Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple

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series such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus, and was previously a member of the musical group

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Biography

Evan Call was born in California on June 29, 1988. As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with

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and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play the guitar and took lessons about

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from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese

and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. He joined the choir club when he entered high school. After graduating, Call enrolled at the

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, where he majored in film scoring. After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in

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. In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. Three months after his arrival, he was introduced to

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, a music creator working at

. After an interview with Fujita and a review of his music portfolio, he joined Elements Garden and began composing music in Japan in 2012, where he gained attention for his grand arrangements and impressive

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. After his employment, Call was introduced to Yōta Tsuruoka, a sound director at

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. Alongside Tsuruoka, Call began composing the soundtracks for the anime series ''

'' and ''

''. Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such as ''

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''. Call left Elements Garden on June 30, 2016, due to his contract expiring. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Japanese agency .

Works

Anime

Anime films

Video games

Television dramas

Live-action films

Television programs

Other involvements

References

External links

Official Miracle Bus profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Call, Evan 1988 births 21st-century American composers 21st-century American male musicians 21st-century American musicians American expatriates in Japan American film score composers American male film score composers American music arrangers American television composers Anime composers Berklee College of Music alumni Living people Male television composers Musicians from California