Neon Genesis Evangelion - "Rei I" [Piano Cover] || DS Music

Evangelion 3.0+1.0 just released in Japan! To celebrate Neon Genesis Evangelion finally reaching its epic conclusion, I wanted to take a look back at the beginning with one of the first tracks heard in the soundtrack, "Rei I" from the original NGE anime series.
Stream on Spotify: [Coming soon]
Sheet music: [Coming soon]
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Pack your bags, I'm now an anime pianist.
Weeb pianist jokes aside, the story of how I got to posting this today is actually a pretty interesting one. Back in like December when winter break was starting, one of my friends got me into watching Neon Genesis Evangelion with a couple other Eva newbies. Long story short, I really really liked the story, world-building, art-direction, and especially the characters and themes (for those of you wondering who's my favorite waifu, we're Kaworu stans in this household 😤). However, one of the things that really stuck with me as a musician was the soundtrack. Shiro Sagisu has this very poignant style that intricately and masterfully weaves between being upbeat/jazzy/smooth and then contrasting with very humanistic/touching songs. One of those tracks that I especially liked was this track that plays in a mysterious moment in the first episode, and the pops up here and there throughout the series until it makes one last ominous return at the end of End of Evangelion. The way it evolves throughout the series just colors the mystery of Eva's premise so well, even with a such a seemingly simple and repetitive chord progression.
Watching Eva has also been getting me into more Hideaki Anno related things along with other classic staples of Japanese media such as Godzilla and maybe Gundam one day. Not saying that I'm gonna become an anime pianist... but it is tempting 🤔
So while we wait for months to finally get the last Evangelion Rebuild movie released to us filthy casual Americans (or until a cam rip of the movie pops up...), I hope you enjoy this haunting and chilling piano theme that I feel goes a bit under-appreciated in the Evangelion OST! I'll be back with more video game music next week, so stay tuned.
Your pianist,
DS
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Anime name: Neon Genesis Evangelion
Song title: Rei I
Original composer: Shirō Sagisu
Arrangement by: DS Music
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🎤Equipment used:
Electric keyboard: Yamaha P-80
Piano VST: Garritan Abbey Road Studios CFX Concert Grand
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DAW: Logic Pro X
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Video Software: Adobe Premiere Pro
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[@yonopoyx209]

Ree I this is super emotional, well done br0th3r

[@cashwarior]

Wow that was awesome!

[@jakeasterisk]

Amazing job

[@seasaltlover]

This is so good. The parts where you go hard on the keyboard are so thrilling

[@Soundole]

Lovely work mate! Giving me flashbacks to practising this banger nearly 20 years ago, on my five-octave keyboard, from a questionable midi I found online :)

[@DSMusic394]

Glad you liked it! Didn't expect you to be an Eva fan haha, getting less than stellar MIDIs from random places online is a mood tho

[@ч_без_с]

beautiful! can you play rei 3, please?

[@DSMusic394]

I'll put it on my list with Misato's theme and Hedgehog's Dilemna haha, there's too many good Eva songs