also look up yoshihisa hirano he started off doing music for beyblade (quality of those recordings are garbo but its really hard to find the music he did for it cause if you search for "beyblade ost" its all the pop stuff) he also did hunter X hunter, ouran highschool host club, break blade and various others
and in the west if you listen to BBC radio 3... oh god all the modern composers they showcase are all fucking Benjamin Brittain school of plinky plonky shite by "insert diverse female composer here"
honestly they keep banging on about these contemporary classical composers that sound like shit and i'm sat here going japan and china have some of the best out there (seriously yu peng chen and the rest of hoyo mix have done some absolute bangers for genshin impact I know its Chinese but good artistry is good artistry) and if you want specifically female composers (because muh diversity) i know 100% that japan has more than enough
Damn, good old Zetsuen no Tempest. One of those diamonds in the rough it feels like no one talks about nowadays so it feels like you just had to be there paying attention when it aired.
Thanks for all the links, ill check them out later.
My contributions to this discussion:
Mephistopheles from the Dies Irae visual novel OST. IIRC its a metal version of part of Mozart's Requiem.
There were a couple others I was thinking of that jumped out of my mind while I was typing, but I will edit them in if they come to me later.
In short, music in the west is dead. Don't get me wrong, you can find all sorts of good shit done by less popular groups and individuals on the internet, but the popular is almost entirely shitty, soulless garbage.
look up michiru oshima
they did some great music for "blast of tempest" (a series with themes and characters based on tempest and hamlet) they did an orchestral arrangement of the third movement of Beethovens sonata no.17 I wish they had done the entire thing though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avmpoDwCiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzSw_ChYAFQ
and a couple more tracks
they also did the music for a series called "snow white with the red hair" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAY03Ly46A&list=PL7bwIieUCQQSwr-dozH2RvRhip_IWOCb3&index=1
and little witch academia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Y_nE1IIzY&list=PL74egpP-HXJ0y1Ks_UxBHAZmtZriUMu78
also look up yoshihisa hirano he started off doing music for beyblade (quality of those recordings are garbo but its really hard to find the music he did for it cause if you search for "beyblade ost" its all the pop stuff) he also did hunter X hunter, ouran highschool host club, break blade and various others
and in the west if you listen to BBC radio 3... oh god all the modern composers they showcase are all fucking Benjamin Brittain school of plinky plonky shite by "insert diverse female composer here"
honestly they keep banging on about these contemporary classical composers that sound like shit and i'm sat here going japan and china have some of the best out there (seriously yu peng chen and the rest of hoyo mix have done some absolute bangers for genshin impact I know its Chinese but good artistry is good artistry) and if you want specifically female composers (because muh diversity) i know 100% that japan has more than enough
edit: fuck it I'm back with more
SOUND FUCKING EUPHONIUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkKCY_pCPi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgIvgvvyKiA the soundtrack is a mixture of original pieces and arrangements of pre-existing work
spice and wolf, the majority of the soundtrack makes use of medieval instruments (crumbhorn etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68rGwmvn_8A&list=PLoMYI-vy6AgzjTh_9-oUPf8S1jeUyjhQA&index=3
Damn, good old Zetsuen no Tempest. One of those diamonds in the rough it feels like no one talks about nowadays so it feels like you just had to be there paying attention when it aired.
Thanks for all the links, ill check them out later. My contributions to this discussion:
Mephistopheles from the Dies Irae visual novel OST. IIRC its a metal version of part of Mozart's Requiem.
There were a couple others I was thinking of that jumped out of my mind while I was typing, but I will edit them in if they come to me later.
In short, music in the west is dead. Don't get me wrong, you can find all sorts of good shit done by less popular groups and individuals on the internet, but the popular is almost entirely shitty, soulless garbage.