Yoko Kanno conducting the Warsaw Philharmonic for a strategy game about feudal Japan is exactly as wild as it sounds. Nobunaga's Ambition: Tenshouki was her final Koei score, and she went out by recording at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall with vocalist Akino Arai adding these haunting vocal passages.
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The whole thing leans heavy into Western classical rather than traditional Japanese instrumentation, evoking Sengoku-era tension through pentatonic melodies woven into orchestral textures instead of shamisen and koto. Kanno before Cowboy Bebop, before Escaflowne, already showing that range.
One symphonic suite that hits harder than most full soundtracks. If you care about game composers at all, hearing early Kanno with a full philharmonic is essential.