Nobuo Uematsu
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Final Fantasy Distant Worlds London 2025 Review
A magical night of Final Fantasy orchestrations.
- Music
Ten Albums That Influenced My Taste In Music
These 10 albums shaped my music tastes
- Review
Square Enix Acoustic Arrangements Review
Chamber arrangements of classic themes from the last 30 years
- Arrangements
Concert Review : Final Fantasy Distant Worlds
A magical night of role playing proportions
- Arrangements
“Distant Worlds IV More Music From Final Fantasy” Review
Back with a bang for the latest tour
- Arrangements
Nobuo Uematsu & Shiro Hamaguchi – “Final Fantasy VIII Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec” Review
One of the biggest orchestrated albums of all time
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Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy V Dear Friends” Review
“Dear Friends” is the arranged FFV album, selecting 14 songs and transforming them into real instrumentation. “Ahead On Our Way” starts off with a nice…
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Laura Shigihara Talks “Play for Japan”
The adorable Laura Shigihara talks on her YouTube channel about the excellent Play for Japan Charity CD that’s being spearheaded by Akira Yamaoka. The full…
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Nobuo Uematseu – “Final Fantasy VI Grand Finale” Review
Final Fantasy VI had some stunning pieces of music in them and the soundtrack recieved a fully orchestrated arrangment album with “Final Fantasy VI Grand…
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“Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections” Review
Final Fantasy VIII Piano Collections continues the excellent series’ trend for producing albums that piano lovers can treasure. Taking 13 tracks from the soundtrack and…
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Nobuo Uematsu – New Solo Album & OST Coming
Nobuo is celebrating his 50th birthday in style this year. His new solo album “10 Stories” will be 10 songs we assume and is slowly…
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Seiji Honda – “Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections” Review
After a long wait, too long for some, Final Fantasy VII finally gets its own Piano Collections set. Taking 13 tracks from the OST, they…
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“Final Fantasy IV Celtic Moon” Review
“Final Fantasy IV Celtic Moon” takes the songs from the epic game’s NES soundtrack and rearranges them onto beautifully played Celtic instrumentation. Selecting 15 tracks,…
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HPM Podcast #1
DOWNLOAD THE PODCAST HERE Welcome to the first ever Higher Plain Music podcast! This focuses entirely on video game music and talks about the soundtracks…
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Nobuo Uematsu – Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite Review
Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite is a fully orchestrated album, showcasing songs from Final Fantasy I-III. Epic is the name of the game here, as everything…
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Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy Mix” Review
F.F. Mix is a bizarre CD, full of unreleased material and some remixes of the classic FF songs. Great debate lies in the integrity of…
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Risa Ohki & Nobuo Uematsu – “Final Fantasy Pray” Review
Final Fantasy Pray was the very first vocal collection of Final Fantasy songs. The songs were taken from FFI-VI and have been transformed from classic…
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Final Fantasy Remix Trailer
Final Fantasy Remix nears the horizon and here’s a video trailer for it here It has to be said that I’m not too optimistic for…
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Live Vault – Nobuo Uematsu
Nobuo Uematsu is this friday’s live vault with an orchestrated version of his classic “Aerith’s Theme” from the game Final Fantasy VII. This is taken…





