Xenoblade2 Original Soundtrack

The Xenoblade2 Original Soundtrack (Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Original Soundtrack on Amazon Music) is the official soundtrack set for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and the most complete release of the music of this game. It was composed by ACE, Kenji Hiramatsu, Manami Kiyota and Yasunori Mitsuda. It includes tracks from the base game, covering cutscene, battle, field, and menu themes distributed across five discs. A sixth disc (exclusive to the Type A and B versions) includes short gameplay sound elements and several piano arrangements of tracks from the first five discs.

Three different versions were put on sale, all made available on May 23, 2018:
 * Type A: This version was released as a USB drive in the shape of the Aegis Core. It contains all of the music on the OST, including the extra tracks included in the 6th disc (mentioned above), as well as a 120-page booklet about the music of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and a card with the signatures of the composers. Only 2,000 copies were made.
 * Type B: This version was released as the 6 CDs, covering all the tracks on the OST (as mentioned above), as well as the booklet and card in the Type A version and sheet music for Where We Used to Be. The front of each of the CDs features the official render of one of the Drivers: Rex, Nia, Tora, Mòrag, Zeke, and respectively. It was also a very limited release.
 * Type C: This version included the first 5 CDs from the Type B version, and a 12-page booklet featuring a track list, lyrics for the English-language songs, and credits. Besides being available physically, this version was also made available as a digital download on Amazon US and iTunes US.

Before the official release, a selection album with a few tracks (mainly from the early in-game regions and cutscenes) was released bundled with the Collectors Edition of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, titled Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Sound Selection, in December 2017. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Kingdom of Torna Original Soundtrack includes Torna ~ The Golden Country tracks, and it was published in December 14, 2018.

Track List
This list is based on the Type B version. The English names are taken from the iTunes version. As the Disc 6 tracks haven't received any international release, the names for them are unofficial translations taken from the VGMdb listing.

Credits
(Credits are taken from pages 119-123 of the booklet in the Type A/Type B versions.)

Music
 * Yasunori Mitsuda
 * ACE (TOMOri KUDO, CHiCO)
 * Kenji Hiramatsu
 * Manami Kiyota

Orchestration
 * Mariam Abounnasr (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * [DISC1] M01
 * [DISC4] M06, M12, M17
 * [DISC5] M04, M05, M16, M17, M18, M19, M20

Piano Arrange
 * Takayuki Yoshimura / Disc3 M03 "Desolation"

Lyrics
 * Tetsuya Takahashi (MONOLITHSOFT)

Lyric Translation
 * LYSSA & Castro Satoshi

Recording & Mixing Engineer
 * Hiroyuki Akita

Recording Engineer
 * Go Kodachi (Studio Slinky)

Assistant Engineers
 * Kyo Kakinuma (AVACO CREATIVE STUDIO)
 * Aya Kuroda (VICTOR STUDIO)
 * Toshiyuki Kawahito (VICTOR STUDIO)
 * Ryo Kanai (VICTOR STUDIO)
 * Ryuma Annaka (birdie house)
 * Mai Kondo (Landmark Studio)
 * Yuta Tateishi (SHANGRI-LA Inc.)
 * Genya Koga (Studio Slinky)

Recording Location
 * AVACO CREATIVE STUDIO
 * VICTOR STUDIO
 * Kanagawa Art Hall
 * Sony Music Studios Tokyo
 * Landmark Studio
 * ABS RECORDING
 * SHANGRI-LA STUDIO
 * Studio Slinky
 * PROCYON STUDIO
 * Studio O
 * Studio FLATPINE

Sound Producer
 * Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO)

Recording Coordinators
 * Tsutomu Satomi (SHANGRI-LA Inc.)
 * Kiyoshi Tsuda (SHANGRI-LA Inc.)
 * Keita Korematsu (PLANKTON)
 * Ryosuke Mozumi (FACE MUSIC)
 * Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * ACE
 * Kenji Hiramatsu

Recording Interpreter
 * Mariam Abounnasr (PROCYON STUDIO)

Copyists
 * Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * Mariam Abounnasr (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * Takayasu Seo (Music engrave Ruth-ya)

Music Production Cooperation
 * PROCYON STUDIO Co., Ltd.
 * Keiko Kawashima [川島恵子] (Plankton)
 * Yasunori Mitsuda

Orchestra Session
Orchestra
 * Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra

Concertmaster
 * Yasunao Ishida

Concertmaster & Solo Violin
 * Tetsuo Tozawa

Conductors
 * Shimpei Sasaki, Mirai Abe

ANÚNA
Conductor
 * Michael McGlynn

Soloist
 * Michael McGlynn Disc4 M02 "We Are the Chosen Ones"
 * Andrea Delaney Disc4 M09 "Ever Come to an End"
 * Dónal Kearney Disc4 M10 "Shadow of the Lowlands"

Andrea Delaney, Dominique Cunningham, Dónal Kearney, Francis Flood, Hannah Traynor, Jan Kuhar, Michael McGlynn, Miriam Blennerhassett, Nick Stoppel, Rachel Thompson, Sam Kreidenweis, Sara Di Bella, Zachary Trouton

Recording & Mixing Engineer
 * Brian Masterson

Recording Location
 * Sony Music Studio

Bratislava Symphony Choir
Conductor
 * David Hernando Rico

Recording Engineer
 * Martin Roller

Chorus Preparation
 * Ondrej Šaraj

Librarian
 * Jan Mazan

Recording Location
 * The Slovak National Radio

Musicians
Vocal
 * Jen Bird, Manami Kiyota, CHiCO (ACE)

Low Whistle, Tin Whistle
 * Akio Noguchi

Irish Harp
 * Chiaki Umeda

Piano
 * Febian Reza Pane, Kenji Hiramatsu

Melodion
 * Kenji Hiramatsu

Violin
 * Yu Manabe

Erhu
 * Reiko Tsuchiya

Drums
 * Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi

Acoustic Guitar & Banjo & Mandolin
 * Kouichirou Tashiro

Acoustic Guitar & Electric Guitar
 * Kiyofumi Mochizuki, Masato Ishinari, YOKOTARO, Tomori Kudo (ACE)

Electric Guitar
 * Kenji Hiramatsu

Electric Bass & Wood Bass & Acoustic Bass
 * TABOKUN

Electric Bass
 * Yousuke Mochida, Hitoshi Watanabe

Flute & Alto Flute
 * Hideyo Takakuwa, Yumika Miyazaki

Piccolo & Flute
 * Michiyo Morikawa

Flute
 * Dogen Kinowaki, Akane Suzuki

Oboe
 * Bunkichi Arakawa, Kanami Araki

Oboe & Cor Anglais
 * Miyuki Onishi

Clarinet
 * Hidehito Naka, Naoki Aouda, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Yurie Shinotsuka

Bassoon
 * Masamichi Sasazaki, Juri Miyazaki, Yohta Minakami, Nonoka Ishii

Solo Flugelhorn
 * Mitsuhiro Kojima

Horn
 * Jonathan Hammill, Tomohiro Kato, Yuta Ohno, Yu Suzuki

Solo Trumpet & Trumpet
 * Kenichi Tsujimoto

Trumpet
 * Cheonho Yoon, Toshio Tanaka

Trombone
 * Hikaru Koga, Hisami Okumura, Sakon Ishihara

Tuba
 * Shimpei Tsugita

Orchestra Percussion
 * Midori Takada, Megumi Nozaki, Kazumasa Oya, Yasunori Mitsuda

Whistling & Whistle & Percussion
 * CHiCO (ACE)

Muroya Strings
Solo Violin & 1st Violin
 * Koichiro Muroya

1st Violin
 * Tomomi Tokunaga, Ayaka Notomi, Aya Ito, Shoko Oki, Kyoko Ishigame, Yuki Nakajima, Risa Yamamoto, Rina Odera, Tetsuo Tsushima, Yuhki Naoi, Machi Okabe

2nd Violin
 * Shizuka Kawaguchi, Yuya Yanagihara, Shin Eai-sung, Emiko Ujikawa, Yuichi Endo, Riyoko Matsui, Tsunehiro Shigyou, Hanako Uesato, Koichi Yokomizo, Mika Naramura, Nio Taguchi

Solo Viola & Viola
 * Yuya Minorikawa

Viola
 * Yuri Matsumoto, Naoko Kakutani, Chikako Nishimura, Takahiro Enokido, Gentaro Sakaguchi, Masaki Shono, Tomoko Shimaoka

Solo Cello
 * Hiroki Kadowaki

Solo Cello & Cello
 * Masami Horisawa

Cello
 * Takahiro Yuki, Takayoshi Okuizumi, Jun Nakamura, Tomoki Iwanaga, Masutami Endo

Contrabass
 * Jun Saito, Yoshinobu Takeshita, Yasuyuki Se, Shigeki Ippon, Koji Akaike

Deluxe Edition Piano Arrange
Piano Arrange & Performance
 * Ivan Linn

Recording Engineer
 * Robin Moore

Mixing Engineer
 * Hiroyuki Akita

Production Manager
 * Claudia Shao

Mixing Service
 * Goldstones Studios

Recording Location
 * Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH

Scoring Stage Manager
 * Thomas Devlin

Mixing Legal
 * Peter Myerson

Recording Coordinator
 * Lisa Nakamura (PROCYON STUDIO)

Mastering Engineer
 * Hiroyuki Shiotsuki (Sony Music Communications)

Mastering Location
 * Sony Music Studio

Producer
 * Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO)

Label Director
 * Lisa Nakamura (PROCYON STUDIO)

Assistant Label Director
 * Mayu Nozaki (PROCYON STUDIO)

Booklet Design
 * Tadashi Shimada (T.S.D), Norie Kadokura

Design
 * Lisa Nakamura (PROCYON STUDIO)

Deluxe Edition Box Design
 * Eiji Takahashi (Monolith Soft)

Illustration
 * Masatsugu Saito

Photographs
 * Kenji Hiramatsu, PROCYON STUDIO

Interviewing, Writing & Editing
 * Lisa Nakamura (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * Mayu Nozaki (PROCYON STUDIO)

Writing & Editing
 * Hidetaka Nagayoshi

Promotion & Sales Planning
 * Mayu Nozaki (PROCYON STUDIO)

Cooperation
 * Monolith Soft
 * Tetsuya Takahashi, Koh Kojima, Toshiaki Yajima, Koji Hayashi, Eiji Takahashi, Mamoru Ohta, Takako Shijo


 * Mariam Abounnasr (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * Tsutomu Satomi (SHANGRI-LA Inc.)
 * TABOKUN
 * Yu "masshoi" Yamauchi
 * Kiyofumi Mochizuki
 * Keita Korematsu (PLANKTON)
 * Michael McGlynn (ANÚNA)
 * LYSSA
 * Jen Bird
 * Hiroyuki Akita

Promotion & Sales Cooperation
 * Tetsuya Kakita (Sony Music Communications)
 * Yuma Ogata

Collaboration
 * Monolith Soft
 * Nintendo

Special Thanks
 * Genki Yokota (Nintendo)
 * Ryuto Kojima (I-TECH JAPAN)
 * Graphinica
 * Junya Kuroda (PROCYON STUDIO)
 * Mami Ashino (PROCYON STUDIO)