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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

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)’.