Square Enix announces separate rock and jazz SaGa arrangement albums for early 2021 (Updated with North American links)
Square Enix recently announced two albums of arrangements from the SaGa series, which includes the Final Fantasy Legend, Romancing SaGa, and SaGa Frontier games.
Members of Destiny 8 include, in order, Sarao Mori, Harunosuke Ikejiri, Kenji Ito, Noriyuki Kamikura, Toshiharu Okajima, and Zenya Sakata
First is an album by a band formed specifically to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the SaGa series, Destiny 8. The six member band features series composer, Kenji Ito, on the keyboard. It contains rock arrangements of songs from throughout the series. For a preview of the songs, see below for a video of a mini live concert that the band put on at the end of November 2020 featuring five of these songs. The Destiny 8 Saga Band Arrangement Album of ten songs is scheduled to release February 17th, 2021.
Next is an album of jazz arrangements by Eijiro Nakagawa and Ryu Kawamura for the Square Enix Jazz series. This is the fourth such jazz arrangement album released by Square Enix. Whereas the first and third albums focused on the Final Fantasy series, this album focuses only on the SaGa series. The third album features songs from a variety of Square Enix properties, but only included two songs from the SaGa series. The Square Enix Jazz - SaGa album of twelve songs is scheduled to release on March 17th, 2021.
Destiny 8 Saga Band Arrangement Album
Square Enix Jazz - Saga