Azusa Chiba

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  Dragon’s Crown Pro – Soundtrack (Review)

  May 29, 2018 | Harry Gill | 1 Comment Share this Dragon’s Crown Pro – Soundtrack (Review)

  

  Dragon’s Crown has a score done solely by Hitoshi Sakimoto (something you only get with Valkyria Chronicles nowadays) and it boasted a cultural and western score – much different than what I was expecting at the time. Personally, it was never one of my favourites – but I treated the news about the live orchestration as a chance for the music to redeem itself.

  This time with a live orchestra, done by the same arrangers for FINAL FANTASY XII: The Zodiac Age’s revamping, does Dragon’s Crown’s score hold up?

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  Matron Maestras – Azusa Chiba (Spotlight)

  April 20, 2018 | Harry Gill | 1 Comment Share this Matron Maestras – Azusa Chiba (Spotlight)

  

  This article is another entry into the Matron Maestras series, a collection of articles which focus on women composers in the vgm industry.

  Today I’ll be talking about Azusa Chiba, one of the composers working for Hitoshi’s Sakimoto’s Basiscape – where her works are scattered across her colleagues – she tends to focus on orchestrating and arranging material for Basiscape. She’s also plays the piano, where she did some piano arrangements for Sakimoto’s work in Valkyria Chronicles and Dragon’s Crown. She has had plenty of time to shine in works like Muramasa: The Demon Blade, and Oh! Samurai Girls. (more…)

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