The ordering of the tracks was also changed substantially, with a great many tracks originally in the first disc moved to the second disc according to Mitsuda, the intent was to order the tracks by style. This rerelease featured new recordings of the tracks Warmth, The Beach of Nothingness, and Green Sleeves, as well as two new tracks, Pain -piano version- and World to be Born. The soundtrack was rereleased on the 19th of May, 2004 as Xenosaga Episode I (possibly because the original publisher, DigiCube, went bankrupt). Ormus coming in disc 2 rather than disc 1, possibly representative of when it plays in cutscenes as opposed to in Pleroma). The music is ordered roughly chronologically terms of when the tracks are first heard, with some exceptions (e.g.
It consists of 45 tracks split across 2 discs, released on the 6th of March 2002. The Xenosaga Original Soundtrack is the most complete official release of the music of Xenosaga Episode I, consisting of all of the music used in that game as well as several unused tracks. Official releases Xenosaga Original Soundtrack Main article: Xenosaga Original Soundtrack (There are certain exceptions, such as The Girl Who Closed Her Heart.) On the whole, track titles in Xenosaga Episode I tend to be relatively short the proportion of tracks with a single word as the title is much higher than in other soundtracks in the series, including those composed by Mitsuda. (For consistency, when a track's official title includes kana or kanji, this wiki uses the unofficial translations provided with the VGMdb article of the Xenosaga Original Soundtrack.) On the other hand, there is no widespread unofficial translation of tracks titled without Latin characters. However, a large number of tracks were titled in romaji, and these have been widely adopted in the English-speaking world. Xenosaga Episode I's soundtracks were released in Japan and the titles never received an official translation into English. The main melody from Gnosis is used in Life or Death and Last Battle.
A variation of this melody is used in The Girl Who Closed Her Heart and KOS-MOS. The melody of Reminiscence, arguably the main theme of the game as a whole, is used in Kokoro, Game Over, Shion ~Memories of the Past~, Shion ~Emotion~, and Shion's Crisis.The following two are the most prominent: Several melodies are used as motifs in multiple tracks. The soundtrack also contains two vocal pieces with English lyrics, Pain and Kokoro, both performed by Joanne Hogg. Several tracks were written for solo piano, and others for choir, often performed by the METRO VOICES. Xenosaga Episode I frequently employed orchestral instrumentation for many of its tracks the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed several pieces of music on the soundtrack.
There are also two themes that play in menus (three if one counts the Game Over screen). Life or Death plays as the area theme in other areas during certain story events. There are three area themes which play consistently in their respective areas: (part of) Ormus, Song of Nephilim, and Inner Space. In particular, the standard battle theme plays for all battles except for the final boss. Out of the entire soundtrack, there are only 2 battle themes and 4 area themes, both numbers much lower than their equivalents in any other game in the series. The music of Xenosaga Episode I is notable for its very high proportion of cutscene themes (music that plays in cutscenes) as opposed to area themes (music that plays in the overworld) and battle themes (music that plays in battle).
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