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New Earthbound live arrangement album up for preorder

Hobonichi MOTHER Project and Nippon Columbia are releasing the live arrangement Earthbound album “The Music Of MOTHER – MOTHER2 30th Anniversary Live” on vinyl. The recording is from a MOTHER event last year and is performed by the Tonzura MOTHER Band, which features original composer Keiichi Suzuki.

The release will be a 2LP on black vinyl. It will be housed in a jacket with new artwork. It will include liner notes by Shigesato Itoi, Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka.

It is priced at 6050 and is an open preorder from now and until August 22, 2025. It is scheduled to begin shipping in late August, 2025. It can be preordered via Hobonichi MOTHER Project here.

Preorders outside of Japan can be placed via CDJapan here.

The Music Of MOTHER - Front

New MOTHER arrangement vinyl album to be released by Columbia Japan

Columbia Japan have announced that they will be releasing a new arrangement album for the RPG MOTHER (rereleased as EarthBound Beginnings in the West). The arrangement is handled by original composer Keiichi Suzuki.

The release will be a 2LP, but currently there does not appear to be any further information about the packaging outside of the cover artwork (see at the bottom of this post).

It is priced at ¥6050 and is scheduled to release on January 27, 2021. It can be preordered from Amazon Japan here, HMV Japan here, and CDJapan here.

MOTHER Music Revisited - Front

Bayou Billy and repress of MOTHER 2 preorders from Ship To Shore PhonoCo. are up

Both have been teased for some time, but now they are up for preorder.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy by Konami Kukeiha club will be a 7″ on swamp green marble. It comes with a Japanese-style OBI and an 11″ x 17″ poster with art by Austin James and liner notes by Jeremy Parish. The sleeve features original art by Drew Wise.

The Yetee will have an exclusive variant on clear with “Alligator Blood” red splatter colored vinyl.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy will be the first in a new series of releases titled “Konami Kukeiha Club Museum Series”, which will showcase soundtracks from lesser known games. The next release after Bayou Billy will be the Famicom version of Kid Dracula, so stay tuned for more info on that one later.

The MOTHER 2 soundtrack repress will be the fifth variant available (although the first four was released simultaneously). It comes on “Meteor” yellow with red splatter colored vinyl, but is otherwise identical to its original release.

The Adventures Of Bayou Billy will be priced at $14 and is scheduled to release later this month.

It can be preordered from Ship To Shore PhonoCo. here, and people in Europe can order it from Vinyl-Digital in Germany here.

The Yetee variant can be ordered from The Yetee’s store here.

The MOTHER 2 repress is priced at $40 and can be ordered from Ship To Shore PhonoCo. here. It is scheduled to release around the end of the year.

MOTHER 2 & Bayou Billy - Mockups Bayou Billy - Yetee Variant Mockup

The MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back (aka. EarthBound) soundtrack is coming out on vinyl

Ship To Shore Phono Co. recently announced that copies of the MOTHER Arranged Soundtrack would go open for pre-orders for non-Kickstarter backers tomorrow (August 26), but today they revealed that it will do so alongside pre-orders for the soundtrack to MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back (known as EarthBound in the West).

The soundtrack by Hirokazu Tanaka & Keiichi Suzuki will be available in 4 different color variants: red/black swirl, blue/yellow split, hot spring pink, and good ol’ black.

Pre-orders for the MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back will go live on Ship To Shore Phono Co.’s own webstore tomorrow at 1PM EST. The MOTHER Arranged Soundtrack is set to be released in November, 2015 while the MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back soundtrack is set to be released early 2016.

MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back - Mockup