Re:Birth II / Romancing Saga Battle Arrange, 29.08.2012

[Yggdrasil]

Follow up of "Re:birth" (20th anniversary arranged album of music from the Seiken Dentsetsu or Mana series). This time "Re:birth 2" will consist of arranged battle tracks from the first three Romancing Saga titles that were only released on the Super Famicon in Japan. The album will also include new cover art from the series artist Tomomi Kobayashi.



Tracklist:

01. Battle 1 Medley - from Romancing SaGa 1.2.3. Romancing SAGA -Minstrel Song-
02. Battle 2 - from Romancing SaGa 3
03. Magical Tank Battle - from Romancing SaGa 3
04. Gen Castle Battle - from Romancing SaGa 3
05. Four Demon Nobles Battle Medley - from Romancing SaGa 3
06. Believing My Justice - from Romancing SAGA -Minstrel Song-
07. Last Battle - from Romancing SaGa 2
08. Last Battle - from Romancing SaGa 3
09. Decisive Battle! Saruin - from Romancing SAGA -Minstrel Song-
10. Seven Heroes Battle - from Romancing SaGa 2

Performed by:

Synthesizer Operation: Takafumi Wada
Electric Guitar: Masaru Teramae
Electric Bass Guitar: Atsushi Enomoto
Drums: Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi
Synthesizer: Noriyuki Kamikura
Violin, Viola: Reiko Tsuchiya
Flugelhorn: Masahiro Makihara
Melodion: Kenji Ito

Recording & Mixing Engineer: Yoshinori Morita
Recording & Mixing Studio: studio foresta
Mastering Engineer: Takanori Yamaguchi
Mastering Studio: Tokyo CD Center

Original Composer, Arranger, Computer Programming: Kenji Ito

(Source: VGMdb)

Official website: Re:Birth II / Romancing Saga Battle Arrange | SQUARE ENIX

[Ramza]

I preordered this album about 6 weeks ago. Can't wait for it to arrive at the doorstep./

[Yggdrasil]

OP updated. Easily the best album that Square Enix has released this year IMO.

[Ramza]

I'm glad to hear you think that, Ygg. I'm waiting for my mega-package to arrive from CDJ still (SQChip2, Beer SQ LE, Battle SQ LE, SoM Genesis, and this). I'm going to go into a Square Enix nostalgia-coma.

[Yggdrasil]

The album reminds a lot to Super Arrange Version album of Ys Origin at times. More importantly is the guy in the drums, dude is a magician.

Edit: Now I know why the music sounds so much like the SAV of Ys Origin (or Falcom/jdk Band in general), there are two guys that has worked doing tons of music for Falcom games before. Masaru Teramae (Electric Guitar) and Atsushi Enomoto (Electric Bass Guitar).

[Embryon]

I just checked out the website and this album sounds amazing. Waaaaaaant!

[Ramza]

Ygg, make that three people. synth/keyboard is Noriyuki Kamikura, an incredible composer in his own right and former member of Basiscape who is now part of jdk band.

Review to come shortly. I've listened to this nonstop and am loving it.