Thanks to @zorakc2c.bsky.social @musiconthedlo.bsky.social @rahulvanamali.com, I have finally achieved my dream of covering a Yakuza jazz bar theme: Silky Night (Yakuza 0-5), for when you're being educated on fine whiskey, or reflecting on that run-in with the Korean mafia (youtu.be/6wiBF0lf9Fs?...)

My annual Halloween Castlevania upload: a deep-ish cut from SOTN (Nocturne - Symphony of the Night), a melancholy lullaby the fairy familiar sings when you sit in a chair. Vibed Record of Lodoss War intro so much I binged Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth shortly after (youtu.be/oVufgLlo-Nc?...)

SURRENDER OR DIE IN OBSCURITY

HAPPY FINAL FANTASY TACTICS REMASTER!!😍 been waiting decades for this omg 😭 arranged one of my faves that didn't make it onto my FFT piano albums bc I kept chickening out (Brave = 0 lol) but made a push: Prologue Movie - Final Fantasy Tactics (youtu.be/s0u7SV6kSU8?...)

NEW COVER! Been a hot minute since @israfelcello.bsky.social and I did something--Castti, the Apothecary - Octopath Traveler II, arr. and performed for cello/piano by us, honored to feature @fairyring.bsky.social as Castti herself! 😍 cosplay made and worn by her! Full vid: youtu.be/mGhT5Tz-mR4?...

The last time I recorded this was in 2015 and it was absolutely terrible, dunno why it took me 10 years but I finally got around to redoing it: Secret of the Forest - Chrono Trigger (full vid: youtu.be/hIPaR3umhck?...)

Random email to online acquaintance: "So remember that Chrono Cross piano arrangement you wrote and posted on Gamingforce forums in 2005. Only took me 20 yrs but I finally recorded it"

Arni (Home Village)-Chrono Cross, arr. by Michael Alfera. I liked it so much I kept the printouts for two decades

opera floozy

👀👀👀 @mezzocarattere.bsky.social is going to make all my nerdy Rachmaninoff dreams come true i CANNOT WAIT 😍

based Final Fantasy, but Hamauzu 😍 Hauyn's Melody - World of Final Fantasy, great game, don't believe Ondore's lies lol. Tried to work this one like the FFXIII piano collections. Full vid: youtu.be/E3JRGjF25gA?...

been picking at some Chrono Trigger

NEW COVER FOR XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X REMASTER DAY!! So Nah, So Fern ft. @animevivi.bsky.social, composed by Hiroyuki Sawano and arranged for piano and viola by us nine years ago lol. Had to dust it off and re-record it to celebrate ❤️ (youtu.be/f8995zNomTU?...)

THREE MINUTE VIDEOS HOORAY happy 30th Chrono Trigger ❤️ (Corridors of Time - youtu.be/iJhp0qwNJmU?...)

meant to sync this w/album release last month but was playing vidya games and forgot whoops lol, new version of Wood-Carving Partita from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, the GOAT ❤️ wrote a properly integrated ending this time (which still ripped off Bach) but less so lol youtu.be/GjKuTFnnpYM?...

"A real man...oughta be a little stupid."
Piano cover of the final boss fight music from #Yakuza Kiwami 2 for pirate Majima release day, A Scattered Eternal Moment: youtu.be/RSWgUUhRMkY?...

(for the record Ryuji Goda is ❤️❤️)

NEW ALBUM! Castlevania: Collection of Piano (in time for #Castlevania nocturne S2!)
In the works for 6 yrs omg but some of my fave games/OSTs ever I had to take the time to do them justice
Listen/buy: srsr.li/purpleschala...
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Gameplay: @lowlevelowl.bsky.social

Last cover of 2024-- Dimension Breach from Chrono Cross (youtu.be/EsswY3VR-rc?...). I'm in a curator/preservationist role for this one, an exquisite unknown arrangement written by Will Buck in 2005 from the now defunct Gamingforce forums, one of the early central VGM hubs before Youtube. (1/4)

apropos of nothing except Lunar 1 and 2 getting a remaster next year ❤️❤️ Opening song (Wings) from Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, full vid: youtu.be/vmuo9_dv15o?...

how it's going

Bar and Substory themes: #yakuza