Tag: Music Monday

I have been playing video games for years. I have slain countless bosses, seen hundreds of Game Overs and credits alike, and saved most princesses worth saving. Still, few of those experiences left me feeling as victorious and proud as last Saturday when I finally beat Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Seeing Thunderbird and Dark Link finally fall after months of trying felt . . . awesome. To commemorate this momentous point in my Zelda gaming career, I have…

Good afternoon! It’s Monday, which means it is time for this week’s edition of Flute Boy’s Meadow, the weekly music feature where I dissect our favorite Zelda tunes to see what makes them special! This week as we look forward to the beginning of a new year, I am turning the clock back and looking at an old and beloved classic among Zelda fans: “Ballad of the Wind Fish” from Link’s Awakening! This song is unbelievably catchy and pretty complex,…

Merry Christmas my Zelda Dungeon friends, and welcome to this week’s Flute Boy’s Meadow! Considering tomorrow is Christmas and most of the world’s weather finally realized it’s December (we saw our first flurry of the year on Friday! Halt the presses!) I thought it would be appropriate to focus on one of Zelda’s colder, more icy songs. For today’s feature I have chosen to look at “Snowpeak” from the soundtrack of Twilight Princess. This song is a very quiet and…

Good afternoon my Zelda Dungeon friends, and welcome to another Monday and another Flute Boy’s Meadow! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving week/break, for those of you who celebrate it. For this week’s feature, I’ve opted for something people requested in the comments last week: a look at the themes for each of the companions throughout the series. Now first, I want to clarify who Link’s companions are. The term refers specifically to the guide characters that tend to…

Hello Zelda Dungeoners, and welcome to another Flute Boy’s Meadow! I have been talking with my fellow Music Feature writer Alexander, and we have decided to shake things up with our weekly features. After writing last week’s tribute to Kōji Kondō I realized just how much I enjoy the original game scores from the series rather than just fan covers. So, I have decided to change the focus of Flute Boy’s Meadow; from now on this feature will bring the…

Welcome back Zelda Dungeoners! It’s Monday, which means it is time for our second edition of Flute Boy’s Meadow! Last week we brought you an ocarina player who has accumulated a huge following on YouTube, David “DocJazz” Ramos. For this week’s music feature, I decided to give you guys a look at a newer artist whose covers only reached YouTube earlier this year: the lovely Canadian harp player Samantha Ballard. Make the jump to see her beautiful work!

Hello Zelda Dungeoners, and welcome to the first edition of our new weekly music feature: Flute Boy’s Meadow! To kick things off, this week we are looking at a rather famous ocarina player who most have probably come across from time to time: David “Docjazz” Ramos. Ramos has been playing the ocarina for well over a decade, putting his covers and original pieces on YouTube since 2006. He has mastered numerous ocarina varieties in that time and both his cover…