{"id":15272,"date":"2018-03-16T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/music_theres_a_secret_of_mana_folk_album_and_its_beautiful"},"modified":"2018-03-16T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T10:30:00","slug":"music-theres-a-secret-of-mana-folk-album-and-its-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/16\/music-theres-a-secret-of-mana-folk-album-and-its-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: There&#8217;s A Secret Of Mana Folk Album And It&#8217;s Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Wowzer!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/music_theres_a_secret_of_mana_folk_album_and_its_beautiful\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/music_theres_a_secret_of_mana_folk_album_and_its_beautiful\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Wowzer!\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The soundtrack to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/secret_of_mana\">Secret of Mana<\/a><\/strong> has to rank as one of the best ever committed to silicon, with stirring battle songs rubbing shoulders with soothing lullabies and bittersweet tunes.\u00a0Hiroki Kikuta&#8217;s work remains masterful, even after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t think it could get much better, but it seems we were wrong &#8211; if you take the Secret of Mana OST and get a group of talented folk artists to reproduce it in their own style, you get something <em>really<\/em> special indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetravelersvgm.com\/\">The Travelers VGM<\/a> &#8211; a Seattle-based group which produces cover versions of famous video game soundtracks in various folk styles (including Celtic, Welsh, Spanish, French, and Slavic) &#8211; have crafted the album\u00a0<strong>Heart of the Forest<\/strong>, which contains 18 rearranged tracks from Secret of Mana, some of which mix in classic folk songs for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full track listing:<\/p>\n<p>01. Angel&#8217;s Fear<br \/>02. A Phantom and a Rose<br \/>03. Into the Thick of It<br \/>04. Dancing Animals<br \/>05. Distant Thunder<br \/>06.\u00a0It Happened on a Moonlit Night \/ The Kesh Jig<br \/>07.\u00a0Mystic Invasion \/ Ballydesmond Polkas Nos. 1, 2, 3<br \/>08. Secret of the Arid Sands<br \/>09. A Wish<br \/>10. Spirit of the Night<br \/>11. Calm Before the Storm<br \/>12. The Wind Never Ceases<br \/>13. Flammie and I<br \/>14.\u00a0Dawn of the Mana Sword \/ An D\u00f9n M\u00ecorbhaileach<br \/>15. The Fortress Rises<br \/>16. Pure Lands<br \/>17.\u00a0Peramal Kematian Tiba (The Oracle)<br \/>18.\u00a0D&#8217;oscail Mo Sh\u00faile \/ Dh\u00fan Mo Sh\u00faile<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-bandcamp\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what arranger Masha Lepire had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ethereal and earthy textures of the original\u00a0<em>Secret of Mana\u00a0<\/em>soundtrack fit perfectly with the folk concept our group tries to promote. I love how\u00a0we all brought new flavors and ideas to the table but still captured the original\u00a0essence and beauty of Hiroki Kikuta&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The album launches today and you can check it out on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/travelersvgm.bandcamp.com\/album\/heart-of-the-forest-music-from-secret-of-mana\">Bandcamp<\/a>, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1iMuacqhK7hPsmmiVaLd3e\">Spotify<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/heart-of-the-forest-music-from-secret-of-mana\/1353286817?app=music&amp;ign-itsct=1353286817-1353286817&amp;ign-itscg=0176&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4&amp;at=1000lrZb\" rel=\"nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>. Let us know what you think by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The soundtrack to Secret of Mana has to rank as one of the best ever committed to silicon, with stirring battle songs rubbing shoulders with soothing lullabies and bittersweet tunes.\u00a0Hiroki Kikuta&#8217;s work remains masterful, even after all these years. We didn&#8217;t think it could get much better, but it seems we were wrong &#8211; if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}