Evan Call | |
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Born | California, U.S. | June 29, 1988
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Instrument | Guitar |
Years active | 2012–present |
Member of | Miracle Bus (2017–present) |
Formerly of | Elements Garden (2012–2016) |
Evan Call (born June 29, 1988) is an American composer and arranger working in Japan. He has composed music for multiple anime series, such as Violet Evergarden , Muv-Luv Alternative and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End . Call is affiliated with the Japanese agency Miracle Bus and was previously a member of the musical group Elements Garden.
Call was born in California, U.S., on June 29, 1988. [1] As a teenager, Call was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia and had to take a break from going to school. During that time, he learned to play bluegrass guitar from a local teacher. Call later made a friend in his hometown who taught him about Japanese anime and video games, which prompted him to start composing orchestral music. [2] He joined the choir club when he entered high school. [3] After graduating, Call enrolled at the Berklee College of Music, where he majored in film scoring. [3] [4] [5]
After graduating from college, he debated if he should pursue a career in film music in Hollywood. [6] In the end, he decided to move to Japan on a tourist visa to work in the anime and game industry. [6] Three months after his arrival, he was introduced to Junpei Fujita, a music creator working at Elements Garden. [3] After an interview with Fujita and a review of his music portfolio, Call joined Elements Garden. He began composing music in Japan in 2012, where he gained attention for his grand arrangements and impressive symphonic music. [6] After his employment, Call was introduced to Yōta Tsuruoka, a sound director at Kyoto Animation. [3] Alongside Tsuruoka, Call began composing the soundtracks for the anime series Tokyo ESP and Violet Evergarden . [7] [8] Call would continue to compose soundtracks for other anime series and films such as Josee, the Tiger and the Fish . [9]
Call left Elements Garden on June 30, 2016, due to his contract expiring. [10] Since 2017, he has been a member of the Japanese agency Miracle Bus . [4]
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2014 | Bodacious Space Pirates: Abyss of Hyperspace | With Noriyasu Agematsu, Junpei Fujita, and Hitoshi Fujima | [31] |
2016 | Tantei Opera Milky Holmes the Movie: Milky Holmes' Counterattack | With Seima Iwahashi | [4] |
2019 | Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll | [32] | |
2020 | Violet Evergarden: The Movie | [33] | |
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish | [9] | ||
2023 | Gold Kingdom and Water Kingdom | [34] |
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2014 | Chaos Rings III | Arrangement with Junpei Fujita and Hitoshi Fujima | [35] |
Shining Resonance | With Junpei Fujita, Hitoshi Fujima, and Tomohiro Kita | [36] | |
2015 | Chronos Ring | With Yoko Shimomura and Kenji Ito | [37] |
Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
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2017 | Star Concerto: Ore to Kimi no Idol Dō | [4] | |
Sayonara, Enari-kun | [4] | ||
Keishichō Ikimono Gakari | With Audio Highs | [4] | |
2018 | Holiday Love | With Masaru Yokoyama | [4] |
Daisy Luck | With Moe Hyuga | [4] | |
Harassment Game | [4] | ||
Iyo! Benkei | [4] | ||
2019 | Keiji Zero | With Masaru Yokoyama | [4] |
Hotarugusa: Nana no Ken | [4] | ||
2022 | The 13 Lords of the Shogun | [5] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2019 | Until I Meet September's Love | [4] |
Year | Title | Ref. |
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2018 | Weekend Kansai | [4] |
2019 | NHK Special Dinosaur Superworld | [4] |
2020 | NHK Sunday/Saturday Sports | [4] |
Year | Title | Artist | Role(s) | Album | Ref. |
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2012 | "Avalon no Ōkan" | Nana Mizuki | Arrangements | Rockbound Neighbors | [6] |
2013 | "Neverending Dream" | Minori Chihara | Composition & arrangements | Neo Fantasia | [38] |
2014 | "Ai no Hi" | Ayahi Takagaki | Non-album single | [4] | |
"AURORA" | Tomoaki Maeno | Non-album single ( Uta no Prince-sama ) | [39] | ||
"Tenka Muteki no Shinobi Michi" | Takuma Terashima Kenichi Suzumura Hiro Shimono Kohsuke Toriumi | Arrangements | [40] | ||
"Yasashisa no Tsubomi" | Faylan | -Zero Hearts- | [41] | ||
"Meisō Solitude" | Kato*Fuku | Arrangements, with Seima Iwahashi | With | [42] | |
2015 | "Arigatō, Daisuki" | Minori Chihara | Arrangements | Innocent Age | [6] |
"Pirates of the Frontier" | Tatsuhisa Suzuki Tomoaki Maeno Takuma Terashima | Non-album single (Uta no Prince-sama) | [43] | ||
"Saintly Territory" | Tomoaki Maeno | [44] | |||
"Seien Brave Heart" | Kenichi Suzumura | Composition & arrangements | [44] | ||
"Tenshi no Inori" | Shouta Aoi | Unlimited | [45] | ||
"Alice to Toki no Yurikago" | Kato*Fuku | Wonder Tale ~Smile to Happiness to Fushigi na Hon~ | [46] | ||
"Tsunagareta Asa ni" | [46] | ||||
2016 | "Lovely Eyes" | Junichi Suwabe Hidenori Takahashi | Arrangements | Non-album single (Uta no Prince-sama) | [47] |
"Give me your heart -Mayoeru Kohitsuji-" | Hiroshi Kamiya Yoshimasa Hosoya | Composition & arrangements | Non-album single (Kamigami no Asobi InFinite) | [48] | |
2017 | "Akane-iro ni Kakushite" | Ayane Sakura | Non-album single ( Seiren ) | [4] | |
"Muteki no Megami" | Shino Shimoji | [4] | |||
"Koi no Theory" | Juri Kimura | Arrangements | [4] | ||
2018 | "UNION!!" | 765 MILLION ALLSTARS | Non-album single ( The Idolmaster Million Live! ) | [49] | |
"Sincerely" | TRUE | Arrangements, with Shōta Horie | Violet Evergarden: Automemories Violet Evergarden Vocal Album: Song letters | [50] | |
"The Songstress Aria" | Composition, arrangements & lyrics | [50] | |||
"Letter" | Arrangements | [50] | |||
"Believe in..." | Aira Yūki | Composition & arrangements | [50] | ||
2020 | "Will ~Movie Version~" | TRUE | Violet Evergarden: Echo Through Eternity | [51] | |
"Mirai no Hito e ~Movie Version~" | Arrangements | [51] | |||
"Michishirube ~Movie Version~" | Minori Chihara | [51] | |||
"Dear Violet" | Yui Ishikawa | Composition & arrangements | Letters and Doll ~Looking back on the memories of Violet Evergarden~ | [4] | |
"Jōjō" | NINO | Synapusyu Songs | [4] | ||
2021 | "Makka Akka Aki" | Kyogo Kawaguchi | Synapusyu Songs 2 | [4] | |
"Breakers" | Wataru Hatano | Non-album single (The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window) | [52] |
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