大島ミチル (Michiru Oshima)

[wat11]

As you might have guessed, I tend to start a thread here whenever I listen to someone I like and see that there is no thread for them. It's quite fun :)

Michiru Oshima

From Wikipedia: "Michiru Ōshima(大島ミチル Ōshima Michiru?, born March 16, 1961), is a Japanese composer who has worked on several video game, movie, and television titles. Her works include composition for the video games Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf for Super Nintendo,[1]Ico for PlayStation 2,[2]Legend of Legaia for the PlayStation (and its PlayStation 2 sequel, Legaia Duel Saga, for which she collaborated with eminent Japanese game composers Yasunori Mitsuda and Hitoshi Sakimoto), Arc the Lad III, and an orchestral arrangement of a Zelda medley for the Wii and Nintendo GameCube game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.[3] In addition to video game music, she has composed music for Godzilla vs. Megaguirus[4]and Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla[5] movies and scores for numerous anime television series, includingFullmetal Alchemist[6]"

Oshima is always a pleasure to listen. Her works are a true orchestral feast and very effective soundtrack music. She also uses vocals and ambient music and manages to create very precise, spot-on atmospheres.
Enjoy! Some of the music is hard to come by but here are some samples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQzDw1MG3kA
Zetsuen no Tempest OST: 10 Tempest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoJOvwYffw
Emotional OST of the Day No. 47.5: Blast of Tempest - ''Reminiscence''

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmnTX5ayzVs
Kazabue - Asuka's Theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUH46CObW4
Tsuisou (Fullmetal Alchemist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f16iMYn5Hmw
Requiem (Fullmetal Alchemist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ok3UgYZye8
Bratja (Fullmetal Alchemist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUE1f--Lfdc
Le chevalier D'eon - Seihen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPa2mjM_vPk
The Copy Cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQEYDQ_EQc
Sora no Woto OST: Destinée

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwVqjLVlyGE
Queen Emeraldas

 

[Martin]

Yay, finally! A thread dedicated to how great this lady is. I was absolutely enchanted by the Sora no Woto OST. It reminded me a lot of the Kou Ohtani's Haibane Renmei score at first actually.

I suppose Ms Oshima is one of those composers who deserves to be more well-known, but has yet to work on an 'A-list' production that gets wider recognition (I enjoyed Xam'd and the Fuse movie, but again...they're not massively popular, sadly). Even so, loads of people I know are huge fans of FMA (man, I really need to watch that someday), so where's the love, guys?!

Patema Inverted is a lot of fun too. There's a UK/European special edition of the blu-ray release on Kickstarter atm, and iirc they managed to get the OST bundled in as a stretch goal. It made my day when I was told that.

 

[Kugayama]

Official site:

www.michiru-oshima.net

 

[wat11]

hooked on : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyXupS88PU

from The Tatami Galaxy ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

 

[wat11]

a new anime project : Rokka no Yusha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokka_no_Yūsha
also Akagami no Shirayukihime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akagami_no_Shirayukihime

 

[wat11]

keep your eyes watchful for some new beautiful music.

 

[wat11]

while waiting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl6ZOjpX1io - Main theme Nabari No Ou

 

[wat11]

if you can, watch the animes that she is composing for. there are some lovely themes.

 

[wat11]

so good : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqM6Q8zMd8Q

also there are some new/old albums out there for those who are interested.

 

[wat11]

THISSSS!!!!!! http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=199634