑(寺島尚彦)
6. 天使の糧
7. プロメッサ
8. アヴェ・マリア
9. 神よ、あなたが私とともにおられれば
10. 初恋
11. 椰子の実
12. 荒城の月
13. 花
14. スティール・アウェイ
15. アメージング・グレイス
16. アヴェ・マリア

1. Caro Mio Ben
2. Ombra mai f�
3. Shuu no Inori (Lord's Prayer)
4. Narayama
5. Satou Kibi Hatake (Terashima Naohiko)
6. Tenshi no Pan
7. Promessa
8. Ave Maria
9. Kami yo, Anata ga watashi to tomo ni orarereba
10. Hatsukoi
11. Yashinomi
12. Koujou no Tsuki
13. Hana
14. Steal Away
15. Amazing Grace
16. Ave Maria

Notable: Track 12 "Koujou no Tsuki", used in "Furusato Japan".
The movie Insert: Mein Heimatland Japan - Soundtrack - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3HgGg1r55U)


mp3, rather lossy. Used audiograbber and not really not knowing much about ripping. But it should be fine for sample purposes and if you like it higher; amazon.co.jp used prices actually start as low as 25yen.
Download aragaki.zip from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/vmbqae)

@blackjack21

I'm afraid the orchestal stuff is all I have. I also don't have the time to harvest all of the good stuff from Xiami at the moment. But I can assure you the leftovers aren't worth talking about.

Fireboys: Megumi No Daigo



Download (http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/0ZHT4VMF/Firefighters.zip_links)

Hey guys, so I am going to share something that has absolutely nothing to do with music whatsoever. But it's so damn good I need to spread the love around.

So, there is this guy, Dan Carlin, who is a historian. And he has this podcast called Hardcore History, and it is absolutely terrific. Now, I love history, and I can tell you that the only greater narrative comparison I could think of is HBO's ROME. He is a fantastic storyteller, and he can make you understand why whatever time period's he is covering is vital to the understanding of where we are today. Not to mention he is a great orator too - it's fun just to listen to the guy, on top of the historical topic he is talking about.

So, here's the link (http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive). I would say start off with THE FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, but I am fascinated by Rome's history so I may be a little bit biased.

I just wanted to share that with you guys. No music, but awesome history fascinatingly told.

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Wim Mertens - With All It's Might - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF29MKNDVqA) - Orchestral madness?! :D

Gabriel Faur�: Orchestral Works
FLAC|CUE|LOG|15 TRACKS~72:23
NOT MY RIP


Album Information (http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%209416)

As a former aspiring pianist, I have absolutely adored the music of Chopin, Debussy, and Faur� for their color, lightness, and transparency. Such qualities still shone in Faur�'s spare orchestral effort. This album, combined with my previous post of Pell�as et M�lisande (Thread 129415) comprise a decent portion of Faur�'s orchestral output (add his requiem and you would have more than half). His orchestration is lean, efficient, and adds depth to his incredibly expressive music that follows both the German and French traditions. I highly recommend his piano quartet and quintet for those who enjoy this. And bless Chandos for making digital booklets available online for free. :)




"More profound than Saint-Sa�ns, more varied than Lalo, more spontaneous than d'Indy, more classic than Debussy, Gabriel Faur� is the master par excellence of French music, the perfect mirror of our musical genius"

FLAC Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/?ptvgs8740yo8981)
FLAC Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/?fngish9rvgiwe31)

SUPER ROBOT WARS OG -DIVINE WARS- O.S.T.01
FLAC|CUE|NO LOG|39 Tracks~58:47
Not My Rip

M-01~32 composed by Yoshihisa Hirano
M-33~37 composed by Takuya Hanaoka


Album Information (http://vgmdb.net/album/34326)

FLAC Part I (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?01ept7mxmdwdhem)
FLAC Part II (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nxxsu56x3ibehhy)

I wouldn't have known about this Hirano goody if it wasn't for this OLD thread (Thread 60195) that I somehow managed to dig up. The music is fantastic as you would expect from Hirano, but the short cues do leave me wanting more. Credit goes to the original uploader. Enjoy!

And does anyone have Hirano's Meine Liebe (http://vgmdb.net/album/26613) and Top Secret (http://vgmdb.net/album/33814)? Would more than love to listen to them as well...

I have Top Secret (as in, physically) so can upload FLAC this evening. I have Meine Liebe in MP3 (320kbps I think) and will upload that too.