Released March 23, 2000 Release date 23 March 2000 | Recorded 1999 Label FUTURELAND | |
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Length CD 1: 67:22
CD 2: 59:02 Genres Video game music, Instrumental | ||
Shenmue OST: Chapter 1: Yokosuka, or simply Shenmue OST, is a soundtrack album for the video game Shenmue. It was written largely by Sega's Japanese video game composer Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, while Yuzo Koshiro contributed fifteen songs to the soundtrack. It was released on March 23, 2000 by Toshiba EMI. The soundtrack was featured and performed live at the first Symphonic Game Music Concert in Leipzig, Germany in 2003.
Contents
The soundtrack features mainly music consisting of multi-instrumental tracks and a full symphonic orchestra, though it includes one vocal track sung in both Japanese and English.
Many of the soundtrack are featured in the first Shenmue game. For example, Wish... plays during the motorcycle scene after Ryo rescues Nozomi (Ryo's love interest) from the Mad Angels, Memories of Distant Days plays when Ryo remembers spending time with his father, Christmas on Dobuita Street its background music that plays while Ryo and Nozomi wanders Dobuita during Christmas time.
Track listing
Composed By Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Yuzo Koshiro, Takeshi Yanagawa, Osamu Murata, Ryuji Iuchi.
Arranged By: Yuzo Koshiro, Ryuji Iuchi, Nobuhiko Kashiwara.
Songs
1Shenmue~Sedge TreeTakenobu Mitsuyoshi3:58
2Shen Fa~Sedge FlowerRyuji Iuchi3:02
3Departure on a New TripTakenobu Mitsuyoshi6:20