The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses is returning Down Under and visiting New Zealand for the first time! To celebrate this along with the addition of Breath of the Wild music to its lineup, we’re holding an art contest that gives fans a chance to be a part of the AU/NZ Symphony tour. From now until…
You’ve heard Reven’s angelic vocals and fanciful arrangements in Zelda covers including Rozen’s Twilight Princess EP King of Light and Shadow, and Times End II, a Majora’s Mask album from Theophany. In celebration of her recent birthday, Reven released a Skyward Sword cover of her own — Ballad of the Goddess. Not only does she provide vocals for the piece, the…
Now that Eimear Noone’s album The Celtic Link is complete, it’s headed out to the Kickstarter backers. Missed out on the Kickstarter? Don’t fret, by joining the Post-Kickstarter, you can download the album before it goes public and receive some pretty sweet extras including bonus tracks, excerpts from the Video Games Live: Level 5 documentary, and additional video…
Music has always been vital to the Zelda experience. It’s hard to imagine some of the most iconic moments from previous games without the matching music. But Breath of the Wild developers wanted to adapt many of the conventions for the franchise, including music. This added an extra challenge to composer Manaka Kataoka, especially when creating the main theme for Breath…
Looking for a new way to listen to some old classics? Switched On SNES is re-imagining 16-bit era music using analog synthesizers and drum machines. Their goal is “to expose listeners to the musical masterpieces that have been overlooked — mostly because of the 16-bit instrumentation.” Their first album — based on arguably one of the…
There are few game franchises with a soundtrack that so perfectly matches the story or action quite like the Legend of Zelda. Each beautifully crafted melody truly captures the emotion in each battle, each touching moment in a cutscene, or exhilarating adventure found within Hyrule. Anyone who has attended the fantastic Symphony of the Goddesses will tell you that…
Back in October we brought you an exclusive look at “Hero of Time”, a Kickstarted album that drew inspiration from Ocarina of Time for its orchestrated tracks. Thanks to about one-thousand backers the album reached its funding goal, and Materia Collective moved forward with bringing the tracks to life. If you missed the opportunity to back this…
The much-loved Symphony of the Goddesses concert is returning again this year, with a slew of dates announced across North America, as well as a couple of UK dates and one a piece for Spain, Germany, and Italy. The concerts, featuring an 80-piece orchestra and choir, features music from across the Zelda franchise’s history and for…
Nintendo are giving UK fans the chance to win tickets to see the Symphony of the Goddesses at Birmingham’s NEC arena on April 16, as well as VIP passes to the Insomnia 60 gaming festival that weekend, including travel and accommodation, and a full complement of Breath of the Wild Amiibo. Two runners-up will also get…
The Legend of Zelda is famous for its iconic music. Few, if any other game franchise, can boast a soundtrack just as magical or beautiful. It’s impossible to imagine any memorable moment from the series without the music that goes with it. Aonuma recently revealed what his favourite song is from the Zelda franchise, and it may not be what…
When thinking about love in The Legend of Zelda, a few couples come to mind. Link and Zelda are of course a big one, then there’s Anju and Kafei, and Yeto and Yeta. But what about the other townsfolk like Guru-Guru, the Windmill Man in Ocarina of Time? One day he was minding his own business, happily playing…
When Breath of the Wild‘s first trailer was released at E3 2016, it didn’t take Sauraen long to recreate the memorable trailer shot-for-shot within Ocarina of Time. Now with the newest trailer still fresh in our minds, he’s already recreated the music to wonderful effect using Ocarina’s far more limited range. In the video below Sauraen recreates that retro feeling of…
This past summer, the Triforce Quartet, a classically trained traditional string quartet who plays music from a variety of video games, released their second album Ultima Phantasia featuring music from Skyward Sword, Super Smash Bros., the Final Fantasy series and other popular titles. The Triforce Quartet is performing at MAGFest this weekend, and if you are there, be sure to attend at…
As the saying goes, What’s old is new again. Vinyl records have made a comeback in recent years as a surge of yearning for the retro and nostalgic drives consumers both young and old to reclaiming parts of the past via modern means. Everything from vintage rock albums to newly-Kickstarted musical projects are taking advantage of the…
Less than three days remain until the Kickstarter campaign for Materia Collective’s Hero of Time comes to a close, and the moon comes crashing down. Okay so maybe not that last part. But you are running out of time to make a pledge toward funding the Hero of Time album. The guys from Materia Collective…
