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Nobuo Uematsu Broke His Own Rule (Cosmo Canyon · FFVII)
· 21 min · S3 E4
Episode Nobuo Uematsu Broke His Own Rule (Cosmo Canyon · FFVII)
Nobuo Uematsu said he deliberately avoided big, game-defining melodies for Final Fantasy VII — he wanted realism, not spectacle. So why is Cosmo Canyon one of the most unforgettable themes he ever wrote? I pull the score apart to find out: how a single drone and an unchanging groove build a whole atmosphere, why a pentatonic melody on a shakuhachi sounds so specifically ancient and Japanese, and where that "ancient" feeling really comes from.
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