Clannad – Nagisa’s Farewell at the Foot of the Hill (Warm Piano Arrange) | より渚~坂の下の別れ

Another piece off of my bucket list.
Ever since having watched the series, I’ve wanted to play the piece. Of course, following the spirit of the series – the right person was required.
Now I’ve found somebody who was up to watching Clannad (and Clannad: After Story) with me – fell in love with the series as well. For her I played the piece for Valentine’s Day.

This recording was done a few weeks afterwards (in a stressful phase), but I focused on the emotional power of the piece and hope you were able to see reflections of my feelings.

Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – Bloody Tears Piano Version

A series with a soundtrack that will be remembered in gamers’ (and series watchers’) hearts for a long time! And what better homage than Bloody Tears, one of the series staple themes that everybody enjoys!

Of course this also increases the pressure to do well on the piece, this started out as a comment by a friend that he’d like to see a cover of it, I checked out some sheets a while back and loved this arrangement, but started to make some changes to the piece. It’s one of the first pieces, in which I made some alterations. Bringing out more of my inner music is something I’m working on – and since I’m not playing classical music, I shouldn’t feel constraint by the arrangements. Let’s see if this will continue in further pieces or it’ll stay with the sporadic improvising here and there where it fits.

Hope you enjoy the piece and I can both recommend the games (played the first, tried some others), as well as the Netflix series!

One Summer’s Day (Encore) – Spirited Away

I’m surprised it took me this long to cover a piece from a Studio Ghibli film. Been enjoying them for years and have been meaning to play a piece from them, would’ve probably done Howl’s Moving Castle earlier, but I can’t do the piece justice yet.

Hope everybody’s starting to enjoy and appreciate the summer and if you don’t know the piece – I highly recommend checking out the movie, it’s worth a watch for any age and anybody that just enjoys good movies.

Until the next one!