LOL Eminence Symphony Orchestra is tender loving melodic euphoria? Even when recorded?
With stuff like youtube life is so easy to share with others. Weddings, birthdays, trips and vacations, anime cons… and there’s orgasmic orchestrations of some of the best anime music out there, live!
And blogs, too. So you can connect with the you that wasn’t there, but someone else who’s fortunate enough to enjoy it first hand. Uh, who was there? Negativezero? I dunno. Where’s all the Aussies at?
So it came and pass, a night in fantasia 2007 anime edition. And to the point, there are some cool stuff to check out:
Porco Rosso Medley. Seriously, they need to do more of Ghibli stuff that I like. Or just bring back their one old show >_>
Le Portrait de Petit Cossette.
The overplayed musicbox Melody from Noir.
Lullaby. Oddly enough I’m more familiar of this from Kajiura’s Fiction CD. It’s very nice to have an instrumental version though.
A Bunch Of Stuff From Tsubasa That I Don’t Care so much.
Some Xenosaga and .hack stuff that I’ve heard from their earlier show, but different instruments. And there’s two more from Xenosaga: main theme and Lamentation, which wasn’t in their earlier shows.
And out of nowhere came Lilium! This version is sooooo different. Same song and all but, wow. Yes, this is the Elfen Lied opening song.
Along the same lines, what the? Fly Me to the Moon? Makes me want to dance.
There was the usual autograph session afterwards. And Q&A at some point. She speaks English…sort of!
Liking Eminence for most people means a long-distance affair. It’s just not possible to go to their shows on a regular basis without serious dedication, time and funds. It’s hard to say if seeing and hearing them over the internet just makes me want more or what, or makes me sad that I can’t really go to their shows sans extraordinary circumstances. Ah well.
Anyone going to the Ko Ootani show in December with a camera? :)
November 20th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
I’ve got friends back home who went, but they don’t blog. :p
November 20th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Do they have pictures and videos? That’ll do too!
November 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
i was there!
November 21st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
I have recently grown enamored of these guys: http://wavesite.sakura.ne.jp/
Not as prolific, but wonderful (often-orchestral) arrangements accompanied by quite striking art on the CD covers.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Oh, yeah, share via youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBYSUFDdG-I
(though there are some sample mp3s on their site).
November 21st, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I’ve heard of their stuff before, is good.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pm
It”d be interesting to go to the Ko Otani concert, but I don”t think I can justify the money spent travelling up to Sydney to see it…
I can”t access youtube right now (at work) but look for user “pireze”. They have a different angle on the concert, back on the raised section so they could actually see some of the musicians. That”s the bad thing with sitting in the 2nd row I guess…
November 21st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Yea, I saw his vids. Don’t care so much about seeing the musicians since youtube has crap video quality. Just wanted a better audio recording and yours was better.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Unfortunately I have that annoying clicking throughout some as I monitor my battery…
I didn”t want to miss recording the last few songs and the encore like at the last concert…
November 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Ko Ootani…
Has he put out some “good” (relatively speaking) stuff out recently? The Shana OST, save for a track or two, was disappointing. :/
November 30th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
Some people liked the Pumpkin Scissors OST.
December 1st, 2007 at 7:48 am
Unfortunately this one was Sydney-only, like most Eminence concerts. :( Which makes me more upset that I missed the one earlier this year. I was looking forward to it because I knew it was coming up, then they announced dates and it was Sydney only and I was sad.
All their special guests only go to the Sydney shows when they do them in both cities, too :(
December 2nd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Not necessarily true, Melbourne gets -some- guests, just not all :S
I was looking forward to getting my Xenogears signed by Mitsuda after failing to get it signed at Passion, not to mention my Kingdom Hearts by Shimomura… Oh well, got my FFXII signed at least.
I”m wondering how they”re going to pull off having 4 shows of the Ko Otani concert though. At the Sydney Conservatorium of Music no less… Considering how much trouble they usually have with numbers when they advertise this late :S