{"id":51219,"date":"2026-05-10T05:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51219"},"modified":"2026-05-10T05:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:25:42","slug":"iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=51219","title":{"rendered":"iam8bit Recorded A Jazzy Persona Album For The Series&#8217; 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2167504\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/\" data-post-title=\"iam8bit recorded a jazzy Persona album for the series' 30th\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2167504\">\n<picture id=\"pce3b302a3d507e98484d1eeb97e8c9de\">&#13;<source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/intro-1778265287.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/intro-1778265287.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/intro-1778265287.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2167504\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/\" data-post-id=\"2167504\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"iam8bit recorded a jazzy Persona album for the series' 30th: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">iam8bit<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Iam8bit&#8217;s in-house music group, the Blueshift Big Band, has put together another franchise-specific record with the <em>Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album<\/em>, and pre-orders are live now through June 8. The\u00a0<em>Persona 30th Anniversary Jazz Album<\/em> comes in three flavors: a Translucent Purple vinyl exclusive to FYE, or a Blue Butterfly or classic black\u00a0version\u00a0from iam8bit and other stores. The purple FYE exclusive costs $40, while the other two cost $32, and copies will start shipping out in the final quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>All versions carry the same eight reimagined songs from the series&#8217; storied history, including &#8220;Heaven,&#8221; &#8220;Last Surprise&#8221; and &#8220;Aria of the Soul.&#8221; You can stream the full album from your preferred service right here, right now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heaven\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/avXxxCRFXU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The album features art by award-winning illustrator Mark Borgions, whose work is filled with mid-century magic. He also does the visuals on the Blueshift Big Band&#8217;s other albums in the <em>Joystick Jazz<\/em> series, which presents big-band covers of popular video game songs. There are three <em>Joystick Jazz<\/em> records and one EP. The first two volumes feature jazzified tracks from\u00a0<em>The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time<\/em>, <em>Grim Fandango<\/em>, <em>Kingdom Hearts 3<\/em> and other classics, while the third full album is Mario-specific. The Bonus Level vinyl has four songs from\u00a0<em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, <em>Final Fantasy<\/em>, <em>Sonic the Hedgehog<\/em>, and <em>DuckTales<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sega and Atlus are celebrating Persona&#8217;s 30th birthday in various ways this year, including pop-ups at conventions and, fittingly, a big-band concert tour across Asia in the summer (unrelated to iam8bit&#8217;s efforts). The next mainline Persona game\u00a0is still in development with no release date in sight. <em>Persona 4 Revival<\/em> is also in production and\u00a0hotly anticipated by longtime series fans (like 30 years long), and it&#8217;s\u00a0potentially, maybe targeting a release window of late 2026 to early 2027.<\/p>\n<p>As always, iam8bit has a large collection of Persona vinyl and lots of other video game treasures for sale, no waiting necessary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n<\/article>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2167504\/iam8bit-recorded-a-jazzy-persona-album-for-the-series-30th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13;&#13;&#13; &#13; iam8bit Iam8bit&#8217;s in-house music group, the Blueshift Big Band, has put together another franchise-specific record with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14835,7892,22385,22386,7441,5636,318],"class_list":["post-51219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-30th","tag-album","tag-iam8bit","tag-jazzy","tag-persona","tag-recorded","tag-series","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}