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Hey again!
A special thanks to Jeriaska from http://www.nobuooo.com for putting this together for his year-end wrap up! This is only one section from the show, but please go to his site and check out the user-submitted VGM news and if you have some, submit some yourself “God of War” is coming up, really! It might not be for a few weeks, but it’s coming! Please stay with the show and keep telling people about it, your support is continually appreciated! 
Cheers!
Kenley
Good evening, listeners! While this is not a “podcast” in the traditional sense, it’s an update as to why there is no episode for December… and as it’s looking, for January either… yikes! Watch the video and check it out!
Kenley
Happy November, listeners! I hope that it was stellar and the beautiful fall is drifting into a clear and ivory winter
For this month’s episode, we jump into a 1995 score that made a huge impact in the VGM community, if not as a breakout hit, then as a cult classic. The game is EarthBound and its score was composed by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu (”Hip”) Tanaka! So excited, can’t wait to talk with you all about it!
We also have guests on the show! The Canadian VGM jazz combo, “The Runaway Five” is on the show to talk with us about their group, their connection with EarthBound and we get to hear some of their music! To boost this concept up, our big idea is the jazz combo!
Definitely leave your comments on the post - always love hearing from you!
Have a fantastic December, see you at the end of the month
Kenley
Happy October! Episode 23 of “Into the Score” tackles an incredible score by composers Masaharu Iwata and Hitoshi Sakimoto… it’s called “Final Fantasy Tactics.” It was released for the Sony PlayStation by Squaresoft in 1997 and it is a story of complexity, drama, love and the strive for goodness in the world - not one that you want to miss!
In this episode, we continue the second part of our study of the symphony orchestra, as well as concepts of tone colour, musical texture and thematic pairing!
The two documents that I discussed in the show are below and free for you to download!
Final Fantasy Tactics - Thematic Study
Final Fantasy Tactics - Sound Test Listing
Thanks for listening! Enjoy!
Good evening, listeners!
After a month of traveling and then a month of research and recording, Episode 22 of “Into the Score” has finally arrived! This month, we chronicle Ko Otani’s moving and emotional score to Sony’s “Shadow of the Colossus” for the PlayStation 2. In the episode, we look at it’s quasi-sequel “Ico” as well as the origins of the symphony, with the Baroque Era in particular!
Emotionally, this episode tries to unravel how the music fits into the game; but also, how the absence of music fits in as well. We look at the sparseness of the environment and the grandeur of each colossus - this is not an episode that you’ll want to miss!
For the dictation of which music plays for which cutscene and colossus, the file is down below!
MusicColossus.txt
For the shownotes, just click on shownotes!
Stay tuned for next month’s episode, studying Square’s 1997 PlayStation release of “Final Fantasy Tactics,” with a thrilling, epic and unbelievably skillful score by Hitoshi Sakimoto!
Cheers!
Kenley
