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.
Track listing
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