Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japanese. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Fumio Hayasaka – Seven Samurai (bonus track version)

 


1954 movie release. A veteran samurai who has fallen on hard times answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers six other samurai to help him. They teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and the townspeople supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Soundtrack composed , conducted, orchestrated by – Fumio Hayasaka

Orchestrated by – Masaru Sato

1 The Seven Samurai (Main Title) 3:17

2 To The Little Watermill 1:00

3 Samurai Search 0:50

4 Kanbei & Katushiro / Kikuchiyo’s Mambo 3:43

5 Rikichi’s Tears / White Rice 2:09

6 Two Search For Samurai 1:31

7 Gorobei 2:18

8 Let's Get To It 1:05

9 Fishing For Slippery Fish 1:44

10 Six Samurai 2:51

11 Extraordinary Man 1:13

12 Morning Departure 1:02

13 Journey Landscape / Our Stronghold 2:52

14 Wild Warrior’s Coming 0:35

15 Seven Men Completed 1:25

16 Katushiro & Shino 2:44

17 Katsushiro Come Back 0:11

18 Bed Change 0:58

19 In The Forest Of The Water God 1:34

20 Wheat Field 0:28

21 Kabei's Anger 2:16

22 Interlude 5:19

23 Harvesting 2:06

24 Rikichi’s Trouble 1:51

25 Heihachi & Rikichi 0:58

26 Farm Village Scenery 2:35

27 Weak Insects Into Samurai Ways 1:50

28 Foreboding Of Bandits 0:26

29 To The Night Attack 0:56

30 Flag 0:21

31 Sudden Confrontation 0:25

32 Magnificent Samurai 2:30

33 Bandits Sighted 1:00

34 Kikuchiyo Rises To The Occasion 0:50

35 Reward 1:07

36 Tryst 1:02

37 Manzo & Shino 1:03

38 Rice Planting Song 1:22

39 Ending 0:43

Bonus Tracks

40 I Live In Fear (Main Titles) 1:49

41 Late Night Guitar 1:09

42 Slow Mambo 1:44

43 Slow Rhumba 3:14

44 Preview Main Theme 1:52

45 Star Music 1:18

46 Mambo Melancholia 2:17

47 Duck Mambo 3:19

48 End Titles 0:50


Seven Samurai

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Björk – The Music From Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9

 


Björk – The Music From Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9

Style: Soundtrack, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Experimental, Minimal

Drawing Restraint 9 is a 2005 film project by visual artist Matthew Barney consisting of a feature-length film, large-scale sculptures, photographs, drawings, and books. The Drawing Restraint series consists of 19 numbered components and related materials. Some episodes are videos, others sculptural installations or drawings. Barney created Drawing Restraint 1-6 while still an undergraduate at Yale University and completed Drawing Restraint 16 in 2007 at London's Serpentine Gallery. With a soundtrack composed by Björk, Drawing Restraint 9 is an unconventional love story set in Japan. The narrative structure is built upon themes such as the Shinto religion, the tea ceremony, the history of whaling, and the supplantation of blubber with refined petroleum for oil.

Gratitude 4:59

Pearl 3:42

Ambergris March 3:57

Bath 5:07

Hunter Vessel 6:36

Shimenawa 2:48

Vessel Shimenawa 1:54

Storm 5:32

Holographic Entrypoint 9:57

Cetacea 3:12

Antarctic Return 4:18

For the composing of the soundtrack, Björk traveled to Japan to study ancient Japanese music. Several tracks are made with the sound of the shō, a Japanese instrument which contains 16 various reeds; Mayumi Miyata plays the shō on multiple compositions in the soundtrack and appears in the film playing the instrument. "Holographic Entrypoint" features a Noh score and vocal performance by Shiro Nomura, which complements a climactic scene in the film.

Alternative folk singer Will Oldham (also known as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) is featured on the first track, "Gratitude", singing a letter from a Japanese fisherman to General Douglas MacArthur set to a melody by Matthew Barney. Björk brought "Nameless" back from her 2003 tour, and, with the help of Leila Arab, looped and edited it to create the track "Storm". Björk's vocals feature only on the tracks "Bath", "Storm" and "Cetacea". "Gratitude", "Shimenawa" and "Cetacea" feature harp player Zeena Parkins, who previously collaborated with Björk on her 2001 album Vespertine. "Hunter Vessel" was later sampled on her album Volta for the tracks "Vertebræ by Vertebræ" and "Declare Independence". The track "Storm" was featured in the 2012 video game Spec Ops: The Line.


Drawing Restraint 9

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Kitaro – Toyo's Camera - Japanese American History During WWII - (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

 

Tōyō Miyatake (宮武東洋, Miyatake Tōyō; 1895–1979) was a Japanese American photographer, best known for his photographs documenting the Japanese American people and the Japanese American internment at Manzanar during World War II.

In 2009, the film Toyo's Camera was released, documenting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II through the perspective of the photographer's images. It was narrated by George Takei, with music by Kitaro.

The soundtrack consists of several tracks taken from various Kitaro albums.

1        Planet    2:34
2        Estrella    4:21
3        Fairy Of Water    4:22
4        The Field    4:54
5        The Scroll Is Read    4:05
6        Satobiki    9:17
7        Wave Of Sand    4:48
8        Nageki    5:45
9        A Passage Of Life    8:00
10        Silk Road    7:52
11        Golden Mask    2:33
12        Heaven And Earth    11:18

Track Information:
Planet: from the album "Mandala"
Estrella: from the album "Thinking Of You"
Fairy Of Water, Wave Of Sand & Golden Mask: from the album "An Ancient Journey"
The Field: from the album "The Light Of The Spirit"
The Scroll Is Read: from the album "The Soong Sisters"
Satobiki: from the album "Gaia Onbashira"
Nageki: from the album "Kojiki"
A Passage Of Life: from the album "Dream"
Silk Road & Heaven And Earth: from the album "Daylight, Moonlight: Live In Yakushiji"

Toyo's Camera


 https://youtu.be/M542t3nDQUY
 

Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Last Samurai...Original Motion Picture Score...Music by Hans Zimmer



This was Hans Zimmer's 100th score since beginning his film career in 1988. A pioneer of fusing both the electronic and orchestral and the Westernized with the indigenous, Zimmer does both here with skill, drawing heavily on samples of the traditional Taiko (a massive Japanese drum) for its rhythmic action sequences, while constructing a melodic Western motif for Tom Cruise's character that's both centerpiece and counterpoint for the score's trans-cultural intent. Aside from the brief, ominous thunder of the expected action/suspense boilerplate, Zimmer has constructed passages of gentle, Asian-inflected pastoralism that have parallels with much of his evocative work on The Thin Red Line. Those cues are the score's very soul, a canvas against which his more traditional themes reverberate all the stronger.





                                     

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Heaven and Earth...Original Motion Picture Soundtrack...music by Kitaro



While regarded as one of the pioneers of the new age music genre, Kitaro is also no stranger to scoring for film and television. His music for the ‘Silk Road’ series by NHK in the early 1980's yielded four astonishing albums. A decade on, he would compose the music for Heaven and Earth (1993), the final picture of Oliver Stone’s unofficial ‘Vietnam War’ trilogy.

Kitaro won the Golden Globe for Best Original Score, which came rather unexpectedly, especially in a year that saw John Williams produced what was arguably his finest score for Schindler’s List (1993). His work for Heaven and Earth remains to be one of the most accomplished endeavours of his illustrious career.

Building from the symphonic sound of his massively-popular 1990 album Kojiki, his music here shows both dynamism and sensitivity as the melodies and arrangements echo the style of a traditional film score, yet are uniquely elevated by his penchant for using Asian instruments—our ears bear witness to the exquisite if sad sounds of the huqin (a kind of Chinese violin) in several tracks, and the powerful Taiko drums in ‘Arvn’ and ‘Village Attack/The Arrest’.

The synthesised sounds of what seem like the Japanese koto and flute are also brilliantly integrated with the orchestra, particularly in the stunning first track, ‘Heaven and Earth (Land Theme)’.






                                    

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