'Cactuar Collections - Disc One (FFVII)' - available to stream in full from 17/11/2023 on Bandcamp, Spotify, Youtube, Soundcloud & Tidal!
A collection of my favourite tracks & suggestions from my followers on Instagram, re-recorded and embellished with elements of electronic music, IDM, Jazz Fusion, Progressive Rock, Metal, Hip Hop and more.
Opening Mission
The Nightmare Begins
Battle Theme
Lurking in the Darkness
Under the Rotting Pizza
Infiltrating Shinra Tower
"Shinra, Inc."
Red XIII's Theme
Crazy Motorcycle
Dear to the Heart
Cinco de Chocobo
Those Chosen by the Planet
Reunion
In Search of the Man in Black
J-E-N-O-V-A
A bonus track features on the Bandcamp edition;
FFVII - Battle Theme Live by Cactuar Collective.
I also shot this music video for my solo version of 'In Search of the Man in Black':
But wait a darn second, there's more: included with downloads on the Bandcamp version is all my guitar & bass tabs for this album in PDF, MIDI and for the freee app Musescore 4!
To make these versions, I worked out a lot of synth, piano or other parts not originally intended for 6-string guitar and 5-string bass, as I wasn't able to find tabs elsewhere to learn the parts for these instruments:
A couple of examples of my tabs for 'The Nightmare Begins' and 'Lurking in the Darkness'
I've decided to make these available as they could be pretty fun for other guitarists and/or bassists for playing along, or just out of curiosity how you could play some of these lead synth lines or other awesome FF parts on a guitar/bass neck.
I think they're both pretty accurate to what each instrument layer is doing in the original scores, but the tabs also contain my embellishments and the rhythmic or 'djenty' additions I've made, considering the neck positions and parts to play to make these songs drive more, or sound a little bit richer & fatter in places.
Looking forward to sharing more on all this soon! I've mentioned Disc Two - FFVIII is basically complete, and I'm currently working on Disc IX at the moment slowly but surely alongside other stuff for this project.