Adventures

About Adventures

Adventures is the eighth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, then known as The Square. It was released on April 1, 1984.

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Adventures is the eighth studio album by Japanese jazz fusion band T-Square, then known as The Square. It was released on April 1, 1984.

Released before T-Square would have some of its members, themselves, go on to write and record music for video games (such as Mario Kart 8, both the Arc The Lad and Gran Turismo franchises), this album served as inspiration for game composers at the time of its release. It features the track "Sister Marian", which has been noted for its similarities to the Super Mario Bros. theme composed by Koji Kondo for the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros.; in a 2001 interview, Kondo cited T-Square as an influence on his compositions. The album also features "Travelers", which inspired Guile's Theme from the 1991 game, Street Fighter II. While this album set the tone for video-game music then-to-come, it also drew inspiration from western pop music, with "Jubilee" sharing a similar groove to The Jacksons' "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)".

Contents

Track listing

Sources

Personnel

The Square

Masahiro Andoh: Electric and acoustic guitars

Takeshi Itoh: Alto saxophone, Lyricon

Hirotaka Izumi: Piano, synthesizers

Toyoyuki Tanaka: Electric bass and Synth-bass (on Jubilee)

Tohru Hasebe: Drums

Additional personnel

Keiko Yamakawa: Harp

Kanesaki Group: Horns

Strings by the Nakanishi Ensemble

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Notable quotes

“Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.”
— Mircea Eliade, in Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.”
— Edwin Hubble, "The Exploration of Space", Harper's Magazine, Volume 158 (May 1929), p. 732
“Adventures never happen now-a-days; there are neither knights nor highwaymen; no lonely heaths, with gibbets, for finger-posts; no hope of even a dangerous rut, or a steep hill; romance and roads are alike macadamised; no young ladies are either run away with, or run over; —”
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol. I Chapter 3
“The potential for adventure makes life worth living.”
— Vicki Garside, from MakeTimeToSeeTheWorld.com (2019)
“Qui ne s'adventure n'a cheval ny mule, ce dist Salomon.—Qui trop, dist Echephron, s'adventure—perd cheval et mule, respondit Malcon.”
— He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.—Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,—loses horse and mule, replied Malcon.

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