July 03, 2023

112 - With Jazz in Our Hearts and Funk in Our Souls

2 hours

It's time to get down! In this panel, the Rhythm crew has selected some favorite jazz and funk tracks in RPGs. Not styles of music that first come to mind when thinking of RPGs, and indeed, that's part of their charm and effect! How have game composers and arrangers adopted these styles while arranging or used them to build on the game itself? We consider those questions while listening to some excellent and catchy music. Join us as we add some creativity, improvisation, and fun to our RPG music intake. Even Motoi Sakuraba is getting on this, so we hope you will too and enjoy the range of songs we have for you today!

Featuring: Hilary Andreff, Gio Castillo, Michael Sollosi; Edited by Jono Logan

Links for this episode

The 8-bit Big Band Official Website
YouTube: The 8-Bit Big Band's Pollyanna Video
Retro Encounter 336: Tales of Xillia Part I
Retro Encounter 337: Tales of Xillia Part II

Tracklist
0:08:39 - Tifa's Theme Jazz Arrangement (Eijiro Nakagawa) - Square Enix Jazz Final Fantasy VII (also Final Fantasy VII Remake)
0:15:14 - Glass in One Hand (Satoshi Okubo) - Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
0:31:27 - HAIA (D.T.Construction) - moon
0:36:27 - Pollyanna (I Believe In You) (Keiichi Suzuki, arr. 8-Bit Big Band) - Mother series
0:57:17 - Rydia (Nobuo Uematsu arr. Sean Schafianski) - Final Fantasy IV Jazz Arrange Version
0:59:35 - A City of Another Civilization (Motoi Sakuraba) - Tales of Xillia OST
1:17:33 - Sophisticated Fight (Wataru Ishibashi, arr. Noriyuki Kamikura) - The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky FC (from Sora no Kiseki Zanmai)
1:21:55 - Last Surprise (Shoji Meguro) - Persona 5 OST
1:25:48 - Be the Star!! (Chihiro Aoki) - Yakuza 5 OST
1:55:34 - Sollosi's Bonus Track!