The Final Fantasy Music Collection

Nobuo Uematsu is the man behind the music in all of the Final Fantasy games. It is difficult to imagine the level of involvement and dedication that goes into composing an entire videogame score; to create a small piece for every cinema scene or character in the game, an excerpt for the smallest mood or emotion. But to captivate the audience on every single occasion, appearing each time with amazing diversity, and creativity? It seems unfathomable. Nobuo, however, manages to do it every single time. Nobuo started his career at Squaresoft in 1986. Mr. Sakaguchi (the director at Squaresoft I believe) invited him to work at Squaresoft despite his having no formal training in music. People received a taste of his talents for the first time with his big break -- the original Final Fantasy score. Since then, Nobuo has been the exclusive composer for all of the mainstream Final Fantasy games, and has delivered everytime with some of the most moving music the videogame industry has ever heard. Part of the reason that Nobuo has been so successful with the Final Fantasy series is because of his talents at diversity; he is able to compose large quantities of diverse music, with no dropoff in quality. His score for Final Fantasy VII, for example, included 84 tracks of music, all different, all very powerful and moving. He stays with no fixed style, and with each of his new methods, he makes the music sound just as good. Along with producing soundtracks for various games, Nobuo Uematsu also produces arranged soundtracks for nearly all the games he writes soundtracks for. These arranged albums range from orchestrated Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite to the Irish music based Final Fantasy 4 Celtic Moon. He has released two of his own albums: Phantasmagoria and The Ten Planets as well as two vocal arrangement albums: Pray and Love Will Grow. Upcoming projects for Nobuo include a possible new solo arrangement, and the Final Fantasy movie (due in theatres 2001) Mr. Uematsu, you're the greatest!

Discography All Sounds of FF 1 & 2 FF Symphonic Suite Final Fantasy III OSV FFIII Eternal Legend of the Wind Final Fantasy IV OSV FFIV Piano Collections FFIV Minimum Album FFIV Celtic Moon Final Fantasy V OSV FFV Dear Friends FFV Mambo de Chocobo Final Fantasy V + 1 Final Fantasy VI OSV FFVI Piano Collections FFVI Grand Finale FFVI Special Tracks FFVI Stars V. 1 FFVI Stars V. 2 FF 1987-1994 FF 1987-1994 w/book Final Fantasy Mix Final Fantasy Pray FF Love Will Grow Phantasmagoria Chrono Trigger OSV Gun Hazard OSV Final Fantasy VII OST FFVII Reunion Tracks Ten Plants FFVIII OSV FFVIII Orchestra Version FFVIII Piano Collections (realeased soon)	Videogames PC Brassty, Alfa, Genesis, Aliens, King's Knight special. NES King's Knight, Highway Star, Jumpin' Jack, Suisho no Dragon, Apple Town Story, Cleopatra no Maho, Square's Tom Sawyer, Hanjuku Hero, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy 2, Final Fantasy 3. Game Boy SaGa (Final Fantasy Legend), SaGa 2 (Final Fantasy Legend II) with Kenji Ito. Super Nintendo Final Fantasy 4, Final Fantasy 5, Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger with Yasunori Mitsuda, Gun Hazard withYasunori Mitsuda. Sony PlayStation Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII.

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