Every song in the soundtrack is a treat with each being unique and telling each character's story. If you want give Roar of the Spark, Love the Subhuman Self, and Carve Your Way a listen.
Daisuke Ishiwatari (btw when you see an "uke" at the end of a Japanese name, the u tends to be silent, so it's like Dice Kay) is definently very multitalented, but he does also have a not insignificant team backing him up. Guilty Gear Strive is way too complex of a game to be the work of just one person, but the parts where he has the most input is with designing characters, writing storylines and composing the music, and he also helps oversee things like game design, programming and in-game visuals. He's indeed the original creator, this whole series is his baby, it's a real rags to riches story. He taught himself music theory and he takes tons of inspiration from classic artists from all over the world, most notably Freddie Mercury of Queen. You can even see the music influences in the characters, like A.B.A who is named after the band ABBA. Just about every character in the series has some aspect of them that is a nod to a world famous artist or music group, often multiple aspects. Naoki Hashimoto is the singer of this song, and when you hear male vocals in Guilty Gear 99% of the time it's him, the only exceptions are the background vocals in Love the Sub-Human Self, and a section in two other songs that are done by Jamison Boaz. Naoki is part of a Japanese band named Outrage, and before Naoki ever worked with the series, his bands name was indeed used as a reference in the series lol, where the main character creates an extremely powerful weapon and names it the Outrage. Symphony is my personal favorite theme in the game. Guilty Gear has a tightly woven plot that involves all of the characters, except A.B.A is probably the only playable character that only has very loose ties to any of the main narratives, and she went missing from the series for a really long time after only appearing once. She's a Homunculus created in an alchemists lab, and she's obsessed with keys. When she first found the sentient, key shaped axe she now wields, she fell in love with him immediately and took him as her husband without ever actually asking him what he thought about it, but for his own personal reasons he went along with it, leading to a pretty harmful relationship for both of them. When she finally came back to the series with Strive, she was given a story update, with her and the axe, who she named Paracelsus, having an honest conversation and vowing to be better for eachother. It's a silly story out of context but considering how absurd the circumstances are it's a well written one in context. Strive does a really good job rolling out the red carpet for all of its characters and letting them shine, so seeing her get that treatment at long last made me really happy, and she's 1 of the 2 characters I play most, the other one being Bridget.
Back in the first two games daisuke did everything with help of a drum machine. Everything after x2 (2001 i believe) he had a full band for the soundtrack. Strive is the first time they've given lyrics to all the characters.
The organ section is a reference to A.B.A's old theme, "Keep in Gates" which is one of the only songs in the GG franchise not composed by Daisuke Ishiwatari.
I can't find anything to suggest that Keep in Gates was composed by anyone other than Daisuke Ishiwatari, you might be confusing that fact with the fact that Toshimichi Mori claims to have been the character designer for A.B.A, altho that claim is also disputed a bit
Les go! A.b.a. and her song are my personal favorites of the soundtrack and as such I have spent a lot of time listening to it and it just amazes me how much meaning and doubles meanings Daisuke has put into this song and so many others. As someone else has said A.B.A is an artificial life form obsessed with keys. She lived a very sheltered life when she was born as her creator was taken away by the military and she was left completly alone for many years. As such she isn't really the healthiest mentally. All of this is expressed through both the music and the lyrics. Some of my favorites being: The begining and middle of the song starts with the singer saying some words that many would consider things to live by. (Wisdom, serenity, etc.) Which is followed up by "Break out! Break out!" And blah blah blah. Essentially talking about how A.B.A. doesn't really care about social decorum and that its all just a cage that hides a persons true feelings. This is highlighted the second time this is repeated where the singer says "words weave a stealthy chain" Near the end we get "I'm not here to fit in this world. I just want to make a difference" chanted to the beat/rthym of brick in the wall by pinkfloyd a song about others trying to control how you act.
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