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Message from Yoko Shimomura composer of The 3rd Birthday Soundtrack  :

 

Hello, I’m Yoko Shimomura.

The 3rd Birthday is a title about Aya Brea from Parasite Eve (of which I was formerly in charge). I helped compose the music (for this game) and it was really a great honor. While thinking of the nuance of the previous song, looking at how my own style has and hasn’t changed over the last 10 years, and while thinking I wanted to write a “cool” and “hot” song, I wrote this. Please enjoy “The 3rd Birthday”, which the three of us (Suzuki-san and Sekito-san) worked to deliver, as you play the game.

 
 
 

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Parasite Eve fans have languished during the decade-long absence of Square’s bizarre science-horror RPG series. The third installment, The 3rd Birthday, is set to arrive in North America on March 29 exclusively on PSP.  While we wait for the game its time to relax and enjoy the soundtrack that has already been released in a 3 disc box.

 

The soundtrack features composition work from Yoko Shimomura, Mitsuto Suzuki and Tsuyoshi Sekito. The three posted brief comments at the soundtrack official site. Sekito revealed that his participation involved work on battle background music. Suzuki said that the music on the soundtrack has been reedited to include sections of the music that were cut from the game due to memory issues. – Andriasang

 

During previous interviews Shimormura has talked about the whole mood of the 3rth Birthday’s Soundtrack. For The 3rd Birthday she did not receive detailed requests. Instead, she was asked, broadly, that she make battle music. She was also asked to give the music a “Shimomura-like melody” and told that, as a theme, the music should “feature the Aya Brea character.” (This “feature Aya Brea” element is a general theme for the game as a whole.) Shimomura feels the Aya charater has the image of piano. Not a mellow piano theme, though.

Shimomura also worked on the soundtrack for the original Parasite Eve. Asked if she’d be reusing themes from that game, she said that the music will not be carried over as is. However, she feels that amongst her works, Parasite Eve is a game with music of a different color, and she’d like to carry that image over.

During interview with Famitsu noted that the trailers have a piano and drum theme running in the background during the battle sequence. Shimomura responded, this is the style of melody we can expect for the game as a whole. She wants the sound to have a hard feel to it, with firm rhythms and pounding piano songs.

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The 3rd Birthday Original Soundtrack
ザ・サード・バースディ オリジナル・サウンドトラック

Release Date Dec 22, 2010

Published by Square Enix (distributed by Sony Music Distribution / 株式会社ソニー・ミュージックディストリビューション )
Composed by Yoko Shimomura / 下村陽子, Mitsuto Suzuki / 鈴木光人, Tsuyoshi Sekito / 関戸剛, J.S. Bach
Arranged by Yoko Shimomura / 下村陽子, Mitsuto Suzuki / 鈴木光人, Tsuyoshi Sekito / 関戸剛, Tsutomu Narita / 成田勤
Performed by Aska Kaneko / 金子飛鳥, Hiroyuki Nakayama / 中山博之, MARS, Tsuyoshi Sekito / 関戸剛, Mitsuto Suzuki / 鈴木光人, Masami Abe, Masayuki Satou, Minoru Tsuchihashi / 土橋稔, Keiji Kawamori

Disc 1
01 From the End -The 3rd Birthday-
02 The Babel : Genesis
03 Investigation of the Past
04 Beginning of Breeding
05 Joy to the World -for The 3rd Birthday-

06 Flashback
07 Dive into Myself
08 Wait for the Combustion
09 Brave New World
10 Contact, Freeze, Explode
11 Unknown Unknown
12 Equinox of Insanity
13 Insanity of the Enraged
14 Reaper
15 Moment of Humanity
16 Bloody Black
17 Frozen Time
18 The Boss
19 Arriving Home
20 Angel’s Time
21 Dive into Myself -Deep Inside-

22 dayDreamer
23 Light of Time

 

Disc 2

01 Memory II -for The 3rd Birthday-
02 Ruin
03 Arise within You -for The 3rd Birthday-
05 Time of Insanity
06 Queen
07 Cloud of Aureolin
08 Girl in the Dream
09 Unforgettable Man
10 Out of Phase -for The 3rd Birthday-
11 Dive into the Cause
12 Pain of Assault
13 Human seeker
14 Human seeker -Battle Side-
15 Uncontrol
16 Monodrama

17 Crossing Time, Crossing Mind
18 Dr.Maeda (or How I Learned to Start Loving DNA)
19 End of the Investigation
20 Worm
21 Fright Night
22 Desperation
23 Ray of Hope
24 Triumph of Wing
25 Cityscapes
26 Crimson Eyes
27 Unforgettable Man -Return to Me-

 

Disc 3

01 King of Closing Time
02 A Piece of Remain -for The 3rd Birthday-
03 The Way Things Are
04 Into the Babel
05 Escape from UB -for The 3rd Birthday-
06 Terminus Zero
07 Immortality of Time
08 Blue of the End
09 Dive into Myself -Changing to…-
10 “Wachet auf, ruft uns der Zeitpunkt Null ※”"Based on a cantata BWV140 by J.S. Bach”"
11 The End -Back to the Beginning-
12 Come Again to Christmas
13 Screaming
14 Primal Eyes -for The 3rd Birthday-
15 Brea the Brave
16 Theme of Aya -The 3rd Birthday Early Essence Arrange-

Yoko Shimomura
Compose & Arrange (Disc 1 M-2, 10, 11, 13 / Disc 2 M-3, 12 / Disc 3 M-8, 10, 11, 14-16)
Compose (Disc 2 M-1, 10 / Disc 3 M-2)
Mitsuto Suzuki
Compose & Arrange (Disc 1 M-3, 4, 6-9, 12, 14, 15, 17-21, 23 / Disc 2 M-2, 4, 6-9, 11, 13-19, 21, 22, 25, 27 / Disc 3 M-1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13)
Arrange (Disc 2 M-1, 10 / Disc 3 M-2, 5)
Tsuyoshi Sekito
Compose & Arrange (Disc 1 M-1, 16, 20, 22 / Disc 2 M-5, 20, 22-24, 26 / Disc 3 M-12)
Arrange (Disc 3 M-5)