TSLF Episode 2: Nobuo Uematsu & 30 Years of Final Fantasy - Part 1

Kept you waiting, huh?

So it’s been around a year since I sent the pilot episode out into the wild, I suppose. I definitely miscalculated just how quickly I’d be able to make an episode of the show. After getting the pilot in place, I was hit by an Avalanche of new responsibilities and distractions. All of them are positive, but it did push this podcast back down the list of priorities a little bit.

If you’ve stuck with the show, then thank you. I hope to reward you guys with another episode soon.

The good news is that the full biography show is now written, music is chosen and I am just waiting for an opportunity to record and edit the next 2 parts of the show together. This is looking to be part 1 of 3, and I hope it whets your appetite for more.

Uematsu is a real favourite of mine, and his history is storied and relatively well documented. This made the researching for the show extremely interesting, but prone to distractions I’d fall down a rabbit hole, and end up reading 5 articles with only a little being added to the script afterwards.

Anyway, you can find the track listing below, and I’ve created a youtube playlist of the tracks here, in case you want to listen to the tracks in their entirety. Given that these tracks are from the start of Uematsu’s career, they’re still quite rudimentary by today’s standards, but you can definitely see the start of him developing his style.

Track Listing:

1. Final Fantasy Main Theme - Final Fantasy I

2. Cruise Chaser Blassty Main Theme

3. Prelude - Final Fantasy I

4. Prelude - Final Fantasy VII

5. Airship Theme - Final Fantasy I

6. Theme of Love (Celtic Moon) - Final Fantasy IV

7. Dear Friends - Final Fantasy V

8. Decisive Battle - Final Fantasy VI

9. Omen - Final Fantasy VI

Articles of Interest

I’ve also put together a list of some articles that I used to research the show. Some are old and you need to dig through them to find anything interesting, but some are really modern and directly tell a great story.

• WIRED - An Evening With Uematsu

• Asian in NY Blog - Interview circa 2013

• IGN - Uematsu Remembers 20 Years of Final Fantasy Soundtracks

• Red Bull Music Academy - Interview circa 2014

• (Video) Final Symphony - Recorded at Abbey Road Studios

• (Video) Polygon - How Uematsu Composed “One Winged Angel”

• (Video) G4 Icons Series - Nobuo Uematsu

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