An incredible must-listen new Final Fantasy orchestra album hits stores next week

Online game music has been garnering extra recognition lately, however regardless of that surge of curiosity there are nonetheless few collection’ that garner as a lot consideration or reward within the musical area as Ultimate Fantasy – and now, followers have one other instance to reveal precisely why within the type of a brand new recording of orchestral preparations from numerous titles within the collection.

Subsequent week, Ultimate Symphony 2 will land on all main streaming platforms, plus be obtainable for buy through Bandcamp. For these keen to put down some money fairly than simply stream, pre-orders start in the present day.

Ultimate Symphony is one of some totally different FF-themed live performance collection’ – however it’s arguably essentially the most ‘grown up’ of the bunch. The place the ‘Distant Worlds’ live performance collection and most of Sq. Enix’s in-house orchestra releases function organized performances of particular person items from the Ultimate Fantasy collection, Ultimate Symphony presents prolonged, winding orchestral suites that try and retell the story of the sport – or evoke its general temper – over the course of as a lot as twenty-five minutes.

The primary Ultimate Symphony album contained music from Ultimate Fantasy 6, 7, and 10, and was extensively carried out around the world and a recording later launched. Ultimate Symphony 2 now receives the identical therapy, and is getting ready to embark on a brand new tour and launch new recordings of its highly effective preparations.

For Ultimate Symphony 2, followers can anticipate to listen to preparations of the soundtracks of Ultimate Fantasy 5, 8, 9, and 13, as carried out by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and recorded inside the long-lasting and nearly 100-year-old Stockholm Konserthuset venue.

The official press launch describes Ultimate Symphony because the “final tribute” to the Ultimate Fantasy collection – and as a fan of the primary recording and having had an early take heed to the second, I’m fairly content material to agree and be aware that isn’t the same old puffed-up press launch hyperbole. These preparations and performances actually are unimaginable achievements, put along with love and care – and to have them extensively obtainable to those that can’t or aren’t inclined to attend bodily concert events can solely be a great factor.

For an instance of what to anticipate, take a look at an older recording of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic performing a FF8 basic within the video under:

“The primary Ultimate Symphony album was so profitable, topping classical album charts in international locations all world wide, that I needed to make sure that we might produce one thing equally particular for Ultimate Symphony II,” says Thomas Böcker, the lead producer behind the manufacturing of the albums and concert events.

“We’ve introduced collectively a really unimaginable staff of audio engineers with the amazingly gifted Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra to provide an album that sounds such as you have been experiencing it first hand within the live performance corridor. We are able to’t wait so that you can hear it”.

Ultimate Symphony 2 releases in full subsequent week, on August 4. It’ll be obtainable on all main streaming platforms and will be bought by way of Bandcamp – and Bandcamp pre-orders get a bonus recording too. Extra data will be discovered on the official Ultimate Symphony web site.