Motoi Sakuraba

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

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From 1983 to 1985 Sakuraba studied at Meiji University . There the progressive rock band Deja-Vu was founded with him on keyboard and as a composer, which released the studio album Baroque in the Future in 1988 , but dissolved again in 1989. In 1990 a solo album followed, which was included in a top 40 list of Japanese prog albums by the music magazine eclipsed in 2012.

In 1989 Sakuraba was employed by Wolf Team (later Namco Tales Studio), a development studio of Namco Bandai . Since then, Sakuraba has composed for numerous games of the company, but also for studios such as Camelot , tri-Ace or tri-Crescendo , which were founded from ex-members of Wolf Team. Chris Person from the game magazine Kotaku described Sakuraba as one of the most productive, hardest working composers and his oeuvre as “ massive and consistent ”.

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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 1993, Wolf Team) Curiosity: Umi to Kaze no Kōdō (SNES 1993, Wolf Team) Devastator (Sega CD 1993, Wolf Team) Anett Futatabi (Sega CD 1993, Wolf Team) Tenshi no Uta: Shiroki Tsubasa no Inori (SNES 1994, Wolf Team) Cosmic Fantasy 4: Ginga Shōnen Densetsu - Totsunyū-hen ( PC Engine 1994, Wolf Team) Tales of Phantasia (SNES, PlayStation 1995, Wolf Team) Star Ocean (SNES 1996, tri-Ace) Shining the Holy Ark ( Sega Saturn 1996, Camelot) Tales of Destiny (PlayStation 1997, Wolf Team) Hot Shots Golf (PlayStation 1997, Camelot) Star Ocean: The Second Story (PlayStation 1998, tri-Ace) Valkyrie Profile (PlayStation 1999, tri-Ace) Mario Golf ( Nintendo 64 , Game Boy Color 1999, Camelot) Mario Tennis (N64, Game Boy Color 1999, Camelot) Star Ocean: Blue Sphere (Game Boy Color 2001, tri-Ace) Golden Sun ( Game Boy Advance 2002, Camelot) Golden Sun : The Lost Age (Game Boy Advance 2002, Camelot) Tales of Symphonia ( GameCube , PlayStation 2 2003, Namco Tales Studio) Baten Kaitos: The Wings of Eternity and the Lost Ocean (GameCube 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 2004, Camelot) Mario Golf: Advance Tour (Game Boy Advance 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 2005, Camelot) Baten Kaitos Origins (GameCube 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 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 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 : The Dark Dawn (Nintendo DS 2010, Camelot) Dark Souls (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 2011, FromSoftware ) Kid Icarus: Uprising ( Nintendo 3DS 2012, Sora) Mario Tennis Open (3DS 2012, Camelot) Dark Souls 2 (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC 2014, FromSoftware )

Dorama Otenki Onee-san (1997) Tōmei Shōjo Air (1998) Cyber ​​Bishōjo Teromea (1998) Sennen Ōkoku III Jūshi Vanny Knights (1999) Anime Saiyuki (2000-2001) Star Ocean EX (2001) Atashin'chi (2002-2009) White Cross Glow (2002) Umigame to Shōnen (2002) Bōken Yūki Pluster World (2003-2004) Tales of the Abyss (2008-2009) Discography Deja-Vu: Baroque in the Future (1988, new edition 2011) Gikyokuonsou ( 戯曲 音 創 , Gikyoku Onsō ; 1990, solo album, new edition 2011) Force of Light (1998, solo album, reissue 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 published by the French progressive rock label Musea .

Web links

• Motoi Sakuraba at MobyGames (English)
• Motoi Sakuraba in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Motoi Sakuraba on MusicBrainz (English)
• Motoi Sakuraba on the Anime News Network (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Iván Melgar Morey: DEJA-VU. In: Progarchives.org. Retrieved June 23, 2013 . 
2. ↑ eclipsed No. 140, p. 55.
3. ↑ kotaku.com
4. ↑ Deja-Vu on the baby blue pages
5. ↑ バ ロ ッ ク ・ イ ン ・ ザ ・ フ ュ ー チ ャ ー . Diskunion, accessed June 27, 2013 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ Motoi Sakuraba on the baby blue pages
7. ↑ 戯曲 音 創 . Diskunion, accessed June 27, 2013 (Japanese). 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d} 桜 庭 統 の リ リ ー ス 一 覧 . Oricon , accessed June 27, 2013 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ フ ォ ー ス ・ オ ブ ・ ラ イ ト . Diskunion, accessed June 27, 2013 (Japanese). 
10. ↑ Motoi SAKURABA. Musea, accessed June 27, 2013 .