FVCG-1010: The season of L part 2 Invisible Memories Original Sound Track

[Chris]

The BGM for this album was confirmed at CocoeBiz to be led by Hitoshi Sakimoto. Other Basiscape employees will contribute, but it's not known who yet (maybe the usual Iwata, Kaneda, Abe, Kamikura quartet but this may be the album debut of newbies Kudo and Chiba).

[Gigablah]

Takeshi Abo seems to be involved as arranger according to vendor sites, but I guess I'll wait for scans to surface.

[dancey]

I don't have a scanner but I can provide pics from my iPhone:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40726643/season1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40726643/season2.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40726643/season3.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40726643/season4.jpg

The credits don't make any sense at all. The columnar format has "Lyrics + Music", so I assume that they just put lyricists in that column, too, if they had them, and as far as I can tell, that's only for track 1 and 40. This matches accordingly to the printer lyrics with individual credits on the next two pages.

Track 40 is credited as having both Kazunari Ohno and Mitsuhiro Kaneda as arrangement on the track but the lyric credits only have Kazunari Ohno credited.

Additionally, the last "group" credit page confuses things even more. Track 1 says "Vocals + Chorus" as Yumi Matsuzawa, All Instruments by Hitoshi Sakimoto, so that makes both Yumi Matsuzawa and Hitoshi Sakimoto performers. Track 40 is listed here, too, but sans the "(Game Mix)" suffix, so I don't know if that holds significant. Vocals+Chorus listed as Ayumi Murata and All Instruments by Kazunari Ohno, so that makes Kazunari Ohno a performer, too. I wonder if "All Instruments" simply means composition and is a poor choice of words and is crediting them for the instrumentation via sampling/synth?

It then goes on to state BGM Tracks Mitsuhiro Kaneda, Kimihiro Abe, Azusa Chiba, Yoshimi Kudo, Noriyuki Kamikura (Basiscape), Takeshi Abo (5pb.).

I'm going to update the album info section with these credits, but the only new artists I'm going to link is Yumi Matsuzawa as a lyricist.

Old:

Hitoshi Sakimoto: 1, 2 (2 arranged by Mitsuhiro Kaneda)
Mitsuhiro Kaneda: 3, 8, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 27, 38, 39
Kimihiro Abe: 4, 9, 19, 22, 37
tokinhouse (arranged by Takeshi Abo): 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
Azusa Chiba: 10, 21, 25, 31
Yoshimi Kudo: 14, 20, 26, 28, 30
Noriyuki Kamikura: 23, 29

Track 1 performed by Yumi Matsuzawa, composed by Hitoshi Sakimoto
Track 40 performed by Ayumi Murata, composed by Kazunari Ohno & Mitsuhiro Kaneda

[CHz]

Originally Posted by dancey

The credits don't make any sense at all. The columnar format has "Lyrics + Music", so I assume that they just put lyricists in that column, too, if they had them, and as far as I can tell, that's only for track 1 and 40. This matches accordingly to the printer lyrics with individual credits on the next two pages.

I agree with your interpretation. Probably just did it to save space.

Originally Posted by dancey

Track 40 is credited as having both Kazunari Ohno and Mitsuhiro Kaneda as arrangement on the track but the lyric credits only have Kazunari Ohno credited.

Ohno is also the only one credited in the staff roll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVyEXIgop9Q#t=2m33s. I have no idea why Kaneda is listed there.

Originally Posted by dancey

Additionally, the last "group" credit page confuses things even more. Track 1 says "Vocals + Chorus" as Yumi Matsuzawa, All Instruments by Hitoshi Sakimoto, so that makes both Yumi Matsuzawa and Hitoshi Sakimoto performers. Track 40 is listed here, too, but sans the "(Game Mix)" suffix, so I don't know if that holds significant. Vocals+Chorus listed as Ayumi Murata and All Instruments by Kazunari Ohno, so that makes Kazunari Ohno a performer, too.

5pb tends to do that a lot: the lyrics page only lists composer, arranger, singer, and lyricist, and then the staff page lists the instrumentalists, engineers, etc. Some quick examples I found just scanning through some covers: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. I find that splitting pretty annoying, but it's what they do.

Originally Posted by dancey

I wonder if "All Instruments" simply means composition and is a poor choice of words and is crediting them for the instrumentation via sampling/synth?

I'm pretty sure it's just supposed to mean that there aren't any other performers who went unlisted; all the instruments in the piece were either performed or sequenced by the composer.

When there are other performers, sometimes you'll see "all other instruments" instead: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al...te%3Avgmdb.net.

[dissident93]

Isn't tonkinhouse just an alias/company for Takeshi Abo?

[CHz]

Nope. All the "tonkinhouse" tracks on this album are reprises from the first game, and Abo only arranged them. He wasn't involved with the first game.

The first game credits sound to Twofive and CUBE without being more specific.

[dissident93]

oh I see. didn't think to check the first game (wasn't even aware it had an OST either)