In the 2004 Summer Olympics, the United States synchronized swimming duet of Alison Bartosik and Anna Kozlova won the bronze medal using two pieces from Final Fantasy VIII in the second half of their routine, someone has finally upload the video on youtube. (Youtube video linke)
Final Fantasy XIII theme sheet music for piano is now available in the sheet music section, special thanks to Anrnold Morrison for arranging it.
Gamespot posted an interview video with Nobuo Uematsu, Watch it here.
Final Fantasy XIV's official site is live and you can hear one of the track from the game on the site.
Today, OverClocked ReMix releases their 14th project album Final Fantasy IV: Echoes of Betrayal, Light of Redemption - a massive fan-made arrangement album of Nobuo Uematsu's classic video game soundtrack through a musically re-imagining of the story told in a 3 act format - available now for free download at OC remix.
News from E3 this year has confirmed that Nobuo Uematsu will be composing all of the soundtrack for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV MMO.
More info about this news on IGN.com.
Added 3 new concert date:
September 12, 2009 @ Germany
JULY 9-11, 2009 @ Seattle, USA
MAY 22-23, 2009 @ Singapore
Today is Nobuo Uematsu's birthday and I would like to wish him a happy birthday!
Gamespot.com recently did an interview with Nobuo Uematsu, you can read the interview here.
Added a new concert date that's taking place on April 14, 2009.
Mark Newheiser of Strange Horizones recently wrote an article on Video game music, you can read the article here
Recently Nobuo Uematsu and artist/designer Yoshitaka Amano helped EGM's EIC James Mielke propose to his girlfriend, view the story and video here. In the video you can hear the melody Uematsu composed for Mielke's proposal.
Also added new guitar tabs transcribed by Jamie Donnelly.
SquareSound recently had the privilege to interview both Nobuo Uematsu and Arnie Roth at the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Chicago, Illinois and one of the most interesting revelations was that Uematsu claimed if he hadn't been a musician, he wanted to be a professional wrestler.
view the interview video here.
Added 3 new interviews to the interview section.
Today is Uematsu-san's birthday, and I would like to wish him a happy birthday!
Music4Games.net has posted a Nobuo Uematsu interview.
head over to http://www.music4games.net/Features_Display.aspx?id=208 to read the interview!!
OverClocked ReMix announced results from its music video competition for Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream today. This was the first official competition held by OC ReMix, with 17 entries in three categories: "FF7", "Anime", and "Original."
head over to http://ff7.ocremix.org/videos/ to see the videos!
EGM has posted a recent interview with Nobuo Uematsu in which he talks about his current work and the reason why he left squaresoft. The interview include a video too. Read the interview here.
- Updated the gameography and biography section.
- Dog Ear Records has launch the lost Odyssey soundtrack website, click here to visit the site.
- Updated the shop, gameography and discography. Gave the site a minor face lift.
- Squaresounds.com is hosting arrangement competition. It’s being done in tribute to Nobuo Uematsu, and the winner of the competition will receive two VIP tickets to the upcoming Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert in Chicago on March 1, 2008.
More details about the competition can be found at this link.
Dog Ear Records has launch the Lost Odyssey soundtrack website, click here to visite.
- added a new concert in Italy on October 28, 2007