Daniel Warren Hill
As you can imagine, countless hours of video games have been played since lockdown began. You may have logged a few hours in yourself. The talented folks at the Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra have probably logged a few hours themselves, but that didn’t keep them from learning a few tricks and recording a few new tracks from their favorite video games. WMGSO performs an arrangement (by Alex Song) of Yoko Shimomura’s “Hikiari” from the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack. The game was originally released on Playstation 2 in 2002 and has sense resulted in a number of sequels and spinoffs, the most recent being the music and rhythm based game: Melody of Memory, which just became available in October of 2021.
Daniel Warren Hill is an American musician, writer, and motivational speaker. He is best known as the frontman for Washington DC area Alternative Rock band YellowTieGuy, as co-founder of Capitol Groove Collective, and increasing the exposure of artists on a global scale through his work with Alchemical Records.
After AFI DOCS’s departure, the capital city once again has a documentary festival.
Alchemical Records is a Washington, D.C. based music publication. We cover the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and Richmond, VA metro area music scenes, including band interviews, articles about your favorite musicians, new music and concert dates.
