ReMix: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past 'Sahasralah's Homecoming'

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First, I need to stick in some words of thanks here to everyone helping out with the torrents and also all of you who 've purchased shirts - the torrents are almost up to a combined total of 20 Terabytes, and we sold quite a good chunk of the recent order of shirts quite quickly. We're working on resupplying, but your support in both arenas is really appreciated and really does help the site out. Now on to the music - the fearsome foursome, featuring Thomas Gustafson on saxophone, reprise their collective role as the poster children (men?) for more authentic (compositionally and performance-wise) jazz game music arrangements. This time around it's the lullaby theme, covered in a very mellow, Sunday-afternoon fashion with a solo saxophone taking center stage and the rest of the instruments organically and fluidly backing that up with cool, rubbery bass, a bed of grungy, greasy organ chords dripping with flavor, lovely interpretive and very free-form drumming, and guitar. I especially love the drums here - this is the type of very artistic jazz drumming that, when applied to a synthetic drum kit, really exposes the fact that it's not a REAL kit. The sax lead is of course the focus, and strikes a nice balance between mellow and tense, at times straining into the upper octaves as the other players also increase their tautness and energy. Neskvartetten's ability to take beloved, familiar game music and turn it into something you wouldn't bat an eyelash at if it started playing in a crowded cafe is truly remarkable - from the syncopation and sense of human timing on each and every individual player's part to the recordings themselves, which have a consistently intimate and immediate feel, there's a lot to like here for fans of jazz and Zelda. I can literally see someone reading beat poetry to this back in the mid 1950's, with a beret and sunglasses on indoors, the vibe is that thick. Groovy.

― djpretzel