OCR04779 - *YES* Final Fantasy 9 "Terra Calls"

[Liontamer]

RebeccaETripp
Rebecca Tripp

https://www.youtube.com/@RebeccaETripp/videos
ID: 48262
Game(s): FF9
Song Title: Terra Calls

Songs Remixed: Terra

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[Liontamer]

The source tune's already pretty ornate (for PS1), but I love hearing Rebecca's orchestration, replete with her usual beautiful ornamentations and chromatic percussion. Her textures always evolve so effortlessly. The delicateness of 2:18's reprise of the intro was a personal highlight. The addition of the tambourine from 3:40-4:02 was a subtle but effective way to add some forcefulness to things before winding it down afterward. Excellent treatment of the theme; love Tripp's style, she's in the zone here. :-)

YES

[prophetik music]

my bad, must have overlooked it.

original sounds like the opening theme in an expanded form.

opening strings aren't particularly realistic in their representation - lots of swell on the attack. pizz in the bass and harp arpeggiation is nice though. clarinet carries the inital ascending melodic line, and the sustain and subsequent cutoff aren't a great sound. the oboe follows and this is more nuanced in the approach and realization. i liked the light glock below it. flute work after this is nice too. the bass clarinet lead also didn't really have a clean attack tone for the descending line.

there's a bit of a break before a larger section at 1:39. this is a surprisingly sparse orchestration here - it's mostly just several sections playing in unison, with the bass still doing pizz down low and some harp/percussive elements mirroring the line as well. the voice part offers some extra color until the other winds come in after a bit but it really starts pretty spare. i wasn't a huge fan of the synth used for the voice part - the vibrato and vowel never changing feels very uncanny-valley.

there's a bit of a reset before we get into the second half. there's more chord work here in this second representation of the A theme, and some more altered elements which i appreciated. this would have been easy to mail in so i appreciate the commitment to keeping it different from the opening section. i still am not a huge fan of the vocal instrument, and i think it's too loud through here. we finally get some percussion at 3:40 and i agree that the tambourine is just the right instrument for the job. we get through the B theme fairly quickly, and although there's some muddiness at 4:15 or so (is that a vibe in the left ear?), it is handled competently. there is some descending action but no real ending, just a sustain to play us off.

this has some nice elements that really add to the original. i still don't care for the voice and i think that there's some over-exposed synths early on that can't quite handle what you're asking of them, but overall the arrangement is pretty and it's mixed fairly well.

 

 

YES

[Hemophiliac]

All the usual from Rebecca. -2.3db headroom still available for a boost. Panning is wide on a few of the parts, and this one particularly feels left-side heavy.

Even with the minor production issues, the arrangement is always wonderful. This is no exception. The interplay between parts is great, and the trade-off of melody from instrument to instrument keeps the piece flowing and moving.

My biggest gripe in this is the solo voice part. It keeps feeling behind the beat slightly as the attack isn't always crisp. Also it keeps on the same vowel without much placement change. This part has been handled mostly well, it's just toeing the line of being too uncanny compared to the rest of the other parts. I do feel this one is over the bar, but the vocal synth could have sunk this had it been handled unwell.

Warming and mystifying. I hear the call.

YES