{"id":1086,"date":"2026-01-20T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2026-01-23T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T22:30:10","slug":"the-white-mages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/?p=1086","title":{"rendered":"The White Mages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am overjoyed to announce a new project \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/idol-io.ffm.to\/odetofinalfantasy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/idol-io.ffm.to\/odetofinalfantasy\">The White Mages<\/a> \u2014 devoted exclusively to the music of Final Fantasy. This one is for the nerds. I&#8217;ve been secretly obsessed with the music of these video games for years, and finally decided I don&#8217;t want it to be a secret any more. Show the world what you love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/idol-io.ffm.to\/odetofinalfantasy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/White-Mages-FAAW-01-2048x2048.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Artwork by Conor Smyth at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backbarstudios.com\/\">Backbar Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we release the first single, one of the most iconic tracks from the series \u2014 The Prelude \u2014 such a beautiful piece of music, and so fun to learn on the piano. Join The White Mages on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/White_Mages\/\">Reddit<\/a> if you want to nerd out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full album \u2018Ode to Final Fantasy\u2019 out March 20, with a few more singles to drop in the meantime. Half of all profits from this album will be donated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msf.ie\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=23090879505&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23090879505&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA7LzLBhAgEiwAjMWzCM_e9mkUtevqwRDEB2hVh0znaUq1LDJcTpeuS9dagC3ZMT3T7gJN2xoCoaMQAvD_BwE\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for anyone here in January, just a quick reminder about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/?p=1074\">this very special performance<\/a> coming up in Utrecht (The Netherlands) on January 30:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nederlandsvioolconcours.nl\/nacht-van-de-viool\/cva-first-year-strings-met-peter-broderick\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"651\" height=\"868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Poster-Utrecht.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Poster-Utrecht.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Poster-Utrecht-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am overjoyed to announce a new project \u2014 The White Mages \u2014 devoted exclusively to the music of Final Fantasy. This one is for the nerds. I&#8217;ve been secretly<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/?p=1086\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterbroderick.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}