DISTANT WORLDS

If anyone here is a fan of Nobuo Uematsu's work and isn't familiar with the Distant Worlds tour yet, then they're missing out on a lot.

http://ffdistantworlds.com/

Distant Worlds is basically Nobuo's ongoing world-tour which origins from tours like Tour de Japon and Dear Friends: music from FINAL FANTASY. These days it's going by the name Distant Worlds II and is conducted by Arnie Roth, while Nobuo himself pays live attendance to many of the concerts as well. He was even singing One Winged Angel in the choir in the Stockholm concert I was earlier this summer.

They play only pieces from Final Fantasy series though, but all of these pieces have been re-arranged and orchestrated by cooperation of Nobuo and some other(?) composers.

I was in Distant Worlds II concert myself last June and I personally find it very hard to describe how awesome experience that concert was. This is why I recommend anyone who likes this music go and experience it themselves if they ever get the chance. They play some video footage on big screens too, but I found those very distracting myself.

Here's a video to give a slight idea what the concerts are like, even though this doesn't come anywhere close to what it sounds and feels like live:

The future concerts are always announced on their site, and recently they have been doing a few two day concerts, which means double amount of the awesomess.

So I was wondering has anyone been to these? If not, how come!

The Distant Worlds CDs are totally worth getting too. They're recorded at the Stockholm concert hall, so they give better idea of how good it sounds in the concerts (at least in Stockholm) without such sound quality loss as in the videos:

Here are few tracks that were my favorites when performed live (+ Don't be Afraid was excellent. Okay well all of them were.)