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Xenogears Original Soundtrack - Composed and arranged by Yasunori Mitsuda - Track Listings

Xenogears Original Soundtrack - Disk 1

01.  Light From the Netherworlds 02.  Stars of Tears 03.  Bonds of Sea and Fire 04.  My Village is Number One 05.  The Valley Where Wind is Born 06.  A Distant Promise 07.  Steel Giant 08.  Forest of the Black Moon 09.  Shattering Egg of Dreams 010.  Back to Sleep 11.  Daijiru: City of Burning Sands 12.  Emotions 13.  Grahf: Emperor of Darkness 14.  Fuse 15.  Leftovers of the Dreams of the Strong 16.  The Treasure Which Cannot be Stolen 17.  Aveh The Ancient Dance 18.  Invasion 19.  Stage of death 20.  In a Dark Sleep 21.  Singing of the Gentle Wind 22.  The Wounded Shall Advance into the Light 23.  Lost...Broken Shards 24.  Tamusu, the Man of the Sea 25.  The Blue Traveller

Intro music Cut from game Sad Yggdrasil Theme Lahan Village Theme Citan Theme Music box Theme Battle Theme 1 Blackmoon Forest Elly Theme 1 Sleep Dazil Theme World map theme Grahf's theme Exciting/escape Theme Yggdrasil theme Elly Theme 2 Bledavik Theme Sneakin' around Theme Battle theme 2 Dead Nisan Theme Nisan Church/choir theme Elly Theme 3 Thames Theme Solaris (during Krelian's speach.) Also on the Parasite Eve demo main menu.

Xenogears Original Soundtrack - Disk 2

01.  Ship of Regret and Sleep 02.  The Jaws of Ice 03.  Knight of Fire 04.  June Mermaid 05.  Shebat, the Wind is Calling 06.  The Sky, the Clouds and You 07.  Gathering Stars in the Night Sky 08.  Tears of the Stars, Hearts of the People 09.  Flight 10.  Wings 11.  Solaris, Eden of Heaven 12.  Back to Sleep 13.  The One Who is Torn Apart 14.  Pray for the People's Joy 15.  Omen 16.  Awakening 17.  One who Bares Fangs at God 18.  The First and the Last 19.  Small Two of Pieces

Ethos theme Creepy Solaris theme Battle theme 3 Emeralda Theme Shevat's Theme Chu Chu Theme Maria sad theme Depressing Theme Maria's heroic music Yggdrasil flight music Solaris town theme Long sleep music Id theme Ethos theme 2 [no choir] Final dungeon music last boss music music before end movie... Ending End Credits

Liner notes from Masato Katou:

They told me that I could write anything I want. Ok, I will. I am really selfish recently.

I have worked with my buddy Yasunori with Chrono Trigger, Radical Dreamers, and Xenogears. We laughed and scorned together, and listened several hundred times to the music. Many of the tunes are still silently singing in my heart.

We always have fear and awe against the unknown. Why would we find happiness and calmness in music that we face for the first time? It's probably because... "There must be someone from long ago living in you that like this melody..." Don't you find yourself with explanations like that, even if it's not Shitan-sensei (Note: that's Citan in case you were wandering) telling you? Especially in silent and lonely nights when you turn your ears toward the secret "words" that this small silver disc tells you... Yes, the present from Yasunori filled with his wishes is in your hand. Congratulations. And, thanks. Let's see you again...

Liner notes from Yasunori Mitsuda:

Like always, I have times when I can't do my best when there are new goals or experiments I must achieve. I think it is due to strong pressures that are pushing me down. When I compose for any game, I always first set up a "theme". In this project, I had a story in my mind that was far larger than any theme I had in any game. I was ready for pressure as big as it, though.

The developing took time as I predicted, and I had the most difficult time. I anticipated it. Of course, because I was trying to do beyond what I had done. I often thought "Agh! I can't do this anymore!" followed by "..no! I CAN do this! I must!" and advanced little by little everyday. The sound team supported me a lot. The sound programmer Hideki Suzuki and sound engineer Tomoyasu Yajima, recording engineer Takashi Nagashima, and the event planner Masahito Katou... Without their help, my director Tetsuya Takahashi, and your letters, I couldn't have done this. Thankyou everybody.

Creating traditional music is very difficult, and most Japanese do not like foreign traditions so much. I think it is because the history and the root of the land are totally different. But, that's is the most fun part. I need to research how the traditional music in the land were developed, and make the songs more interesting and easy to listen. There are many traditional music in this CD but they are not traditional music of any specific land. Actually, they are traditional music from my own world. I also have to make the music fit the nature of a video game, so they are arranged in such way. It would be a great thing if you listen to the traditions in this CD and open up your eyes to music all over the world. That would be my dream.

Creating something out of nothing requires the most power. I haven't done anything but composing, but I think the same thing could be applied to anything. I often wonder "Why am I doing such a painful thing?", just like how mothers bare and grow their children. Women who bore children say that they never want to experience the pain of giving birth again, but they often forget their pain as they grow their lovely kids. There is a never ending love in it.

I often worked with musicians from foreign countries, but there is one thing in common. They love music, and money is a secondary thing. I try to enjoy music to the max in the painful process of composing. I believe that by doing so, I could tell my feelings to the people who love music from the bottom of their heart. If I could meet various people by music and communicate with them, there is nothing more joyful that that.

This game has been created by a huge number of people. In the music field by its own, there are as much as a hundred people involved. It is certainly the biggest project I've ever been involved. I can't seize myself of being moved by people's warm heart of listening to my selfish wishes and tried to work with me without complaining. This CD is filled with such hopes and wishes of many people. Ireland's air, Bulgaria's air, and Japan's air along with your room's air. I hope the music of XENGEARS will blend in with such air and become a strong support of you.

Let me say THANK YOU to everyone.

Liner notes from Tetsuya Takahashi: (Director)

I never thought music was so important. Actually, I haven't even thought about music my whole life. I knew that there must be some kind of music in any game, but I never thought that I would be "saved" by the music.

I think it's kind of when all the 8-bit games were transferred into 16-bit machines, when I realised that the sound was superior over the graphics qualities. I can't say I was "shocked", but I was surprised, in deed. 7 years later when everything became 32-bit, I only thought that now graphics could be as expressive as the sound. Then, I never thought I would become a director of one game.

As I started to direct Xenogears, I found something "missing". There was something missing from the image I had drawn in my mind and the computer graphics in front of me. I knew that the lack of physical things such as time, quality, and determination were the reasons, and I had to sadly conclude that that was my limit.

It was no use stopping there, so I decided to look at the graphics simultaneously with the music that had been finished a long time ago back in 1996. "What!? Wow!! Was this picture really this good? Damn, I'm getting goosebumps!" - All the "clouds" in my mind cleared up. Then, I realised again that the graphics were inferior to sound; to music. I had to admit the importance of music.

I also realised that I was being supported by many other people. Of course, there were some times when I was betrayed by someone. I could feel other people's feelings as we were desperate in the last moments. Still, I could not have come here without the help of all the people who tried to support me.

Yasunori is one of the people who heavily supported me in Xenogears. Without his music, the game would have been a lot worse than our goal. My determination wouldn't have continued either.

This soundtrack holds everything that enhanced me and this project.

The three vocal songs are the most amazing. I must say it is superior over any graphics produced in SQUARE. It is good enough to be presented without any excuses what so ever.