Kingdom Hearts II Original Soundtrack

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Kingdom Hearts II Original Soundtrack

Soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura
Released	January 25, 2006 (Japan)
Recorded	Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall
Genre	Video game soundtrack
Length	2:28:47
Label	Toshiba EMI
Producer(s)	Yoko Shimomura
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Kingdom Hearts II Original Soundtrack (キングダムハーツII　オリジナル・サウンドトラック, Kingudamu Hātsu Tsū Orijinaru Saundotorakku^?) is the soundtrack album of the video game music from the action role-playing game, Kingdom Hearts II, produced by Square Enix and Disney Interactive for the PlayStation 2 video game console. The album contains musical tracks from the game, composed and produced by Yoko Shimomura, with the main orchestral tracks arranged by Kaoru Wada and performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic. Vocals were performed by Utada Hikaru for the theme song, Passion. The soundtrack was released in Japan on the January 25, 2006 with a price of ¥3,200 bearing the catalog number TOCT-25871~2. In its first week the soundtrack reached #34 on Oricon charts and sold 7,941 copies.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Disc one (1:14:28)
- 1.2 Disc two (1:14:19)
2 Additional information
3 Credits/Staff
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one (1:14:28)

"Dearly beloved " – 2:22
"Passion (KINGDOM orchestra instrumental version)" – 3:41
"Passion (opening version)" (Utada Hikaru) – 4:26
"Lazy afternoons" – 1:40
"Sinister sundown" – 1:14
"The escapade" – 1:17
"Dive into the heart -Destati-" – 1:49
"Fragments of sorrow" – 1:16
"Tension rising" – 1:34
"Kairi" – 0:54
"Missing you" – 1:53
"The 13th struggle" – 1:44
"Roxas" – 1:18
"Sora" – 1:29
"The afternoon streets" – 1:36
"Working together" – 1:30
"Friends in My Heart" – 1:01
"Magical mystery" – 0:52
"A Twinkle in the sky" – 0:57
"Reviving Hollow Bastion" – 2:08
"Scherzo di notte" – 1:19
"Laughter and Merriment" – 1:06
"Desire for all that is lost" – 1:26
"Organization XIII" – 1:22
"Getting up" – 0:58
"Shipmeisters' shanty" – 2:00
"Blast off!" – 0:39
"Asteroid attack" – 1:16
"Crossing the finish line" – 0:41
"Waltz of the diamond" – 1:07
"Dance of the daring" – 1:04
"Hesitation" – 1:10
"Dance to the death" – 1:47
"Beauty and the Beast" – 0:46
"The home of dragons" – 1:32
"Fields of honor" – 1:16
"Apprehension" – 1:17
"Vim and vigor" – 1:28
"Cloudchasers" – 1:39
"Olympus coliseum" – 1:39
"The Underworld" – 1:23
"What lies beneath" – 1:29
"Villains of a sort" – 0:53
"Rowdy rumble" – 1:32
"Mickey Mouse Club March" – 1:15
"A walk in Andante" – 0:55
"Monochrome dreams" – 1:04
"Old friends, old rivals" – 0:56
"Floating in bliss" – 1:31
"Winnie the Pooh" – 1:38
"Bounce-o-rama" (Speed Up Version) – 1:39

[edit] Disc two (1:14:19)

"Isn't it lovely?" – 1:42
"Let's sing and dance!" – 0:30
"Swim this way" – 2:21
"Part of your world" – 1:47
"Under the sea" – 2:05
"Ursula's revenge" – 2:15
"A new day is dawning" – 2:09
"Nights of the cursed" – 1:56
"He's a pirate" – 1:29
"The Corrupted" – 1:21
"Hazardous highway" – 1:12
"A Day in Agrabah" – 1:51
"Arabian Dream" – 1:35
"This is halloween" – 1:26)
"Spooks of Halloween Town" – 1:20
"Adventures in the savannah" – 1:49
"Savannah pride" – 1:20
"The encounter" – 1:49
"Space paranoids" – 1:42
"Byte bashing" – 1:20
"Sinister shadows" – 1:12
"The 13th dilemma" – 1:59
"Showdown at Hollow Bastion" – 0:48
"One-winged angel (from Final Fantasy VII)" – 2:12
"Battleship bravery" – 1:42
"Sacred moon" – 2:06
"Deep drive" – 1:38
"Riku" – 1:16
"Courage" – 0:53
"Disappeared" – 2:22
"A Fight to the death" – 2:04
"Darkness of the unknown" – 4:36
"Passion (after the battle)" (Utada Hikaru) – 5:59
"Fantasia alla marcia for piano, chorus, and orchestra" – 7:45
"Destiny islands" – 1:10
"Hand in hand" – 0:40
"Sunset horizons" – 1:30
"Dearly beloved (Reprise)" - 1:28

[edit] Additional information

Some of the songs in the game for example, "Scherzo Di Notte", were derived from the soundtrack of Kingdom Hearts but with new arrangements. The artwork for the soundtrack was designed by Tetsuya Nomura. The soundtrack includes two vocal songs, Passion ~opening version~ and Passion ~after the battle~ which is a slower version of the opening. Both are sung, written and set to tunes by J-Pop singer, Utada Hikaru. Other vocal songs are Swim This Way, Part of Your World, Under the Sea, Ursula's Revenge, and A New Day is Dawning; however, these songs are given improper credits and the singers are not listed. Like the prequel, the game also has the "One-Winged Angel" track from Final Fantasy VII composed by Nobuo Uematsu with new arrangements by Yoko Shimomura used during the battle with Sephiroth, but this time it is featured on the soundtrack CDs, unlike on the prequel's CDs.

Although improperly credited, it can be speculated that KAZCO (or Kazco Hamano), former chorus singer for the band Do As Infinity, provided some of the chorus parts for the vocal songs from the Atlantica world. Her name is listed in the ending credits of Kingdom Hearts II and also in the special thanks section in the OST booklet.

The soundtrack also credits the Disney music composers for the Disney based music taken whom are

Jimmie Dodd for the song Mickey Mouse Club March
Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman for the song Winnie The Pooh
Danny Elfman for the song This is Halloween
Geoff Zanelli, Klaus Badelt & Hans Zimmer for the song He's a Pirate
Alan Menken for the songs Under the Sea, Part of Your World (both from the 1988 film "The Little Mermaid") and Beauty and The Beast

The ending credits of the North American version of the game credits the same music composers for additional songs in the game. They are:

Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman for the song The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers and Whoop-De-Dooper Bounce.
The Kingdom Hearts II OST also won "Best Soundtrack" in G4's 2006 video game awards.

[edit] Credits/Staff

Composer: Yoko Shimomura
Orchestral Arrangements: Kaoru Wada
Piano: Shinko Ogata
Strings: Masatsugu Shinozaki Group
Flute: Takashi Asahi & Nami Kaneko
Oboe: Satoshi Shoji & Gaichi Ishibashi
Clarinet: Satoshi Kobayashi & Kimio Yamane
Horns: Masato Yoshinaga, Masato Abe, Otohiko Fujita, Mayumi Anduchi, Taro Shimoda & Tsutomu Isohata
Percussion: Marie Oishi & Mari Kotake
Harp: Tomoyuki Asakawa
Saxophone: Hitoshi Ohori
Basoon: Masashi Maeda & Masao Oosawa
Trumpet: Shigeo Okura, David Herzog, Yoshikaza Kubo, Jyunichiro Sugiki & Kazuhiko Ichikawa
Trombone: Kouichi Akiyama, Kenji Nishiyama, Ryota Fujii, Akira Kuwata & Hiroyuki Odagiri
Bass Trombone: Kou Okumura
Tuba: Kiyoshi Sato & Shinpei Tsugita
Timpani: Midori Takada
Quena: Takashi Asahi
Guitarist: Hiroshi Imaizumi
Chorus: MUSICCREATION
Recording and Mixing Engineer: Masahiro Yamada
Synthesizer Operator: Takeharu Ishimoto for SQUARE ENIX
Sound Programmer: Hitoshi Ohori for SQUARE ENIX

Music composed by Yoko Shimomura
Music produced by Yoko Shimomura, Akitoshi Nakata (for BUENA VISTA MUSIC GROUP), Takashi Okamoto (for BUENA VISTA MUSIC GROUP) & Masayuki Tanaka (for SQUARE ENIX)
Music recorded at Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall & Avaco Creative Studio Inc.
Yoko Shimomura Thanks to
- Hitoshi Ohori(Soprano Saxophone Play), Tsuyoshi Sekito(Guitar Play), Keiji Kawamori(Bass Play), Masashi Hamauzu, Kazco Hamano, Kaoruko Iwase, Noriko Iwahara & Sachiko Ikoma