Kirite
Kirite is a 2005 album composed by Yasunori Mitsuda based on The Five Seasons of Kirite, a story by Masato Kato. Unlike their other previous major collaborations like Chrono Trigger, Xenogears and Chrono Cross, Kirite was never developed and published as a video game, but published as musical album bundled with Masato Kato's story text in Japanese and a collection of artistic nature photographs. The music of Kirite incorporates Celtic music, jazz and ambient noise 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.Personnel
- Yasunori Mitsuda – composer, sound programming, piano
- Masato Kato – story
- Junko Kudo – lyrics
- Eri Kawai – vocals, lyrics, piano
- Haruo Kondo – "early instruments"
- Akihisa Tsuboy – violin
- Tomohiko Kira – guitar, bouzouki
- Hitoshi Watanabe – bass guitar
- Kinya Sogawa – shinobue, shakuhachi
- Laurie Sogawa – tin whistle
- Hidenobu Ootsuki, Yutaka Odawara – drum kit
- Tamao Fujii – percussion
- Masumi Takahashi – photos