Distant Worlds VII: more music from FINAL FANTASY / Distant Worlds VII: more music from FINAL FANTASY / Distant Worlds VII: more music from FINAL FANTASY

Track 7 contains:
"Prelude" from FINAL FANTASY I
"Town" from FINAL FANTASY I
"Main Theme" from FINAL FANTASY II
"Eternal Wind" from FINAL FANTASY III
"Battle Theme 2" from FINAL FANTASY II
"Tozus" from FINAL FANTASY III


Music composed by:
Nobuo Uematsu (tracks 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13)
Masayoshi Soken (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 11)
Yoko Shimomura (track 8)

Executive producer: Arnie Roth
Music director, conductor and producer: Arnie Roth
Associate music director: Eric Roth
Orchestral arrangements by: Shiro Hamaguchi, Adam Klemens, Sachiko Miyano, Yuya Mori, Arnie and Eric Roth, Shotaro Shima
Performed by:
FILMharmonic Orchestra Prague
(tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Distant Worlds Philharmonic Choir
(tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 13)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
(tracks 5, 9, 12)
Allmänna Sången (track 9)
Elmhurst College Concert Choir (track 12)
Distant Worlds soloist: Emi Evans (track 9)
Suteki da ne soloist: RIKKI (track 5)
Flow and My Star soloist: Amanda Achen (tracks 2 and 11)
Organ soloist (track 12):
Oskar Ekburg | Stockholm Concert Hall Organ | Grönlund 1982
Additional percussion recording:
Jeffrey Handley and Brandon Podjacek

Recorded at:
Smecky Music Studio, Prague, Czech Republic
November 8 & 9, 2024
Engineer: Jan Holzner
Assistant engineers: Jakub Smolák and Michael Hradiský
Librarian: Tomáš Kirschner
Recording manager and contractor: Petr Pýcha

Recording for tracks 5, 9, 12
Stockholm Konserthus | Elmhurst College Hammerschmidt Chapel
Michael Dahlvid and Lars Nilsson, engineers | Mathew Prock, engineer

Additional choir recording:
Power Station at BerkleeNYC | November 18, 2024
Mathew Prock, engineer | Elizabeth Scott, assistant engineer

Additional percussion recording:
AWR Music Studio, Chicago, IL | November 25 & 26, 2024
Mathew Prock, recording engineer
Edited, mixed, and mastered by:
Mathew Prock at AWR Music Studio, Chicago, IL

Photographers:
Marco Hermes, HOSHINO ASAMI, Andy Paradise,
Anthony Rathbun, Benoit Rugraff, Daphne Youree, Iva Zbíral

AWR music productions team:
Laura Adkins, Leanne Araya, Eliza Bangert, Ethan Baron, Sally Hausken, Fritz Hocking, Erin Miesner, Chris Opperman, Marcy Roth

Special thanks to:
Nobuo Uematsu and Dog Ear Records, composers Yoko Shimomura
and Masayoshi Soken, Associate Music Director Eric Roth, Akio Shiraishi, Saki Imamoto, Kaori Shibayama and all of our friends
and colleagues at SQUARE ENIX, audio engineer extraordinaire
Mat Prock, Amanda Achen, Emi Evans, RIKKI, Petr Pýcha, our
incredible team at AWR Music Productions, and especially to my wife,
Marcy, in gratitude for her unfailing support