MYTH: The Xenogears Orchestral Album

[Armando]

Myth: The Xenogears Orchestral Album is an arranged soundtrack to Square Enix's role-playing video game Xenogears. It is the third soundtrack to the game, after Xenogears Original Soundtrack and Creid, another arranged album, both released in 1998. Myth was composed by the game's composer Yasunori Mitsuda and arranged by Mitsuda, Youki Yamamoto, Sachiko Miyano, and Natsumi Kameoka. The album contains 14 tracks, including a song performed by the Irish singer Joanne Hogg, and a length of 51:33. The orchestration was performed by the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Yamamoto. The album was announced in October 2010, and was released on February 23, 2011 by Square Enix. A vinyl record version of the album is set to be released on April 1, 2011, consisting of six tracks from the full album.

This is a must-hear for any Xenogears fan. Xenogears CREID is awesome too. Fortunately, you can find both of them and the original soundtrack here YouTube - Broadcast Yourself..

If that's not enough Xenogears for you, OCRemix released a Xenogears remix album called Humans + Gears: Xenogears Remixed. I find their albums to be kind of hit-or-miss though, since they often depart pretty sharply from the original song. Some songs turn out to be real gems, others not so much.

[Aeni]

Re: MYTH: The Xenogears Orchestral Album

It was okay but a couple of the tracks I didn't like the arrangements. I can't remember the track titles off my head, but I believe it was the 4th or 5th one where they omitted a few instruments from Yasunori Mitsuda's original comp and I think that totally ruined the atmosphere of the music. IMO of course.