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  NieR Live Piano Event: Performances and Tidbits (Report)

  March 22, 2012 | Jayson Napolitano | 3 Comments Share this NieR Live Piano Event: Performances and Tidbits (Report)

  

  Square Enix has been hosting a ton of live USTREAM events lately. First there was the SQ Party concerts celebrating the SQ series and NieR, then the Piano Opera Final Fantasy IV/V/VI interview and preview just a week or two ago.

  Earlier this week, to kick off the release of Piano Collections NieR, Square Enix again held an event featuring team members from MoNACA and arranger/performer Kumi Tanioka performing a couple pieces from the album and talking at length about it and the original NieR soundtrack.

  Read our brief report after the jump. (more…)

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  Team Work: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and EGC PETA MIX (Review)

  December 12, 2011 | Jayson Napolitano | Comments Off on Team Work: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and EGC PETA MIX (Review) Share this Team Work: Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and EGC PETA MIX (Review)

  

  Yes, we just reviewed what we believed to be pretty much the entire Tekken Tag Tournament 2 soundtrack a couple weeks ago with the Tekken Hybrid Limited Edition soundtrack CD. That album contained two discs, one each dedicated to Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and we weren’t sure at the time how the single-disc treatment of TTT2 would compare with this two-disc version from SuperSweep.

  But now we have it here in our hands and all mysteries have been revealed. We’re also going to take a look at the EGC PETA MIX Extra Disc that was included with orders from SuperSweep directly.

  Check it all out after the jump. (more…)

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  Arranagements from NieR and Far: 15 Nightmares & Arrange Tracks (Review)

  December 1, 2010 | Jayson Napolitano | 3 Comments Share this Arranagements from NieR and Far: 15 Nightmares & Arrange Tracks (Review)

  

  Well, this is certainly one of my most anticipated albums of the year. Most of us here at OSV absolutely adore the NieR soundtrack and vocalist Emi Evans’s distinct vocal stylings that made the soundtrack what it is. And that’s not to discredit the composition team over at MoNACA either, as they also performed wonderfully.

  What we have here are several tracks from the 15 Nightmares DLC pack along with new arrangements of some of the music from the original soundtrack. We’ve known for quite some time that Emi Evans was not directly involved with new recordings on the arrange album, so I admit I was a bit skeptical, but given the quality of the source material, there’s no way that MoNACA could go wrong with this one, right?

  Well, find out whether this album lives up to expectations in our review after the jump. (more…)

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  Deep into NieR: Interview With Vocalist and Lyricist Emi Evans

  May 4, 2010 | Jayson Napolitano | 29 Comments Share this Deep into NieR: Interview With Vocalist and Lyricist Emi Evans

  

  It’s not very often that we get to highlight a vocalist on OSV. We’ve already gushed a lot about the NieR RepliCant & Gestalt Soundtrack that was released in Japan last month, and a big part of what made that soundtrack so great was emotional vocal stylings of Emi Evans. I’ve been obsessing over the made-up languages she created for NieR over the past few weeks, and we’ve finally been given the opportunity to discuss with her at length her work on NieR.

  From her interactions with MoNACA composer Keiichi Okabe, last-minute deadlines, in-depth details on most of the game’s vocal tracks, her favorite tracks on the album, her relationship to Sekaiju no MeiQ 2 Super Arrange Album vocalist Rebecca Evans, and her work with Hiroyuki Muneta as a part of a duo called freescape, Emi Evans tells all. If her touching music hadn’t made a huge fan of me, this interview certainly would have.

  Check out our all-encompassing interview with vocalist and lyricist Emi Evans after the jump! (more…)

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