Hiroki Kikuta Solo Album!!

To quote Square Music News:

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Some big news today for fans of Hiroki Kikuta: his biggest work in seven years and only solo album to date is being released. Called "Lost Files", with 18 tracks in total, this will only be available through his web site, but should reflect him back on top form. As fans of the Seiken Densetsu and Soukaigi composer may know, the composer struggled after masterminding the financial flop Koudelka, resulting in a long period of nothing being heard from him until his eventual involvement in a series of hentai games. One of his few chances to receive global attention again, composing for a Square Enix MMORPG, was unsuccessful, as the game was abandoned, and many fans of his Square works likely do not even know the composer is still around. Let's hope that this solo album will change that, despite its limited availability.

Thanks to KujaFFman of Squaremusic for revealing this wonderful news.

I thought all the Kikuta fans here would love to here this.

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Originally Posted by eriol

Available in his website? does that mean we could download it for free? I never heard his composition but I'm looking forward for it.

Like that would happen. Yeah, available for purchase at his web site. When we receive more info (or a Japanese translator appears) we'll know more. If you want to check out Kikuta's work, I'd suggest the Soukaigi Original Soundtrack above all others, as it's his most accessible.

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Kikuta's back! Awesome! Though I know he did some h-games, I never heard any titles in specific, so I couldn't really check anything out. I wonder if cocoebiz could work with him to help distribute to foreigners.

If Kahori manages to stock the solo album, that'd be absolutely awesome. I wonder if she knows about it? *considers sending email*

I managed to download both of the promotional soundtracks released on behalf of his hentai works. Information about them is available here and here. Kikuta also worked on Ni~dzuma wa Sailor Fuku, though, as far as I know, there was no soundtrack release.

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As I hope my post made clear, he's done a fair amount since Soukaigi, though mostly outside Square. Koudelka, the largely unsuccessful predecessor to the Shadow Hearts series, was both scored, storylined, directed, and inspired by him, and he has worked on three hentai scores and an abandoned SE MMORPG since. I'd recommend Koudelka's soundtrack and Sakura Relaxation's promotional album if you haven't heard them.

I'm a bit tentative about recommending my biography, since it was the first one I written, in great need of updating (I might do that today, actually), and rather amateurish but it gives a decent overview of his works. It can be found here.

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Given that it's split into 18 tracks, it certainly won't be continuous like SoM+, though could be similar stylistically. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing more of Kikuta's progressive side that SoM+ provided, though most would probably disagree with me. Either way, I'm excited.

Oh, thanks to Teioh, some information about the other hentai soundtrack release is available here if anyone is interested. If anyone has a scan of the CD, it'd be awesome to have, but the information is otherwise complete.

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I'm not sure if this has been reported here already, but CocoeBiz / VGM World will be stocking the album:

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Mr Hiroki Kikuta has released his original album -Lost Field-, and this album will be available at vgmworld.com very soon. We are planning to have an short interview with him and run a promotional event. (Signed item) We will update the information as soon as possible!

I was speaking idiomatically.