Kirite

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.

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