Released in 1992, this was the last Wolfteam album. But not only was this the last, it was also the weirdest. First of all, it wasn't a Toshiba EMI album, as all the last four were; it was a BGM Victor album. Second, it wasn't composed by any of the Wolfteam composers of that time. (Motoi Sakuraba, Masaaki Uno, Yasunori Shiono and Ryota Furuya) No, it was composed by a Japanese New Age band called 135, or ITI-SAN-GO if you prefer.
135 had a contract with BGM Victor, and they had release a deal of albums before this one, and continued to release albums after this one as well. Since 135 was a band, it would be alright to assume that the music of Tenbu was licensed, but it can't be. The album Ten-Bu is called the same as the game, and contains exactly the same compositions, that makes this album a soundtrack for the game, and 135 the hired composers!
Why would Wolfteam hire a band for their game? Tenbu was a Strategy game set in China, unlike the Zan series, which was set in Japan. Some of you might've thought otherwise, but Japanese and Chinese classical are very different from eachother. Motoi Sakuraba had experience with Zan, but.., perhaps he wasn't fit for music with a Chinese mood. The folks at Wolfteam had to find someone with experience with this genre to make the game run, and such people weren't already within the walls of company.
Osamu Satoh, known better as Nobuhito Koise when talking about Telenet, worked as an Executive Producer for BGM Victor. Wolfteam might have contacted Osamu Satoh, asking him to find an apropriate composer, and he found 135.
Staff
Composition and lyrics: 135
Arrangement: 1,8 by Yukihiro Takahashi. 2,6,10 by Masaki Iwamoto. 3,4,5,7,9,12,13 by Yuzo Hayashi. 11 by 135.
Executive Producers: Osamu Satoh (BMG Victor, INC.), Michiru Nemoto (135 Office Enterprise),
Masahiro Akishino (Wolf Team) Producers: Hirotomi Yamaguchi (BMG Victor, INC.), Masaaki Uno (Wolf Team) Mixing Engineers: Takahiro Nochimura (Mixer's Lab.) Recording Engeers: Takahiro Nochimura (Mixer's Lab.), Hiroshi Shitamiya (Mixer's Lab) Assistant Engineers: Yukio Kohashi (Heart Beat Recording Studio),Kiichiro Uchiyama (Heart
Beat Recording Studio), Isamu Hanashima (Free Studio Tsukiji) Artist Managament: Kiyomi Satoh (135 Office Enterprise) Recording Coordination: Yuko Sasaki (BMG Victor, INC.) Musican Coordination: Fumio Takano (Toshitsu) Recording Studio: Heart Beat Recording Studio Mixing Studio: Free Studio Tsukiji Arrangers: Yukihiro Takahashi, Yuzo Hayashi, Masaki Iwamoto
Musicans are: Vocal, A-GT: Shigeto Kajiwara (135) Vocal, Bass: Shigeru Takagi (135) Vocal, Keyboard: Yoshihiro Honda (135) Synthesizer: Yuzo Hayashi, Masaki Iwamoto Chorus: Kayoko Ishu Synthesizer Programming: Yasuo Kimoto (Office Intenzio), Toshiyuki Kishi (Office Intenzio), Yukiyoshi Fujimoto
Supervisor: Fujio Minegishi (Sega Enterprises, LTD.)