Motoi Sakuraba

Motoi Sakuraba (Japanese桜 庭 统, Sakuraba Motoi; * August 5, 1965 in Akita Prefecture ) is a Japanese musician and composer for computer games, TV and anime series.

Work

From 1983 to 1985 Sakuraba studied at Meiji University. There, the progressive rock band Deja Vu founded with him on keyboards and as a composer, the 1988 studio album Baroque in the Future brought out, but in 1989 disbanded again. In 1990 followed a solo album, which was recorded in a Top 40 List of Japanese prog albums from the music magazine eclipsed 2012.

In 1989 years Sakuraba was Wolf Team (later Namco Tales Studio), a development studio Namco Bandai hired. Sakuraba has composed for numerous games since then the company, but also for studios such as Camelot, tri -Ace or tri - Crescendo, which were established from ex-members of Wolf Team. Chris Person from Games magazine Kotaku called Sakuraba as one of the most prolific, hardest working composer and his oeuvre as "massive and consistent" ( German: "massive and resistant ").

Work

Computer Games

A list of games whose music Sakuraba composed alone or with others:

• Sol - Feace ( Sega Genesis, 1990, Wolf Team )
• Granada ( Genesis 1990, Wolf Team )
• Final Zone ( Genesis 1990, Wolf Team )
• Zan: Yasha Enbukyoku ( Genesis 1990, Wolf Team )
• El Viento ( Genesis 1991, Wolf Team )
• Earnest Evans ( Genesis 1991, Wolf Team )
• Arcus Odyssey ( Genesis, SNES, 1991, Wolf Team )
• Road Avenger ( Sega CD in 1993, Wolf Team )
• Curiosity: Umi to Kaze no Kodo (SNES 1993, Wolf Team )
• Devastator ( Sega CD in 1993, Wolf Team )
• Anett Futatabi ( Sega CD in 1993, Wolf Team )
• Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (SNES 1994, Wolf Team )
• Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Totsunyū - hen ( PC Engine in 1994, Wolf Team )
• Tales of Phantasia (SNES, PlayStation in 1995, Wolf Team )
• Star Ocean (SNES 1996, tri -Ace )
• Shining the Holy Ark ( Sega Saturn in 1996, Camelot )
• Tales of Destiny (PlayStation in 1997, Wolf Team )
• Hot Shots Golf (PlayStation in 1997, Camelot )
• Star Ocean: The Second Story (PlayStation in 1998, tri -Ace )
• Valkyrie Profile (Playstation 1999 tri-Ace )
• Mario Golf (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color in 1999, Camelot )
• Mario Tennis ( N64, Game Boy Color in 1999, Camelot )
• Star Ocean: Blue Sphere ( Game Boy Color 2001, tri -Ace )
• Golden Sun ( Game Boy Advance in 2002, Camelot )
• Tales of Symphonia ( GameCube, PlayStation 2 2003, Namco Tales Studio)
• Baten Kaitos: The wings of eternity and the Lost Ocean ( GameCube in 2003, tri - Crescendo )
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour ( GameCube, 2004, Camelot )
• Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (PlayStation 2 2004, tri -Ace )
• Mario Power Tennis ( GameCube in 2004, Camelot )
• Mario Golf: Advance Tour ( Game Boy Advance in 2004, Camelot )
• Tales of the Abyss (PlayStation 2 2005, Namco Tales Studio)
• Radiata Stories ( PlayStation 2 2005, tri -Ace )
• Mario Tennis: Power Tour ( Game Boy Advance in 2005, Camelot )
• Baten Kaitos Origins ( GameCube in 2006, tri - Crescendo )
• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth (PlayStation Portable 2007 tri-Ace )
• Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria (PlayStation 2 2007, tri -Ace )
• Soulcalibur Legends ( Wii 2007 Namco Tales Studio)
• Eternal Sonata (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 in 2008, tri - Crescendo )
• Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Wii 2008 Namco Tales Studio)
• Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume (Nintendo DS, 2008 tri-Ace )
• Tales of Vesperia (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 in 2009, Namco Tales Studio)
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, 2008 Sora )
• Half-Minute Hero (PlayStation Portable 2009)
• Resonance of Fate (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, 2010, tri -Ace )
• Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (Nintendo DS, 2010 Camelot )
• Dark Souls (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 in 2011, From Software )
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (Nintendo 3DS, 2012 Sora )
• Mario Tennis Open (3DS 2012 Camelot )
• Dark Souls 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC 2014, From Software )

Dorama

• Otenki Onee- san (1997)
• Tomei shōjo Air ( 1998)
• Cyber ​​Bishojo Teromea (1998)
• Sennen Okoku III Jushi Vanny Knights ( 1999)

Anime

• Saiyuki (2000-2001)
• Star Ocean EX (2001)
• Atashin'chi (2002-2009)
• White Cross Glow (2002)
• Umigame to shōnen (2002)
• Boken Yūki puff World (2003-2004)
• Tales of the Abyss (2008-2009)

Discography

• Deja vu: Baroque in the Future (1988, new edition 2011)
• Gikyokuonsou (戏曲 音 创, Gikyoku Onsō; 1990 solo album, new edition 2011)
• Force of Light ( 1998 solo album, new edition 2011)
• Forest of Glass ( 2008 solo album )
• After All ... ( 2011 solo album )
• What's Up? ( 2013 solo album )

Gikyokuonsou, Force of Light and What's Up? were also transferred to the French progressive rock label Musea.