Back to home page
Unsealed
| Release date | May 19, 2014 |
| Duration | 20:40 |
| Source material | The Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past (SNES) - Medley |
Unsealed is a medley of many themes from The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (SNES), whose soundtrack was originally composed by Koji Kondo. I arranged it in approximate gameplay order, hence why I dubbed it a "musical playthrough". I released the original version of this song in 2005 during an occurrence of the Dwelling of Duels online video game music arrangements competition.
9 years later, as a way to celebrate 10 years of sharing video game music arrangements online, I rearranged and rerecorded the song entirely.
The opening Triforce jingle is a short prologue showing the listener what to expect: I blended the original note sequence from the game with a transcribed version using high-quality sounds, to reflect the quality transformation of the whole arrangement.
The song is also longer than before, mostly because of time signature and tempo adjustments. A complete breakdown of all the changes is probably unnecessary, but below are various specific ones I can think of:
- An organ is now playing alongside the other instruments during the whole song or so
- Both dungeons' themes now feature a more progressive approach
- Full reprogramming of the drums
- Emphasised ska section in "Kakariko"
- A few playful pauses or silly melody alterations such as the one in "Hyrule Castle" (2)
- Guitars play richer stuff than before
- Overall better production
Fun fact: to complete this, I've recorded more than 2400 instrument takes, as usual for the sake of hunting the magical accidents that uplift each part of the song - especially on the leads.
Below is the timeline with all the themes covered:
- 0:00 - "Title"
- 0:21 - "Opening Demo"
- 1:15 - "Hyrule Castle" (1)
- 2:23 - "Overworld"
- 3:17 - "Kakariko Village"
- 4:43 - "Sanctuary Dungeon"
- 6:08 - "Forest"
- 6:40 - "Master Sword Demo"
- 6:55 - "Church"
- 8:04 - "Hyrule Castle" (2)
- 9:15 - "Dark World" (1)
- 10:12 - "The Goddess Appears" (1)
- 10:38 - "Dark World" (2)
- 11:08 - "The Goddess Appears" (2)
- 11:38 - "Dark World Dungeon"
- 13:12 - "Dark Mountain Forest"
- 14:59 - "Princess Zelda's Rescue"
- 15:36 - "Priest"
- 16:06 - "Battle with Ganon"
- 17:06 - "Credits"
Important : unless expressed otherwise, this work is based on music originally written by other people, and therefore I claim absolutely NO copyright on it. The original composers are listed in this file's audio tags. This work is only a tribute made by a fan, for other fans. Share it for free.