Year: 2008
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Hitoshi Sakimoto – Final Fantasy Tactics A2 Soundtrack Review
Final Fantasy Tactics A2: The Sealed Grimoire is something of a reprisal for Hitoshi Sakimoto. Both the original and the Advanced FFT soundtracks are held…
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Emiliana Torrini – New Album September
Icelandic wonder Emiliana Torrini will be releasing her latest studio album entitled “Me and Armini” this year, rumoured for the 8th of September. Emiliana’s styles…
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Aki Kuroda – Final Fantasy X Piano Collections Review
Final Fantasy’s Piano Collections are becoming a staple of the release schedule with only numbers 1-3 missing out (although we’re still awaiting on FXII). Final…
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Soft Cell – The Most Disturbingly Funny Fan Vid I’ve Seen For A While…
Never one to shy away from the grittier side of life Soft Cell’s lyrics thrive on the evils of the world – this is why…
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Ayumi Hamasaki – New Coundown DVD Released
Ayumi’s latest countdown concert DVD was released yesterday. Once again I’ve ordered it and once again I’m sure I’ll be bopping away like its new…
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Stephane Picq & Pierre Esteve – “Atlantis: The Lost Tales OST”
Stephane Picq and in particular Pierre Esteve are highly underrated VGM composers. I put it down to the face they make music for the generally…
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Tsukiko Amano – “Cho” Review
While not directly involved with the game Fatal Frame 2 (Project Zero 2 in the UK), Tsukiko Amano made a song called “Butterfly” inspired from…
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Live Vault – Joanna Newsom
This weeks Live Vault performance comes from the ever complex Joanna Newsom. “Sawdust and Diamonds” comes from the fantastic album Ys which clocks in at…
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Tori Amos – Label Free and Releasing Old DVDs?
Tori Amos leaving Epic was a bit of a shock but was never really confirmed properly however what is more exciting is that Tori seems…
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Frou Frou – An A Ceppella Cover!
While on the Frou Frou front I found THIS excellent a ceppella cover of the magical “Let Go” performed by a group called The California…
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Frou Frou – Breathe In (single) Review
Imogen Heap and Guy Sigworth team up to make Frou Frou, the fantastic alt-pop duo (although now defunct it seems for now). Their first and…
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Masaya Matsuura – “Vib Ripple & Vib Ribbon Soundtrack” Review
Masaya Matsuura is one of the most unique composers in video game music of all time. In fact should his visions have ever been told…
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Live Vault – Alanis Morrissette
This weeks Live Vault comes from Alanis Morissette with songs from her recent AOL Live Sessions. Taken from her new album reviewed last week, we…
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Yasunori Mitsuda – “Sailing to the World” Review
“Sailing to the World” is the title for the official release of Yasunori Mitsuda’s compositions for the game called “The Seventh Seal”. 10 tracks were…
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Alanis Morissette – Flavors of Entanglement Review
Over a decade has passed since Alanis Morissette burst into the music world with her massive début record and now coming round for her fifth…
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Tori Amos and Loreena McKennitt Headline Dranouter Festival
Well the headline says it. The Dranouter Festival in Belgium looks like a great place to be if you can get tickets. Tori Amos will…
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Live Vault – PJ Harvey
This weeks live performance comes from PJ Harvey and the song “Silence” taken from her latest album White Chalk with PJ playing the piano. It’s…
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Chitose Hajime – New Album Confirmed
Chitose Hajime confirmed her new album entitled “Cassini” will be released on the 16th of July. What does seem to conflict though is that the…
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Charlotte Martin Meets The Sims?!
Never one to shy away from the gaming world (after performing the excellent “Greater Lights” for Advent Rising) she has recorded her songs “Keep Me…
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Cara Winter – “Peter and the Whale” Review
Cara Winter returned last week with her follow up album entitled “Peter and the Whale”, an 8 track album that’s over far too quickly and…
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Rikki – “Suteki Da Ne” Review
“Suteki Da Ne” is the vocal theme of Final Fantasy X and is sung by Rikki. The song is a ballad with a swaying beat,…
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Hannah Fury – “The Thing That Feels” Falls Away
Eight years after its release cult singer songwriter Hannah Fury will be placing her début album “The Thing That Feels” out of print. The print…
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Visa Roster – Commodore 64 Vocally Review
The Commodore 64 has such a huge fanbase of people whom grew up loving the tunes made on the little console that tribute bands pop…
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Live Vault – Qntal
Qntal are hosts to this weeks Live Vault with fan favourite and one of the finest examples of how to do Gothic music without going…
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The Black Mages – “Darkness and Starlight” Review
Back for their third outing, The Black Mages return with their stadium rock anthemic arrangements of Final Fantasy songs with “Darkness and Starlight”. The main…
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Live Vault – Loreena Mckennitt
This weeks live vault comes from the live DVD released last year from world music queen Loreena Mckennitt entitled “Nights In the Alhambra”. The song…
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Cara Winter – “Butterfly” Review
Cara Winter is coming back into the spotlight with the release of her new album “Peter and the Whale” so before we can buy that…
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Lauren Hoffman – Going To Be A Mum!
Completely missed by me (and news before the site was running) is that Lauren Hoffman will be a mum soon. Lauren is also in the…
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Vienna Teng – New Album Coming On Strong
Vienna Teng’s blog posts indicate that her new album is coming together quite nicely. It looks to be perhaps a more heavier album too judging…
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Shiina Ringo – 10th Year Anniversary Releases!
Shiina Ringo celebrates 10 years of music and to mark the event she’s releasing several new items. The first is a DVD with all her…
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Natalie Imbruglia – White Lillies Island Review
Natalie’s second album “White Lillies Album” is generally considered her most non-commercial and for that is to date her least successful of the three albums…
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Tori Amos Get’s Pic-tori-al!
Tori Amos was meant to be having a year off but obviously not as out of the blue a 480 page comic book entitled “Comic…
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Live Vault – Fiona Apple
This weeks Live Vault is a powerful angry performance by Fiona Apple with the fantastic “Not About Love” which lets Fiona belly shout it all…
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Utada Hikaru – 1 Million Albums Shipped For “Heart Station”
Congrats to Utada Hikaru whom crossed the 1 million mark with her 5th album “Heart Station” which is quite a huge feat given today’s music…
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Aoi Teshima – New Album Unveiled
Aoi Teshima, the vocalist whom rose to fame by taking the lead female role in Studio Ghibli film “Tales From Earthsea” has a new album…
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Charlotte Martin – Congratulations
A hearty congratulations from Higher Plain Music to Charlotte Martin who has given birth to a baby boy named Ronen Joseph Andrews. At 8 pounds…
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Cocteau Twins – “Garlands” Review
The Cocteau Twins burst onto the scene with their debut album “Garlands” way back in 1982. The 8 track record is both accurate and misguiding…
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The Star Onions – Music From the Otherside of Vana’diel Review
The Star Onions are three of our old composers from the Square stable: Kumi Tanioka, Naoshi Mizuta & Tsuyoshi Sekito joined with Hidenori Iwasaki. Together…
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Kate Bush – The Kick Inside Review
30 Years on and it still feels fresh, relevant and imaginative, Kate Bush’s début “The Kick Inside” is a CD that doesn’t fade with time.…