''Kirite'' is a 2005 album composed by

Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer and musician. He is best known for his work in video games, primarily for the '' Chrono'', '' Xeno'', '' Shadow Hearts'', and '' Inazuma Eleven'' franchises, among various others. Mitsuda began composing music for his own ...

based on ''The Five Seasons of Kirite'', a story by

Masato Kato is a Japanese people, Japanese video game Game art design, artist, scenario writer and Video game producer, director. In the early days of his career, he was credited under the pseudonyms of "Runmaru" and "Runmal". He then joined Square (video ga ...

. Unlike their other previous major collaborations like ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', ''Kirite'' was never developed and published as a video game, but published as musical album bundled with Masato Kato's story text in

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and a collection of artistic nature photographs. The music of ''Kirite'' incorporates

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and

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influences.

Story

"The Five Seasons of Kirite" by Masato Kato set inside a world of magic and fantasy, tells the story of a boy by the name Kirite, a girl by the name Kotonoha and a darkness by the name Orochi. When those three would meet, the world would silently start to go mad.

Creation

Yasunori Mitsuda and Masato Kato devised the concept of ''Kirite'' in 2003.

Track listing

Personnel

– composer, sound programming,

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

– story * Junko Kudo –

lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, ...

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–

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s, lyrics, piano * Haruo Kondo – "early instruments" * Akihisa Tsuboy –

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

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–

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

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* Hitoshi Watanabe –

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* Kinya Sogawa –

shinobue The ''shinobue'' (kanji: 篠笛; also called ''takebue'' (kanji: 竹笛) in the context of Japanese traditional arts) is a Japanese transverse flute or fue that has a high-pitched sound. Usage It is found in hayashi and nagauta ensemb ...

shakuhachi A is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo. The bamboo end-blown flute now known as the was developed in Japan in the 16th century and is called the .

* Laurie Sogawa –

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, Yutaka Odawara –

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* Tamao Fujii –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

* Masumi Takahashi –

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References

External links

''Kirite''
page at Yasunori Mitsuda's website * {{Authority control 2005 albums Yasunori Mitsuda albums