Composer: Yosuke Kaneiwa (Wangzhi)
Arranger: Kousuke Matsuoka (eki)
Album downloadable for free at Alpha Secret Base (click the “ETC.” tab and then the “かいてんパティシエ！ オリジナルサウンドトラック” link in the soundtrack section)
I listened to one more Alpha Secret Base soundtrack: Kaiten Patissier!, a puzzle platformer where you need to collect all the sweets in a level and you can rotate the screen 90 degrees to help you get around. The soundtrack was solo composed by Yosuke Kaneiwa, and I’m not going to do a full post about it because it would just be me saying “I did not enjoy it,” so instead we’ll just talk about the reason I listened to it, which is that it has an arranged track by Kousuke Matsuoka on it.
If you couldn’t tell from the funny classical music title the piece has, this is a straight orchestral piece; since there hasn’t been much straight orchestral music in these ASB works by eki despite that being a major focus of his professional career, it felt right to post about it specifically. It’s a medley arrangement, so a concert overture is a cute way to way to justify that approach. Also, medleys are really just prog, if you think about it. (No, don’t actually think about that for very long, I know I overuse the word “prog” almost to the point of incoherence.)
It’s pleasant enough. I didn’t really feel like it improved or recontextualized any of the original pieces to the point where I’m a fan of them now, but it’s fine, and I definitely preferred Matsuoka’s takes on the originals over the originals. The orchestration isn’t super complex most of the time, but there are some nice bits here and there, like 0:30-0:50 and 3:10-3:43. My favorite part of the medley is, naturally, the fucky section at 4:25 when it suddenly gets all over the place; you know the word I really want to use to describe that, but I’ll be good after the last paragraph.
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