Rasmus Peter Faber (born 16 May 1979) is a Swedish pianist, DJ, remixer, composer, record producer, sound engineer, and founder of the record label Farplane Records. He is notable in the electronic dance music genre, and performs solo as a DJ and pianist, and live with his band the RaFa Orchestra. Over the last decade, Faber has become better known as a composer of music for anime, computer games, advertising, and virtual reality worlds.
Early life Following his musical education, Faber started working as a session musician, pianist, and musical director for local acts in Sweden.
Producer career In 2002, Faber released his first collaboration single "Never Felt So Fly" with Melo produced by British record label Black Vinyl Records. After its success, his career and reputation grew quickly, and Rasmus started collaborating with big dance label Defected Records, and achieved further success and notoriety with his remix of Junior Jack's E Samba. The first single on the label was "Ever After" featuring singer Emily McEwan, which was a successful club hit worldwide.
Over the last decade, Faber has become producer of exotic instruments (and performers), including the nyckelharpa and tongue drum (used on YouTube virtual celebrity project Artiswitch). His down-tempo single, "Be Real", has become his most popular release to date with more than 24 million streams on Spotify and counting.
RaFa Orchestra Since 2009, Faber has been playing his songs live, together with a group of ten musicians and singers forming the RaFa Orchestra. Selected venues they have played include Billboard Live Tokyo/Osaka; Java Jazz Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia; the Southport Weekender Festival.
Discography Music department YearWorkTypeJobEpisodes2024Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise WolfTV Seriesmusic coordinator16 2024Trapeziummusic coordinator 2021 Moriarty the PatriotTV Series theme music composer 13 2020 D4DJ Groovy Mix Video Game composer additional music 2019 Ensemble Stars! TV Series composer additional music 2018 Takunomi TV Series theme music composer 12 2017 ArcaeaVideo Game composer additional music2015 – 2016 The Asterisk WarTV SeriesLyrics and music: "Hold You in the Wind"Vocals: "Hold You in the Wind"Music: ending theme lyrics and music: "Lonely Feather"Lyrics and music: ending theme Music: "Ai no Taiyō"24 2015Gourmet Girl GraffitiTV Mini Series theme music composer 122012 Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-neTV Series theme music composer 24
Composer YearWorkTypeEpisodes 2021 AMAIM Warrior at the BorderlineTV Series13 2021 ArtisWitchTV Series6 2020 The Multiverse Bakery: Tales from Soda Island, Chapter 1 Short 2018 Harukana Receive TV Mini Series 12 2015 - 2016 The Asterisk War TV Series
Awards and nominations Year Award CategoryNotes Work Result 2024 Hollywood Music in Media Awards HMMA Award Best Song/Score - Mobile Video GameShared with: Robbie Say, Martin Landström, Matthew Carl Earl, Laurent Courbier, Henrik Lindström, Volker Bertelmann, 2WEI Honor of Kings 2016Anime Trending Awards Annual AwardBest in Soundtrack5th placeThe Asterisk War
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