After a bit of a wait, and with many people wondering what became of it, Global Collaborative Arrange Album Rebirth has been published online! You can download it free of charge right now.
A bit of history, and some personal thoughts. First I heard of this album’s existence was as a reward for Steven Schoenwald’s (aka Clannad_Man) controversial Key documentary kickstarter. The project was hastily abandoned, and Steven has kinda disappeared off the face of the internet since. My personal opinion about the whole fiasco is that Steven made some pretty terrible decisions, and got what was coming to him. That said, a small part of me empathises with him, as I don’t think anyone could doubt that his passion for Key was genuine.
So, it may turn some people away to hear that Steven himself is the organiser of this album. Here’s my request for all of you: put your personal feelings for Steven aside. What happened happened, but I’d like for people to treat this album as it’s own individual thing, and not reject it because it has Steven’s name on it.
The album is a collection of fan-arrangements of different Key works to celebrate both the 15th Anniversary of Key and the 10th Anniversary of Clannad. It brings together the musical talents of Key fans from all across the world; some you may have heard of before. I encourage you all to give it a listen. This album was most certainly a labour of love. It covers a diverse range of genres and styles, and while not all of the songs on the album will appeal to you, I encourage you to give it a good listen, because there’s some great arrangements in there.
I give my sincere thanks to all the people who worked on the album, even Steven himself. If you like what you hear, I invite you to check out the artist’s other works. I’ve done the hard work for you and gone looking and found links to most of the artists’ webpages, which I’ve provided below. And if any of you listed here find us here and want to join our community of Key fans, we’d be happy to have you!
Artists:
Aaron McLaughlin Animenz Bruno Murai Champloo Dan DeSimone (aka 8BitBrigadier) Daniel Ngo (aka BaddyDan) Devon Bordonaro (aka Daymaul) Elias Ilyas Yasin Frank Tedesco Kuri Hiwatari (aka Kurichan35) Joanna Lee (aka xclassicalcatx) Jonathan Parecki (aka jparecki95) JoyDreamer Kwok He Chu (aka Hereson0) Kyle Landry Moisés Nieto (aka HollowRiku) Ng Jun Yan Ro Panuganti (aka Swiggles1987) TehIshter Tera Catallo The Setting Sun Zorsy And also Soyoung Lee (aka Dizzyworld2) designed the album cover and booklet.
If you have any corrections I need to make to that list, let me know.
Tracklist:
Disc 1 (key15th)
I. Makoto’s Farewell Champloo Original Composition
2. Natsukage Kwok He Chu / Hiwatari Kuri Based off of ‘Natsukage’ by Jun Maeda
3. Shining in the Sky Bruno Murai Based off of ‘Sora ni Hikaru’ by Magome Togoshi
4. Key Classic Medley Tehlshter Based off of the following: ‘Last regrets’ by Jun Maeda / ‘Tori no Uta’ by Shinji Orito / ‘Alicemagic’ by Shinji Orito / ‘Negai ga Kanau Basho’ by Jun Maeda
5. Gentle jena Kwok He Chu Based off of ‘Gentle Jena‘ by Magome Togoshi
6. Esperanza Moisés Nieto Based off of ‘Hope’ by Jun Maeda
7. Holding Back Aaron McLaughlin Original Composition
8. Nuestro Viaje Moisés Nieto Based off of ‘Bokura no Tabi’ by Shinji Orito & Kai
9. One’s Word The Setting Sun Based off of ‘One’s Word‘ by Jun’ichi Shimizu
10. My Soul, Your Beats! Jonathan Parecki Based off of ‘My Soul, Your Beats!‘ by Jun Maeda
11. Crow Song Ro Panuganti /Tera Catallo Based off of ‘Crow Song’ by Jun Maeda
12. Key Modern Medley Animenz Based off of the following: ‘My Soul,Your Beats!’ by Jun Maeda / ‘Haruka Kanata’ by Jun Maeda /’Philosophyz’ by Shinji Orito & Yūto Tonokawa / ‘Tabi’ by Jun Maeda
13. lchiban no Takaramono Tera Catallo /Joanna Lee Based off of ‘lchiban no Takaramono’ by Jun Maeda
14. Journey Ng jun Yan Based off of ‘Tabi’ by Jun Maeda
15. Fight for Nowhere The Setting Sun Based off of ‘Fight for nowhere’ by Shinji Orito
16. Sophrosyne Zorsy Original Composition
Disc 2 (clannad10th)
1. Dango Daikazoku Kwok He Chu / Hiwatari Kuri Based off of ‘Dango Daikazoku’ by Jun Maeda
2. Mag Mell Elias llyas Yasin Based off of ‘Mag Mell’ by Eufonius
3. Hurry Starfish Devon Bordonaro Based off of ‘Hurry, Starfish’ by Magome Togoshi
4. Étude Pour les Petites Supercordes Dan DeSimone Based off of ‘Étude Pour les Petites Supercordes’ by Magome Togoshi
5. Roaring Ocean Daniel Ngo / JoyDreamer Based off of ‘Uminari’ by Shinji Orito
6. A Christmas Dango Kwok He Chu / Hiwatari Kuri Based off of ‘Chiisana Tenohira’ by Jun Maeda
7. To the Same Heights Joanna Lee / Daniel Ngo Based off of ‘Onaji Takami e’ by Jun Maeda
8. Shining in the Sky Kyle Landry Based off of ‘Sora ni Hikaru’ by Magome Togoshi
9. Love and Spanner Jonathan Parecki Based off of the following: ‘Mag Mell’ by Eufonius / ‘Fortune Card‘ by Shinii Orito & Leo Kashida / ‘Tsuki no lsou’ by Shinji Orito / ‘Country Train’ by Jun Maeda / ’Kochi’ by Shinji Orito
10. Kaisou Frank Tedesco Original Composition
11. Dango Daikazoku (Instrumental) Kwok He Chu Based off of ‘Dango Daikazoku’ by Jun Maeda
12.A Christmas Dango (Instrumental) Kwok He Chu Based off of ‘Chiisana Tenohira‘ by Jun Maeda
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://kazamatsuri.org/2014/05/29/%e3%80%8ckey15th%e3%80%8d-%ef%bc%8f-%e3%80%8cclannad10th%e3%80%8d-global-collaborative-arrange-album-rebirth-fan-album-released/
