Trap in the Extreme North
Masashi Hamauzu (濱渦正志), born September 20, 1971 in Munich, Germany, is a vi… Read Full Bio ↴Masashi Hamauzu (濱渦正志), born September 20, 1971 in Munich, Germany, is a video game music composer who has worked for Square Enix for nearly a decade. Hamauzu's works are often reminiscent of Chopin, Ravel, and Debussy compositions. They frequently incorporate deliberate dissonance to provide an artistic and mood-setting effect. After pattern and harmony have set in, the elegance of the dissonance becomes apparent; the listener's perception of dissonance evolves into a perception of consonance integral to the music. Hamauzu composes music in a wide variety of styles, often employing multiple styles throughout a soundtrack. His compositions break barriers between musical genres, mixing classical marches, tango music, electronic ambience, instrumental solos, and jazz.

Hamauzu's start with Square Enix came by creating a small handful of tracks (along with other composers) for Front Mission: Gun Hazard (1996) and Tobal No. 1 (1996). Later collaborations include Final Fantasy X (2001) (with Nobuo Uematsu [[artist]植松伸夫] and Junya Nakano [[artist]仲野順也]) and Musashi: Samurai Legend (2005) (with Junya Nakano, and Takayuki Iwai & Yuki Iwai [[artist]岩井由紀 ] of Wavelink Zeal).

His solo works include Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon (1997), SaGa Frontier 2 (1999), UNLIMITED: SaGa (2002), and Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (2006). Hamauzu provided the entire score of Final Fantasy XIII in 2009, and returned for its sequel, XIII-2 in 2011. Hamauzu has also produced arranged albums for a few of his works, including Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon ~Coi Vanni Gialli~ and Piano Pieces "SF2" Rhapsody on a Theme of SaGa Frontier 2. He also prepared the piano arrangements for Final Fantasy X Piano Collections and Yasunori Mitsuda (光田康典)'s Sailing to the World Piano Score. From SaGa Frontier 2 onward, Hamauzu has primarily worked closely with synthesizer operator Ryo Yamazaki (山崎良).

In addition to his solo and video game compositions, he is also co-leader of the band IMERUAT with vocalist Mina Sakai.




Trap in the Extreme North
浜渦正志 Lyrics


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Serah's Theme Make my wish come true, let darkness slip aside Hiding all…
The Sunleth Waterscape Step into the rainbow, find another view Chase the tender li…
サンレス水郷 Step into the rainbow, find another view Chase the tender li…


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Comments from YouTube:

DoctorSwellman

I love how the piano collections rendition captures an emotion different from the normal OST. Beautifully played, and well done. I can't wait to see more!

Franco Albertini

Thanks! I agree, I really liked practically all of the licenses that Hamauzu took on this PC to reinvent most of the pieces and create new amazing material

VGAudiophile

Wonderful to listen to - I really enjoy ALL of your work!  Thank you so much for sharing w/ us <3

Joelzka

Fantastic dude!! you played one of my fav ff10 soundtrack!

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Love when this comes on my piano collections playlist. Great job.

Franco Albertini

Haha same here! Thanks :)

KH-mixerX

Oh shit!!! This is one of my favorite piano pieces ever. You did a marvelous job of it.

Franco Albertini

It's for sure one of my favorites as well! Thanks!!

KH-mixerX

Still come back to this video ever so often to relax. Truly a pleasure to watch!

Maeloux

I love this music and you play it like a god :D You give a lot of emotions ! Great job I'll check your channel :) (what's the piano model please ?)

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