This is actually a really bad mistake - while the arrangement is beautiful, it is definitely not the original (as both of you have mentioned). I’m not sure where I got this arrangement, but I had it named “Forever Rachel/Final Fantasy IV/Nobuo Uematsu… so I just grabbed the wrong one. By the time I actually put the episode on the air (late, because it’s twice as long as every other one), it was too late and I couldn’t replace the track.

Thankfully, the musical material is the same - the arrangement was very true to the original, so none of the analysis and teaching is compromised. However, it is NOT the piece that I said it was - really sorry, team, that’s a mistake beyond my usual random slip… not cool, I’ll make sure that that doesn’t happen again. Thanks for bringing it up, though - you keep me authentic!

Kenley

Thanks so much for the comment! I agree that the ones you picked have been some of the best shows - the Chrono Triple Tech was SOOO much fun to research and write about. I also picked up both piano books this past year and it’s awesome to see how all of the keys are related and how cohesive the score is on a more theoretical level too!

You’re right about the localization thing, somehow that slipped off the radar! Wow, that does de-rail my argument a bit, but it still is interesting, I think. I also think that it may have been in the back of translator’s minds, because “Terra” is a very uncommon spelling for a very common name (”Tara”), and seeing as there is a direct relationship to the Earth there, it does seem to make sense. If not; well… good effort, team
Thanks for your kind words and feel free to comment on any other episodes, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Kenley

I recently found your podcast from I-don’t-remember-where, and have been plowing through the backlog. My favorite episodes have been 3, 4-6, 9 (I’ve got to find that arranged album), 15, and this one.

One comment about something you said early in this episode: the connections between Terra’s name and various connections to the planet and walking on the world map are great, but that’s just her English localized name. In Japanese, she’s Tina, so I doubt that those allusions were in Uematsu’s mind when he was originally composing her themes. They may well have been in the minds of the translation team, though.

Anyway, minor nitpick in an awesome podcast. Keep up the great work!

Thanks so much for commenting! I’m so happy that you dig the show - it makes the music so much more enlightening when a person learns more about how it’s put together. I’m also really pumped that you mentioned “Cloud”, because it’s got some incredible music, but I’d put money on the fact that very few people would ever play the game (let alone hear the music) if there weren’t shows devoted to that kind of thing!

That episode is also a bit dear to my heart because Vince Diamente is a buddy of mine now and he does some incredible work - another great soundtrack that he’s done is for a video final at his university (University of Southern California) and you can find it here:

Anyways, it’s all good! New episode is coming out as we speak! Definitely keep commenting and get the discussion going!

Talk soon and I really appreciate your commenting!
Kenley

Good thing I didn’t ask you to be on this months show, we have had not 1 single piece of news on FFXIII yet this month, and we record in 1 week! Haha, this.. should be interesting xD.