William's Song a Day Blog - est. September 2007

From: Alundra Original Soundtrack ; Year: 1997; Genre: Classical It has been a long time since I delved into this amazing soundtrack; this is my second favourite track from the simply amazing video game Alundra . Probably most recently Kohei Tanaka is best known as the composer for the Animé One Piece as well as a slew of other series, movies, and video games. Immediately my mind is taken back to the large fortress frozen in time, having to figure out all of the puzzles just to get to the final boss fights. The Shrine of the Lake is one of the best songs to have in the background whilst performing such tasks as puzzles; it really gets your mind moving, not taking you attention away from the task, but rather being an omnipresent force helping you along. Even playing it whilst performing real-life tasks it's one of those that really helps you along.   Hear The Shrine of the Lake on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: Esteban - Flamenco Wind   My song...

I debated a lot about picking songs from video games, however, much the music that is played behind some video games is in fact quite good; so I decided to go ahead and pick a song from a video game that I believe is quite excellent. This song is from the video game " Alundra ," which is an RPG similar to " Land Stalker " and " Zelda " that emphasized puzzle solving over monster killing. It was released in '97 and was one of the last bastions of 2D graphics, however it overcame this weakness with a great: storyline, soundtrack, and gameplay; plus the graphics were quite good for being 2D. As far as the soundtrack, it was all written and composed by Kohei Tanaka; the whole score to the game has been called "Neo-Classical" by some. In most games the music was meant to stay in the background, however the music from certain parts of the game almost never stayed in the background and almost demanded attention. In my opinion this song was one of th...