1. Ryu Umemoto was a Japanese video game music composer, born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
12 Facts About Ryu Umemoto
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Ryu Umemoto is known for composing soundtracks to various visual novel and shoot 'em up video games since the 1990s, for several companies including FamilySoft, C's Ware, ELF Corporation, D4 Enterprise, and CAVE.
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Ryu Umemoto is considered to be one of the greatest FM-synth chiptune composers, and has often been compared to Yuzo Koshiro.
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Ryu Umemoto was born on February 18,1974, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.
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Ryu Umemoto was a descendant of the 16th-century daimyo Takeda Shingen.
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Ryu Umemoto was a practitioner of Zen Buddhism, which had a strong influence on his melodic music, much of which had spiritual undertones: he incorporated scale and key changes and time signatures in a way that would mathematically reference Zen concepts, such as angles of holy temples or mountains, meditative breathing rhythms or lucky numbers.
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Ryu Umemoto never had any formal education in music, but was entirely self-taught, and had often experimented with synthesizers since he was young.
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Ryu Umemoto arranged some of the tracks in the 1995 "PMD" arrangement CD for Princess Maker 2.
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Ryu Umemoto then worked as a freelance musician on various projects for other companies such as C's Ware and ELF Corporation, often working closely with scenario writer Hiroyuki Kanno whom he became friends with.
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Ryu Umemoto had to meet tight deadlines for C's Ware, often under two months while working on simultaneous projects.
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Ryu Umemoto then worked with ELF, for which he composed the soundtrack for their most famous visual novel, YU-NO: A girl who chants love at the bound of this world.
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Ryu Umemoto began gaining more international attention for his work with the company CAVE in the last few years of his life, producing soundtracks for bullet hell shooters such as Espgaluda II: Black Label, Akai Katana, NIN2-JUMP, and Mushihimesama Version 1.5.