The Japanese composer’s groundbreaking music for the Final Fantasy franchise has reached the pop charts, concert halls and even the Olympics. Not bad for a self-taught musician.
The cliché goes that video games have come a long way since Pac-Man. The same can be said for their soundtracks.
He's as iconic to his medium as film composers Ennio Morricone and John Williams are to theirs, and just as influential. The rest is gaming history. With each new release, Square's influence and importance grew, and so too did Uematsu's music, reaching wider audiences. "Has anyone played a Final Fantasy game?" he asked, tongue-in-cheek, onstage at the Melbourne Recital Centre. The roars of approval that greeted him proved it was essentially a rhetorical question.
Opening – Bombing Mission morphs from a stirring, scene-setting build into a racing pulse of dramatic bottom end and descending staccato patterns. The dreamy plucks and counter-melodies of Blue Fields evoke mystery and tranquillity in equal measure.
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