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WATARU HOKOYAMA

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      CommentAuthordgoldwas
    • CommentTimeDec 28th 2007
    Composer Wataru Hokoyama recently scored the new Sony Computer Entertainment game AFRIKA in Los Angeles with a 104-piece orchestra! Scoring session coverage is now up:
    http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=1114
    I consider a project a success when Thor says he won't buy it
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
    I am very interested in this. Can anyone comment on the music?
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthormoviescore
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
    Christodoulides wrote
    I am very interested in this. Can anyone comment on the music?


    Can't comment on this particular score, but I have a demo CD of his and I was very impressed by that one. A very promising composer with a strikingly rich orchestral style.

    mc
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeDec 29th 2007
    Great! Looking forward then!
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
    I only just discovered this now. Impressive. Any further news on Afrika, anyone? angelic
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      CommentAuthorBregt
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2008
    What so?
    Kazoo
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeAug 17th 2008
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      CommentAuthorSylvos
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2009
    There are some amazing clips on the composer's website.
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      CommentAuthorMarselus
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2009 edited
    Wataru Hokoyama will attend Úbeda 2009.
    Anything with an orchestra or with a choir....at some point will reach you
    • CommentAuthorAnthony
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2009
    Oh-hell-yes!

    Boy am I glad I bought Afrika! cheesy
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2009 edited
    When's a new Hokoyama score coming out!? I WANT IT! slant
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Around 2 months after the next John Williams' one comes out wink
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.
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      CommentAuthorMiya
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    When I heard Afrika main theme on Scoring Sessions, it reminded me of something... today I just noticed it's Kamen's Robin Hood. tongue

    But anyway I loved Hokoyama's theme. Quite exciting smile
    Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Miya wrote
    When I heard Afrika main theme on Scoring Sessions, it reminded me of something... today I just noticed it's Kamen's Robin Hood. tongue


    Really? Never made that connection myself. I've always thought it sounded very John Williamsy in the best possible way without being a direct rip of anything.
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      CommentAuthorMiya
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009 edited
    I don't think it's a rip off too. Just one little part of Robin Hood main theme has some similarity with the first part of Afrika theme.

    (at least to my ears wink)
    Labels are for cans, not people. - Anthony Rapp
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Certainly isn't a rip! I fail to see how it could be construed in any way as a rip, unless you count its style as a "rip" of John Williams' style. But I don't in the least. It's certainly similar to Williams' style, but how that's a bad thing is far beyond me I'm afraid. I can't imagine it's easy to compose something as dense, exciting and memorable as this!
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    It's one of the most memorable and catchy themes from last year indeed.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009 edited
    I'd go as far as saying it was the most memorable and catchy theme from last year... but then that's purely my own opinion. Others may have found Randy Edelman's theme for The Mummy 3 the most memorable and catchy. (Which it may very well be... still cheesy as fuck though.)
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      CommentAuthorDemonStar
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    I've not given Mummy 3 a second spin yet. tongue
  20. Edelman's tune is catchy, but was suitable for The Kiddy Mummy: Tomb of the Childish Emperor
    not for The Mummy 3

    as for Afrika; brilliant Williams'esque score punk
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    Edelman's tune is catchy, but was suitable for The Kiddy Mummy: Tomb of the Childish Emperor
    not for The Mummy 3


    biggrin

    An excellent way of putting it.
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    Edelman's tune is catchy, but was suitable for The Kiddy Mummy: Tomb of the Childish Emperor
    not for The Mummy 3


    Thank God Debney rescored a majority of the film.

    -Erik-
    host and executive producer of THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST | www.cinematicsound.net | www.facebook.com/cinematicsound | I HAVE TINNITUS!
  23. Erik Woods wrote
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    Edelman's tune is catchy, but was suitable for The Kiddy Mummy: Tomb of the Childish Emperor
    not for The Mummy 3


    Thank God Debney rescored a majority of the film.

    -Erik-


    indeed, now what would we have received if he was the only composer and on board from the beginning?
    LAIR revisited? shocked

    We'll never know shame
    waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!! Where's my nut? arrrghhhhhhh
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      CommentAuthorErik Woods
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2009
    Thomas Glorieux wrote
    indeed, now what would we have received if he was the only composer and on board from the beginning?
    LAIR revisited? shocked


    I think what he heard in the film is pretty close to what he would have delivered had he been the initial composer... with the addition of his own themes. Something along the lines of The Scorpion King minus rock music. Speaking of, that's a darn good score too with one of my favorite Debney's themes!

    -Erik-
    host and executive producer of THE CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO PODCAST | www.cinematicsound.net | www.facebook.com/cinematicsound | I HAVE TINNITUS!
  25. His "Afrika" pieces has already been adopted for wind ensemble concert:
    here and here.
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      CommentAuthormoviescore
    • CommentTimeMay 24th 2010
    Hokoyoama is a totally brilliant composer. I have been quite blown away by his cinematic concert pieces for wind orchestra. Check out his "Spiritual Planet" suite which I've featured in my new Spotify playlist "Cinematic Concert Contemporaries":

    http://open.spotify.com/user/moviescore … TRBnCA3zoe

    Cheers,

    mc
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeMar 8th 2014
    SOUL SACRIFICE, 2013

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_Ve8OxUPLg

    Is game music still inferior to film? Fucking awesome score: punk
    Love Maintitles. It's full of Wanders.

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