Music of the Front Mission series

Ryō Yamazaki (Japanese山崎 良, Ryo Yamazaki, born July 1, 1972 in Niigata Prefecture ) is a Japanese synthesizer programmer who occasionally came into existence as a composer. After a period at Jaleco, he worked for DigiCube until he hired at Square Enix.

Life

Yamazaki grew up in Niigata and studied piano at the University of Niigata.

Career

In 1996 he started the company Jaleco to work. There he occupied himself with composition, sound design and editing voices of video game characters. There was a project as a composer, Synthesize operator and sound designer for the PlayStation title Dragon Seeds with Kenichi Arakawa.

In 1999 he began a close collaboration with Masashi Hamauzu for the music of the game SaGa Frontier 2 Here he revised the first classical music acting with some eccentric marks, indicating what was artistically feasible with video game music. Around the same time he managed to implement the desired Yasunori Mitsuda of particularly convincing guitar sound for Chrono Cross. Furthermore, it was sung at his suggestion the song Soaring Wings for Final Fantasy Mio Kashiwabara. He previously taught at the University of Tokyo experience.

After these projects, he was an established Operator synthesizer. He continued to work on Playstation 2 titles. So he revised Yoko Shimomuras popular score for Kingdom Hearts.

After minor contributions for Final Fantasy XI Rise of the Zilart and Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix the title Front Mission appeared 4, Front Mission Online, and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, although otherwise rather the composer reap the fame, succeeded by Yamazaki his power to be known in the industry. Through his music, he tries to bring into the game a very realistic atmosphere. In Front Mission Online, he contributed little and let Hidenori Iwasaki and Tsuyoshi Sekito priority.

Lately, he made more smaller contributions in order to establish wider than electropop artist.

The recent release of his involvement is LORD of VERMILION Re: 2 FAN KIT, published on August 9, 2011.

Discography

  • Chocobo 's Dungeon 2 (1998)
  • Legend of Mana ( 1999) Takeharu Ishimoto with, Hidenori Iwasaki and Hirosato Noda
  • Chrono Cross (1999)
  • Final Fantasy X ( 2001) Takeharu Ishimoto and Keiji Kawamori with
  • Kingdom Hearts (2002)
  • Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart (2003) by Hidenori Iwasaki undHirosato Noda
  • Musashi: Samurai Legend ( 2005)
  • Heroes of Mana ( 2007)
  • Dragon Seeds ( 1998) - with Kenichi Arakawa
  • Racing Lagoon ( 1999) with Noriko Matsueda and Takahito Eguchi
  • Front Mission 4 (2003) by Hidenori Iwasaki
  • Front Mission Online ( 2005) by Hidenori Iwasaki
  • Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006) by Masashi Hamauzu
  • Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (2009) - with Hidenori Iwasaki and Kumi Tanioka
  • Final Fantasy XIII ( 2009) - with Junya Nakano, Toru Tabei Mitsuto Suzuki and
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