Alph Lyla also known as Alfh Lyra or Alpha Lyla, is Capcom

Capcom

is a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...

's "house band" composed of Capcom developers. Their best known work is most likely the soundtrack of the popular fighting-game Street Fighter II

Street Fighter II

is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...

.

Some well-known members of this band are: Yoko Shimomura

Yoko Shimomura

is a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as "the most famous female video game music composer in the world". She has worked in the video game music industry since graduating from Osaka College of Music in 1988...

 (aka Pii♪), Isao Abe (aka Oyaji), Toshio Kajino, Shun Nishigaki (aka SYUN), Tamayo Kawamoto, Harumi Fujita, Junko Tamiya, Yasuaki Fujita (aka Bun Bun

Bun Bun

Bun Bun is a video game composer and sound designer best known for his work with Capcom. His real name is .During the NES era, he worked on the music for Mega Man 3 , Tenchi wo Kurau II, The Little Mermaid, and Darkwing Duck for Capcom...

), Minae Fujii (aka Ojalin) and Manami Matsumae

Manami Matsumae

is a freelance composer of video game music. She used to work for Capcom's Alph Lyla group. In addition to the games with that group, her individual contributions include composition for Magic Sword, Mercs, Dynasty Wars, and sound programming for the original Mega Man. She got married to a...

. Alph Lyla disbanded in the late 1990s.

Some of their works are featured on the following albums:

• Daimakaimura ~ G.S.M. Capcom 1 D28B-0011
• Strider
  Strider (arcade game)
  Strider, released in Japan as is a 1989 side-scrolling platform game released for the CP System arcade hardware by Capcom. It became one of Capcom's early hits before Street Fighter II, revered for its innovative gameplay and multilingual voice clips during cutscenes .-Plot: Strider is set in a...
  
   ~ G.S.M. Capcom 2- D25B-1001
• Final Fight
  Final Fight
  is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up game originally released by Capcom as a coin-operated video game in . It was the seventh game released by Capcom for their CP System arcade game hardware...
  
   ~ G.S.M. Capcom 3 PCCB-00030
• Street Fighter II
  Street Fighter II
  is a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...
  
   -G.S.M. CAPCOM 4- PCCB-00056
• Captain Commando
  Captain Commando
  is a futuristic side-scrolling beat 'em up game originally developed and published by Capcom as a coin-operated video game, and later ported to several other platforms. It was the seventeenth title produced for the company's CP System hardware...
  
   ~ G.S.M. Capcom 5 PCCB-00083
• Varth: Operation Thunderstorm
  Varth: Operation Thunderstorm
  Varth: Operation Thunderstorm is an arcade game in the vertical scrolling shooter genre, published by Capcom in 1992...
  
   -G.S.M. CAPCOM 6- PCCB-00110
• Tenchi wo Kuaru II: The Battle of Chi Bi
  Warriors of Fate
  Warriors of Fate, known in Japan as , is a side-scrolling beat-'em-up produced by Capcom first released as a coin-operated arcade game in...
  
   -G.S.M. CAPCOM 7- PCCB-00133
• Rockman X
  Mega Man X (video game)
  Mega Man X, known in Japan as , is a video game developed by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System . It is the first Mega Man game for the 16-bit console and the first game in the Mega Man X series, a spin-off of the original Mega Man series that began on the SNES's predecessor, the...
  
   SRCL-2828
• STREET FIGHTER II ALPH-LYLA with YUJI TORIYAMA SRCL-2857

External links

• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix
  OverClocked ReMix, also known as OC ReMix and OCR, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and paying tribute to video game music through arranging and re-interpreting the songs with new technology and software, as well as by various traditional means...