Kirite

Kirite
Studio album by Yasunori Mitsuda
Released	May 18, 2005
Length	49:45
Language	Japanese
Label	Sleigh Bells
Producer	Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda chronology
Moonlit Shadow (2005) Kirite (2005) Near Death Experience: Shadow Hearts Arrange Tracks (2005)

Kirite[a] 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.[1]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Length
1.	"Is Kirite Burning?"		4:25
2.	"The Market in Volfinor"		4:28
3.	"Promise with Winds - Petal's Whereabouts"	Junko Kudo	4:51
4.	"The Forest of Lapis Lazuli"		3:19
5.	"The Azure"	Junko Kudo	5:27
6.	"Scorning Blade"		3:53
7.	"Upon the Melodies of the Moon"	Eri Kawai	2:02
8.	"The Fall of Darkness"		2:58
9.	"Nocturne"		2:33
10.	"As Autumn Passes Away"		3:40
11.	"The Snow Howling"		3:29
12.	"Prayer Tree"		2:10
13.	"The Name of Our Hope"	Junko Kudo	4:53
14.	"Circle of Eternity"		1:32

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

References

1. Stylized as kiЯitɘ

1. Sam Kennedy (2008-01-28). "Radical Dreamer: Yasunori Mitsuda's Interview from 1UP.com". 1UP.com. p. 3. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22. Retrieved 2008-07-25.

External links

• Kirite page at Yasunori Mitsuda's website
• Kirite official website (in Japanese)