Elements Garden is a Japanese group of music

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s, or a "music production brand" as they call themselves. They generally produce music for

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and recording artists. They are attached to Aria Entertainment. The group was formed in 2004 by

Noriyasu Agematsu is a Japanese composer, arranger and music producer, as well as founding member of the musical group Elements Garden. He composed and arranged tracks on Nana Mizuki's singles ''Massive Wonders'' and '' Eternal Blaze'', ''"Brave Phoenix"'' ...

Junpei Fujita is a Japanese arranger and composer, and a founding member of Elements Garden. His work includes composition and arrangement of some tracks of singles and albums of Nana Mizuki including albums '' Hybrid Universe'', '' Ultimate Diamond'' and ''Imp ...

, Hitoshi Fujima and Daisuke Kikuta, former members of ''Feel'', a band of composers that similarly composed music for games and anime that disbanded shortly after Elements Garden's formation. Agematsu acts as the lead representative for the group. Elements Garden released their eponymous first album in August 2008, a compilation of various game theme songs produced over the past years. A second album, ''Tone Cluster'', was released the following year in September. Both albums were released under King Records.

Members

Current members

(上松範康) – ''founding member - leader'' *

(藤田淳平) – ''founding member'' * Hitoshi Fujima (藤間仁) – ''founding member'' * Daisuke Kikuta (菊田大介) – ''founding member'' * Seima Iwahashi (岩橋星実) – ''joined in 2011'' * Ryutaro Fujinaga (藤永龍太郎) – ''joined in 2014'' * Asuka Oda (織田あすか) - ''joined in 2015'' * Ryota Tomaru (都丸椋太) – ''joined in 2015'' * Yuta Kasai (笠井雄太) – ''joined in 2016'' * Yusuke Takeda (竹田祐介) – ''joined in 2017'' * Kotaro Shimoda (下田晃太郎) - ''joined in 2019'' * Seima Kondo (近藤世真) - ''joined in 2020'' * Yuki Hidaka (日高勇輝) – ''joined in 2020''

Former members

* Masato Nakayama (中山真斗) – ''joined in 2007; left in 2013'' * Haruki Mori (母里治樹) – ''joined in 2009; left in 2018'' * Tomohiro Kita (喜多智弘) – ''joined in 2011; left in 2016'' *

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– ''joined in 2012; left in 2016'' * Ryota Suemasu (末益涼太) – ''joined in 2014; left in 2019''

Discography

* ''Elements Garden'' (Released August 6, 2008) * ''Elements Garden II -TONE CLUSTER-'' (Released September 2, 2009) * ''Elements Garden III -phenomena-'' (Released September 22, 2010)

Artists Elements Garden has composed for

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References

External links

Aria Entertainment

Elements Garden
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