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Catalog KDSD-00034 Exclusive 0 Composer Tomohito Nishiura Publisher TEAM Entertainment Arranger Various Artists Number of Discs 1 Release Date Apr 20, 2004 Updated Oct 08, 2007 Track List
Total Tracks: 12 |
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A Completely Different Story, 2005-07-02Reviewer : Fatigue - See all my reviews
For all of you who own the Original Soundtrack, like me, you will know that it is very average and nothing special. So when I heard that there was an arranged album to the Dark Chronicle Original Soundtrack, I hoped that composer Tomohito Nishiura learned from his mistakes. When it came to my house, I took a glance at the back cover and discovered that Nishiura wasn't involved in any of the arrangements. Instead, the songs were arranged by other composers such as Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura, Motoi Sakuraba, Kenji Ito, Noriyuki Iwadare, The Black Mages and VGM veteran Shinji Hosoe. I placed the CD in my player and was enchanted by the percussion and Eri Kawai's voice in Mitsuda's "Endless Adventure ~Rush's Theme". Sakuraba enters the album with "Dark Element" and does a great job conveying darkness and power. His other arrangement, "Dark Battle" is a powerful and thrilling arrangement of Nishiura's version. Next, we come to "Sun", the first of Shimomura's arrangements. The song has a cool opera voice wailing through parts of the song with some cool bagpipe instruments. I feel "Majin" is Noriyuki Iwadare's strongest arrangement on this album. It is arranged in Iwadare style and is absoloutly charming to listen to. Next we see The Black Mages contribute to the album by turning a mediocre battle theme into a blood pumping, head knocking masterpiece. My hats off to Tsuyoshi Sekito, Kenichiro Fukui and the rest of the gang for contributing to the album. VGM Veteran Shinji Hosoe decided to change the already charming vocal theme "Time is Changing" into a long techno / trance theme which, in my opinion, simply does the vocal theme justice. The only letdown on this album is Kenji Ito's arrangements. Although they're nice, they lack the energy that other pices had. Should you buy this? Definitely! There is no excuse why anybody should pass this beauty up. Any fans of Yasunori Mitsuda, Yoko Shimomura, Motoi Sakuraba, Kenji Ito, Noriyuki Iwadare, The Black Mages and Shinji Hosoe would love this album! This album is a completely different story to the Original Soundtrack. Highly Recommended!
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