is a Japanese music composer and musician. She is most known for her various contributions to the ''
Bomberman
is a video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami. The original game, also known as ''Bakudan Otoko'' (''爆弾男''), was released in Japan in July 1983 and has since spawned multiple sequels and sp ...
'' series, amongst other
video game soundtracks
Video game music (or VGM) is the soundtrack that accompanies video games. Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations have led to ...
.
She has studied
ney
The ''ney'' ( fa, Ney/نی, ar, Al-Nāy/الناي), is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Persian music and Arabic music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. The ney has been played continually ...
performance and Tunisian style composition under professors Slah Manaa, Ali Sriti and Zakia Hannashi at l'Institut Superieur de la Musique de
, and studied riq under Haytham Farghaly of the same institute. She currently curates ''arab-music.com'', and has also made music for many TV shows, films, and commercials. She is also a part-time lecturer at Kokushikan University, and has since performed many concerts with the classical
Arabic music
Arabic music or Arab music ( ar, الموسيقى العربية, al-mūsīqā al-ʿArabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres. Arabic countries have many rich and varied styles of music and also man ...
ensemble Le Club Bachraf, with
oud
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* String instruments
*Necked bowl lutes
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, hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite chordophone sounded with a plectrum
, ...
player Yoshiko Matsuda and
darbuka
The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; arz, دربوكة / Romanized: ) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet- ...
player Takako Nomiya.
Musical style
Her soundtrack for ''
Bomberman Hero
is a platforming video game and the second ''Bomberman'' game for the Nintendo 64. It was originally planned as a ''Bonk''/''PC Kid'' game known as ''Ultra Genjin'', but became a Bomberman game during development.
A further departure from the ...
'' features
drum and bass
Drum and bass (also written as drum & bass or drum'n'bass and commonly abbreviated as D&B, DnB, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by fast breakbeats (typically 165–185 beats per minute) with heavy bass and sub-ba ...
and
acid techno
Acid techno, sometimes known generally as "acid", is a genre of techno that was derived from acid house and developed in Europe in the late 1980s to early 1990s. It saw younger artists apply the "squelching" synthesizer sound of Chicago acid hou ...
styles, heavily incorporating fast
breakbeats
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK ...
and
sub-bass
Sub-bass sounds are the deep, low-register pitches below approximately 70 Hz (C2 in scientific pitch notation) and extending downward to include the lowest frequency humans can hear, approximately 20 Hz (E0).
In this range, human hear ...
lines from the former genre.
Works
Video games
Anime
* ''
Bomberman B-Daman Bakugaiden
, commonly abbreviated as or ''BBB'', is a ''CoroCoro Comic'' series created by Koichi Mikata, based on Bomberman and B-Daman. An animated television series was created and originally broadcast on Nagoya TV and TV Asahi at 17:00. It was a ...
'' (1998)
Other works
*"Samai Bayati Al Aryan" on ''Music Design'' (1994) - with Le Club Bachraf
*"Ismael Hayat" on ''Ten Plants'' (1998)
*''Musique classique de Tunisie et d'Egypte'' (2000) - with Le Club Bachraf
*''Concert at Dar Rachidia'' (2013) - with Le Club Bachraf
*''Les Archives'' (2019)