Motoi Sakuraba

[the_original_ib]

Some of those Sakurabas (like Shining the Holy Ark) were pretty tough to find a few years back. I wonder if they are any easier to locate now.

[Elric68]

Some like Valkyrie Profile, Tales of Symphonia or Baten Kaitos are quite easy to find, but if you're looking for a Shining The Holy Ark copy, for instance, good luck, it took me weeks to get one and it was quite expensive (about 40€).

I agree Hawk, some of his game soundtracks are great. I enjoy Shining the Holy Ark, Tales of Symphonia or Baten Kaitos OST. Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile are less interesting. His works for the anime Saiyuki also contain some great progressive songs. I also have a special prog/heavy remix very difficult to find (and unofficial I guess) with some remixes of his songs by other artists or by himself. Great music here, stunning remix of his "Fighting of the Spirit".

P.S: makes me think that there are lots of interesting game soundtracks/remixes that would fit for the Moon: for an example, Chrono Cross OST (Yasunori Mitsuda) or the Square Vocal Collections (lots of celtic influences) with Joanne Hogg from Iona on the vocals (!!! did you know that ?). There are lots of other examples but these are the ones that come up first I guess.