Unknown Pseudoartist

This may sound a bit too sudden, but actually some of the tracks were initially started sometime around mid 2022. So technically this is the work of nearly 4 years. Now all these old tracks got some considerable upgrades along with new and not-so-new ones.

Once again it's hard to define this in terms of genre or style. I move mostly into metal as usual, but so much of variety and influences both inside and outside metal... And some tracks go just a bit too far from the line this time. My previous VGM album, "Songs of Phantasia", is now pretty conservative in comparision!

So you may expect lots of rock and metal but also lots of clarinets, flutes and other things. Just like its title "Songs of Light and Darkness" suggests, you may also expect lots of dark and light stuff, oftentimes combined in a same vibe.

Seriously, maybe I shouldn't be not the one to say that, but I'm so happy with how all went with this project! There's plenty of quality, quantity and variety, and not a single second of boredom of repetitiveness. 15 tracks and still place for some bonus tracks with demos and "not so cool" arrangements of even more tunes from these great games.

This time I'm also lucky to count with someone (The Vodoú Queen) who helped on the mastering to make these tracks to shine, so you'll notice all sounds better than my usual stuff. Besides her, the album has a lot of talented performers in all tracks, as usual for my VGM arrangements. So you can only expect some good result.

Are you ready for the journey? You'll go throughout a bunch of dark and light moments. Moments when you are impulsively headbanging, moments when you want to cry, moments when you want to just chill around, moments when you want to dance... there's a lot of stuff in barely 40 minutes of music, you are warned! ;)

CREDITS:

• ALL tracks arranged, programmed, mixed, etc by Unknown Pseudoartist.
• ALL tracks mastered by The Vodoú Queen.

List of performers:

• Audio Mocha: bass (5)
• atomic: acoustic guitars (10)
• colorado weeks: bass (6 & 11)
• Cosmic Bartender: drums (15)
• DeLuxDolemite: percusions (6, 7 & 9)
• donut: clarinet (6, 7, 9, 13, 14 & 15)
• evilsonic: bass (10 & 15)
• Hyper Light Drummer: drums (3)
• Jett Swole: guitars (3)
• Jillian Milton: recorder (3)
• jnWake: keys (7)
• krobonil: keys (3, 9, 11 & 15) & technical help (7 & 14)
• Luna Rabbit: synths design (6)
• Ian Martyn: whistle (10, 11 & 14), keys (15) & ska guitars (9 & 14)
• Mattmatatt: ocarina (8)
• Newmajoe: sax (15)
• robshoppe: guitars (5 & 7)
• Roland (Noel) L.M.: bass (9)
• Serrin's Toes: drums (7)
• Shea's Violin: violin (4 & 15)
• Siolfor the Jackal: guitars (5, 6, 10, 12 & 15)
• TheManPF: guitars (4)
• The Vodoú Queen: mastering
• tibonev: guitars (1, 2, 7 & 9)
• Triple B Music: bass (3)
• Zach Chapman: bass (4)

List of composers:

• Miyoko Kobayashi (7, 13)
• Miyoko Kobayashi and Masanori Hikuchi (6, 9, 10, 12, 14)
• Yuzo Koshiro (1, 2, 15)
• Yasuhiro Kawasaki (3, 8, 11)
• Yukihide Takekawa (4)
• Ayako Yoda (5)

Misc. Credits:

• Kaiso: drawing of the heroes used in the inside booklet artwork
• Websites like Spriters Resource, FantasyAnime and VGMaps, for the amounts of time they saved me at the time of ripping graphics to use in the album's artworks, videos and more related stuff (I hope to contribute with my own rips to any of them in a future, since there's still a lot of stuff nobody ripped and posted anywhere and just had to do myself).