As I continue my struggle to re-acquire a working iPod, I been browsing through albums of mine that happen to be on Youtube. While listening to music at work the other day, I got through most of the excellent soundtrack to Kessen, yet another Koei strategy game. Kessen, like Nobunaga's Ambition, is based on the Sengoku period of Japan, although it focuses mostly on the latter two unifiers of Japan, Hideyoshi Toyotomi and Ieyasu Tokugawa.
The music is composed by Reijiro Koroku, who I first encountered via his soundtrack to the 1984 Godzilla reboot. I enjoyed the music of Kessen immediately upon listening to it, but my most recent listen has made me appreciate it even more. Every song on the soundtrack is excellent, and Reijiro uses recurring themes very well, sometimes as standalone pieces, other times mixing two or three together for a more cinematic piece. "Western Army" is one of the main themes that occurs in the game, the western army itself being the Toyotomi clan and that of his heirs. This is the standalone version of that theme, with a bit more development than its other instances. I especially like the strings section at 0:29, which is unique to this track. Enjoy!
Album info: http://vgmdb.net/album/350
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