Beautiful Katamari: Symphonic Suites (Katsuro Tajima, Warsaw Philharmonic)

From THE BIG ORCHESTRAL ACTION MUSIC THREAD! (Thread 57893)

Katsuro Tajima
The Warsaw Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Beautiful Katamari: Symphonic Suites

LINK IN DESCRIPTION (https://mega.nz/#!w6BGAAwY!y9MErJlmypZQ731nYIhNJhjoN_hanJMq82JyT0mzbhE)

I. Movement – Welcome to the World of Katamari "Into an Adventure" (12:16)
II. Movement – The Great Calamity (14:00)
III. Movement – Mysteries of Damacy (6:30)
IV. Movement – Finale "The Evergrowing World" (5:54)
Ballad of the Journey Home (4:32)
March of Razgriz (3:33)

This is the quintessential score to marvel at the japanese. A truely weird and crazy game (even for japanese standards of crazy!) from 2005 got a score so serious and larger than life to make even Lair jealous. Namco spared no expenses, send a skilled composer over to Warsaw and you know … another miracle happened. I put it in the same league as Afrika, MediEvil Resurrection, Primal, Hana ki Sou, Outcast and Age of Pirates etc. Given the symphonic nature of the score, I rearranged it with a typical four part symphonic structure in mind. The II. Movement is a must listen for any fan of Big Orchestral Action Music :D. Also the last movement is just glorious heroic music that just puts a smile on my face. That said, not all is original (Tchaikovsky is credited on the booklet afterall). Regardless, this is as good as a warsaw score gets. A real shame Tajima is not more prolific. He was also responsible for the warsaw tracks of Ace Combat 5 (as an arranger for Keiki Kobayashi) which I also included. I would really love to hear more from him but as of now, his score for Katamari and his contributions to Ace Combat remain a miracle.

HOLY SHIT, TAJIMA

Katsuro Tajima
The Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

DEADSTORM PIRATES

LINK IN DESCRIPTION (https://mega.nz/#!CIZzERyD!aVfwgBHvJJ5h6_qL7-w9bpvEJMp9SmJuxTw3E23tgfs)

Sample (http://picosong.com/7k6a)

Never stop, Japan.

Enjoy to your hearts content

TAHNKS!

Thanks.

Thanks

Thanks for sharing!!

ive not been able to find this on CD anywhere…
vgmdb doesn’t have it 🙁
it’s great too, which makes it sad

I see now, this is a fan made mix of the Warsaw tracks of

We Love Katamari Damacy (King of Kings)

Katamari Original Soundtrack Damacy (all the others)

Tajima’s score for Katamari is simply glorious… and this album – an amateur creation by name only, as it is thoroughly professional and edited with more skill and love than you will see spent in 99% of commercial productions – is, I believe, the best way to appreciate this music. I am almost certain that some composers plan their work out – whether deliberately or subconsciously – as complete, coherent works. The proof is in the listening – this music works – to my ears, infinitely better as a four movement symphony than in its album presentation.

It’s very obvious that Vinphonic hasn’t aimed to just run a bunch of tracks together in a medley; the work here is akin to a major composer writing sketches and themes and episodes in his sketchbook and then settling down to order them into a symphony. Great quality "raw material" is important, but where that material really starts to shine is when it becomes part of a bigger narrative.

Vinphonic… is there any chance of you making this available losslessly, please? Or failing that, pointing to a place where I might get hold of the original albums losslessly?

Cheers and many thanks again!

[…] Or failing that, pointing to a place where I might get hold of the original albums losslessly?

Cheers and many thanks again!
Albums shared in this MEGA folder still downloadable at the time of this post. (Thread 126974)

LOL, how the bloody hell did I miss those?! Thank you, LSK! 🙂

Now revised and available in FLAC.

Thank you.