https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkzeOmkOUHM

I am impressed by this new score by someone (who to my knowledge is a newcomer). It is called Ori and the Blind Forest. I really enjoy the atmosphere that this music creates. It can be sweeping, innocent, subdued, powerful, aggressive, tender, and soaring. I love it!

I got about half way through before the unnatural bass that is all throughout started to get on my nerves. I wish composers would stop mixing/mastering their albums that way. There is no reason this should have as much bass as it does simply through various strings that give it that sound. Though it had some interesting ideas at the beginning it then turned into the typical atmospheric game score that doesn't have anywhere to go. Maybe if I was listening to it as a download and could skip the atmospheric tracks I might enjoy it more but not in this format.

I got about half way through before the unnatural bass that is all throughout started to get on my nerves. I wish composers would stop mixing/mastering their albums that way. There is no reason this should have as much bass as it does simply through various strings that give it that sound. Though it had some interesting ideas at the beginning it then turned into the typical atmospheric game score that doesn't have anywhere to go. Maybe if I was listening to it as a download and could skip the atmospheric tracks I might enjoy it more but not in this format.

Yeah, that really gets on my nerves.

Maybe I'm having a bad day, but that kinda confirms why I never even bother with western scores anymore. That cheap ethnic sound with generic atmospheric bullshit drives me nuts.

Well, there's still some awesome classical music in production, so that's relieving. :)

Have to agree with the naysayers on this one. I listened to about 25 minutes and heard maybe 5 minutes of decent material. The rest sounded like someone tinkling on a piano over some synth pads.

Well it seems I stand alone then lol. Ah well, I still enjoy it but it might have to do with the fact that I find the game really addicting ;). Perhaps I might orchestrate an arrangement and make it more moving in a classic Hollywood way? The chord progression seems easily identifiable.

Well it seems I stand alone then lol. Ah well, I still enjoy it but it might have to do with the fact that I find the game really addicting ;). Perhaps I might orchestrate an arrangement and make it more moving in a classic Hollywood way? The chord progression seems easily identifiable.

I have no doubt that familiarity with the game makes the music more relatable and dramatic. And I've appreciated your past arrangements so I'd look forward to what you come up with. :)

Since you guys were pairing similar composers earlier, I have to ask these three:
Yasunori Mitsuda -?
Shinji Miyazaki - ?
Mahito Yokota - ?

I have to agree that it's pretty bland music overall. Which is a shame because the game looks gorgeous. It seems like new game composers like Benny Oschmann are a rare exception these days. A composer who knows composing is a profession and if you want to write anything decent you first study the masters of their respective craft before you play around in symphobia. But yes, we still get a skillfully done orchestral score here and there. Even a miracle like Lair happens occasionally. It's why I'm still having some hope for western scores but I'm afraid only as a supplement for my orchestral needs.

If you look at very old game scores that I adore (especially Super Famicom) you realize that most were composed by classical and/or jazz trained composers. For example, Star Fox/Starwing (which I really love) sounds identical to a Hollywood SciFi movie from the 80s because the toolsets you have to master as a composer are universal. Individual style comes after that.


Now to rise to the occasion:



Aaron Copland
The Sound of America/Symphonic Works

Foundation for the Hollywood Sound




Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!D14AWa5K!iEF7QJCxNch58lSlNq4x1Fpdm--lZYb15v9uHb6GnC8)


Williams and Horner and many more were very much inspired by "the Dean of American Composers". You hear his influence everywhere, especially in Williams Olympic Work, recently Lincoln and Horner's Apollo 13 among others. "Fanfare for the Common Man" is a beautiful study piece for brass writing, showcasing the beauty of each instrument, especially the magical sound of Horns in the higher register with Trumpets. It also showcases the beauty of French School, "less is more". He forged a massive Tone poem out of it for his Symphony No.3 in the IV. Movement and it's absolutly fantastic. 6:30 is pure magic, the bold melody becomes so delicate it's almost like character development in musical form. "Our Town" is a beautfiul pastoral piece that just pulls at your heartstrings and paints a beautiful scenery. His Lincoln Portrait is also exemplary of the american sound. A very profound and important historical speech underscored perfectly. I get goosebumps everytime. His Appalachian Spring is also very famous and perhaps you notice one or two striking similarities with pieces from other composers. This is my little study collection of this old master and whenever you need inspiration for a heroic fanfare or a quiet moment on the plains, look no further. It's also great for traveling ;)







Meanwhile on the other side of the world, on episode 10 of Kantai Kollection (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j8ykt_kantai-collection-ep-10-hd_tv), a japanese animation product to sell merchandise, from 18:30 to 20:55 we have one of the best wardrama orchestral cues I've heared in a long long time. From 20:18 onwards the big Hollywood moment happens: The heroic sacrifice, the "all-is-lost-but-we-fight-to-the-last-man" moment. Completely unashamed and sincere, emotionally touching to the bone and skillfully composed and ochestrated. I'll buy ten copies :D



@Link

Shinji Miyazaki - Definetely Kei Wakakusa, listen to his theme from Outlanders, if that doesn't sound straight out of Pokemon I don't know what does.
Yasunori Mitsuda - Since Natsumi Kameoka worked as an orchestrator for him for many years it's safe to assume they share some similarities. One thing about his recent NHK work: Am I the only one or is the Theme from NHK Special "Uchuu Nama Chuukei Suisei Bakuhatsu Taiyoukei no Nazo" Sahashi's Ties of Friendship from Ultraman Mebius or am I just overthinking :D
Mahito Yokota - Perhaps Hideki Sakamoto but in general alot of japanese orchestral scores sound like it (and I'm grateful for that).



EDIT: beating a dead horse

Well I have been listening to Doyle's new score for Cindarella and I have to say it is quite impressive and refreshing. Somehow the mastering issues we had with Maleficent are not present and instead the orchestra sounds natural! And I am not even done going through the full score. Given the songs on the end I might actually be able to walk into a store and pick it up!

Thank YOU, klnerfan !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great SHARE ;-D

I've appreciated your past arrangements so I'd look forward to what you come up with. :)

I am honored you have enjoyed my past arrangements!

Thanks kinerfan! I wish I could find that Outlanders ost somewhere. Wwould anyone here have it?

And @Akashi san, I also stay away from western scores for the same reason. they almost all have this problem and the only time I bother is when I stumble across something amazing, which I can't even think of at the moment.

The Outlanders score has been posted here. I was not impressed though.

THEME OF THE TAIGA DRAMA COMPLETE
FLAC, LOG, CUE | 685.2 MB | 49 TRACKS | 02:06:37
NHK Symphony Orchestra


Catalog Number: TOCT-27032
Release Date: Jan 12, 2011

Disc 1 (1963-1987)
01. Hana no Shogai (Isao Tomita)
02. Ako Roshi (Yasushi Akutagawa)
03. Taikoki (Yoshiro Irino)
04. Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Toru Takemitsu)
05. San Shimai (Masaru Sato)
06. Ryoma ga Yuku (Michio Mamiya)
07. Ten to Chi to (Isao Tomita)
08. Mominoki wa Nokotta (Mitsumasa Yoda)
09. Haru ga Sakamichi (Akira Miyoshi)
10. Shin Heike Monogatari (Isao Tomita)
11. Kunitori Monogatari (Hikaru Hayashi)
12. Katsu Kaishu (Isao Tomita)
13. Genroku Taiheiki (Joji Yuasa)
14. Kaze to Kumo to Niji to (Naozumi Yamamoto)
15. Kashin (Hikaru Hayashi)
16. Ogon no Hibi (Shinichiro Ikebe)
17. Kusa Moeru (Joji Yuasa)
18. Shishi no Jidai (Ryudo Uzaki)
19. Onna Taikoki (Koichi Sakata)
20. Toge no Gunzo (Shinichiro Ikebe)
21. Tokugawa Ieyasu (Isao Tomita)
22. Sanga Moyu (Hikaru Hayashi)
23. Haruno Hato (Masaru Sato)
24. Inochi (Koichi Sakata)
25. Dokuganryu Masamune (Shinichiro Ikebe)

Disc 2 (1988-2010)
01. Takeda Shingen (Naozumi Yamamoto)
02. Kasuga no Tsubone (Koichi Sakata)
03. Tobu ga Gotoku (Toshi Ichiyanagi)
04. Taiheiki (Shigeaki Saegusa)
05. Nobunaga (Krodo Mori)
06. Ryukyu no Kaze (Shinji Tamura)
07. Homura Tatsu (Yoshihiro Kanno)
08. Hana no Ran (Shigeaki Saegusa)
09. Hachidai Shogun Yoshimune (Shinichiro Ikebe)
10. Hideyoshi (Reijiro Koroku)
11. Mori Motonari (Toshiyuki Watanabe)
12. Tokugawa Yoshinobu (Joji Yuasa)
13. Genroku Ryoran (Shinichiro Ikebe)
14. Aoi Tokugawa Sandai (Taro Iwashiro)
15. Hojo Tokimune (Kazuki Kuriyama)
16. Toshiie to Matsu (Toshiyuki Watanabe)
17. Musashi (Ennio Morricone)
18. Shinsengumi! (Takayuki Hattori)
19. Yoshitsune (Taro Iwashiro)
20. Komyo ga Tsuji (Reijiro Koroku)
21. Furin Kazan (Akira Senju)
22. Atsuhime (Ryo Yoshimata)
23. Tenchijin (Michiru Oshima)
24. Ryomaden (Naoki Sato)

Not my rip.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!9dki2QLS!dZAAxRFsTwipXHg30it9z6Jn3ynbTgmoFiPQyns D7jM

And as a bonus: Gunshi Kanbee Main Theme (Long Version) (http://kiwi6.com/file/n4bgpfd96p) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif

Not sure if this has been posted before but I found it in FLAC recently. Sound quality is all over the place because the recordings go back to the 60s.

Also, track 6 on the second disc is a vocal, non-orchestral track that can be deleted.

Woah. Thanks, nextday!

One more. Also added a bonus link to my post above.


REIJIRO KOROKU - TAIGA DRAMA "HIDEYOSHI" ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
MP3 320K | 63.7 MB | 7 TRACKS | 00:30:35
NHK Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Naoto Otomo
Naohiro Tsuken (trumpet), Akira Fujiyama (pan flute)


Catalog Number: POCN-1123~4
Release Date: April 1, 1996

Tracklist
01. Hideyoshi (http://kiwi6.com/file/omz0rhtw61) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. Unprecedented
03. Dreaming
04. Love
05. Destiny
06. Wandering
07. Vision

Not my rip.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!UFMm0SzS!3MaTqQZjQ0eL-OHZ-QL0BF8gCYLhGGysImQKat4HGnk

With all these great (Thread 186229) Koroku (Thread 168359) scores (Thread 168360) that I've found recently, I'm having a hard time picking my favorite. Hideyoshi clocks in at only 30 minutes long but it's still lovely, melodic score. The main difference with this score compared to his other scores is the instrumentation. Koroku often has a lot of brass in his music but for Hideyoshi he took a more economic approach and went with strings and woodwinds. The tracks also have a bit of field recording effects (nature sounds and such) added to the beginnings and ends so they fade into each other. It doesn't really bother me much but I thought I'd mention it.

Anyone happen to have Mitsuda's orchestral score to the ISON Comet documentary?

I just keep finding more goodies today.


BENNY OSCHMANN - THE BOOK OF UNWRITTEN TALES 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
MP3 256K | 103.2 MB | 31 TRACKS | 01:01:16
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Adam Klemens


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/50969)
Catalog Number: N/A
Release Date: Feb 20, 2015

Tracklist
01. Main Theme (http://kiwi6.com/file/gyf0ptn2ay) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. Prologue (''Once Upon A Time...'')
03. No Need to Panic!
04. Princess Ivo
05. Palace of the Elves
06. Hippo Ride
07. School of Wizardry and Witchcraft
08. Professor Weathervane
09. The Problem with Politics
10. Captain Nathaniel Bonnet
11. Pirate Harbour
12. Pomp Galore (The Red Pirate)
13. Seastone Upper City
14. Seastone Lower City
15. ''Chez L'Ogre'' (Tavern Music)
16. March of the Villain
17. Confrontation
18. Scherzo for the Underground
19. The Nameless
20. Do You Like Rats
21. Requiem for a Rat
22. Lorem Ipsum
23. A Touch of Pink
24. The Sacrifice
25. Welcome to Sombreville!
26. Creepy Woods
27. Bloody Gavotte (Vlad's Castle)
28. End Credits Suite
29. Suite from ''The Book of Unwritten Tales''
30. Overture from ''The Critter Chronicles''
31. BONUS - Time Travel (''School of Wizardry and Witchcraft'' Chiptune Remix)

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!0JVTWBJa!Pkn2_d2EsgCUb-Kwuwx_g_5F8_xTuy3_PxEo8fp2gmU

Benny Oschmann, the 27-year-old composer from Germany, shows great skill and potential as an orchestrator and composer with his score for The Book of Unwritten Tales 2. While he may not have developed his own distinct style yet (his influences are very obvious) it's clear he understands how to create a thematic and cohesive orchestral score. Personally, I think it's fantastic to see a young composer writing music like this and I'll take something like this over a typical modern western score any day.

Or maybe I'm just being optimistic.

Wow ... is it Christmas again ?! (next you post the 5CD Kanbee or what? :D)

Thank you very much nextday.



@Sirujr Cinderella is quite pleasant indeed. It's still missing something for me though. A certain magic that made his collaborations with Kenneth Branagh so memorable.

I will be releasing new samples of my latest arrangements for my album. "Eternity" from FFX-2 will hopefully be up tonight, but "And Thus Fate Becomes Cruel" from Heroes of Mana will be probably releasing in the middle of next week. I have been working to create a bigger sound with a smaller ensemble. Composers such as Schumann and even Ralph Vaughn Williams knew how to make a big sound with just a few parts. I actually have been listening to Vaughn-Williams a lot lately. I have been trying to study his music so I can get my Skyrim suite done.

THEME OF THE TAIGA DRAMA COMPLETE
FLAC, LOG, CUE | 685.2 MB | 49 TRACKS | 02:06:37
NHK Symphony Orchestra

Wow, so much awesome music in here, thanks.

How was Isao Tomita stealing Zimmer's Crimson Tide style in 1983 for the theme to Tokugawa Ieyasu? Did he have a time machine or something?

Anyone happen to have Mitsuda's orchestral score to the ISON Comet documentary?

YASUNORI MITSUDA - NHK SPECIAL "THE EXPLOSION OF COMET ISON: THE MYSTERY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM" ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
FLAC, LOG, CUE | 205.6 MB | 17 TRACKS | 00:40:11
Studio Orchestra


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/45130)
Catalog Number: SBPS-0019
Release Date: April 27, 2014

Tracklist
01. Large Comet ISON (http://kiwi6.com/file/dj48herumv) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. Million Year Journey
03. Thoughts Toward a Starry Sky
04. Comet Tour of Dreams
05. Distant Universe
06. Human Evolution
07. Mystery of the Unknown
08. Understanding the ISON Comet
09. Analysis Part 1 ~Science~
10. Analysis Part 2 ~Puzzle~
11. Analysis Part 3 ~The Past~
12. Analysis Part 4 ~Clarification~
13. Analysis Part 5 ~Analysis~
14. Mission ~Challenges~
15. Amazing Huge Comet
16. Yearning Toward the Skies
17. Large Comet ISON ~Piano Version~

Not my rip.

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!pU9RyLgA!HjDzcx-EVQZt2cBnZ60W5BamqAP_egs8ipMJJsyswJQ

This isn't really a full orchestral score - only about half of it is. Tracks 1, 2, 16 are arranged by Sachiko Miyano. The rest is all by Mitsuda.

Nobuya Sugawa, saxophone
NOSTALGIA



Musicians:
Nobuya Sugawa (Soprano & Alto Saxophone)
Kiyoshi Shomura (Guitar)
Tomoyuki Asakawa (Harp)
Yusuke Yamazaki (Harp)
Masatsugu Shinozaki (Violin)
Seiichiro Yamamoto (Violin)
Kazunori Kawasaki (Viola)
Daisuke Inobe (Viola)
Hiroto Tobisawa (Viola)
Masaharu Kanda (Cello)

Recording Date: 28-30.06.1993
Recorded at: Kawaguchi LiLia Music Hall
Recording Engineer: Shunichi Kogai

Producer: Kenichiro Isoda

Release Date: 22.09.1993
Publisher: Toshiba-EMI Ltd. (Imprint: Eastworld)
Catalogue no.: TOCZ-9209

01. "R�verie"
Composition: Debussy, Claude
Arrangement: Asakawa, Tomoyuki

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02. "La fille aux cheveux de lin"
Composition: Debussy, Claude
Arrangement: Asakawa, Tomoyuki

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03. "Je te veux"
Composition: Satie, Erik; set to text by Parcory, Henry
Arrangement: Nagao, Jun

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04. "Gymnop�die no. 1: Lent et douloureux"
Composition: Satie, Erik
Orchestration: Debussy, Claude
Arrangement: Isoda, Kenichiro

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From "Pleiades Dances IIb" for sax & string quartet, Op. 28b:
05. 1. Passive Prelude (Negative Prelude)
06. 3. Slender Romance (Alignment Romance)
07. 7. Positive Rondo
Composition: Yoshimatsu, Takashi

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08. "Entr'acte" from �Le m�dicin de son honneur�
Composition: Ibert, Jacques

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09. "Pi�ce en form de habanera"
Composition: Ravel, Maurice

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10. "Pavane pour une infante d�funte"
Composition: Ravel, Maurice
Arrangement: Nagao, Jun

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11. "Aria"
Composition: Bozza, Eug�ne
Arrangement: Isoda, Kenichiro

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12. "Nostalgia" for saxophone, harp, and string quartet
Composition: Kanno, Yoko

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13. "Morning" for saxophone & string quartet
Composition: Kanno, Yoko

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14. "Dream Colored Mobile I" for saxophone, harp, and string quartet
Composition: Yoshimatsu, Takashi

Duration: 00:50:33

<hr>

My rip.

Yoko Kanno's composition "The Tower of Babel" (Thread 139079), a piece for saxophone and piano, was performed by Nobuya Sugawa, and the composer herself; so I searched for other collaborations between the two. This album with chamber music contains classical music pieces by French composers (many re-arranged for sax for this album), and pieces written for Mr. Sugawa by contemporary Japanese composers Kanno, and Takashi Yoshimatsu.

FLAC, scans 231mb
https://mega.co.nz/#!e55hyJoa!Ksjy-I7NKowUpnrOdW1ne51nhW7p-VwSz2Q6SkoxRPg
or
http://www.adrive.com/public/GResG6

MP3 -V0, scans 108mb
https://mega.co.nz/#!SlRXRRCL!aTfOen5OVZRxdSbPp-1LcYaSupxXfNRTIigSibwrl-s
or
http://www.adrive.com/public/8dcV2Y

Wow, this is incredible. Man, the things you find. A million thanks, Herr!

Yugo Kanno
PSYCHO-PASS
Score Selections



Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!z5YRCJhZ!tiXXKOaqqmDByEHDCR2HVg0Ow9kN7VP-LDYByBstUNA)
MP3 / 24 Tracks / 80min






Just as I expected, Yugo Kanno has sneaked in some real music amidst all the electronics and synth pads in Psycho Pass 2 and the motion picture. I would even say he pulled an Iwasaki. A nine minute operatic action piece (technically a waltz) with beautiful renditions of the Psycho Pass theme that does not need to hide behind the likes of Goldenthal and Don Davis (Psycho-Pass Movie - Destruction goes on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOk7qzk0Xe0)). If you don't enjoy his electronics and modern action music (I do) you can almost completely abandon it and combine the two complete soundtracks to an entirely different score that fits nicely on one cd, symphonic and operatic intercepted by beautiful and emotional piano pieces. It really feels like a Goldenthal score at times. So here you have a modern score with electronics I very much enjoy ;)







The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Anthony Inglis

Tengai Makyou The Apocalypse IV (Symphonic Suite)



Composed by Toshiyuki Sasagawa / Arranged by Takayuki Negishi (of Card Captor Sakura fame)

Download
(https://mega.co.nz/#!rlJQlZzY!vuvCTW0DkjwyO1QPhYKtfrxKrssMaCjl7w_VbK8 GHcY)

I said it before and I will say it again, we need a dedicated thread for Warsaw up until Fafner EXODUS (btw has it appeared online? Maybe I will buy it in a few months if not)

I really love the two pieces by Kanno in that album. Just lovely, wow... Why couldn't the disc have been ALL KANNO instead of the overplayed French pieces? :(

Thanks, Herr Salat!

Game Music Online Final Symphony II concert coming to London in September - Game Music Online (http://www.vgmonline.net/final-symphony-ii-concert-coming-to-london-in-september/)

It seems that due to the success of Final Symphony, there will be another featuring music from Final Fantasy V, VIII, and IX with a special suite from XIII arranged by Hamauzu himself. This will premier at the Barbican with the London Symphony Orchestra on September 12th, 2015.

I am willing to bet money that an album will be released since the first Final Symphony is selling so well.

Psycho Pass is good but I already wrote that theme ten years ago, so I expect royalties. :D

PILI HEROES MUSIC COLLECTION LII 53
1. 再戰英雄路 創神篇下闋第一片頭曲 荒山亮 翁偉瀚 荒山亮 荒山亮
2. 菩提光陰 赮畢鉢羅的回憶 浩旭 浩旭
3. 梅花引 御清絕相思琴曲 風采輪 風采輪
4. 拓雲羈浪 燁塵鏽角色曲 丁天牧 丁天牧
5. 舞姿清妙秋一夢 君海棠之舞 黃名偉 黃名偉
6. 縹緲月 縹緲月角色曲 孫敬凡 孫敬凡
7. 菽水承歡 黃泉雪孝子行 翁偉瀚 翁偉瀚
8. 形意大須彌 鶴白丁武曲 浩旭 浩旭
9. 菩提長幾 赮畢鉢羅武曲 風采輪 風采輪
10. 暴世隳皇 判神殛角色曲 孫敬凡 孫敬凡
11. 君海棠 君海棠角色曲 林薇 林薇
12. 御清絕 御清絕角色曲 黃建秦 黃建秦
13. 卻塵思 卻塵思角色曲 孫敬凡 孫敬凡
14. 王者之殤 燹王悲曲 黃建秦 黃建秦
15. 三足天 三足天入紅塵 丁天牧 丁天牧
16. 道不虛行鳴瑟風 雙秀信念一劍 風采輪 風采輪
17. 琴缺風隼 琴缺風隼角色曲 孫敬凡 孫敬凡
18. 壯志遺恨 商清逸之死 黃建秦 黃建秦
19. 擎宇天足 卻塵思武曲 黃建秦 黃建秦
20. 落葉時 創神篇下闋第一片尾曲 風采輪 風采輪 廖明治 風采輪
　　　 DISK 2 CD
編號 曲名 試聽
1. 征塵漫天 白沙書院殊死決 風采輪 風采輪 　 　
2. 觀劍不則聲 玄同的夢境 丁天牧 丁天牧 　 　
3. 虛無之境 虛無之境場景曲 林樂偉 林樂偉 　 　
4. 萬山飛雪 燹王與療靈師 孫敬凡 孫敬凡 　 　
5. 英雄 刀龍傳說online主題曲 田雅欣 田雅欣 北灰 風采輪、荒山亮
6. 情義江湖 刀龍傳說online主題曲 賈愛國 賈愛國 北灰 風采
https://mega.co.nz/#!codU0SwR!ikhmaNlP9R5C2gW_0Ym0d-3ui0_qAVQ5CJvi0kKJU5Q

Password VITALIDAD@HG4S84508NBVD_by_peru-boundary.com

Thanks for the Psycho-Pass compilation. Both seasons soundtracks combined clock in at a little under 5 hours so I hadn't listened to them yet (aside from the theme). This makes things easier.

I'm excited about KanColle's release this week. I haven't watched the show but the crossfade sounds glorious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMu64IeVr48



I hope a new Nanoha means Misa Chujo composing. It's only a slight hope as she doesn't seem active at all...
It was confirmed (http://nanoha-vivid.tv/staffcast/) today that she will be composing for the new series. :)

What are the odds, man? I'm not complaining, of course!

:yesssnicholson:

Ooh, and another interesting announcement today: Michiru Oshima is composing music for not just one but TWO anime airing this July.

In addition to the fantasy-romance Snow White with the Red Hair (PV - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNo5n_XmA2I)), she will score the fantasy-adventure Heroes of the Six Flowers (PV - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udZvMp7IVE)).

The music hasn't been recorded yet as evidenced by the synthy PVs so let's hope she goes to Russia again. :D

Oh my... Please keep the good news coming. July can't come soon enough :D

This summer ... oh and Yoshiaki Fujisawa will be scoring Gate, here's a mock-up "Gate PV" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IulCg2hnu54). Now if Fujisawa and Sakimoto get a real big (studio) orchestra then this will be the best summer season in a long time.

Fafner Exodus has appeard and it's the typical 20 minutes of Warsaw and the rest is Studio/synth. I'm not complaining because there's a mini piano concerto and the usual glorious Warsaw bombast. What can I say, I'm really happy how this year is already shaping up (but my wallet won't be :D).

Next season should be great for Jazz lovers with perhaps one or two pleasant surprises. It has to be said that there's still so much class and good old fun in the japanese animation world. If you count the new Yamato score, Kekkai Sensen and the new PV for Origin II then this country will continuously stay in the wonderful fusion bubble of 60s, 70s & 80s mixed with modern times.

Thanks for the Psycho-Pass compilation. Both seasons soundtracks combined clock in at a little under 5 hours so I hadn't listened to them yet (aside from the theme). This makes things easier.

I'm excited about KanColle's release this week. I haven't watched the show but the crossfade sounds glorious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMu64IeVr48
Sorry for the stupid question, but have any suggestions where one can preorder this? I can't seem to find the listing on cdjapan.

Here is the listing on CDJapan: CDJapan : "Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- (TV Anime)" OST "Kankyo" Vol.1 Animation Soundtrack (Music by Natsumi Kameoka) CD Album (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/VTCL-60402)

Btw, I'll be uploading an MP3 version of the soundtrack in a couple hours or so.

It didn't occur to me to try Kan Colle instead of Kancolle... Very much appreciated. Thanks for the help!

NATSUMI KAMEOKA - KANTAI COLLECTION -KANCOLLE- ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK "KANKYOU"
MP3 V0 | 181.0 MB | 52 TRACKS | 01:38:36


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/51103)
Catalog Number: VTCL-60402~3
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Crossfade Demo (YouTube) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMu64IeVr48) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!JIdXXASQ!Yu8zTByD_9sKJFlfSU0AdgLX9Jm63RsgWrSKPIw xpmA

It didn't occur to me to try Kan Colle instead of Kancolle... Very much appreciated. Thanks for the help!

Yeah that happens sometimes on CDjapan. To avoid that mixup from happening you should just use this search CDJapan : | Complete Listings | Music > Anime / Game > Anime > Main Themes / Soundtracks (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/products?term.cat_id=UA-15-AM-04&order=new&page=1)

You should find all the recent releases within the first 1-5 pages (maybe more depending on what your looking for). Plus you'll always be updated on when you can finally order stuff from the site. I used this all the time to get "release day preorders" in time. Sometimes that deal will disappear as soon as you see the CD available. People are crazy fast at ordering this stuff xP.

Oh my god, Kantai is absolutely glorious!!! Of course it's no Star Wars but it's a fantastic firecracker, the best orchestral "Hollywoodesque" score I've heard in years. And the action music ... my god is "Rushing" fantastic (although we've heared it before in Inazuma Eleven but not this excellent). Naval Warfare never sounded this good. A second season, a movie and of course the obligatory symphonic album with the LSO needs to happen asap. Kancolle prints money by itself so I hope Kameoka or someone else seizes the opportunity. This score deserves it.

Is it as good as the likes of Lair? Well if I had to choose between Lair and Kantai, Lair would probably win but Kantai feels not like a hotchpotch of (albeit the best) Hollywood pastiche and a track like "Success" is so glorious by itself that it would be fair to say they are at least on equal grounds. I guess whether you like "Funeral Pyre" or "Enemy Main Fleet" more is up to your preference :D
Nonetheless another fantastic japanese orchestral composer has been born. Natsumi Kameoka makes a tremendous debut with Kantai and may her career be long and prosperous.






Now to bring my enthusiasm down to the surface, the new Aquarion will most likely be shit. Look at the staff, look at the composer, look at the PV and bang your had against a wall. I know Japan is a surprise bag but this is beyond facepalming. I don't think we will get new Kanno music for the OVA either or even the unreleased stuff. The Blu-ray box lists no soundtrack CD last time I checked. Oh well ... you win some, you lose some.

Kawamori isn't directing the new Aquarion. I'd guess he and Kanno are both busy working on Macross Delta. Hopefully we'll hear something about that soon.

Game Music Online Opus 4 Piano and Chamber Music Works - Game Music Online (http://www.vgmonline.net/masashi-hamauzu-opus-4-piano-and-chamber-music-works/)

In case anyone is interested, here is my review of Hamauzu's Opus 4 album. Surprise spoiler... I love it :).

I love the music from the Kantai collection! I wasn't aware that Kameoka could write original works like that given I am only familiar with her orchestrations.

Thanks for all the recent shares. Glad for more Yugo Kanno compilations. Someone needs to do that for Library war if it hasn't been done because there is so much synth trash in that. Also thanks to nextday for all the lovely posts.

EDIT: was a different location used to record the last few tracks on The Book of Unwritten Tales 2? They sound slightly different than the previous cues.

Was a different location used to record the last few tracks on The Book of Unwritten Tales 2? They sound slightly different than the previous cues.
The soundtrack is about 60 minutes long and the orchestra recordings in Prague make up about 40 minutes of that if I recall correctly.

Final Symphony: Some thoughts.

Finally got around to it. didn t know it existed prior this thread

I recommend this http://www.stax.co.jp/produ/SRS005SMK2.html if you want something cheap but almost as good as it gets EDIT if you r ok with it being in ear

Tango is right the mastering is not good in general and just ok on the symphony movement

some naturally loud things are quiet and things that should be quieter loud ... :<

arrangement wise, symphonic poem is ok, and so is the movement I of the symphony

The soundtrack to Kantai is very lovely though I often wish anime scores didn't have to have those silly tracks like track 8 and 12. It seems every anime score has a few like that and they always interrupt the flow of the music. Do some people here enjoy those types of cues?

I have a separate folder for the "silly" tracks and a 80 minute version for my CD with consistent tone and musical narrative. If you mean "Poi?" then I don't agree, it has enough thematic material to be part of the orchestral score and is no more silly than any Williams comedic cue (including the playful Tuba) but I agree that some of the early tracks feel really out of place with the serious and dramatic score that follows but they have their place and purpose (in the show at least).

The "film score" approach is still a rarity and usually you get dubstep, synth, jazz, rock and some wacky toy box music mixed with the traditional orchestral tracks on the average japanese soundtrack. Even scores of the caliber of Escaflowne get this treatment. I still buy the soundtracks but I'm rarely satisfied with how the tracks are arranged. Upside is we still get amazing music and for the consistent tone and musical narrative I just have a bit of rearranging to do. Not a bad trade-off. I'm amazed how much of the "good" stuff clocks on 80 minutes on average. Recent example is Akame ga Kill. If I put all the music that serves a different purpose out of the way it suddenly becomes much more enjoyable for me and I clearly see a score that shows Iwasaki slowly maturing in the action music and it leaves no doubt that seeds of a serious orchestral composer are still growing inside of him. But that german choir ... oh god, it's so embarassing :D

I quite enjoy the scattershot, extremely varied approach common Japanese TV scoring. Don't prefer it to film scoring, necesarily, it just tends to provide lots of interesting material or shows off a sillier side to an artist I wasn't aware of. Many of my favorite composers; Kanno, Iwasaki, Sawano, et al; understand the importance of keeping an open mind and not being afraid to be a little dumb, sometimes. Or a lot.

https://soundcloud.com/josh-barron/eternity-memories-of-light-and-waves-for-string-orchestra-and-piano-preview

New arrangement preview is up! Please show your support by posting a comment on Soundcloud, sharing with friends, or both :). This one turned out really well and I can't wait for everyone to hear the complete version on the album.

I'm really loving Pillars of Eternity at the moment, real music for a wonderful game. It reminds me very much of Ultima X Odyssey. Ever since I saw a composer interview I knew the game was in good hands, I trust any composer with a spectrotone chart in his studio. Now imagine Game of Thrones with a proper score like Pillars, what a nice world that would be... :(


@NaotaM: I'm enjoying it too, I even have a large collection of "silly" stuff by various composers but I prefer it separate from the "meat". I guess years and years of listening to film scores wires your brain in a certain way ;)

Everything by Jerry Goldsmith and Michael Kamen.

So...Is that a request or a statement of your favorite music? I honestly wouldn't disagree with you on liking most of their work, especially Kamen's scores to The Dead Zone (1983), Highlander (1986), Die Hard (1988), and X-Men (1999 or 2000?). Goldsmith has a few misses under his belt, but the majority of his resume is pretty solid. Kamen, while not having quite as extensive of a career, is actually a bit more consistent, although his shorter career means that he had fewer opportunities to miss than Goldsmith, who had an extensive career throughout the 1960's through 2004.

My Favorite Goldsmith Scores (In No Particular Order):

Gremlins (1984), Leviathan (1989), ALIEN (1979), The Blue Max (1966), Capricorn One (1978), Outland (1981), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Supergirl (1984), Congo (1995), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Total Recall (1990), Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), First Blood (1980), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985).

Favorite Kamen Scores (In No Particular Order): X-Men (2000), Last Action Hero (1993), Highlander (1986), The Dead Zone (1983), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995), The Iron Giant (1999), His additions to LifeForce (1981, original score by legendary Henry Mancini), and What Dreams May Come (1998, replacement for Ennio Morricone's beautiful but ultimately rejected score).

Now, with that out of the way, I'm going to...screw it, I have work tomorrow. I'm going to bed.

The Tall Ships Suite
Ocean Fantasia
Voyager



composed and orchestrated by Dave Roylance and Bob Galvin

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bill Connor
Piano: Alan Hicks




thank you very much for such a nice music

After such a long career Jerry has of course many faces but I prefer the bold, soaring and tearjerking Jerry. Secret of Nimh will always be dear to me, the movie with the score made a very big impression on me as a child and it still looks and sounds gorgeous. King Solomon's Mines, Blue Max, Forever Young, Poltergeist, Rudy, Star Trek and almost everything from 1970-80 will always be the pinnacle of Jerry for me. But sometimes I want some really blood-pumping Jerry too. 13th Warrior, Mummy, Mulan and The Edge cover that primal urge.

Some interesting thought, I know that Jerry is hold in very high honor in Japan so I believe that if he lived a few years longer in good health he would eventually have scored an NHK Taiga drama like Morricone. Now that would have been something.

Kamen: I really love the symphonic suites for Band of Brothers as well as Prince of Thieves, now that is a killer theme.

PILLARS OF ETERNITY
.MP3 @ 320K VBR -0 | 1"45'39 |
COMPOSED BY JUSTIN BELL



Justin Bell - Obsidian Studios (0:21)
Justin Bell - Pillars of Eternity (2:29)
Justin Bell - Upwards (0:25)
Justin Bell - The Hero To Be Made (9:50)
Justin Bell - A Caravan, a Traveller, and Ruins (1:11)
Justin Bell - Easy Cures for a Mild Sickness (2:34)
Justin Bell - Stumbling, Heaving, Dying (0:42)
Justin Bell - Glanfathan (1:27)
Justin Bell - Sharp Negotiations (1:23)
Justin Bell - The B�aŵacs (1:08)
Justin Bell - Cilant L�s (5:24)
Justin Bell - A Motif for the Masked Man (1:41)
Justin Bell - The Shadow of the Sun (1:57)
Justin Bell - The Free Palantine of Dyrwood (4:26)
Justin Bell - Gilded Vale (3:15)
Justin Bell - Waidwen's Legacy (1:03)
Justin Bell - The Black Hound (2:21)
Justin Bell - The Old Watcher (2:13)
Justin Bell - Shadows Made Real (1:00)
Justin Bell - The Endless Paths (2:17)
Justin Bell - To the Master Below (2:08)
Justin Bell - For the Tanvii ora Toha (1:50)
Justin Bell - Caed Nua (1:58)
Justin Bell - Big Things in the Woods (1:04)
Justin Bell - The Bridge (0:25)
Justin Bell - Defiance Bay (3:10)
Justin Bell - The Goose and Fox (1:11)
Justin Bell - Glory to Woedica (1:59)
Justin Bell - Ondra's Gift (4:34)
Justin Bell - Brackenbury Sanitarium (1:48)
Justin Bell - Heritage Hill (2:41)
Justin Bell - The Burning of the First Fires (1:13)
Justin Bell - Dyrford (4:35)
Justin Bell - The Quiet Slave (4:08)
Justin Bell - Amongst the Eir Glanfath (2:32)
Justin Bell - God Sunderers (1:46)
Justin Bell - Twin Elms (4:40)
Justin Bell - Oldsong (3:40)
Justin Bell - Court of the Penitents (1:50)
Justin Bell - The End (5:51)
Justin Bell - Credits (5:29)


https://mega.co.nz/#!CRAjGB7L!LBLDFECnOima6-msb_GgwUmQk28lxdM6d05vd8x8ukQ

Yo Tsuji
Bibliotheca Mystica
de Dantalian Suite



Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!3hRGSSKJ!FA5vBj9aCxGE3z2lulyeTiX-WhtKOMOq63dMd9xmQq8)
MP3 / 32 Tracks / 90min


Among the many soundtracks released each month there are times when a real gem gets sometimes overlooked. I had this on my harddrive for quite some time but did not bother to check it further.
BIG MISTAKE. This is a marvelous score. One of the wonders of the japanese scoring world are the surprise candidates that seem to appear out of nowhere and delievering something astounding almost effortless. Misa Chujo with NANOHA, Akiko Shikata with Hana Ki Sou, Souhei Kano with Fractale and now Yo Tsuji with Dantalian... he composed a marvelous chamber score for a full ensemble with some pieces for piano & violin at the end. "Cras numquam scire", the very unusal and wonderful opening for the anime is the primary theme that runs through the whole score and it is played around with by almost every instrument of the ensemble. A shame it's out of print because it has perhaps the most wonderful booklet an anime soundtrack ever had. It's just stellar presentation. Does a translation exist? because I would love to understand the composers thought process on certain pieces. But anyway, this score is an excellent example of the power of woodwinds and their beautiful colours and I really fell in love with it. I curse myself for not listening to it sooner.

Another marvel from the japanese





Tatsuya Kato
Yoru no Yatterman
Score Selection




Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!zw4mgYYK!uSOO-2u9i29C0jxHdtZEEK_N-Y9in_lnjyviOT-Z2gc)
MP3 / 20 Tracks / 46min


Well this is a surprise to me as well but I'm really warming up to Kato recently. This score has an emotional core and even some good Hollywood moments. He uses all the tools and repertoire of the modern sound but he backs it up with substance. It's not on the level of Kanno but he is definetely improving. I like it :D








Oh and if you want some nice music to relax to (or cook to) check out kotringo's Gourmet Girl Graffiti. I smiled all the way through, it's such good fun with some nice woodwind pieces. It's worth a listen.

Yeah Dantalian is such a lovely score. Some great stuff there for sure. As for Pillars of Eternity, couldn't get into it. It has the occasional mark of a good score but generally fell short to me. Still was very much the sort of game score that has a lot of barely there cues. Also quite a bit of source music style cues that I wasn't a big fan of.

Anyone listen to the Final Fantasy Brass album yet? I really enjoy it!

I think Dantalian is missing a track. Disk 2, track 15, Test Play

Probably not important, 10 seconds long.

Any news on the two recent Takaki scores? PCCG-01470 | Denkigai no Honya-san Original Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/50445)
MJSA-01166 | Go! Princess Precure Original Soundtrack 1 - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/51794)

Don't worry, I guess Denkigai will appear in a few weeks if not sooner. As for Precure, well... that one will appear fast, I would say not more than a few days after release, it has an insanely dedicated community afterall.

I'm looking forward to both, I heared some really beautiful, lyrical pieces here and there.

I'm also pleased that the second half of Hamaguchi's Shirobako will already be released on April, 22. He really flexed his muscles in the last episodes and a great cue appeared during a passionate speech about making anime, with more than one cameo of the composer himself. Not to mention the little glimpses of Aerial Girls sounded fantastic.

Oh and as the saying goes: "Good things come to those who wait" (http://www.uploadmusic.org/MUSIC/8422991427981063.mp3)

I've been wondering, why is it that most, or pretty much all, Final Fantasy collections and Suites don't include any music from The Spirits Within? Yeah, it wasn't that great of a movie, and it was a near-bankruptcy causing failure for Square Pictures, but Elliot Goldenthal's score as really beautiful and awesome. Even if everything else about the movie was bad, at least Goldenthal's score made it watchable, so why hasn't any of his music been featured in any Final Fantasy symphonies or suite collections that I've come across (aside from collections made before that movie's release)?

Even if everything else about the movie was bad, at least Goldenthal's score made it watchable, so why hasn't any of his music been featured in any Final Fantasy symphonies or suite collections that I've come across (aside from collections made before that movie's release)?

I think everyone involved pretty much wants to forget that the film exists, period. It's regarded as one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.

While I'm also a big fan of the music, Goldenthal's score is about as far removed from the Final Fantasy "sound" as you can get. Everyone knows where their bread is buttered. The most popular music is Uematsu's brilliant melodies from the SNES/PSX era games that represent the franchise at its peak, not Goldenthal's dark and dissonant score to a film that no one wants to remember. Perhaps one day Goldenthal will rework it into a concert piece; if not, imagination will be preferable to what Arnie Roth would wrought from it.

TL;DR: Goldenthal's music is far less accessible than Uematsu's and is from arguably the franchise's lowest point, so now it's basically a musical footnote.

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danke schoene Herr Salat :> for good version of that piece

speaking of which jpddl has lossless JoJo's Bizarre Adventure O.S.T Battle Tendency [Leicht Verwendbar] and Iwasaki - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure O.S.T Battle Tendency [Musik] when the came out

and then they disappeared forever when those links died :<

since nobody here ( including myself ... ) or at bakabt got it apparentyl

I think everyone involved pretty much wants to forget that the film exists, period. It's regarded as one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.

While I'm also a big fan of the music, Goldenthal's score is about as far removed from the Final Fantasy "sound" as you can get. Everyone knows where their bread is buttered. The most popular music is Uematsu's brilliant melodies from the SNES/PSX era games that represent the franchise at its peak, not Goldenthal's dark and dissonant score to a film that no one wants to remember. Perhaps one day Goldenthal will rework it into a concert piece; if not, imagination will be preferable to what Arnie Roth would wrought from it.

TL;DR: Goldenthal's music is far less accessible than Uematsu's and is from arguably the franchise's lowest point, so now it's basically a musical footnote.

Well you say this, but it seems y'all aren't alone in your appreciation.

http://halloffame.classicfm.com/2015/chart/position/259/

Someone just posted this at filmscoremonthly, I did not know this existed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6xDTr8dNM

MONACA
Nanana's Buried Treasure
Music composed by Keigo Hoashi
Additional music by Kuniyuki Takahashi, Kakeru Ishihama & Keiichi Okabe


Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!ioRQgYYD!q2q3qd1jYqzNnzq53hWzJdu5V9CZnqH4nfP0wuv lAfw)
MP3/ 44 Tracks/ 89min

So here's all the music for Nanana from the different CDs combined to one album. I also included a selection of just the orchestral tracks by Keigo Hoashi if you just want "the meat". Hoashi is by far the most talented composer of MONACA, at least when writing orchestral music. You can clearly hear it in GARO where he was not involved. It did it's job an set a mood and it has some blood-pumping moments but it was still a far cry from Star Driver and Captain Earth. For Nanana he composed more of the orchestral fun you heared from him in Star Driver. There's of course a lot of silly and comedic stuff here too so don't expect anything like Captain Earth. Speaking of it, now that Nanana is out I'm optimistic again that the rest will appear online but I still fear I have to wait for the complete release in a few years. It deserves a release more than Nanana to be honest, there's far more excellent orchestral music by Hoashi. Still, Ryuichi Takada can be really good too, so it's not like I'm not looking forward to more projects by MONACA in the future.

Enjoy

Thanks for another score selection. Hoashi is definitely the most talented arranger at MONACA so I hope he gets more projects that require orchestral music. Nanana was the first project where he was the lead composer.

Would you consider doing a selection for Tenkai Knights too? Hoashi and Takada were involved and there was a 16-piece brass section (13 horns & 3 trumpets) so I'm guessing there should be some good orchestral stuff.

Edit: Tenkai Knights actually hasn't been uploaded anywhere yet, but check out the samples. It's another Star Driver!: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/samples/B00S15S3NC (http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/samples/B00S15S3NC/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en_US) (disc 1 - 1,16,21,22,23,31,39,43 / disc 2 - 2,6,18,19,20,22,33,34,36,39)


Edit 2: By the way, has anyone checked out the shows from the new season so far? Dungeon ni Deai by Keiji Inai is lovely. This seems like his first orchestral score where he actually has a budget! There's some Star Wars-esque brass in the opening cue. Blood Blockade Battlefront by newcomer Taisei Iwasaki is pretty nice too. Orchestral and jazzy.

If nothing for Captain Earth shows up this month I'll get all 3 discs for sure. Was one of my favorite scores of it's season. It's really weird how some enclosure scores just get no attention in japan. I remember the anime sold really badly though so that might also be a reason it hasn't showed up.

Nanana has some good stuff. Thanks! The rest of mini soundtracks must have surfaced very recently because I had no luck finding Vols. 4-6 few weeks ago... MONACA is quickly becoming a group that I look forward to hearing the most now. Their sheer variety in sound is super fun and fresh.

As for stuff that has aired so far... I skimmed through about 70% and only Kekkai Sensen has really caught my attention (fun big band, but we'll see). Keiji Inai's new gig sounds decent but I wasn't too excited about the stuff in the first episode. Might sound a little harsh here, but I'm tempted to write him off as a generically good orchestrator along with Kameoka (okay, Kameoka is a GREAT orchestrator). Me hopes they will form their distinct voice with more experience as a composer.

Surprisingly, I also thought Sawano's Owari no Seraph sounded pretty good (gasp!) A lot of typical boom-boom, but his unmistakable style fit well in that anime...

It's only the first episodes so I don't wanna write anything off entirely yet. Please share your thoughts!

Impressions on the new season; overall very favourable, with obvious "misleading first episode" reservations.

Kekkai Sensen is a winner in my book, because I love good old fashioned big band swing, I love jazz, and I love the orchestra... somehow, this fellow seems to be good at all of the above. The opening orchestral cue is just glorious; bittersweet, melancholy, melodic, yearning, romantic, unpredictable, harmonically interesting. The scene it underscores is quite beautiful.

Keiji Inai's Dungeon is... perhaps a little anonymous, but I am not going to complain about a new score from a newbie that sounds like this in a million years. The language is so old-fashioned. In the opening scene, the key shift when the piano theme comes in... that is music written by a musician... and I have a strange feeling that this isn't a penny-pincher either. It seems to be the curse of the orchestrator; you get yourself into a certain frame of mind and when you're suddenly the lead composer you find yourself leaning on your arranging skills perhaps a little more than you should. You are doing a job of which 50% is completely new to you and 50% is the stuff you eat for breakfast every single day. When you worry about your composer credentials, you cover it up by writing deliciously voiced brass ensemble chords, fast string runs, woodwind flourishes, cymbal clashes and timpani rolls. Which I have no objection to hearing... But if these guys (and gals) keep getting composer gigs, their compositional style will very quickly bleed through and eventually the composer and orchestrator will coalesce into one.

I can't help but remember where Kousuke Yamashita started off - as an orchestrator and copyist for Kentaro Haneda who occasionally got let out of his cage to write short filler cues... and now look at the guy. :)

Ryuuichi Takada (MONACA) has an orchestra in Denpa Kyoushi, and although the show looks stupid as shit... the score is really making an effort.

Taro Iwashiro's Arslan Senki... is actually quite good too! I'm not a fan of Iwashiro - but there is some really good, grown-up orchestral writing here, and some lovely themes. I think Iwashiro's style is going to suit the feeling of this show just beautifully.

Really looking forward to Oshima's two scores in the Summer... but quite happy so far. :)

ADDITIONALLY... Has anybody checked out the new series of Thunderbirds yet? The music is by Ben Foster (Torchwood, Doctor Who, etc) and it's REALLY doing it for me. Giant orchestra, an embarrassment of brass in the action cues (of which there are DOZENS) and some almost John Barry-esque romance for the quieter moments, and WOODWINDS!

A lot of it has the obligatory beat and electronics, but the sound it makes is so big, so conspicuous, so old-fashioned. It doesn't hide in the background, it blasts forward. It's there to do a job and it's not afraid to be noticed. Still deciding if I like the show... but the music is brilliant.

Surprisingly, I also thought Sawano's Owari no Seraph sounded pretty good (gasp!) A lot of typical boom-boom, but his unmistakable style fit well in that anime...
There's actually four composers attached to this: Hiroyuki Sawano, Takafumi Wada, Asami Tachibana and Megumi Shiraishi.

Meant to mention this in my last post: yea, shame about Captain Earth. I only skimmed like 3 episodes but heard some great music.

LH, you should still give it several months... They'll show up like Nanana

I'm also liking the music I skimmed in the first episode of the 2nd season of PriPara. Music by Rei Ishizuka, who recently joined IMAGINE (the orchestrator company that employs Tanaka, Hamaguchi, Inai, etc.), and Tsuneyoshi Saito who did the music for the first season.

It's a kiddy idol show but there's some fun upbeat orchestral BGM tracks mixed in.

Has anybody checked out the new series of Thunderbirds yet? The music is by Ben Foster (Torchwood, Doctor Who, etc) and it's REALLY doing it for me. Giant orchestra, an embarrassment of brass in the action cues (of which there are DOZENS) and some almost John Barry-esque romance for the quieter moments, and WOODWINDS!

A lot of it has the obligatory beat and electronics, but the sound it makes is so big, so conspicuous, so old-fashioned. It doesn't hide in the background, it blasts forward. It's there to do a job and it's not afraid to be noticed. Still deciding if I like the show... but the music is brilliant.

Beg to disagree.

Like his comrade in arms, Murray Gold, Foster's music is all too often overblown, undisciplined and dramatically tone deaf; if you like, he's another poster boy for the ADHD film music composition generation: all fortissimo, all the time; every scene is scored as though it were the end of the world which, for a viewer like myself, leads to ear exhaustion and desensitization to the unfolding drama.

In effect, the worst sort of Mickey-Mouse music.

NP: Thunderbirds Vol. 1 by Barry Gray

Can't disagree with that - it's definitely, for me, a case of what it is versus what it could've been. I'm guilty of the same crime I attack others for committing. Doctor Who has its moments, though they are few and far between. As far as Thunderbirds go, it's just nice to hear a score that isn't hiding in the shadows and that doesn't shy away from melody - and which actually tries to exploit the orchestra in a way that goes beyond the twenty five French horns, five celli, and twenty double basses all playing unison accompanied by taiko drums, Lisa Gerrard, and a choir (also singing in unison) repeating "ah ah ah ah ah".

Give me Gray's music any day of the week...

How are you, by the way? It's been a while... :)

How are you, by the way? It's been a while... :)

A little voice in the back of my head keeps shouting "STOP IT!!! Look at the size of your iTunes library." And then someone uploads something which peaks my curiosity and, BAM, "just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in."

What a pleasant surprise this season is so far.


Arslan: I like what I hear. One of Iwashiro's better scores for sure. The regal and majestic quality of the music shows promise for great things to come. I hope Iwashiro really delivers all the way through.

Dungeon: Really optimistic about it. I even see the potential for another RomeoXJuliet if the little snipets are parts of something more substantial (on the soundtrack).

Kekkai Sensen: Love it! As said before, great mix of jazz and orchestra.

Hello!! Kiniro Mosaic: :D :D :D LOVING IT! Everything about the show is sugar candy for the senses, it even finishes with another cute big band tune :D

The rest also made a good impression overall so I'm satisfied with how this season is shaping up :)



Leaving the music aside for a moment, what's up with the many shows this season opening with a classic "cinematic" title scene accompanied by score music instead of the usual J-Pop. I watched the many shows back to back and even Seraph does this! Is there a consensus in the industry right now to bring even more good old-fashioned class to the medium than before? :D

Nagato Yuki-chan (Tatsuya Kato!): Nothing serious but much more pleasant and tasteful music than I expected. Is this real life?

Hello! Kiniro Mosaic: Borders on "too-cute" at times but I'm also a big sucker for this kinda stuff ;) Ruka Kawada is good at what she does: small-scale charming/adorable SoL music!

Please excuse the little rant I'm about to make but I need to vent my anger about the new Hellsing.

Why are the best orchestral warsaw tracks YET AGAIN not on CD. It's just 10 fucking minutes, why did they not put it on the CD which clocks barely above 30 minutes anway. Why would they do this unless they have a very dark and twisted sense of humour. Almost everything from the earlier OVAs is present but the stuff I thought the CD would be about, you know "OVA VI-X", is lacking. Ok, there's three tracks which ease my pain a little bit, Alucard's Death, Wallachian Army and Reconquista but let's list the stuff that is unfortunately still unreleased:

- March of the Crusaders (Alucard VS Anderson i.e. the best thing Matsuo wrote for the whole damn project)
- Seras romantic cue
- Maxwell's Operatic Death
- Symphony of War

Oh and if I want to nitpick then there's also Penwood's Death, Walter's Death, Escape from the Zeppelin and Merche funebre still unreleased.
And if I really want to push it: Where's Michiru Oshima's orchestral version of "Broken English"?

I just can't take this absurdity, I wait years and years for it to be released and the stuff I really really want is still absent... just no. Unless a complete soundtrack release gets announced soon which is extremely unlikely I will remain pretty fucking mad.


EDIT:

Seems like I'm not the only one. Many japanese are also wondering why the CD is missing important music. I feel sorry for the ones that just bought it for the music :(
Who knows... perhaps something will come of it but until something happens here's the missing warsaw tracks (https://mega.co.nz/#!jhAiTR6A!uLxtI4p3sGJkrH2yWDDGcoRUIU2HBzwlnFd3UsT igv4) ripped from the blu-rays. Like I said it's only ten minutes (technically eight minutes but the piece used for Maxwell's Death should be at least a minute longer). Yes, there's lot of SFX but I do not want to mess with it because it's more trouble than it's worth in the end. I did however edit them slightly so the music is more upfront and some effects have been toned down. It's functional enough for me for the time being. I'm still baffled why they're not on CD, tragic times.

Hibike Euphonium is looking good :) with production values

doubt if they'll record / distribute as much orchestral music for it as Nodame (which had DePreist, and was about professional players, not amateurs) but I think the soundtrack will be something to look forward to

To anyone who saw the first episode: what is the music (a march) the band is playing from 3:00 - 3:20 ? its not classical

that tune sounds nice and familiar but I cant remember what it is

I haven't heard the new Hellsing CD but that's a real pity if it failed to deliver.


To anyone who saw the first episode: what is the music (a march) the band is playing from 3:00 - 3:20 ? its not classical
The Theme of Aberenbo Shogun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEZZuZsgwVE), composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi.

Interesting premise for a show. The ska style ending theme was fun.

Wow that really does suck. I would say it might be an issue of the rights but then plenty of other albums have been released no problem with the Warsaw music.

Option 1: They don't give a fuck. Unlikely, because if they didn't give a fuck they wouldn't have recorded the score in Warsaw.

Option 2: They haven't finished milking this franchise yet, and something will appear in due course.

My money would be on the latter. :)

Sigh ... roll on 2016 for the obligatory "HELLSING OVA I-X + The Dawn I-III 10th Anniversary Box" with everything but your favorite track again. Option 2 is possible, Box 1 is labeled "Nazi CD", Box 2 is "Iscariot", so another Box with "Hellsing" would seem logical. Oh well, I've waited so many years and enough great stuff will appear along the way... I guess I will survive... and Gundam G is just around the corner :)

Only thing good about Gundam series these days really is the music. Series wise anything after Wing is just awful.

Soul of Gold seems to be decent.

Still not sure what to make of it. On the one hand I hear Sahashi with a decent budget with some wonderful vintage moments, on the other hand I hear some really dated synth. I hope the first is more prominent. In any case another score on my watchlist. I also heared some good romantic pieces in Ore Monogatari!! so it's turning out to be a very good season so far.


On another topic, Russell Shaw's Fable Legends sounds promising so far, good old fantasy bombast from what I've heared. Although it sounds a bit generic I hope it delivers.

Here is a few huge Orchestral cues I have selected from my collection:-

A Million Ways to Die In the West - 13 - Racing the Train [Joel McNeely] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg08WvmNzbk)

Army of Doom - Jon Brookes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaJDLZZV5GQ)

Here's a link to a website with a LOT of big orchestral music: Ah2Music - Catalog (http://www.ah2music.com/catalog/#/albums/genre/58111/drama/)

I've got a lot more, I'll post them when I have a bigger list.

KEIGO HOASHI & RYUICHI TAKADA - TENKAI KNIGHTS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
MP3 V0 | 270.6 MB | 82 TRACKS | 02:22:02
Additional music by Kakeru Ishihama and Kuniyuki Takahashi


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/50291)
Catalog Number: HMCH-1143~4
Release Date: March 25, 2015

Samples
Keigo Hoashi - Main Theme "Hero" (http://kiwi6.com/file/bukhd0vjdf) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
Ryuichi Takada - Finale (http://kiwi6.com/file/j1xrnibfb8) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif


Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!EVVFzJiR!4MzYQYlgcyGEcvOivCJ-aSEUpEUgAhF4eqo_yaLzj8k

Here's a new score that was predominantly composed and arranged by Keigo Hoashi and Ryuichi Takada, the duo behind Star Driver and Captain Earth, and was recorded with a large studio orchestra consisting of a strings section and 16-piece brass section. There's some great heroic music by both the lead composers - just check out the samples! If you enjoyed any other orchestral MONACA scores, you should listen to this for sure.

P.S. If you delete all the non-Hoashi/Takada tracks you'll still be left with 53 tracks clocking in at 93 minutes. :)

Good shit. Thanks!

How old is Keigo Hoashi? He looks very young at least from the VGMDB profile pic, and with this level of talent and versatility... Well, winner winner chicken dinner

His age is unknown but I'd put him in his early-to-mid 30s. He went to Berklee when he was 20 years old and according to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuhyfq2YTqs) he was still there in 2003.

Thank you nextday :)

But what is Alan Silvestri doing in "Golem" ?! :D
Isn't this Kuniyuki Takahashi's first full orchestral piece? Not a bad start at all in my book.
Seems like japan fully intends to continue the Hollywood traditions of professional orchestral scoring. The new wave of japanese orchestral composers (Kameoka, Inai, MONACA etc.) will at least ensure that they will live on.

So, here are a few films/video games in my collection that have amazing stuff:

James Newton-Howard
MALEFICENT

View this movie on IMDb. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587310/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
Download (http://www.mediafire.com/download/b2sdg713ppyw2vu/Maleficent_(James_Newton-Howard).rar)

Theodore Shapiro
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY

View this movie on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359950/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm)
Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!iJtgmYJK!akusJ-iTMaA5XlBJXASWfXhZ684iEKf69aj32wJ2zFA)

Kyle Richards
GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME

This game cannot be found on VGMdb...
Download (Thread 185696)

Danny Elfman
MR. PEABODY AND SHERMAN

View this movie on IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0864835/?ref_=nv_sr_1)
Download (http://www.mediafire.com/download/hd8aqal87mtxbcd/Mr_Peabody_and_Sherman_(Danny_Elfman).rar)

I have to say that everything above contains some really good stuff. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has a track called "Afghan Trek", and it's difficult to even imagine how many people would've been playing during that song - it's breathtakingly awesome. Ted vs Walter is a futuristic-type orchestral piece.
How can you go wrong with Danny Elfman? This man can produce awesome scores in every single one of his projects. P&S doesn't have too many orchestral pieces except for the amazing 'Off to Egypt' and 'Fixing the Rip'.
Ghostbusters: The Video Game's music was created via Logic Pro. You can tell by the drum presets used within some tracks like 'Azetlor', but aside from that this game includes many genres of music, including some comedy ambient tracks and let's just say some magnificent action tracks!
Maleficent is by the man himself. James Newton-Howard. Again, do I have to go into details of how maleficent this guy is? 'Maleficent Is Captured' is seven minutes of ever-changing score featuring an amazing live orchestra equipped, with what seems like every instrument on the planet.

I don't have much musical (knowledge?) so please excuse me if anything I say is false/cringeworthy. :)

Lee Byung-woo composed the music for this amazing film: Tidal Wave (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_Wave_%28film%29)
Anybody have a link to the score? It's brilliant.

I find it interesting that one of MONACA's earliest scores (Haruhi the movie) was entirely orchestrated by the usual greats (Hamaguchi, Matsuo, etc.). They sure have come a long way if their recent projects were by themselves 100%. I wanna check out NieR now.

Don't get too excited with Nier. They seriously screwed up the mastering and it is clipped all to hell on most vocal pieces. Plus it is not really orchestral. Maybe you will find more enjoyment after digging deeper than I was able to. It is certainly one of the more popular game scores and sometimes I feel like the only one who doesn't like it. It also has quite a few vocal tracks at the core.

After looking at the VGMDB page for Yo Tsuji again with the Dantalian score posted recently I noticed there is a score he did with Toshiyuki Watanabe back in 2001. I haven't been able to locate it and I wonder if anyone here has it or has heard it. AVCA-14172 | Hajakyosei G Dangaioh Sound Dimension - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/40018)

just remembered it

did Ressha Sentai ToQger ost by Haneoka ever get released? was it posted in the forums?

I think the NieR Piano Collections album is pretty good. Haven't listened to the soundtrack though.

And Sirus, Tsuji only composed the theme songs for that album. The BGM is all Watanabe.

Are we only talking about Japanese composers here? I seem to be getting ignored. ._.
Anyway... Here's something that has AMAZING orchestral action cues.

ALEXANDR� DESPLAT FT. KATE BUSH - The Golden Compass Original Soundtrack
MP3 | 26 Tracks | 80 Minutes

http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o577/SillySlurpuff/The%20Golden%20Compass%20Soundtrack%20Cover_zpsmhg o6lzg.jpg (http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/SillySlurpuff/media/The%20Golden%20Compass%20Soundtrack%20Cover_zpsmhg o6lzg.jpg.html)

Samples
18. Ice Bear Combat (https://kiwi6.com/file/fxeoin9b1x)
10. Lee Scorseby's Airship Adventure (https://kiwi6.com/file/pxvvcrax0r)

Tracklisting
01. The Golden Compass
02. Sky Ferry
03. Letters from Bolvangar
04. Lyra, Roger, and Billy
05. Mrs. Coultier
06. Lyra Escapes
07. The Magisterium
08. Dust
09. Serafina Pekkala
10. Lee Scoresby's Airship Adventure
11. Iorek Byrnison
12. Lord Faa, King of the Gyptians
13. The Golden Money
14. Riding Iorek
15. Samoyed Attack
16. Lord Asriel
17. Ragnar Starlusson
18. Ice Bear Combat
19. Iorek's Victory
20. The Ice Bridge
21. Rescuing the Children
22. Intercision
23. Mother
24. Battle With the Tartars
25. Epilogue
26. Lyra

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1pg22y8jnrqc8h6/The_Golden_Compass.rar

Desplat is such an underrated composer. His work on this film and his Godzilla series' is amazing!
If you're looking for super cool "Orchestral Action" music, this film has the perfect soundtrack for you!
Recommended for Ultimate Action: "Ice Bear Combat", "Samoyed Attack", and "Ragnar Starlusson". A sample of IBC is provided above.

Not sure I'd call Desplat underrated when two of his scores were nominated for an Academy Award this year and one of them won. He's definitely getting the attention he deserves. :)

And yes, there's a lot of Nippon talk in this thread.

Definitely not ignored. Thanks for posting!

Not sure about others here but I just don't have any interest in western film music anymore (or any score for that matter).

Link is added.

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I just realised that some of the tracks have different names. I don't actually know why it's like that; I think I may have renamed them back when I was making movies in games for my spare time. I should've checked that, sorry...
That's a facepalm moment.

I honestly think we should vote on a new thread title.

Well part of it SillySlurpuff is that it seems better to post Japanese scores because labels in the US have taken more of a stance to try to stop online sharing. It seems much less likely that some Japanese label will come after the members of this thread when compared to say Varese. I try to discuss various scores from western composers and bring those up with the idea that most people can find a recent score (within the last 5 years) fairly easily if searching. So Tango has been posting a lot of more obscure earlier works. And my most recent post was a fairly obscure Mike Batt score because those sorts of scores should be highlighted more.

I would absolutely love to be enchanted by new western scores but sadly most of them are either completely boring or barely interesting enough and very few are as enchanting as favorites from even as recently as five years ago. Doyle's Cindarella comes close but to me still misses the level of his Igor score. How to Train Your Dragon 2 is quite close as well and maybe the most interesting score he has done as a composer. Sadly, it is very hard to find serious critical analysis of modern scores. It is usually described as "epic" or "awesome" by some new convert to film scores or "overrated" or "amateur" by someone else. Though in my examination of scores it is hard to go much beyond "charming" or "magical" etc.

I think The Golden Compass has some solid moments and I mostly overlooked it for a while but more recently revisited it and enjoyed it so that is a good one to share.

Over the years this thread turned into a conglomeration of music by professional orchestral composers with musical education and/or talent for classical and symphonic writing. In other words musical storytellers who have a vast knowledge of the orchestra and/or many other instruments and genres, composers who are able to express themselves without restrictions and who manage to impress both general audiences and fellow musicians alike. Additionally there can be an occasional music theory talk, general disucssion about every topic under the sun and sometimes just plain silly stuff.

Now try to put that into a thread title..

Heh... Sorry, a short rant below.

For this season, I have been trying to pay some attention to the shows. I appreciate the animation quality in a lot of them: Nisekoi, Seraph, Danmachi, Euphonium, etc. As much as I love anime, I just hate how the anime community has been hyped about shows with cute character designs but no convincing plot. Nisekoi is some generic harem shit, Danmachi is gonna be the same with fantasy gimmicks and a shamelessly sexualized main heroine (fucking borderline loli to boot), and Euphonium is just fuwafuwa girls frolicking. I know the industry has been like this for years but ugh... Moreover, they are all adaptations of ongoing manga/LNs, so it's almost guaranteed that pacing and conclusions are gonna be weak. Plastic Memories and Punch Line are originals but one bodes a painfully obvious story and the other is a no-fucks-given entertainment (good animation, though). Nowadays anime seems like nothing more than a commercial tool to make the original medium and related merchandise sell.

It's like studios and creators don't even try anymore.

Also, I meant to post something to commemorate Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday but the forum was down then (March 26th). Whether one loves/hates him, he's been a gigantic force both as a conductor and composer. His own compositions are craggy as hell even compared to other contemporary avant-garde composers, but his soundscape is pretty fascinating - especially his late works (E.g., R�pons, both D�rives). As a conductor, he is mostly known for his precision and clarity. He just lets the music speak for itself and despite people criticizing him for dryness, I admire him. I'll try to post some recordings I own when I can get my CD drive to work...

Have people seen this Inside Abbey Road thing Google have done? It includes 360 degree interactive footage of some of the sessions from the recent Final Symphony album. All very nice and interesting to see.

https://insideabbeyroad.withgoogle.com/en/all-access/studio-1/hotspot/lso360#x=0.982&y=-0.040&z=0.185

Yeah I have the same problem with anime lately. Every one I try to watch ends up with tons of episodes that barely go anywhere and characters that are poorly written, etc. It is the rare anime that has an actually interesting continuous plot and well developed characters (Code Geass, Death Note). I've ended up giving up on most anime I tried to watch lately.

I would say shows which feature cute girls (with big tits) with a plot that goes nowhere for a fuckton of episodes and a lackluster ending has been the norm since decades. Japan loves this silly, weird and stupid shit, it's in every part of their culture, that's just how they roll. But they try to make the best silly, weird and stupid shit possible, sometimes even going so far as to send an orchestral composer overseas to Warsaw to score animated gay porn. I find that admirable. The same goes for the many series to sell toys or games, again nothing new for 30 years. Look at Bahamut, that show was just advertisement but it was better than it had any right to be and was actually quite entertaining, not to mention the delicious score, sometimes straight out of Conan or Mask of Zorro. But on top of that you have a few shows each year with ambition and vision behind it but the better stuff is usually more present in the OVA format (Space Batteship Yamato 2199, Eve no Jikan, Lupin (Gravestone), Hellsing, Katanagatari, Giant Robo, Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen etc.). Many shows turn out to be trainwrecks and most are grounded in japanese culture but nonetheless some are successes and deliver.

I personally love ARIA, Fantastic Children, Princess Tutu, Casshern Sins, Cowboy Bebop, Space Brothers, Kaiba, Fujiko Mine, Haibane Renmei, Paranoia Agent, Planetes, Simoun, Spice and Wolf, Mononoke and Banner/Crest of the Stars (where's my Yamato reboot, Japan?!). Then there're at least a dozen shows I adore some aspects of (Duels in Escaflowne, directing in Texhnolyze, beginning of Gankutsuou, surrogate father episode of Space Dandy, heart attack frenzy in Death Note, the "visuals" of Monogatari, the style of Baccano and Kekkai Sensen etc.) and of course there's the many SoL shows that I consume like a drug addict :) Right now I'm following Kekkia Sensen, Arslan, Euphonium and KinIro so let's see how they turn out.

Great stuff is always rare, in any medium, just look at Hollywood...


But I have to ask... where has Code Geass well written characters??? For me it was the quintessential trainwreck, at one point you just laugh at the screen for the stupid shit some characters pull so I still give it a pass in entertainment I guess :D




EDIT: Bahamut gets an orchestral concert, with luck it gets released on blu-ray GENESIS Concert (http://shingekinobahamut-genesis.jp/concert/).

Cimbasso?

MANY thanks for Tenkai Knights! I think this is MONACA's best effort so far... and is anybody else considerably more enthusiastic about Takahashi and Takada's orchestral cues than Hoashi's? Takada has impressed me since Star Driver - my two favourite cues were both his. In Tenkai Knights, "Finale" is pure glory - very nicely orchestrated, great theme, old fashioned construction, and a big finish just like they don't do any more. Except in Japan.

Takahashi gets barely 90 seconds of orchestra in the whole score in Golem... but what a fantastic cue! A little bit of Alan Silvestri, definitely... but what a superb action piece all the same, with interesting time signature changes and some lovely inventive harmonies - the chord progressions from 1:10 to 1:14 are really nice.

Hoashi... seems to be very good at 80's "heroism" themes like "Hero" and "End Of The Battle" - but in the "score" cues his action is less interesting to me. He seems a little like Yugo Kanno in that respect; born to write a tune, but uncertain in matters of underscore and mood building.

Nonetheless, there's some truly brilliant stuff in that score from every composer... and it warms my heart to hear music of this calibre coming out in animation.

Sahashi's Saint Seiya... now if that isn't surprise of the season I don't know what is!!! There's a budget, and some really interesting moments that give me great pleasure... little fragments of old Sahashi, still trying new things. This is a 13 episode series, so there is bound to be lots more score. Really, REALLY looking forward to the rest of this.

Why is Hiromi Mizutani credited as writing the music in numerous occasions? The music's obviously Sahashi all the way, Masatsugu Shinozaki has a picture of himself WITH Sahashi at the scoring sessions, Sahashi's name is in the credits... Was Mizutani on board and then dumped at the last minute? The scoring session happened in MARCH which is almost unprecedented in anime... Was this a rush job???

vbr@m4a

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Score release alert: MONACA's score for Hanayamata is floating on the web already. :D

Hm, I find the cute vocals in the first disc to be rather... catchy as hell. Didn't expect this, really. :p

I'm sorry to tell everyone that I'm currently in hospital having suffered a stroke at the age of 30, that has left me partially paralysed and susceptible to sudden and lengthy bouts of extreme sickness. I'm being looked after and cared for by some really brilliant people who will never read this but who gave me someone to talk to in my darkest hours. I even met the guy who used to be in charge of making the mashed potatoes for the show Bodger and Badger!

All being well I'm going home tomorrow... and then we shall see how much of this will wear off and how much I will need to permanently adjust to. In the meantime... THANK YOU EVERYONE for EVERYTHING - old and recent. This thread has given birth to some truly remarkable things over the past seven years and long, long, LONG may that continue - whether it's with me or not.

Anybody who's got projects outstanding with me... Please be patient. I do intend to finish everything... but it's entirely dependent on how well the next few weeks go for me. I'm not a religious man... but if anybody wants to say a friendly word or two in support - prayer or otherwise - it would be much, much appreciated.

When I'm feeling up to it I'll update of course. :)

i for one am very sorry to hear about your health!

the good news (you might have already been told this but if not, it s something to cheer you up) is that total recovery of all prestroke function is possible so long as no more than about 80 percent damage to any specialized brain area occurred and the damage not being especially clumped together

in this case most of the recovery occurring when it does within six or seven months thanks to enormous redundancy that evolved maybe for situations like these and because neighbouring neurons branch into glia matrices where random previous neurons had died

in the worst case the visual cortex can do much of what the other cortex areas can do. (It usually does not except in cases where the other areas are especially damaged.) So a large return of function is possible even in the very worst case, if inflammation is prevented

wish you good luck and rapid recovery :)

Relieved to hear you're OK, Tango!

When I'm feeling up to it I'll update of course. :)

I'll be expecting a 750 word review of NHS meal service, dammit. No excuses. ;)

I'm glad that your alive and sound Tango, you have my heartfelt sympathy. I sincerely hope it's not permanent and that you can quickly recover.
But take your time and don't rush things, your health and well-being should be more important now... most of us are used to waiting anyway and it makes the time when something great arrives all the more sweet. I hope that this thread lives on too and I would rather see it continue with you and everyone else on board who loves some heartfelt and soulful music.

I wish you the best and take care!

Reupload from Planet Earth (thanks to arthierr to found my link)

Planet Earth - George Fenton

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Planetearthalbumartwork.JPG

Soundtrack by George Fenton
Released: November 20, 2006
Genre: Soundtrack
Length: 2:12:00
Label: EMI
Producer: BBC

Cover included
320 kbps

Disc 1

01. "Prelude" (1:57) from the Episode: Pole to Pole
02. "The Journey of the Sun" (3:28) from the Episode: Pole to Pole
03. "Hunting Dogs" (3:26) from the Episode: Pole to Pole
04. "Elephants in the Okavango" (3:07) from the Episode: Pole to Pole
05. "Diving into the Darkness" (3:01) from the Episode: Caves
06. "Stalactite Gallery" (2:26) from the Episode: Caves
07. "Bat Hunt" (2:59) from the Episode: Caves
08. "Discovering Deer Cave" (3:49) from the Episode: Caves
09. "Angel Falls" (2:21) from the Episode: Fresh Water
10. "River Predation" (4:09) from the Episode: Fresh Water
11. "Iguacu" (2:06) from the Episode: Fresh Water
12. "The Snow Geese" (2:01) from the Episode: Fresh Water
13. "The Geladas" (2:39) from the Episode: Mountains
14. "The Snow Leopard" (4:00) from the Episode: Mountains
15. "The Karakoram" (1:54) from the Episode: Mountains
16. "The Earth's Highest Challenge" (5:31) from the Episode: Mountains
17. "Desert Winds / The Locusts" (4:58) from the Episode: Deserts
18. "Fly Catchers" (1:42) from the Episode: Deserts
19. "Namibia � The Lions and the Oryx" (5:10) from the Episode: Deserts

Disc 2

01. "Plains High and Low" (2:40) from the Episode: Great Plains
02. "The Wolf and the Caribou" (3:47) from the Episode: Great Plains
03. "Tibet (Reprise) / Close" (3:46) from the Episode: Great Plains
04. "Surfing Dolphins" (2:41) from the Episode: Shallow Seas
05. "Dangerous Landing" (3:20) from the Episode: Shallow Seas
06. "Mother and Calf � The Great Journey" (5:19) from the Episode: Shallow Seas
07. "The Canopy / Flying Lemur" (2:45) from the Episode: Jungles
08. "Frog Ballet / Jungle Falls" (3:37) from the Episode: Jungles
09. "The Cordyceps" (2:55) from the Episode: Jungles
10. "Hunting Chimps" (4:10) from the Episode: Jungles
11. "The Redwoods" (4:40) from the Episode: Seasonal Forests
12. "Fledglings" (3:43) from the Episode: Seasonal Forests
13. "Seasonal Change" (5:40) from the Episode: Seasonal Forests
14. "Discovering Antarctica" (2:42) from the Episode: Ice Worlds
15. "The Humpbacks' Bubblenet" (2:59) from the Episode: Ice Worlds
16. "Everything Leaves but the Emperors" (2:27) from the Episode: Ice Worlds
17. "The Disappearing Sea Ice" (3:45) from the Episode: Ice Worlds
18. "Lost in the Storm" (1:16) from the Episode: Ice Worlds
19. "A School of Five Hundred" (3:39) from the Episode: Deep Ocean
20. "Giant Mantas" (2:50) from the Episode: Deep Ocean
21. "Life Near the Surface" (2:06) from the Episode: Deep Ocean
22. "The Choice Is Ours" (3:13) from the Episode: Deep Ocean

Planet Earth (http://www.sendspace.com/file/nc5lv4)

Info from soundtrack-express.com: (thanks to arthierr, too XD)

After the rousing success of The Blue Planet, the BBC is back to doing one of the many things it does best, wildlife documentaries. True, unlike the rather more specific documentaries which go into great detail on one species or habitat, the broad sweep of Planet Earth means that, what it lacks in fine detail, it makes up for in awe inspiring images; a visual orgasm. Even things you thought you'd seen before on TV are filmed in jaw dropping ways, with amazing clarity and immense scope, making our already beautiful planet look about as spectacular as it could without actually going on location. When the first series came and went without a soundtrack album, I remained confident that the BBC wouldn't pass up the chance to release George Fenton's gorgeous music and, right on cue, with the second series, we get this double disc set of Fenton doing what he does best, bold, orchestral scoring that, on screen just enhances the entire programme into an audiovisual wallow of the finest sort.

The Blue Planet had a gorgeous choral theme, but here Fenton's main theme is a little more brief, a beautifully wrought orchestral crescendo that accompanies the opening image of the globe, with the sun rising behind it. It may be short, but it's a spine tingling way to open and Fenton makes brief uses of it elsewhere, transforming it into a elegant, but non-ostentatious, waltz. Of course, in a score such as this, it's the epic moments that stick out in the mind and there are plenty to go round. From the sparkling Discovering Deer Cave, to the glorious Angel Falls and, later, Jungle Falls, each one echoes the splendid photography, whether it's external, as in the latter two, or deep underground in Deer Cave. Of course, this is a wildlife documentary and so, beyond the beauty of the landscape beauty, there are moments for its inhabitants and their moments of drama captured for us to see.

As with Blue Planet, there are moments of tension, excitement, pathos and humour. Of the more dramatic episodes, Hunting Dogs, The Wolf and the Caribou and Dangerous Landing are perhaps the standouts, with passages that could easily come from a big budget action movie score. There are plenty of quieter moments, but Fenton treats them with the sensitivity of an intimate human drama. Of note are The Snow Leopard, with it's intimate arrangement for piano and cello, while Mother and Calf builds from a mournful opening to a dramatic conclusion in The Great Journey. One particularly harrowing moment, as some penguin chicks are Lost in the Storm, features a gentle vocal performance by Catherine Bott - echoing Ralph Vaughan Williams' score for Scott of the Antarctic. For the lighter side, Fenton pulls back from outright comedy, but Fly Catchers, the opening of Fledglings and the witty Surfing Dolphins are a welcome change of pace.

Given the nature of scoring a series such as this, as an album, Planet Earth is rather bitty and lacks the cohesion of Fenton's feature scores, although his distinctive style and hints of the main theme tie parts of it together, but many are melodically unrelated. It does make the first couple of listens a little hard going as almost every track throws up something different and there's not always a strong musical thread to cling on to. However, taken in portions, the music is all very satisfying. The occasional hint of ethnic wail feels a little unnecessary, but Fenton keeps the orchestra in the foreground, rather than leaving the vocal to dominate and the results are surprisingly effective. Anyone who enjoyed Blue Planet will undoubtedly get a kick out of every note here, although the promised feature version of the series will likely result in a more satisfying presentation of Fenton's music as happened with Deep Blue. That caveat aside, still highly recommended.

As a side note, Fenton's music was not featured in the trailers for the series, but used the track Hoppipolla from the album Takk... by Icelandic band Sigur Ros. The album is available here, although don't expect the whole album to be like that - it's quite avant garde most of the time, but worthy of exploration.

can this be re-uploaded?

Tango,

I am sorry to hear that you were hospitalized! I just now prayed for your swift recovery and long may you offer words of wisdom on music and share many a great score with us for years to come. You sir cannot check out yet ;).

Sorry to hear about your health, Tango. Best wishes and hopes for a speedy recovery from the West Coast.

Thank you so much, everyone... :)

I've been discharged and I'm now at home recovering. I've been told that my cerebellum has basically expired completely... which is usually bad news. Apparently the brain is quite good at re-directing stuff to other areas if a part of itself isn't working any more. I'm a little slower and still kinda numb in places, but they are hopeful I'll recover - if not fully then 99%... and I'm not complaining about that. The doctor said my particular situation usually results in death - so NOT being dead is a bonus... and the amount of OK I actually AM is nothing short of a miracle. So, on we go... wired a bit different, granted, but still around and still myself. :)

As for the food... I am actually surprised by how good it was at the first hospital. It wasn't gourmet cuisine... but it was food, there was choice, and it was pretty tasty. Sometimes you didn't quite get what you asked for... but servings were reasonable.

The second hospital, which I was only at for a day, was atrocious. Unlike the first one, they don't have a kitchen or a chef - everything is packaged and reheated on the premises. You don't get much, choice is very limited, and what you do get is utterly, utterly ludicrous. An egg salad sandwich consisted of one shaving of egg, an eighth of a slice of tomato, and a slither of brown lettuce between two slices of hard bread.

Some years ago, British Rail was famous for pioneering a new technique in sandwich making whereby it was able to make sandwiches look twice as filled as they were by carefully folding the ham at right angles and moving the filling to the centre of the slice - so when you cut it and displayed it insides out, it looked great... you bought it, bit into it, and discovered the truth. It gave rise to the term "British Rail Sandwich" used to describe a miserly helping... and this one is a textbook example... if not even worse. The tea was still good, though...

Post something nice, guys... I'm going to try to post something myself tomorrow. :)

Dan

Wow that is quite shocking to read but I'm glad that you made it through the worst part it seems and have good prospects according to the doctor of recovery. Please do keep us updated as things progress.

Get well, Tango.

Shiro Hamaguchi
SHIROBAKO
Score Selection

Performed by a Studio Orchestra




Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!78ATUJ7D!Kvun4SFx7NBHvlzp0TyJctQMmuhmr1ReMEv1rpM l4BU)
MP3 / 320kbps / 42 Tracks / 90min

Preview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jca7HcM8kkk&t=10m03s)

So how about a nice score that brightened my day. This is yet another score selection that fits nicely on one CD.
For an anime about making anime Hamaguchi really encapsulates what I love about the medium. There's just so much class all around. From classic Rock&Roll to spy & western themes as well as some good old orchestral glory straight out of 70s Television. I'm surprised that the orchestral score clocks around 40 minutes and is essentialy a new version of the orchestral score for Girls und Panzer but I enjoy it even more this time. It's evident that Hamaguchi really needs a big project with a big budget asap so that he can give us a masterpiece. Shirobako is no Shin-chan or Oh My Goddess! but it has some really great pieces, standouts are the "Flight Corps Theme" and "Like the thin candle lights, my dream still shines" which is one of those epic "THE END" cues like they don't make them no more that just gives you goosebumps when the curtain falls. It ended the show in such a classic way that I really needed to watch it twice to confirm that some anime can be really good from start to finish and even end on a high note. The music certainly played a big part in my enjoyment of the show and I hope that such a good composer and superb arranger like Hamaguchi gets better projects than "Houkago no Pleiades" in the future.



Enjoy





This weekend I will give Gundam Reconguista a good listen but so far my first impression has been very favourable. I heared many pieces that were essential concert arrangements so I suspect Kanno was ready for another Warsaw session, a shame that didn't happen. Lots of good stuff is out now and will be out soon so it takes a bit of time to catch up :)

Track 15 on Disc one of Gundam G has some Sahashi moments especially in that main melody of the composition. I love it!

So sorry to hear of your trials, tangotreats, and my best wishes for your recovery. I must say your positive attitude is an inspiration to us all.

A little late but please get better, Tango. This thread just can't lose you :'(

Sorry to hear about what happened, Tango, but I sincerely hope you get better; I appreciated the many soundtracks you've provided.

I am glad to hear you are recovering, Tango. Best wishes.

Captain Earth OST 2 is on Hikari no Akari (are we allowed to name/refer to other sites?)

Hi everyone. Just got back from a two week vacation in Italy. :)

I'm really sorry to hear about what happened to you, tango! But I'm glad to hear you, well, survived. Our circle would never be the same without you!

Thank you, folks. I'm plugging away as best I can. It's a little troublesome that my body currently won't do what my brain would like it to do. Formerly reliable movements now require thought and effort - which I will be making as best I can.

In the mean time... am I the only person who's chronically disappointed by Reconguista in G?

For starters, the main theme isn't in the key of G. That's a musical joke that is lazy not to crack at this point!

As we go on... we discover further signs of Kanno's shortcomings. He's a man of melody. He's the go-to guy for bouncy, memorable melodies for saccharine afternoon drama shows. But... just as we discovered in Gunshi Kanbee... his actual musical technique is shockingly bad. We get tune, tune again louder, tune again even louder, key change, tune really really loud, flourish in original key, end. No counterpoint, no development, no conflict, no drama... just a series of extremely conspicuous melodies bound together by time-wasting.

Let's look at the "big theme" - track 15 on CD 1 for a comparison point:

We begin with a brass fanfare that is prototypical Yugo Kanno. This is what I would write if I were deliberately trying to take off Kanno's style. It's not a good start - beginning the main theme for your biggest score by trotting out your most tired cliches. Anyway, along comes the main theme - a completely generic melody that is almost indistinguishable from the chordal material that introduced it. I love trumpet solos... and I love sci-fi music... but this kind of thing just makes me sad. (Not least because it's the theme from Tetsuwan Birdy Decode but played by a smaller orchestra Disc 2, Track 2 - Tetsuwan Birdy Decode Main Theme - Side Tsutomu.)

So, here comes this theme. Listen to what the other instruments are doing. Strings are cycling are appeggiating... and then they give up and just plug away at the same note just as the celli and double basses are doing. Snare drum is banging out a military rhthym. Then, at 0:39 we have the cliched key change that was set up from the very first note. A sub-melody appears on soaring strings. Accompaniment is again almost nothing. Some strange dissonant brass chords lead into a section which is every Kanno drama theme ever written mixed with your typical "happy young people turn up in big Gundam to save the day" melody. Again, repeat - louder.

1:37 to 2:48 is pure time wasting. Repetitious chords, and at 2:24 string exercise runs. This is what you write when you can't think of what to write. Suddenly at 2:48 the original trumpet melody comes back, then the dissonant brass chords, then some stabbing strings, then the happy young people - repeated again and again and again. At 4:08 we return to the opening fanfare, hit upon the most interesting moment in the whole score (the descending string lines) and end on a major key.

Yugo Kanno - and I say this as one of his biggest fans - cannot do this stuff. Yugo Kanno is the main theme to Galileo, Attention Please, or Ando Lloyd... or the Police Detective theme from Mr Brain. Big, shameless themes - repeated big, bright, loud, and proud. Something vapid but feel-good to dance to. He does that stuff like no other composer working today - Japanese or otherwise... but the guy cannot write proper grown-up scores. He can't orchestrate and has no idea how to give his music any kind of life or intelligence except by progressively increasing its volume and then shifting up a key. Those are pop song tricks.

Give me Sahashi's SEED scores any day of the week.

He's BACK, baby! :D

Well I was a bit too excited by not having a ton of electronic-focused cues that I had to remove to seriously dig into critiquing the music but your criticisms explain why I haven't been feeling like going back to it all that much since the first few listens.

Welcome back Tango :D
And i hope you get better soon and day by day :)

In the mean time... am I the only person who's chronically disappointed by Reconguista in G?


Yes. :) Still glad to have my favorite grouch back, tho.

I'm not terribly familiar with Kanno's style as of yet- I haven't even listened to a great deal of the albums I've posted here myself yet- but I can see where you're coming from to a certain extent. His style favors simplistic melodies formed from basic constituent parts; string trills, big brass swells, elementary chromatic runs; with little in the way of fancy counterpoint and such.

But bah! Who needs that stuff when you can craft melodies as strong as the album opener while retaining enough variety to mix it up with fun jazzy numbers like the 19th track on CD1? A strong touch for a tune can go a loooooong way, and you've gotta give the score points for emotional breadth and scope. There's sunny chamber melodies, jazz, angry choral action cues, religious-sounding organ noodling, fun orchestral-electro hybrids, even one track that sounds like something from West Side Story. Not to mention the best ED in a long long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1lJB-pcPMo

I don't agree that he has no grasp of development, either. The score is rife with themes that are consistently revisited and reworked. It's no Escaflowne, and sure, there's nothing too complex going on. It's very much pop-orchestral songwriting, you're right, but that still has its place, and Kanno creates a lot of different tone colors and emotions with the tools he has. I'm kind of impressed with how much of a narrative arch the score manages to achieve, considering the plotline of the show is among the loopiest I've ever seen(one which, it could be argued, doesn't lend itself to a traditional space opera score terribly well.)

As usual, Kanno's longform material stands out as the strongest. I just love The Veil of Memory, track 23 of CD 1. No unconventional melodic tricks, intricate counterpoint or nifty postproduction effects. Just simple, flowing strings, an emotional melody, efficient underscore, and an airy, uncertain atmosphere. There's just this gorgeous spaciousness to the arrangement, with the spare accents on the piano placed just where they need to be to evoke the protagonist's inner unrest as they sift and prod through the haze of old memories. Like a lot of the score, it doesn't stick around any longer than necessary to make its point, but it gets me every time. The second CD's twelfth track is similarly wonderful.

The action cues are the material most heavily affected by Kanno's more repetitive tendencies, and I even like most of those. The Roar of a Distant Enemy(track 2, CD 2) has a great, crackling energy. The rattling wood percussion puts it over the top for me.

Really I just love the score for G-Reco. Wouldn't put it up there with Turn A or After War, and it's not liable to impress if you need lots of pizazz when it comes to orchestral writing, but it has all of the character and panache I've come to expect from Yugo Kanno and little of the disposable fluff(which again, I still tend to like on the best of times.)

Coincidentally, I've been on a bit of a Gundam music kick and been working my way through SEED this past week. Lss so far, OST2 is far more rewarding than the first. Any particular tracks that were anyone's favorites, or do yall just stick to the symphony albums?

Chew on this tracklist, bitches

CD 1
#01 Gundam Reconguista in G 2:50
#02 Flash of G （TVサイズ） 1:38
#03 Falling from the Void 2:09
#04 The Discliples of SU-Cord 1:49
#05 Push it from Your Mind 1:12
#06 On Campus 2:53
#07 Dynamic Color 3:13
#08 Space Pirates 1:45
#09 The Elusive Rayhunton Code 2:46
#10 The Pope's Mind 1:58
#11 A Mother's Breath 3:05
#12 The Impact of Towasanga 2:58
#13 Butterfly Priestess 0:38
#14 We Three 2:18
#15 G-Self in the Blue Sky 4:38
#16 That Girl 3:58
#17 When You Think of Death 3:02
#18 Lessons from Klim Nick 2:01
#19 Sortie in Sunny Weather 2:11
#20 The Distance Between Outstretched Hands 1:59
#21 Hyphens and Staccato 2:45
#22 Ranks of the Capitol Army, Assemble! 1:30
#23 The Veil of Memory 2:47
#24 Distant Burning 1:33
#25 Is There a Face Under the Mask? 2:57
#26 Here Comes the Attacker 2:14
#27 With the Core Fighter 2:13
#28 A Solitary Cloud 1:58

CD 2
#01 Calling Home 1:21
#02 The Roar of a Distant Enemy 2:29
#03 Lonely Meaning 4:07
#04 Pioneers 1:32
#05 Chuchumy's Pot 1:41
#06 All Hands on Deck 2:02
#07 Boisterous Dance of Arms 2:07
#08 Thundercloud Dream of the Universe 2:48
#09 Torch Sky 1:59
#10 Tumbling Raraiya 1:59
#11 Opening the Door to Tomorrow 2:50
#12 Are You Sure You Want to Touch 3:03
#13 Distant Thunder 2:13
#14 Hung Head 2:06
#15 Into Waltz Time 1:46
#16 Can't Be Put into Words 1:53
#17 The Weight of the Past 2:19
#18 Three Blades 2:59
#19 Lonely Woman 3:27
#20 Show Me Gently 2:26
#21 Ocean Ring 2:41
#22 Dread the Darkness 3:06
#23 A Desperate Situation! 2:01
#24 Round Tour 2:32
#25 Reincarnation of Longevity 3:54
#26 Touching the Surface 3:17
#27 Before Sleep 3:07
#28 Klim's Eyecatch 0:10
#29 Haro's Eyecatch 0:11
#30 Noredo's Eyecatch 0:11
#31 Bellri's Eyecatch 0:11
#32 Mask's Eyecatch 0:10
#33 Manny's Eyecatch 0:11
#34 Raraiya's Eyecatch 0:11
#35 Aida's Eyecatch 0:18
#36 Waiting for You 1:42

CD 3
#01 Exhausted Words 1:54
#02 The Time of Truce 3:49
#03 Our Banner 0:31
#04 Sleep Yet? 2:43
#05 An Impregnable Number 2:58
#06 Wings in the Universe 2:10
#07 Beyond the Flaming Tower 2:34
#08 The Great Threat 2:59
#09 The Revered House 2:14
#10 That Same Sunny Morning 3:26
#11 Would You Like to Travel Together? 3:34
#12 Not Yet Tired 4:08
#13 Atmospheric Layer 2:31
#14 Get Here By Dawn! 4:30
#15 The Dance of the G-IT Corps 2:26
#16 Distant Journey 3:05
#17 The Magic Between Us ～The Way to Reconguista～ 1:40
#18 What We've Been Waiting For 1:54
#19 Blazing (TV Size) 1:33
#20 The Magic Between Us （TV Size) 1:36
#21 Flash of G 3:38

Hey Tango, glad you haven't gone cross-eyed and started dribbling. I'll cancel your bulk order of facial tissue.

I don't disagree with you, not at all... maybe something DID happen to my brain after all... ;)

I take your point... there's nothing outright OFFENSIVE in this score, and God knows there's plenty of offensive music out there... I just worry about a composer who is ten years into his career, gets maybe the most plum scoring assignment that exists anywhere in the world today (a full length, good budget Gundam show) under a legendary director... and turns in stuff like 1:37 to 2:48 in the main theme. Without any notable exceptions that I can think of, composers generally give a little bit extra for Gundam.

I don't think Yugo Kanno is a bad musician... I just think he's an atrocious fit for this type of score.Getting a guy who's great with bouncy themes from soppy afternoon TV formula romance drama shows and giving him a giant sprawling sci-fi series... can sometimes be the making of a great composer... but in this case the guy hasn't really stepped outside of his comfort zone and has, with a handful of exceptional cues proving the rule, basically approached the score as he would've done one of those dramas.

There are definitely parts in there worthy of song... but in the back of my mind lurks the inevitable thought that this is an expensive prestige score blessed with a biggish TV-sized ensemble, and three CDs worth of session time... and they squandered it on the wrong guy for the job. Where is Michiru Oshima's, or Yoshihisa Hirano's, or Kousuke Yamashita's big Gundam score? Or Souhei Kano (one great score then nothing for almost five years), Natsumi Kameoka (one good score for one stupid show), Hiroshi Takaki (made his big budget debut in 2009 with Tytania and is currently wasting away on Pretty Cure), Masamichi Amano (virtual compositional silence for almost a decade and mostly working as an orchestrator for Shiro Sagisu), or Shiro Hamaguchi (scoring shitty romance stories and the hilariously low budget Kancolle pisstake)? Yoko Kanno's or Yasuo Higuchi's second, Sahashi's or Tanaka's third? Or even pick someone a little unexpected like Naoki Sato, Go Sakabe, Akira Senju, Toshiyuki Watanabe, or MONACA. Or somebody brand new we've never heard of - how about a debut score a-la Fractale? Imagine what could've been while you visualise Yugo Kanno breezing into the studio with the largest television orchestra of the year and recording music that could've dropped out of any of his five thousand sleepy drama scores of the last decade.

I'm trying to be cheerful... honest I am! :D

Oh man, I keep waiting for a new ANYTHING from Higuchi.

I can't really argue that Kanno didn't stay firmly in his comfort zone for G-Reco, and in that sense, yeah, that's pretty disappointing. I'm hoping his growing popularity in TV work will give him more of a space to branch out and flex his creative muscles beyond crafting a great hook and just repeating it. I can already hear a burgeoning interest in rave-y electronica beats and experimentation since Psycho-Pass, and I know how yall feel about THAT stuff, but it shows that he's still picking stuff up and growing as an artist.

All I can say is that, having seen the show, I felt his score, lacking in space-opera glitz as it was, fit the show's emotional beats and themes perfectly well. G-Reco is a strange beast in many ways, and it's hard to say what kind of score it deserved. EDIT: Not to say that Kanno's style didn't show its limits as the series wears on, as it tended to use the same cues for the same types of respective emotional beats over and over. Just as an aside, that's the one thing I've always hated about anime scoring over Hollywood fare, and it's another current Kanno; JoJo; that's really helped nail it home for me how essential great sound design, mixing, and a careful, considerate eye for how music and context should inform each other really is.


Plus, ya know those certain inevitabilities in life. Death, taxes and gundam. There's never going to be a shortage of new series anytime soon, and it's always fun to see who they bring on to compose. I love your point about bringing in unexpected, untested newcomers the most cause it brings up an interesting point about Gundam. The series tends to bring out the best in the composer's Sunrise hires, but it's not quite right to think of it as a "Kingmaker" type of deal. Kanno, Higuchi, Senju, Sahashi, Tanaka, and others were all well-established names with their own distinct voices by the time they were each brought on for their respective scores. When I try to think of a composer who scored their first "Big Break" from working on a Gundam staff, the one example that comes to mind, ironically enough, is Sawano. He'd done a couple TV series and had a healthy proficiency in dramas, but then Unicorn came out, and suddenly he's everyfuckinwhere; concerts, vocal release albums, even has his own Zimmer-esque subset of B-roll soundalikes(Takafumi Wada, et al.)

Possibly a coincidence, sure, but the possibilities of a new distinctive talent with a fun bent for the classical, courtesy of Gundam or otherwise, is just too fun to consider. Whenever that happens, and I trust it will one of these days. Till then, there's always Hattori's score for The Origin that just dropped.

YOSHIHIRO IKE - RAGE OF BAHAMUT GENESIS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
MP3 V0 | 252.2 MB | 92 TRACKS | 02:24:25
Studio Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Yoshihiro Ike


VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/51000)
Catalog Number: GNCA-1388
Release Date: April 29, 2015

Samples http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
Main Theme "Rage of Bahamut" (http://kiwi6.com/file/hpruof5z7p)
Timeless Friendship (http://kiwi6.com/file/mbi8gm1x4q)


Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!UJVRWCxa!uoGtVD7hyQ1-k2S5ZDDGD2CZP8iyWSnOcGAM-wtFTKQ


For anyone unaware, Rage of Bahamut Genesis actually had a separate orchestral recording session for all 12 episodes and was scored scene by scene. It is an anomaly and I doubt we'll see anything like it in the near future.

The music itself is great and it certainly ranks one of my top anime scores from 2014. Check it out.

So much Spanish influence so far. Wasn't expecting that. Not sure yet if I like it.

Gundam: The Origin isn't blowing me away by ANY means, but that's to be expected from the first disc of material for the opening, set-up-heavy episode of an OVA series.

Looks like the new God Eater soundtrack should be much more interesting than the previous one thanks to a new arranger who worked on other solid projects working on the orchestral tracks. Sachiko Miyano arranged a lot of the orchestral stuff. She worked on Ni no Kuni, Riz-Zowad, and various Distant Worlds projects as an arranger. Soundtrack is now up on Gamemp3s and if the orchestral work is as good as I expect I may post some highlights here.
AVCD-93128~30 | GOD EATER 2 & GOD EATER 2 RAGE BURST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/50293)

Siriusjr,

The new God Eater soundtrack is excellent! It has some more electronic elements but the orchestral material is very nice! I am currently reviewing it.

Yes that is my view as well so far. Plus lots of nice vocal tracks.

God Eater has some great moments but is atrociously mixed & mastered to my ears. Usually I don't mind it much since many japanese scores are not good in that regard but this takes the cake for me, I find myself unable to enjoy it as much as I should.

But to brighten the mood, Bahamut gets a second season :D I hope they have the incentive to give Ike a symphony orchestra this time. Don't get me wrong, it's good-old quality film-scoring throughout but the music could have definetely benefited from a larger ensemble and better acoustics.

^^ I've noticed that Go Shiina's scores in particular tend to have subpar mixing and mastering. He needs some new engineers.

Just got through disc 3 of Gundam SEED, and man, you guys weren't kidding about this score. I came up with an English tracklist for these discs years ago and somehow never gave it that good of a listen. I like to approach OSTs as an album experience with a narrative arch to them, so the relative chaff of the first disc always gave me a weak impression of this score, and being largely unfamiliar with Sahashi in general, it always kept me from exploring further. Glad I stuck it thru this time.

Thoughts throughout the album

-Sahashi was born to score cartoons. His style is built around good old, ironclad Classicalisms, sounding downright Beethoven-ish in places, but there's just something wonderfully Saturday Morning to his style that I can't get enough of already. It's no wonder he's all over Super Sentai.

There's a couple of Japanese composers whose particular idiosyncracies and tendency for pastiche(largely of Western tropes, interestingly) seem to fit anime's action-packed silliness like a glove: Sahashi, Kotaro Nakagawa, Shiro Sagisu and Masamichi Amano. Among them, I'd say Nakagawa has the most personality, Sagisu has the most range and Amano sounds the most BIG(and my personal fave,) but Sahashi has this efficient gift of melody that gives him a real edge. I love his harmonic language with strings and brass, along with the jazz fusion flair of his action cues. He can actually be rather restrained in his orchestral bombosity and work in plenty of wonderful surprises or turns in melody, but no matter the emotion, it's always heightened just a couple degrees left of camp that makes his music a ton of fun and I'm honestly shocked his name isn't on more 90's Gainax stuff or whathaveyou.

-The whole album just feels BIGGER compared to what came before. Fuller, more range and development, with less of the more simplistic underscore cues or Middle-Eastern sidetrails(tho admittedly, I miss those.) Just big emotional themes and brassy action blowouts. Lots of 'em.

-Was wondering where the spacey touches had gone and they were all just in Track 13, Secretions of Birth. The track is not at all what I expected it to be, but hs that guitar.

If this is what the rest of SEED sounds like, then bring on OST4 and SEED Destiny!

Gundam seed and destiny ARE my favorite Sahashi works of all. I was just like you, not trying to give it a go ... but after you get to "meet" the music... oh, boy you are in for a marvelous listening ride.
Seed destiny got even better in a lot of points. But in a Whole... I love ALL 8 cds.Music is just memorable. It has been many years since I last heard, but right I am remembering 15 songs at the same time. It really gets into you after you get to know the music better.

For me Gundam Seed has the best score of all gundams, being Sawano the worst of all.
Shoot me, yeah! But I can't like Hiroyuki Sawano music, and I can't say he is a good composer. Honestly , he scratches my ears too much. Sorry for those who love him, but I can't stand his music. And Gundam Unicorn was one of the worst listening experiences I ever had.

From Earth to Mars (Arturo Rodriguez) download please ?

Gundam seed and destiny ARE my favorite Sahashi works of all. I was just like you, not trying to give it a go ... but after you get to "meet" the music... oh, boy you are in for a marvelous listening ride.
Seed destiny got even better in a lot of points. But in a Whole... I love ALL 8 cds.Music is just memorable. It has been many years since I last heard, but right I am remembering 15 songs at the same time. It really gets into you after you get to know the music better.

For me Gundam Seed has the best score of all gundams, being Sawano the worst of all.
Shoot me, yeah! But I can't like Hiroyuki Sawano music, and I can't say he is a good composer. Honestly , he scratches my ears too much. Sorry for those who love him, but I can't stand his music. And Gundam Unicorn was one of the worst listening experiences I ever had.

Couldn't be happier to hear it! And about Unicorn...Wow. One of the worst, really? I know he's heavy, but there's some lighter stuff in there. Attack on Titan would make your head explode. :D

Favorite Gundam Scores, out of everything I've really sat down and listened to-

1. Turn A
2. After War
3. Victory
4. Unicorn
5. Reconguista

Too early to say where SEED would land on this list, but it's climbing fast.

I have to try Reconguista with urgency. Yugo Kanno is one guy with less credit for his works. Believe it or not, I know many people that say and point has the worst composer alive....


right.... good thing I am an alien from the sun, in planet earth, to copulate with a car, for a better understanding of god crucifixion and farming in mars to raise my manhood.

Silly sentence I wrote? yeah, that's what I feel with that comment about Yugo Kanno.
I can say that Birdy The mighty Decode, is boring... it was where I first heard him, and it was boring.... very. But everything else I tried from him, he does have a his own, let say "vision" on his compositions. Gin'iro Olynsis was where I was surprised with him. god I love that soundtrack. After that, I have been pretty much enthusiastic with his music.

I agree on the Gundam Seed series. The shows themselves were awful, but that music, and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra are just amazing. With the recent downturn in the Japanese economy I plan to buy a bunch of reasonably prices used copies of the two Symphony albums and even The Bridge if I can find ti reasonable enough. Going to buy a bunch of stuff after Fanime at the end of the month. Ah Fanime.

everyone says that. Gundam seed series were awfull... yet, It's the gundam series I wanted to see the most... after Gundam Wing.
Maybe my such big of curiosity is due to the soundtrack, and how I wanna see , or hear , how it plays out in it. But I am still willing to give it a go.
But yeah, normally I never care for opinions, with all due respect of course, I learned not to trust them, as many are bias on that.
Back to the point... the symphonic suite albums were marvelous. I don't know which I heard the most, because Seed and Seed Destiny cues got stuck in my head so much that I don't which is from which, but I think the Seed Symphonic Suite was the one I enjoyed the most. But I am too much biased on Suite/Ongaku hen stuff, when everyone is pissed that tracks should split, I do love when they form and idea with all cues together.
Gundam Seed is definetely on my list to get as my most "important" anime music for my physical collection.

I just love this song dammit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oea9ifTiffk

and this too.---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJj7rbwRHQ

I could be here forver. xD

Gundam SEED/Destiny with their respective symphony albums are my favorite things Sahashi has done although my favorite single work has to be his Gundam 30th Anniversary Symphony.

Over time I grew even more fond of Sahashi's pure orchestral pieces, especially in John Williams mode. Gundam Seed's "Clairvoyance" has my favorite version of his militaristic rythm template and my favorite version of his characteristic violin arpeggios is "Love of the year 1800" from The Fantastic Deer-Man. Ultra Mega Monster Battle also gradually stepped up the ladder with each listen and is now in my top 5 of Sahashi scores. It has really wonderful SciFi pieces like "Miracles", "Spaceship Pendragon" & "ZAP SPACY". In general I love it when Sahashi goes full Hollywood, best examples are "Divine" from Big-O, "Let's go home together" from Full Metal Panic and "Ending" from Blue Stinger.

But the numerous influences from Hollywood (from Bill Conti to Williams) are just one aspect that makes him so great. The other being his classical references and his fondness of funk. Often you hear operatic Mozart in his action tracks or Tchaikovsky in his heroism. Sometimes you spot Ifukube (Big-0), sometimes you spot Morricone (Chiritotechin) and numerous others. He is also very gifted in writing symphonic music: "Miracle of Love" from Steel Angel Kurumi, "TEMA I" from Gunslinger Girl and almost the whole of SIMOUN being prime examples.

In general one of my favorite japanese composers and one of the best orchestral media composers working today. I hope his career will continue for a long time and I pray to any god that may or may not exist that he will be given numerous opportunities to work with a symphony orchestra again.



Back to Bahamut: The limited edition of Bahamut arrived yesterday, while I hoped the Blu-Ray would contain some footage of the scoring sessions, it was still worthwhile. It contained numerous scenes from the anime with just the music in 5.1. so I tested it on my studio sound system. I have to say either they drowned the music in reverb or they recorded some pieces again in a concert hall because it was never this wet in the show or on the normal album. Strange...

Have any of you made a custom arrangement of the Gundam Seed and Destiny stuff? I have such a hard time getting into them with all the stuff I don't like in between the good orchestral stuff. Same thing keeps me from really digging into a lot of the Sahashi stuff I have. I guess I could see if VGMDB has any listing of which tracks feature an orchestra and go from there the easy way.

Cost of re-recording cues for the Bluray special edition: ~�10,000
Cost of pressing the "reverb" button: ~ �1.50

I know which one I'm going to side with. ;)

Has nobody found Denkigai no Honya-san yet?

The Time of Evocation - The world of KAORU WADA - Orchestra Works (2004)
和田薫の世界 喚起の時 オーケストラ作品編
Japan philharmonic orchestra (日本フィルハーモニー交響楽団)
Conductor: Kaoru Wada


FLAC (https://mega.co.nz/#!sggzCRbR!HmWBl638tQwWD2FtwVtjC6PlvlgeLlnDZDeCKHn fsBo)


The Time of Evocation II - Contemporary Traditional Works (2008)
喚起の時II 現代邦楽作品集
Kaoru Wada with Pro Musica Nipponia (日本音楽集団)


FLAC (https://mega.co.nz/#!Ug51yBTZ!M8-4R563LsHTNgb0BCT9yAjGP93frwA7G2DNIYrjSAM)


The Time of Evocation III - Wind Orchestra (2015)
喚起の時III 和田薫～吹奏楽の世界～
Japan Ground Self-Defence Force Eastern Army Band (陸上自衛隊東部方面音楽隊)
Conductor: Mamoru Tamura


FLAC (https://mega.co.nz/#!xtoyUQTY!mYZQ2PDIdyZiQAm5kUIzqHwFNz8vSOqBxwuL6Ve 25qU)


Folkloric Dance Suite for Orchestra (1990)
オーケストラのための民舞組曲
Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Conductor: Jun'ichi Hirokami
Compilation album "Japanese Orchestral Music" Amazon.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Japanese-Orchestral-Music-Akira-Ifukube/dp/B000027EC8)
MP3 VBR (https://mega.co.nz/#!MlIXwQAC!MFm4I3R0rg-H4AW2Co4gjS3FN0-ncq80LtxA5NHc4aI)

See also
KISHIN - The Echo of Japan - Die Musik von Kaoru Wada (2009)
鬼神 - 和田薫の音楽
Kaoru Wada / WDR Rundfunkorchester K�ln
Previous post (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/20.html#post2774013)


note
Ten-Chi-Jin(天地人): "heaven, earth and human beings" (natural and psychological condition, necessary to win the battle. old strategy)
Hayashi(囃子): "accompaniment" (instrumental section of traditional Noh)
Magouta(馬子唄): "pack horse driver's song" (Japanese folk song style)
Odori(踊り): "dance"
Oiwake(追分): "forked road" (folk song style/traveler's song. variation of Magouta)
Dozokuteki-Bukyoku(土俗的舞曲): "ethnic dance"
Ito-dama(絃魂): "soul of strings" (commonly itodama means thread ball:糸玉, sometimes silkworm's cocoon)
Kaikyou(海響): "sea roar"
Zakyou Shichie(座興七重): "improvisation-septet"
Rokumei Shinkyo(鹿鳴新響): "new arrangement for ROKUMEI(cry of the deer)"
Rakuichi(楽市): "free market; session"
Crest of Betrayal(忠臣蔵外伝四谷怪談): 1994 Movie OST (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/chushingura-gaiden-yotsuya-kaidan-crest-betrayal-music-185406/#post2881959)
Inuyasha(犬夜叉): anime OST (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f91/inuyasha-soundtrack-collection-%5Bflac%5D-182502/#post2824558) / 交響連歌 (https://mega.co.nz/#!c45TxCzQ!ZUwXLOQprPEY_LhNR1IbABa_qU8zOz-re5ibXljUIEU)
Rescue Wings(空へ 救いの翼): 2008 Movie OST (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/sora-e-sukui-no-tsubasa-rescue-wings-189014/#post2947651)
Takiyura(嶽響): "mountain sound; sacred choir" (Wada's coinage inspired by Okinawan music)
Kaijin(海神): "sea god" also read "Watatsumi"(ancient language)
Zokusai(俗祭): "folkloric celemony" written for Band Ishin 2012

Thought I should give everyone a heads up here that Intrada will be releasing David Shire's Return to Oz in an expanded edition with today's releases. Rumor's suggest that the second release will be an expanded edition of Silvestri's Judge Dredd. Both will be available this afternoon at the typical Intrada announcement time of around 4PM PST.

That sounds pretty good. Love the score for Return to Oz.

Looks like it will be remastered as well? Hope it contains enough additional music, not just alternate takes/theme variations, to warrant a purchase.

That sounds pretty good. Love the score for Return to Oz.

Looks like it will be remastered as well? Hope it contains enough additional music, not just alternate takes/theme variations, to warrant a purchase.

Yeah I hope that as well. I also read that they considered it to be missing various sweetneners that were in the film mix that were not on the album such as timpani, harp, and triangle. So it will most likely include the expanded release as heard in the film and the album and alternates on disc 2. But yes I hope they do have enough new music to make it worth a new purchase.

I wanted to resist these two releases (Return to Oz and Judge Dredd) because of them being 2CD releases seemingly unnecessarily and then I heard the samples and couldn't help myself. Seems the alternates may actually be interesting to me on Judge Dredd because they are recorded on a completely different orchestra. I guess with these two they knew people would still jump at ordering them even though they had to be $30 a pop due to the requirement to include the original albums.

Anyone want to find an old PSX Warsaw soundtrack for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZx_HQYrNG4

Toshihiko Sahashi
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Score Selection



Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!H5pTjKSZ!qE3gYmxs9NYq9At5K72XNcPop62AkacEwIQXraA jj64)
MP3 / 74 Tracks / 2h 18m

I simply do not enjoy listening to a japanese score in soundtrack order 99% of the time...








Thanks for the news, Sirusjr, I couldn't resist either ;)

KOSHIRO NISHIDA - A-TRAIN 5 MINI SOUNDTRACK
MP3 V0 | 32.3 MB | 7 TRACKS | 00:18:54
The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra


Catalog Number: SLPS-01120
Release Date: December 4, 1997

Tracklist
01. Main Title "Vancouver" (http://kiwi6.com/file/e3h69rg2y8) http://i.imgur.com/v9WfOyB.gif
02. Window"S"hopping
03. Flower Dance
04. Siciliano Triste
05. Distant Dawn --Tour--
06. Christmas
07. Gloria

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!pAcCFYZT!np3jxSoIVtqzgvlf631ryecibC_iJptNIsSb3Ki 10Bk

Here's a little thing I stumbled across. A CD apparently exists (http://freedbcd.net/classical/9e0dba0b/) with 19 more minutes of music but it seems to be impossible to find. There was also a soundtrack included with the Memorial Pack (http://www.artdink.co.jp/japanese/title/amp/main.html) of the game but that's also difficult to find.

Oh well. Enjoy these 7 tracks. It's better than nothing. By the way, I got the first track from a different audio source than the other tracks so if it sounds different, that's why.

I've been really enjoying the Judge Dredd and Return to OZ scores after I got them. Judge Dredd seems to be one of the finest examples of Silvestri scoring. I'm also loving Tomorrowland from Giacchino. A surprise.

Also thanks a lot Vinphonic for a Gundam Seed collection. Very excited to check this out.

Nextday: Thank you for A-Train... definitely another one of those scores that fits into the "WTF Japan?!" category... Worth it for the main theme alone - a real melody, and one which belongs in an expansive epic like Lawrence Of Arabia... not so much a computer game about driving trains! Not so much worthwhile outside of that piece, but no complaints here. A five minute tone poem is all you need with material of this quality.

Judge Dredd: Nice to hear it's been released at last... but I'm very willing to say what nobody else seems willing to admit - the London performance is light years ahead of the re-score and the cues in the original album really make a good listening experience on their own. I'm all for allowing people to make their own decisions (which is why I don't campaign against full releases) but time and time again we see that including every single fart and scrape of a score may very well please completists but doesn't allow the music to shine in its best light. What works in the film doesn't necessarily work as a separate concert piece.

Return To Oz: Same complaints as above... and a word of shock and disgust that David Shire's career never took off - Shire is a true melodist AND a true symphonist. The sound is 100% cinematic, but the construction stands up. Orchestrated to the hilt, shamelessly romantic... the greatest fantasy score nobody's heard of. Shire, meanwhile, ends up scoring UTTER CRAP like "I Married A Monster" - during my stroke recovery I watched that horrible film because I was too tired to get up and turn it off. The score was a terrible, no budget, synthesised monstrosity. At the end - "Music by David Shire" - ladies and gentlemen, I wept - for the thought of such a great musician being reduced to such ludicrous stupidity, and also because the quality of the score betrayed a man who had GIVEN UP and phoned in atrocious music for Z-flicks to keep bread on the table.

Few things in life would give me greater pleasure than to have unlimited money, make a proper sci-fi picture on 35mm film with no digital effects (just like they used to) and call up David Shire to ask for his musical services. The music budget is �1,000,000, there is no temp track, you have six months to write the score and you will receive a locked-down cut of the film to work to, you have the London Symphony Orchestra, and you're in charge of spotting. Don't ape anybody's style, don't write something that sounds like "film music" - write your soul, be yourself. Give me themes, development, old-fashioned panache, symphonic structure, woodwinds, Rimsky-Korsakov's sense of orchestral colour, intelligent dissonance, and grand consonance. Give me a score that lives and breathes in the film, equal in status to the characters and the plot. Give me a score that moves and blossoms just as the story does - and if the way the film is cut ever compromises your ability to do that, we'll see if we can re-cut it. Give me a score that doesn't hide in the background - one which has the confidence and quality to stand up and be noticed. Can you even BEGIN to imagine what kind of music would emerge under those circumstances? Imagine that same assignment going to Bruce Broughton, Arthur B Rubinstein, George Fenton, Elliot Goldenthal, James Horner, Jay Chattaway or any of the other 100 Western GENIUS composers sitting at home, twiddling their thumbs waiting for Hollywood to wake the fuck up while they see Ramin Djawadi, Zimmer, Powell, and Christ-knows-who-else snapping up the plum assignments and writing the exact same score time and time again - and the only time they ever work themselves is when they completely SELL OUT (Patrick Doyle) and start writing that crap music too.

Tomorrowland: Michael Giacchino's closest attempt (in his mature phase) yet to writing actual music. That main theme wants to be a proper grown-up melody SO DAMN BAD... but alas, like most of Giacchino's efforts it's actually just some chord progressions with a bland and very short motif playing quietly under the surface. Another hideous recording, another missed opportunity. Yes, it's the best stuff to come out of Hollywood year by a very, very comfortable margin... but if you run out of space on your CD rack and you have to get rid of Tomorrowland or Raiders Of The Lost Ark... I'm sure not even the biggest fan of Tomorrowland could with their hand on their heart say they would flush Raiders away in favour...

Hey now! Don't get carried away. Doyle's Cinderella is the best thing I've heard this year (so far), and hardly falls into the sell-out category. His Brave from 2012 is just as enchanting (represented best on the FYC release). And I'd even give him top marks for his Thor end titles. There's even commendable material to be heard in RotPOTA.

What would David Shire come up with for an assignment like Jurassic World, I wonder? Cuz it sucks so many of these plum assignments are going to a lightweight like Giacchino.

Hey now! Don't get carried away. Doyle's Cinderella is the best thing I've heard this year (so far), and hardly falls into the sell-out category. His Brave from 2012 is just as enchanting (represented best on the FYC release). And I'd even give him top marks for his Thor end titles. There's even commendable material to be heard in RotPOTA.

What would David Shire come up with for an assignment like Jurassic World, I wonder? Cuz it sucks so many of these plum assignments are going to a lightweight like Giacchino.

I was with you until you praised Thor's soundtrack. Well and Brave. Cinderella is nice yes but the rest of them, sell out to the max.

I can just picture you and tango at the peak of a bender tossing CDs like kittens off the balcony to spite the other side of the room. "Ooooh, you say you like Thor, huh? Well, watch him fly!!!". ;)

Anyone can re-upload " Michiru Oshima - Tenchijin OST Vol. 1 . 2 & 3 " OST again ? Thanks :)

Shiro Sagisu is doing the live-action Attack on Titan movies so we might get some Amano arrangements.

I was with you until you praised Thor's soundtrack.

He just praised the end titles, not the whole score.

Yea, I'm lukewarm toward Judge Dredd, but Return to Oz? Hot damn. It's probably among top 10 western film scores for me. Listening to other David Shire scores after that one didn't leave a good impression, though.

I haven't pricked up my ears for currently-airing anime, but Owari no Seraph had an interesting moment last week. I vaguely remember it as a well-orchestrated piece of impressionistic flavor. For what it's worth, it's the only cue that caught my attention all season. This season had few gleaming hopes, but I feel Iwasaki's recycled effort in Magic Kaito has more exciting music than most of the recent drabs...

I have a feeling that I have been missing out on some good music in Kekkai Sensen but I can't bring myself to watch through it. Maybe someday...

Listening to other David Shire scores after that one didn't leave a good impression, though.

His Hallmark Sarah Plain and Tall scores are pretty good if you are into that sort of music.

Finishing going through that Gundam Seed selections piece there and I very much like it. Flows very well and makes for a much better listening experience. Thanks again Vinphonic!

For what it's worth there is some really good stuff in Kekkai across all genres but apart from the opening, an operatic piece and a golden years pastiche there is not much orchestral stuff so far.
Dungeon has two or three outstanding cues so far but most is kinda lurkwarm, it also doesn't help that the score will be streched out across several months thanks to these damn blu-ray bundles :(
I'm also enjoying Tatsuya Kato's work this season, it sure helps that he ventures a bit more into classical territory, Seraph and Denpa Kyoshi have some nice moments too.
Hibike Euphonium is really about concert music instead of jazz which is a bit disappointing but I'm sure the OST will be lovely (like Kiniro 2).


Right now I think the best stuff of the season can be heared in Arslan, Soul of Gold and Princess Precure (which is out in a few days).



Regarding Oz: I was curious about more David Shire after such a fantastic listen but it seems like I better not...

Well from what I've seen of Shire he doesn't write a lot of purely orchestral works. A lot of his more popular scores are a bit more pop influenced. I have a hard time getting into them because they have a totally different sound. Check out the score to Old Boyfriends recently released by Intrada and you'll see what I mean. He did write a great theme for the recent Rear Window but that score needs some serious trimming I think.

Regarding Oz: I was curious about more David Shire…

Then take a ride on The Hindenburg (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/david-shire-1975-hindenburg-intrada-universal-320kbps-122709/#post2197070).

Exciting news: It's been confirmed that Oshima went to Moscow again for LWA2 (I guess we can expect around 30 minutes of score) so it's save to assume her other projects airing this summer are also recorded in Moscow. In total we're looking at three potential Moscow scores in one season!

It's 2013 all over again! She took a break last year and now she's back in full force.

Two tracks from Giacchino's Jurassic World - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEk9EH2dKlk

2015年1月21日
曲目：
01.立地成魔(墨武俠鋒片頭曲)

02-雄開兮天門(達摩金光塔初現世)

03.刃錚鳴兮勢皇皇 (蒼狼的氣勢曲)

04.穆穆兮苗主(蒼狼角色曲)

05.務非命兮墨亂(九算氣勢曲)

06.勢無形兮招無相(劍無極角色曲)

07.道不存兮狡者王(小空角色曲)

08.龍臨兮雨爪(緊逼氣氛曲)

09.蛟騰兮怨狂(錦煙霞角色曲)

10.身踽踽兮懷殤(北競王退場)

11.葉紛紛兮劍揚(神田京一武戲曲)

12.臨千軍兮破萬槍(玄狐武戲曲)

13.鎮龍涎兮別離悵(錦煙霞與一步禪告別曲)

14.嘆三世兮步塵芳(錦煙霞與一步禪空輪迴之遇)

15.慕前塵兮晦光(無情葬月角色曲)

16.滔滔兮氣浪(北競王戰蒼狼、玄之玄戰玄狐)

17.凜凜兮史綱(俏如來氣勢曲)

18.地久兮天長(金雷村傳說話當年)

19.回眸(墨武俠鋒片尾曲)

http://miupix.cc/dm/04E77V/%E9%87%91%E5%85%89%E5%BE%A1%E4%B9%9D%E7%95%8C%E4%B 9%8B%E5%A2%A8%E6%AD%A6%E4%BF%A0%E9%8B%92%E5%8E%9F% E8%81%B2%E5%B8%B6%E8%B2%B3.jpg
2015年05月13日
01.一笑頂峰
02.葬月匣中劍
03.飛書袖裡花
04.浪步殺夷戮
05.霜雪碎星涯
06.汲汲尚同意
07.朗朗破雲關
08.乞羅漫八景
09.妖禍離復還
10.武決論成敗
11.文奕爭首功
12.九方盡烽火
13.禁鋒起驚鴻
14.輪迴畢終始
15.宿怨撫今緣
16.虹光映邪正
17.波瀾翻掌間
18.旱域無津渡
19.死生自此別
20.鴛鴦散

https://mega.co.nz/#!owERwaqS!w5M3isgCWB9qFEz-WOVNJdEhv6jur3153rkFnmuccnQ



霹靂英雄音樂精選五十四-霹靂開天記之創神篇下闋 貳 天韻
5月22日

01 王者之證（創神篇下闋第二片頭曲）
02 菩提渡生（俠菩提武曲）
03 菩提雙子（菩提雙子情境曲）
04 水盈虛月（縹緲月武曲）
05 驚叱風煙（君海棠戰縹緲月）
06 醉香挽雪（御清絕情境曲）
07 大雅無曲（御清絕琴曲）
08 敦煌月下不歸人（黃泉雪武曲）
09 深海洶濤（深海主宰武曲）
10 既清方寸（意方覺角色曲）
11 雨夜落花（卻塵思與縹緲月）
12 烽煙盪妖市（罪域激戰怪販妖市）
13 豪雄造血城（創神篇下闋總收幕）
14 棋邪（縱橫子角色曲）
15 裁罰者（裁罰者角色曲）
16 魔吞不動城（魔吞不動城氣勢曲）
17 錯愛（創神篇下闋插曲）
18 暖玉生煙（金甌無缺情境曲）
19 今夜誰知己（創神篇下闋第二片尾曲）
https://mega.co.nz/#!whlVDJiT!5jS439Zf2rXPOknCDmJ-_RjNhPXAkS961-iRl7Svcg4

...

Anyone fluent in Chinese :>?

Anyone fluent in Chinese :>?

Give Google Translate a go.

https://soundcloud.com/josh-barron/and-thus-fate-becomes-cruel-for-string-orchestra-heroes-of-mana-preview

Here is a taste of my string orchestra arrangement of "And Thus Fate Becomes Cruel" by Yoko Shimomura from Heroes of Mana. This will be from my album which is very close to release!

Anyone fluent in Chinese :>?

This music is not China a musical puppet show in Taiwan

Expanded A.I. by John Williams is coming in June:

https://www.facebook.com/lalalandrecords/photos/a.181243738754.155532.56031953754/10153426599788755

THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT
.MP3 CONVERTED FROM .OGG AT 320 VBR V-0


Marcin Przybyłowicz - The White Wolf (2:21)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Trail (2:49)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Geralt and Yen (2:18)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Fortress of Memory (2:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri's Footwork (1:01)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Nightmare of Frost (1:42)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Wake Up, Geralt (0:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Griffin (1:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - White Orchards (2:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Remants of Temeria (2:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Nilfgaardians (1:47)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - In War's Path (1:08)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Chasing the Griffin (1:29)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fighting the Griffin (1:15)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Trouble at the Inn (3:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Yennefer of Vengerberg (1:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - They Emerge from the Mist (1:32)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Royal Palace in Vizima (1:32)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The White Flame (2:30)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri Has Returned (1:38)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Hanged Man's Tree (3:00)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Inn by the Crossroads (2:59)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - No Man's Land (2:59)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Corpse Eaters (2:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - South of the Yaruga (2:58)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Wolf's Eye (2:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fighting in the Devil's Pit (2:09)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fields of Doomed Souls (2:48)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Mulbrydale (2:48)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Barren (2:48)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Night Falls (2:46)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Blade of Steel (1:30)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Survivor in Heatherton (1:33)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - Death of Hendrick (1:45)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Crow's Perch (3:49)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Bloody Baron (0:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fists of Fury (1:14)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - King of the Wolves (0:56)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri's Wager (2:46)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Baron's Snatched (0:27)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Civillization's Edge (2:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Stalking Eyes (2:32)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Heated Breath (2:02)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Village on the Outskirts (2:51)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Fire in the Night (2:25)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Guided by the Moon (3:04)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Blade of Silver (2:13)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Forgotten Child (1:50)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - "I Name You Dea" (1:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Pellar Speaks (1:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Price for Answers (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Assassin of Kings (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Secrets in Stone (3:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Hunt is Here (1:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The White Frost (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - Vanguard of the Hunt (0:48)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Nithral of the Axe (1:54)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Mire (2:56)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - This is Their Land (2:53)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - In Service to the Ladies (2:24)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri and the Crones (0:54)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Tower of Mice (2:38)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Tragic Romance (1:58)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri Emerges (0:59)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Depatures (1:09)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Tapestry of the Sisters (1:57)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Ghost in the Tree (2:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Killing the Ghost (1:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Ladies Tell All (1:42)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri in the Bog (1:14)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Close Shave (0:54)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Fiend (1:40)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Cruel Partings (1:35)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Northward (3:48)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Flames of Novigrad (1:32)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Inquisitors (2:41)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Searching for Triss (4:03)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Backstabbers (2:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The King of Beggars (2:30)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Streets of the City (3:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fools in Masks (2:07)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Nightmare (0:49)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - No Haunts Here (3:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Meeting the Leaders (1:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Sauna is Heating Up (0:32)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Blackjacks and Towels (1:33)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Finding Whoreson (2:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ruining the Operation (2:05)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Geralt Gewnts for Whoreson (2:24)
Emma Hiddleston - The Wolven Storm (3:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Into the Lion's Maw (2:27)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Inquiring on the Inquisition (1:39)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Goodbye Menge (0:46)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Oxenfurt (2:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Streets of Enlightenment (3:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fools and the Fooled (2:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Degenerate Bastards (2:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ploughing Whoreson (1:41)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Chameleon (1:59)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Dandelion's Inheritance (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Gang's All Here (1:44)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Luiza and Voorhis (1:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Shit Leads to Freedom (2:15)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Rats (1:04)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Triss Merrigold (1:08)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Vanishing in a Gust of Heat (0:58)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Burial of King Bran (2:16)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Decisions Must Be Made (2:49)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ard Skellig (2:44)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Old Ways (1:25)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Might of Clan an Caith (1:21)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Fear the Sea (2:15)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Hunter's Ballad (2:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Salty Air (3:06)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Sirens and Drowners (1:18)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Lord of Undvik (2:49)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Home for Beasts (0:39)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Enter the Giant (1:26)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Usurping the Giant (0:54)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Hjalmar Triumphant (2:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Spikeroog (2:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Troubled Past (2:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Ancient House (2:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Demand for Trust (0:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Baby in the Oven (0:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Presence of Shadows (1:33)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Mirrors of Lies (1:07)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A King is Freed (0:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Aen Seidhe (1:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ritual of the Berserkers (2:05)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Steel and Claw (1:15)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Chase (1:08)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Lfe of Salt and Blood (3:09)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Live By Deeds Not Words (2:24)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Leshy Comes (0:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - An Offering is Made (0:42)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Into the Depths (2:34)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - From the Darkest Deeps (1:42)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Freya's Garden (2:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Speak Corpse (1:05)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Morkavag (1:15)
Mikolai Stroinski - After the Cataclysm (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Escape (1:50)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Trapped in the Barn (0:31)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Wounded Honor (0:25)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Foaming Mead (3:04)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Drinking Horns (2:40)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Valhalla Can Wait! (2:41)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Skelligen Celebration (1:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Knife Games (0:58)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - In the Search of Answers (3:01)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Fortress of Stone (1:02)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Yennefer Resumed (2:01)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Trial of the Grasses (1:54)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Transformation (1:36)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Avallac'h (1:03)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Enter the Mist (0:34)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Forgotten Place (1:34)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Wake Up, Ciri (2:43)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Ship of Nails (0:44)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Wild Hunt (3:13)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Defenders of the Fortress (1:15)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Welcoming of Fire (0:20)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - The Power (6:50)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Sabbath (1:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz - Cirilla Fiona Elen Riannon (1:29)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - One Survivor (0:39)
Mikolai Stroinski - The Shield of the Hunt (0:55)
Mikolai Stroinski - To the Bitter End (0:35)
Mikolai Stroinski - The Battle with Imlerith (1:42)
Mikolai Stroinski - Igni and Hammer (1:14)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Vengeance from the Heart (0:55)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Women are Complicated (1:56)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Aen Elle (1:52)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Dreams of Regicide (0:55)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Lodge (1:35)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Sailing West (1:31)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri Vents (1:44)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Skjall the Brave (3:00)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Naglfar (2:10)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Trapped (1:41)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Breaking Through (1:42)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Golden Child (1:29)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Son of an Crait (2:01)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Eredin, the King of the Wild Hunt (1:37)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Betrayal (1:28)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The Conjunction of the Spheres (1:45)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ciri's Choice (1:57)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - A Refused Sacrifice (1:12)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Ithlinne's Prophecy (0:41)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - Farewell Geralt (2:04)
Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski - The End (1:28)
Adam Skorupa - Killing Monsters (Trailer) (2:10)
Adam Skorupa - Killing Monsters (Unused Version) (2:10)


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In regards to the Witcher 2, I would consider it CD Projekt Red�s attempt at the Lord of the Rings through a bitter Medieval lens. I mean that not just narratively, in regards to how it is a bigger game that expands the scope on a bigger scale, but also in regards to the music. The music team left behind the very intimate and rural textures that established the prequel�s identity, and tried to go for a much more cinematic feel.

Witcher 3 is in many ways more of a sequel to the first game than to Assassins of Kings. Even though it is comparable to Witcher 2 in regards to the variety of locales you visit, Geralt�s motivation is much more personal. Wild Hunt is much more about the lives of the people that Geralt meets in his journey rather than about the political stage that he has been thrusted upon.

The music has also been a return to the original game�s roots, but it also takes influence from Assassin of Kings. Adam Skorupa is no longer involved, having been replaced by Marcin Przybyłowicz and Mikolai Stroinski. Przybyłowicz was a contributor to Assassins of Kings� score, with his most iconic contribution being the ethereal �Elain Ettariel�.

Wild Hunt has the longest length by far, clocking in at 6 hours of music. This is almost double of the previous two entries, who each had a little bit more than three and a half hours. What tends to happen with game scores of this length is that, at some point, the attention of detail is lost and there is a drop of quality at some point. Even if the work load was divided equally in half between the two composers, and even if they had the entirety of the game�s development to work on the score, that is just too much music to be written.

Musically, Wild Hunt lags in the final act of the game, and especially in regards to most of the music written to the cinematics. While the exploration and battle themes have a sense of character and identity, the cinematic music have the impression of being written at the last minute. There is also a large lack of motifs to unite this massive body of work together � each track is like an island, individually pleasing but isolated from the whole.

With that said, the soundtrack excels in making the Northern Kingdoms a unique setting. This is a dark score, but it never goes into the typical �dark and brooding chorus� or repetitive low instrumentation. The music achieves a good balance between establishing the dark tone of the game, distinguishing each region from each other, and not plunging into clich�d �grim dark� that so many other soundtracks fall into. The opening track to the prologue region, �White Orchards� illustrates this perfectly.
What should also be acclaimed is the use of medieval instruments and the restrained use of them. Very rarely are they exaggerated or made the forefront of whatever cue they appear in. This really does add a lot of character to the score that other �dark� scores such as Game of Thrones lack.

The combat themes are dominated by the vocals of the Polish folk band Percival, who contributes a very rough and barbaric tone. Some would compare to the Middle Eastern wailing woman motif that dominated historical film scores for the better part of the 2000�s, but that would be an inaccurate comparison. While there are comparisons to be made � the vocals in Wild Hunt are polar opposites of romantically inspired works that you will find in the works of John Williams, for instance � Perceval actually goes for the effort of having actual words.

Eventually the game finds Geralt in the Skelligle Isles, a region inspired by Norse mythology and Irish culture. The soundtrack takes a drastic turn in tone, abandoning the grim and foreboding textures established in the previous hours. Instead the music is much more optimistic, almost heroic at times. It almost sounds like a different games at times, especially with some of the combat themes.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt manages to hold itself together, despite its cyclopean length and the weakness of its final cues. When the music works � and it does so on a frequent basis � it works pretty damn well. However the lack of any thematic unity really does harm the score as a complete entity. In a sense, it was just staying in line with the soundtracks to the last two games. A good soundtrack, possibly a great one, but not one truly memorable.

For Anybody Who Cares About Naoki's music...*cough*



Composed by Naoki Sato
ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK (Live Action)
(M4a) {iTunes RIP}



Title: ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM Original Soundtrack
Type OST: Movie Soundtrack
Composed & arranged by Naoki Sato
Published by: NIPPON COLUMBIA
No. of tracks: 21
Release Date: Mar 18, 2015


Tracklist



Track List


01 Chou Seibutsu
02 Kimyou na Tannin Kyoushi
03 Irina Jelavić-sensei
04 Ansatsu Kyoushitsu Main Title
05 Ikari no Koro-sensei
06 Koro-sensei no Oshie
07 Akabane Karuma
08 Hangeki Chouri Jisshuu
09 Karuma no Zetsubou
10 Jiritsu Shikou Kotei Houdai ~Ritsu~
11 Horibe Itona
12 Kyoudai Taiketsu!?
13 Yakusoku o Mamoru Tame
14 Touchan no Honshou
15 Nagisa no Shouri
16 Daini no Yaiba
17 Hinkon Tako Ikka no Seikatsu
18 Fuujirareta Omoi
19 Ansatsu Taikai Kekkou
20 Arigatou, 3-nen E-gumi
21 Yappari Koro-sensei


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M4a
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Kohei Tanaka
Symphonic Cascades
Members of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra & the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus
Vocals by Osamu Takai, Chihiro Yonekura, Mayumi Tanaka & many more




I. One Piece Symphony (56:48)

01. Overture to an Adventure (6:27)
02. I. Movement "It was the Golden Age of Pirates..." (11:16)
03. II. Movement "Encounter on Port Island" (12:36)
04. III. Movement "I will surpass you & Bonds of Friendship" (12:24)
05. IV. Movement "The Age of Dreams shall never perish!"(11:15)
06. Encore (2:48)


Download
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II. SciFi Concert (62:54)

01. Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team (15:09)
02. Open your Eyes to the Winner's Elegy (7:35)
03. GaoGaiGar: Genesis Poem (11:14)
04. Beautiful Wings of Light (4:14)
05. Gunbuster: Symphonic Poem (19:38)
06. Encore (5:02)


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III. Fantasy Concert (61:44)

01. Bastard!! Metalicana Knights (2:51)
02. Bastard!! Symphonic Poem (21:49)
03. Operatic Fantasy Medley (12:22)
04. Alundra: Symphonic Suite (6:39)
05. Gravity Daze: Gravitation Medley (14:02)
06. Encore (3:59)


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IV. Drama Concert (59:03)

01. Beyond Sorrow (5:01)
02. End of Eternity: Symphonic Poem (14:25)
03. The Love of Flowers (5:42)
04. Gad Guard: Transendence Suite (8:57)
05. The Heart of the Umbrella (4:29)
06. Hyouka: Symphonic Romance (8:01)
07. The Road to Hope (5:07)
08. Encore (6:48)


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V. Sakura Wars Orchestral Concert (59:42)

01. Stage Play "One Pound of Dreams" (12:26)
02. Overture "Imperial Floral Assault Unit" (4:20)
03. Symphonic Poem (18:58)
04. Operatic Song Medley "The Battle for Paris" (14:20)
05. Miracle Bells (6:56)
06. Encore (2:40)


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Symphonic Cascades was created by me and is a pure work of fiction. It is just a humble tribute to Kohei Tanaka who is a fantastic orchestral composer, a beacon of joy and a huge inspiration. I carefully selected tracks from nearly everything he has composed in the last two decades and rearranged it with a "Symphony Concert" context in mind. I slightly worked on each track, applied some slight reverb, EQ and saturation. My reference was as always the recordings of Erich Kunzel, especially "Star Tracks" since they have near perfect dynamic range.

I worked on it for quite some time now, whenever I had free-time. In the end it turned into a five hour collection of Tanaka's very best symphonic music across all genres. I also reworked my One Piece Symphony. It's now traditional four part movements with a whole new movement from Tanaka's very best music from the movies. I also interplayed the different Orchestral parts
with his orchestral songs but fear not because most would not feel out of place in an opera hall or a broadway musical. It should be said that Tanaka was very much inspired by old Disney and it definetely shows in his own songs which are instant gold by any standard as far as anime is concerned. He even demonstrates to every aspiring composer that dirt-chap sounding samples can still do the trick if you know how to "write" music. You will rarely find something on the scale of sound that Tanaka conjures here and it sure can't get more epic than this.




I believe this collection examplifies that Tanaka is first and foremost a symphonist. His music in general has good-old class, symphonic structure and shows exorbitant skill and talent with the orchestra. The amount of joy he is able to evoke with his music is in correlation with his own joy of composing and "living" his music. One only needs to see his performance on stage and in the concert hall, like Hisaishi, this is a man who enjoys every second of the music he writes and the joy it brings to the listener. It's also no coincidence that he established himself as an "anime" composer and also truely loves the medium. I hope his career continues for a very long time and I also wish for another Sakura Wars type project to happen because he really wrote his heart out for that franchise. Oh and I really hope Gaist Crusher will get a release soon.

But in the meantime... Enjoy!

Wow what a lovely surprise! So far the One Piece stuff very much flows together. Thanks so much for sharing.
EDIT: Oh yes! End of Eternity symphonic poem and Gravity Daze symphonic poem. Perfect for when I want to just listen to the highlights of those ridiculous long albums.

Thanks you very much. Your compilations are always nice. Keep up the good work. :)

I hope Gaist Crusher gets a release too but it's already been off the air for 8 months now...

^Yes

NHK Taiga Drama "HANAMOYU" ost.2 by Kenji Kawai (NHK大河ドラマ「花燃ゆ」vol.2 by 川井 憲次)



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p.s. findings on net, credit goes to the original uploader~ ;D

Glad you all like it :)


I'm thrilled that Doraemon finally gets another Soundtrack History with Space Heroes!!! Glorious Hollywood SciFi returns on june, 24th.

Yugo Kanno also returns in full force with the latest Jojo and it's pretty good. Although no track comes close to "Il Mare Eterno Nella Mia Anima" it's still the best Jojo score so far.

Oh and I really adore Princess Precure, it's just the first OST but there's already half an hour of wonderful music. The music really feels bigger and more serious than the show requires at times but I'm all the more for it. Takaki certainly needs a new big project asap.

Gundam seed and destiny ARE my favorite Sahashi works of all. I was just like you, not trying to give it a go ... but after you get to "meet" the music... oh, boy you are in for a marvelous listening ride.
Seed destiny got even better in a lot of points. But in a Whole... I love ALL 8 cds.Music is just memorable. It has been many years since I last heard, but right I am remembering 15 songs at the same time. It really gets into you after you get to know the music better.

For me Gundam Seed has the best score of all gundams, being Sawano the worst of all.
Shoot me, yeah! But I can't like Hiroyuki Sawano music, and I can't say he is a good composer. Honestly , he scratches my ears too much. Sorry for those who love him, but I can't stand his music. And Gundam Unicorn was one of the worst listening experiences I ever had.

Hmmm...I feel that your dismissal of Sawano's score for Unicorn, which does have a few bad moments I will admit, is a bit disagreeable. Personally, I love his Unicorn theme, as well as the piece of music that plays when Banager and Mineva first meet and evade Marida and the other members of Sleeves, and I simply adore the track titled "Audrey", which plays when Banager saves Mineva during a free-fall in the atmosphere while rescuing her yet again. Granted, the English-y songs are an...acquired taste so to speak, and quite a few of the action pieces are a bit...forgettable, I suppose. Personally, I find Unicorn to be much better than Sawano's Attack on Titan score, which is a decent effort on his part, but doesn't really stand out on its own, aside from two or three tracks. His Guilty Crown score has some nice moments, although I absolutely despise that rap song that plays early on the first volume of the score. I haven't listened to much of his Kill la Kill score, but I have to say that what I have heard is a bit of a mixed bag.

As for Gundam SEED and SEED Destiny from Sahashi? Well, I do admit that SEED Destiny is one of his finest works, especially the music collected on he fourth volume of the score, which is some of the most powerful music I've heard in the Gundam franchise, although my personal favorite score would be Akira Senju's score for Victory Gundam. That was arguably the best thing to come out of that particularly depressing production. I also quite enjoy Satoshi Kadokura's score for Formula 91 and find it to be a well-rounded score as well, and I simply love his score for Windaria. and I really love Yoko Kanno's score for Turn A Gundam, which actually is tied with Victroy Gundam for my favorite Gundam score, although the series itself is also one of the best in the franchise, albeit with a few odd and sometimes...awkward moments here and there. As for my own favorite Sahashi score? Well, I guess it would be a tie between SEED Destiny and The Big-O. Honestly, I think that The Big-O is a more consistently enjoyable effort of Sahashi's part, yet I feel that the action score for SEED Destiny packs so much of a punch that The Big-O lacks at times. SEED Destiny definitely has an advantage in regards to being a rousing action score performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, but I also feel that the more subdued-at-times and mysterious feel of the score for Big-O also works as an excellent counter-point to the bombastic (albeit very majestic) score for SEED Destiny. As for Gundam SEED, I personally feel that, while it was a decent effort, the majority of the score was too generic, especially the action pieces. The romantic and quiet tracks, oh boy are they nice, but they just don't balance out the sort of "meh" feeling that I get from the action pieces that make up at least half of the SEED score, at least in my own opinion.

I guess that it helps in The Big-O's favor that it is an genuinely enjoyable show, although Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny do have their moments, although these are spread out few and far between. Still, Toshihiko Sahashi is a very talented composer, and I'll take most of his television and movie scores over the majority of the bland and often generic action scores that we get in America for our television and movies since the mid 2000's any day.

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Only thing good about Gundam series these days really is the music. Series wise anything after Wing is just awful.

I don't know about that. Unicorn is really good, and Turn A Gundam (made after Wing) is one of the best shows in the franchise.

Welcome to the thread Pie Eater. A solid first post to be sure.

Yoko Kanno's end credits music for the film Umimachi Diary: http://kiwi6.com/file/ksjwhhsilp

:)

Yoko Kanno's end credits music for the film Umimachi Diary: End roll - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/ksjwhhsilp)


Absolutely gorgeous! Many thanks for sharing!

That's, um, similar to Mahler's Adagietto at 1:45...

Anyone happen to have the whole soundtrack to Umimachi Diary?

I have it. I just didn't upload it because the tracks are all short and are mostly variations of the themes heard in the end credits track.

Been listening to that Umimachi Diary cue like crazy. I absolutely love every single note of it starting the 1:41 mark onwards.
Would love a lossless/untouched m4a rip of that cue alone if it ever becomes available. :-)

For you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22621624/22%20End%20Roll.flac

That's, um, similar to Mahler's Adagietto at 1:45...

Hahaha... this would have been more enjoyable without that salon-esque muffled piano sound.

I figure this is a good place to ask :)
does any one have this soundtrack by Yusuke Honma?
SVWC-7471 | Ohedo Rocket Original Animation Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32324)


On another note:
what are people thoughts on Yuugo Kanno's Gundam Reconguista?
I just have not yet listen to disc 1, because I just dragged the folder with everything and it started to from disc 2. xD I have been having difficulty in changing from discs, because I listen one disc and then I need to repeat the experience again. But Ia m really into this soundtrack, lats time I was so deep into Gundam music was with Gundam Seed/destiny and Char's Counter Attack.

I figure this is a good place to ask :)
does any one have this soundtrack by Yusuke Honma?
SVWC-7471 | Ohedo Rocket Original Animation Soundtrack - VGMdb (http://vgmdb.net/album/32324)

I have it (320k): https://mega.co.nz/#!kVUwmJqB!LH0iAE7AS282Ofw6rgNK1L0T7LIKWjt5fOXGka6 c5Kc

thank you nextday, thank very much. :)

Awesome! Sounds like something I'd be interested in. Glad you requested it Orie :)

Oh, yeah, it's a fun little soundtrack. I always recommend for anyone looking for jazzy anime soundtracks. :)

Sample for anyone curious: 03 swing - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/s0heixhjqv)

For you: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22621624/22%20End%20Roll.flac

Thank You so much, nextday! Much appreciated!

Return To Oz: Same complaints as above... and a word of shock and disgust that David Shire's career never took off - Shire is a true melodist AND a true symphonist. The sound is 100% cinematic, but the construction stands up. Orchestrated to the hilt, shamelessly romantic... the greatest fantasy score nobody's heard of...Few things in life would give me greater pleasure than to have unlimited money, make a proper sci-fi picture on 35mm film with no digital effects (just like they used to) and call up David Shire to ask for his musical services. The music budget is �1,000,000, there is no temp track, you have six months to write the score and you will receive a locked-down cut of the film to work to, you have the London Symphony Orchestra, and you're in charge of spotting.

I'm hopelessly behind on this thread, although very glad the high quality of discussion continues. For what it's worth this long after the initial comment, I just wanted to add a voice in support of David Shire--particularly his Return to Oz score, which is (I'd agree) shamelessly and earnestly romantic. The audience's perception of authenticity is so important to a score's success or failure, and Shire communicates a believable complex of layered emotions that isn't present in most high-profile film scores today. You don't hear cheap tricks for bassy "depth" or flat, simple melodies given the "epic" treatment. The orchestration is sophisticated and effective and, as a result, equally moving on the 100th listen.

Thanks nextday for the recent shares :)

Jazz, particullary Big Band is still prominent in japan (thank the gods). I recently discovered and enjoyed Lowland Jazz. They also released an anime album (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LlOhqmlOUM) in march. I love track 14 for example but I shamelessly adore the cutesy jazzy J-Pop songs like "love of chaos" because there's some actual music in these songs which makes arrangements work so well.

Oh and I'm really looking forward to the new Lupin OST later this year: PV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRf6npXftsA).

For fans of jazz, there's a Japanese trio named J.A.M. I guess you would classify them as club jazz.

Almost all of their music feature unstoppable energy with lounge-ish groove. Their music has certain elegance to it despite the extreme beats. IMO, Unlike a lot of other contemporary jazz acts, their music has a clear sense of direction and isn't about note-spinning. Probably not a good recommendation if you are into the big band sound, but they are worth checking out.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfiH440cTfg&list=PLHbKuRa_X2U53AUrSp2pan-NTPtg5GNB-&index=5

Lupin...Yuji Ohno...Anime Jazz...Piano...hmm

"begin (https://mega.co.nz/#!kkYzTApB!gy74xVjFumr-l_Tzg5zmRAWb-Tv2EHByN8eKHLs8h5w)" Gakuen Senki Muryou ED (2000)

having other Umimachi Diary ost track (especial for flac)? is any good listen?

The Boy Who Saw The Wind Original Soundtrack (2000)
Tamiya Terashima (http://vgmdb.net/artist/705)
Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra / Conducted by Mario Klemens



DL (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/tamiya-terashima-discography-189800/#post2981790)

Terashima's synthesizer orchestration with "actual" orchestra.

I sure hope the nex Star Fox score sample is just a mock-up: E3 Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6PEecNY0Sc). This needs a symphony orchestra badly. Star Fox Assault was recorded with the Tokyo New City Orchestra so I hope they spent enough budget to record it live.

I hope the Final Fantasy VII re-make will get a full orchestral soundtrack re-recording. It would be fantastic to have.

No epicness no nothing. Just let yourself go withe piano key melodies and relaxing music. Just have a nice day hearing this ^^




TV ANIMATION 'Acchi Kocchi' ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Release date: 2012.06.20
Catalogue number: PCCG-01277
Label: Pony Canyon

Music by: Masaru Yokoyama (Thread 190826)

The Day After Tomorrow
Harald Kloser; Thomas Wander

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OST | Mediafire (http://www.mediafire.com/download/6709dsmajdp6n8t/The_Day_After_Tomorrow_(Harald_Kloser;_Thomas_Wand er).rar)
Tracks: 16
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 192 (sorry)


Tracklisting:
01. The Day After Tomorrow
02. Tornado Warning
03. Sam!
04. Tidal Wave
05. Body Heat
06. Russian Ghost Ship
07. Hall's Plan
08. Rio Grande
09. Bedtime Story
10. Blizzard
11. Superfreeze
12. Cutting the Rope
13. Because Of You
14. The President's Speech
15. The Human Spirit
16. Burning Books


One of my favourite films of all time by one of my favourite genius composers. Tidal Wave and Superfreeze are just outstanding.

Oh boy... Akira Senju does it again!

That Theme... (http://picosong.com/gVZq/)

Flowers for Algernon
Music composed and conducted by Akira Senju



Download (https://userscloud.com/c89xu2x819gy)








Oh and I totally forgot to share this gem a few months back but I was kinda busy back then, so here it is:



Alan Menken
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Orchestral Score



Download (https://mega.co.nz/#!21oQQQDR!Y37i4-oHKBecGJOCWaeGcpnoWGndqvhiC4GOX2javD0)
MP3 / 320kbps / 25 Tracks / 82 min


Hunchback is definetly my favorite Menken score and I used the original album, DVD-rips and The (German) Stage Play to put together a (at least as I belive) complete orchestral score for the movie. But I could not replace "The Bells of Notre Dame" and "Reprise" because I believe it loses a great deal of impact without the Vocals. The score is of course a classic, a roller coaster full of lyrical beauty, gothic themes and wonderful christian kitsch. It is among my absolute favorite Disney scores (for reference my favorite is still TaleSpin) and "Sanctuary"/"Battle for Paris" is among my favorite musical climaxes in film. I hope you enjoy this firecracker :)

Breaking the mold with non-Japanese composers... Sorry if this is at all "irrelevant", but I'm not one for anime.
Maleficent
James Newton Howard

(http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/SillySlurpuff/media/maleficent_zpskrb54svb.jpg.html)
(http://s1148.photobucket.com/user/SillySlurpuff/media/91L16wd1ljL._SL1500__zpsm6f7um1s.jpg.html)
OST | Mediafire (http://www.mediafire.com/download/b2sdg713ppyw2vu/Maleficent_(James_Newton-Howard).rar)
Tracks: 23
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 320kbps
How can you go wrong with Newton Howard?

How can you go wrong with Newton Howard?

Everything. He never entered "my head" in any way, and most of his stuff I actually disliked, though, after 2010... I feel that he is somewhat inspired. Did he got a new girlfriend?

And thanks for the ost. I am really getting it.

Everything. He never entered "my head" in any way, and most of his stuff I actually disliked, though, after 2010... I feel that he is somewhat inspired. Did he got a new girlfriend?

Aha, no I wouldn't think so.
We all have different tastes in music, and Howard creates things that I adore, and a lot of my favourite cues from all the movies I have watched are made by him. People like Giacchino, Gregson-Williams and other amazing composers are up on the list too.
And I like Pok�mon music too, anime and in the games, and to be completely honest with you they're the only games/movies I've actually seen with Japanese composers.
Sorry if me saying Japanese sounds very rude, I don't mean it in any offensive way.
I'm personally waiting on a complete release of Pok�mon: White - Victini and Zekrom & Pok�mon: Black - Victini and Reshiram. There was so many BGMs they missed from the albums...

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Yoko Kanno's end credits music for the film Umimachi Diary: End roll - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/ksjwhhsilp)

:)

A bit late saying this, but that is beautiful!

of course, we all have our own preferences. James Newton Howard, was really annoying for me back then. After "Salt", my god, I love that soundtrack. I felt Howard got a giant jump to something new.
About Pokemon, I am no fan of pokemon, at least not hardcore. For being the pokemon anime just needs to die. I am a fan of Pokemon Gold/Silver, my favoirte pokemon games ever, and my love for pokemon came back with Pokemon X/Y. I don't know much about the movies, as I never saw all of them. I own the first 4 movies, and a stupid movie about aliens being pokemon... my god, they really are going that far. Next my clothes are pokemon and are talking to me.
I am most familiar with the US soundtrack for the first 3 movies, and I love them. Too bad teh third movie had no official score release. :(

For being the pokemon anime just needs to die.

You know what? I completely agree with you there. I find the anime is very repetitive, and the battles never seem to have any feel to them: just a bunch of slowly moving pictures. The anime usually uses aspects of the score of the game that the series is based on, so there's another reason I never watch them.


...And a stupid movie about aliens being Pok�mon...

Yep, yet another reason I don't watch the anime myself. Pok�mon is unrealistic as it is, and we don't need some weird sci-fi fantasy included. If Pok�mon were real we'd all be long gone.

The Pokemon anime is fine by me as long as we get orchestrated versions of all the game music. God knows they're not going to have the games themselves ever be orchestrated.

I actually like the american Pokemon the third movie score as well. It's kind of refreshing to hear a different take on the movies. The composer for the movies they have is excellent, but he's done like 40 of them now and sometimes he phones it in. (Like for the third movie!) I wish the american one was orchestrated. The original things done for the american versions of the movies are all actually pretty ok, but the N64 midi sound kinda kills them.

Everything. He never entered "my head" in any way, and most of his stuff I actually disliked, though, after 2010... I feel that he is somewhat inspired. Did he got a new girlfriend?

And thanks for the ost. I am really getting it.

And I was just coming here to say that I can't stand acchi kocchi, another masaru yokoyama score that is all over the place stylistically and doesn't leave much of a coherent score. I appreciate the share but I found myself deleting half of it as it went from strange to stranger and had no flow.

I actually didn't like Maleficent at first musically on the album but thought that the re-master SonicAdventure made on here fixed some of the problems and made it enjoyable. I don't like much of his recent work but Maleficent is one of the better ones. I tend to prefer his earlier works from the 80s personally and on occasion his work for M. Night Shamalayan.

We also tend to have a general unwritten rule that new scores within the past few years (From Hollywood) should not be posted because they tend to bring attention to the thread. Most people can find a recent score fairly easily if they look.

well. Thank god everyone does not like the same as you or thinks the same as you, or the world would really suck for some people that feel connect with other genre of music.
And thank God I made some people happy about sharing that soundtrack.
You don't like. Other people like. Move on. A simple thing that results in good comprehension between well communicative people.

I thought it was a good way continue the discussion about different music for different people. I probably would not have downloaded that one if it wasn't posted here so I thought I would give my thoughts for others who hadn't downloaded it yet. There is some nice relaxing music but probably about 15 minutes or so total. I know with the wording it may have come across as a personal attack but that was not my intention.

I don't know what the show is about, and I guess it is somewhat into comedy, but I did enjoyed it in full. Not the best I ever heard, no, but it was enjoyable enough. In fact the relaxing part and other cues is what make repeat this soundtrack in my playlist. And for me it is a new take on this composer. I am very "educated" in his hard symphonic and action works, so this was actually a new thing for me about this composer.

I guess it's controversial opinion time!

I have to agree with Sirusjr on Masaru Yokoyama, so far the best thing I've heared from him was Queen's Blade. Otherwise his music just sounds too bland and generic to me and if there's one name assigned to a project I fear just as much as Yasuharu Takanashi these days it's him. I will give him one last chance with Game of Laplace otherwise I think I will just avoid him alltogether.


Regarding JNH, I also enjoy his earlier scores much more in general but he really hit it home with Wyatt Earp and Atlantis (the SonicAdventure remaster) for me. Maleficent is... well it's better than 90% I hear in cinema today but still a far cry from a truely great epic fantasy score. There's just too much of those "epic" moments (read generic and boring-as-hell RC passages) that ruin it for me. Take "Maleficent is Captured" for example, typical overblown noise and RC style chords and drum patterns that just aggravate me and make my brain hurt. Any action track from Atlantis is miles better than this, "Leviathan" or "Just do it" just wipe the floor with it. There's no way in hell that Howard writes music like this from his heart. We all know it's just another croud-pleasing producer decision that already cut the wings from Doyle, Silvestri and Horner. I want to like Maleficent but there's too many little things that annoy me (then again, that can be said for almost all Hollywood scores of today).

Heh, I don't think that's controversial - at least not here. :p

I also appreciate Orie's share because I have felt that I should give Masaru Yokoyama's music a fair shake. But like my past experience with Yokoyama's other works, I wasn't moved after listening through 10+ cues in full (okay, I somewhat liked "Issho da to Ureshii"). Some pleasant moments were there, but I always feel Yokoyama's melodies are very labored without a distinct voice. Maybe this soundtrack wasn't the best showcase for his skills, but compared to someone like Ruka Kawada who has written scores of similar mood, Yokoyama sounds unexciting. Beyond being functional (fitting specific moods), his music doesn't seem to give much more.

Now that his bland effort for Shigatsu has seen one of the most enthusiastic receptions from the normal anime crowd, well....

For the record his score for Nobunaga the Fool is his most distinctive work at least in recent memory and as it stands is probably my second favorite next to Queen's Blade. But he has indeed become very pretty repetitive with his pretty much everything he comes out with now. I remember when I used to get excited whenever I saw him working on a new project but since he composes for like 2 or 3 shows a season it's pretty easy to tell he doesn't have time for true inspiration and hasn't really developed as a composer. Tis sad :(.

If we're going to share supposedly controversial opinions, then I guess I'll have to say that one of my favorite soundtracks of all time is Elliot Goldenthal's score for The Spirits Within (You know, that box office bomb that crippled Square Pictures). I also have a real love of Leonard Rosenman's music for anything from 1978 onwards, especially his Lord of the Rings score. I think that Howard Shore did a good job with the Peter Jackson films, and I don't think he composed a single bad track for any movie, but I honestly can't say that I remember more than a handful of tracks from his scores for any of the three movies either. I remember the title music, the bit that played during Gandalf's visit to the Shire, and that ever-annoying one-woman-wail that appears in every fucking dramatic slow-motion sequence of drama in every modern movie made after Braveheart. Every. Fucking. Time. I hate that one-woman-wail! I hate it, hate it, hate it, hate it! I hated it is Avatar, I hated it in Tears of the Sun, and I hated it in The Lord of the Rings! I hate it in every movie and TV show (live-action and/or animated) I hear it in...except for Braveheart, oddly enough. I don't know why.

Anyway, I guess that, while those..."wail" pieces aren't really bad, they are extremely overused, and I despise them. Anyway, back to my topic of Howard Shore vs. Leonard Rosenman. The thing is, I've watched the Peter Jackson films over a dozen times, and I can remember most of the scenes, and the music when it plays during them, but I can really only remember the music while it plays during the sequence. With Rosenman's music, I can remember the score even if I don't remember which particular sequence a track played over. It helps that I actually prefer Rosenman's scoring style over a lot of modern film scores heard today, which is a little bit ironic when one considers that Rosenman actually pioneered several film scoring techniques used in much of modern cinema. Oddly enough, while I enjoy some of Shore's music for the Jackson films, I really can't remember a single track in its entirety, not even the handful that stay with me. I remember bits and parts, but never the full track. With Rosenman's music, I can remember entire tracks. And, no, I'm not mentioning any of the Hobbit adaptation scores. I've only watched the first Peter Jackson Hobbit film, and that was easily long enough to fill the entire story in one sitting, but no, it has to be three films. The Rankin Bass adaptation managed to cover the overall plot, with slight changes (such as removing the Arkenstone subplot and the first meeting with the elves of Mirkwood Forest), and it was still shorter than any of the Peter Jackson films. What. The. Hell?

Now, for what may be the most controversial opinion of all...(drum-roll please) I think that Yoko Kanno's soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop is overrated. The retaliations may now commence.

If it is any consolation, I can find myself agreeing with every single point :D

But I still hold Shore's LotR in high regard, especially tracks like "Rivendell" and "Breaking of the Fellowship", actually anything with "There and Back again". It's not the Fly but a damn fine film score that is perhaps more inseparable from the source than any other.

HORRIBLE NEWS: James Horner has died in a plane crash, I am in total shock -

James Horner Crash: Plane Reportedly Belonging to Composer Crashed | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/music/news/titanic-plane-crash-james-horner-1201525728/)

For the love of fucking Christ, this is what I have to break my vow over.

THE PLANE WAS LICENSED TO JAMES HORNER. THE PILOT IS DEAD. JAMES HORNER MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE PILOT. UNTIL THERE HAS BEEN CONFIRMATION, PLEASE STOP SPREADING RUMORS LIKE A BUNCH OF TMZ SHITSTAINS.

THANK YOU.

That was incredibly soothing.

Sorry, but it has sadly been confirmed by his assistant Sylvia on Facebook -

"A great tragedy has struck my family today, and I will not be around for a while. I would like some privacy and time to heal. We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart, and unbelievable talent. He died doing what he loved. Thank you for all your support and love and see you down the road. Love Sylvia."

Now it's "official":

James Horner Dead: 'Titanic' Composer Killed in Plane Crash - Hollywood Reporter - The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365)
James Horner Dead: ?Titanic? Composer Was 61 | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/james-horner-dead-1201525804/)

Rest in peace, James. Apollo 13 is my firm favourite as the archetypal patriotic score, and Krull as the boisterous, no-shame full-on adventure. Perhaps now's a good time to revisit some of those classic scores of his.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP6bbZ1BvuE

James Horner, no :(

He has been and always will be one of my all time favorite composers.

This is horrible :(

Now it's "official":

James Horner Dead: 'Titanic' Composer Killed in Plane Crash - Hollywood Reporter - The Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/james-horner-dead-titanic-composer-804365)
James Horner Dead: ?Titanic? Composer Was 61 | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/james-horner-dead-1201525804/)

Man, that really sucks. I've been trying to get in The Amazing Spider-Man score, and now it seems like I'll now listen to the full score.

This news is very upsetting. I didn't really come to appreciate Goldsmith (outside of Star Trek) until after his death, and Elmer Bernstein and John Barry are people that I respect more than I appreciate. Those are the only other film composers that have passed in my lifetime that I can think of that are comparable to this. But Horner... he was in his prime during my formative years and has had a profound impact on my life. Despite the frequent criticism of his "borrowings," there can be no denying that his music worked dramatically. He had a way of reaching deep within your soul and making you weep or scream or soar. Land Before Time, Krull, Braveheart, Aliens, Wrath of Khan, Glory, Legends of the Fall, Willow, Brainstorm, and, perhaps my personal favorite, The Rocketeer... The list goes on and on and on. The real kicker is that he could have gone on composing for another twenty years or more.

He will be sorely missed.

What incredibly sad news :(

My deepest condolences to his family and friends, why must the great always leave early?

RIP (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzfnWKHedFg)