Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Piano cover of "The Keepers", the title theme from Rakuen. Original song by Laura Shigihara. Cover arranged and performed by KMADS Music.

Laura Shigihara (@supershigi on here) was one of the first YouTube cover artists I watched years ago, back before I had a YouTube channel of my own, and I always really admired her covers and her original compositions. I bought Rakuen as soon as it came out since she developed it and wrote all the music. Playing this game was such a special and emotional experience, and I feel so nostalgic thinking about it. It's a beautiful and meaningful game, and I encourage you to check it out if you haven't played it yet!

I made my first version of this cover after playing the game in 2018, but of course I never posted it since I didn't have a channel back then. This is a revamped version of that arrangement. It requires 2 pianos since I didn't want to give up any of those beautiful layers in the original version. This is one of my favorite title themes of all time, so I really hope I did it justice!

I was inspired by @willimakemusic's cover of "Build a Little World with Me" a while back. Of course I procrastinated for almost a year, but I finally started working on my Rakuen covers! Check out his lovely version here:
youtube.com/watch?v=UegKC9rkKEc

I hope you enjoy this arrangement! I have a few more Rakuen covers in the works as well as a few different Xenoblade projects in progress. I'm really excited to share this all with you :).

Rakuen Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt8MGESHJ3-J4SYylWTTEYvK-dGULKOcM&si=LqkeALjb90edD8fE

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