HI GUYS LONG TIME NO SEE XD I’m so sorry for the long silence, we were undergoing a major home renovation for the past three months during which I had no access to my piano but now that it’s winding down (HOPEFULLY!!!) I can resume my usual BS here lol. Thank you all for all your kind comments and checking in on me!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ It really means so, so much, I’m going through them all now to reply to everybody, so thank you for your patience!!!!!!
It kills me that the FFT album had to be unexpectedly delayed because of this, as I had planned to get it out this year, but after all the workers clear out of here and I can clean the two inch layer of dust off the piano I will record the last two, Shop and Memories, and then it’s release time! And getting the sheets out as well!! Probably will not happen until Jan 2023 but it’s gonna happen I swear!!!!!!!!
Before a third of my house was demolished, however, I DID manage to eke out two arrangements for the Memoria Project, and this thing for VGMTogether, which aired in October! Laura Intravia reached out to me for this one, and as you all know the only Zelda I ride for is Adventure of Link for the NES lol, but I had written this arrangement back in April for the PGCC concert I played with @Israfelcello and his wife, amazing oboist Diana Dunn, in Maryland. Diana is a nice normal person not a gaming dork like me and her husband lol, but she did love playing BOTW and as she gets dragged into all sorts of vgm shenanigans by association with us, I wanted to write something she was familiar with amidst all the Final Fantasy Xenobladey JRPG repertoire. So when Laura was like HEY THE VGMT THEME THIS YEAR IS BOTW I was like…well I have this thing we did back in April and she was like GREAT PERFECT WE’LL TAKE IT and I was like oh uh ok then lol
We were honored and thrilled to have ultimate Zelda queen@Patti Rudisill on board this time though!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Patti took my original arrangement and made it even better and more violintastic with her amazing arranging and playing!! It really makes so much of a difference having people on the squad who love the the source material and know it inside and out, like Patti! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
(I’ve only cleared two palaces in BOTW…then got killed by this thing that came out of the ground and one shotted me with this laser. Another time I froze to death on the mountain because I didn’t bring enough hot peppers. Rage quit and haven’t touched it in 5 years hahahaha…but I will at some point…lol)
This track is available on all streaming services, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, etc! Huge thanks to @Israfelcello for not only mixing the track but also making the nifty landing pad link and promo while I was stressed to hell over tile and flooring and countertops ( huge thanks to our dear friend Jaymee for letting us use her gorgeous Zelda photo for the cover, also huge thanks to Laura for giving us the impetus to do this up for VGMT, and Richard Anatone for having us perform for the April PGCC concert without which this arrangement wouldn’t even exist in the first place lol. I hope you all enjoy, sorry it’s a departure from my usual, but I will be gearing to get back to my usual after this lol! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Cello, Mixing/mastering: @Israfelcello
Oboe: Diana Dunn
Violin, arrangement: @Patti Rudisill
Piano, arrangement: ME
Cover art:
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