Mix: Masks We Wear

[ultranos]

surreallis asked me for a music mix of instrumental music: "it needs to evoke feeling. I'd love it to be lush or sad or angsty or painful, but without vocals.". I added "heroic" and "determined" to that list too. The mix is actually purely video game music, and from mostly two composers: Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy series) and Shoji Meguro (Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series). There are a few tracks by composer Yasunori Mitsuda (Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and Xenogears), but it ended up as a near-perfect split between Uematsu and Meguro.

Masks We Wear (21 tracks, 97.7MB .zip, 1:15 play time)



01 // To Zanarkand / Nobuo Uematsu
02 // You Are not Alone! / Nobuo Uematsu
03 // Eyes On Me (Acoustic Guitar Version) / Nobuo Uematsu
04 // Someday the Dream Will End / Nobuo Uematsu
05 // Rydia (Arranged Version) / Nobuo Uematsu
06 // MELKABA (CREID Version) / Yasunori Mitsuda
07 // Scars Left by Time / Yasunori Mitsuda
08 // Terra / Nobuo Uematsu, performed by Select Start
09 // The Oath (Arranged Version) / Nobuo Uematsu
10 // June Mermaid / Yasunori Mitsuda
11 // Light from the Netherworld / Yasunori Mitsuda
12 // Poem for Everyone's Souls / Shoji Meguro
13 // Brand New Days -The Beginning- / Shoji Meguro
14 // Living With Determination / Shoji Meguro
15 // Bonds / Shoji Meguro
16 // Reverie / Shoji Meguro
17 // Memories of the School / Shoji Meguro
18 // Awakening / Shoji Meguro
19 // Nyx / Shoji Meguro
20 // I'll Face Myself / Shoji Meguro
21 // The Genesis / Shoji Meguro

Comments

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Eeee, thank you!!

I was just thinking on the way home tonight about this mix, and then I realized I hadn't fully read my flist for the past week, only a few entries a night, so I was all 'Ack! She might have posted it already!'

And you did! And thank you again, because I'm all about writing this weekend and I'm psyched to have it! :)

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

Heh, you're welcome!

Yeah, I tackled it right away because I ended up watching the video of a Shoji Meguro concert on Sunday with some friends, and it was all stuck in my head.

I hope you like it. I tried to get a mix of different types of instrumentals, from strings to woodwinds to guitars (electric and acoustic). The one vocal track ("Poem for Everyone's Souls") is only "vocal" if you count the female singer going "Aaaaah" for the entire thing "vocal". :)