| I'd suggest the title "Anime Score Tracks" to help make it clear, since songs are tracks. :) Glad you liked the anime songs thread! I "cheated" by including Credens Justitiam there, which is technically a score track with vocals, whereas its alter ego (the Kalafina song Mirai) wasn't used in Madoka. I like the idea of a character being assigned an instrument, either instead of or in addition to a unique leitmotif. John Williams assigned Jabba the Hutt a tuba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6MmyMMoG9w I mentioned the sitar for Nausicaa's insects in the Hisaishi thread. I'd like to see more "unusual" instruments used that way, if it can be done without being distracting. I still have mixed feelings about Michael Giacchino opting to use an erhu to represent Vulcan in one of my all time top played soundtracks, Star Trek 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81wcwFO8QYE User Glass comments on the choice here: http://www.filmtracks.com/comments/titles/star_trek11/index.cgi?read=23 But anime tracks, well, I have to think to come up with one that isn't by a composer I have posted or plan to post a thread about - okay, I remembered some, from the music thread in the CGDCT club: Composer: 三澤康広 Yasuhiro Misawa https://xss.now.cc/people/7404/Yasuhiro_Misawa nDroae said: nDroae | Dec 21, 2016 11:37 AM My most played track from CGDCT is this one. It's genius. (The last 20 seconds are missing from the video) ばたばた / Bata Bata plays in scenes of the Minami family gradually descending into chaos. Well,"genius" may have been an overstatement, but I enjoy the way it develops. I've half a mind to upload it uncut myself. Composer: 浜口史郎 Shirou Hamaguchi https://xss.now.cc/people/7689/Shirou_Hamaguchi nDroae said: nDroae | Dec 22, 2016 12:51 AM I don't think much of Girls und Panzer's OP/ED, but on the other hand the score's main theme is a really beautiful hybrid of military march and moe friendship music. "Yesterday's Enemy Is Today's Friend" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjVNEUrKSVg "Tank Anthem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elVIyUtKGTk His work on another Tsutomu Mizushima hit, Shirobako, had a grand victory theme which reminded many of Girls und Panzer (this is a good thing), if they hadn't been already by the short string notes and military aesthetic in other Shirobako tracks. The victory theme is OST 2, track 27, 第三飛行少女隊のテーマ～決戦 / Daisan Hikou Shoujotai no Theme ~ Kessen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKmK4o9IOrI But my favorite from Shirobako ended up being the action cue OST 1, track 35, 百頭の馬と複葉機 / Hyakutou no Uma to Fukuyouki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvyEYpEdShM Here it is being performed live as part of a Shirobako concert: https://youtu.be/UVsOFXLLou8?t=801 I don't know if it was used earlier in the show as well, but where I know it from is the rush tape delivery scene in the middle of the final episode, with primary focus on one of the most attractive characters I've ever seen leading police on a high speed chase. A perhaps "low-brow" track that came to mind is an action cue from Chuunibyou. :P Composer: 虹音 Nijine (real name 松田彬人 Akito Matsuda) https://xss.now.cc/people/14045/Akito_Matsuda Album: https://vgmdb.net/album/35868 Track: 予告編 ~中二病ワールドの開幕~ / Yokoku Hen ~Chuunibyou World no Kaimaku~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1bgQUkgEFM While watching the show I was enjoying the symphonic rock sound in the battle scenes, but this was the only track I really got into on the score. The big drum beats (with attached synth choir) are too much fun! They remind me of the chorus of Roy Orbison's "You Got It" - https://youtu.be/RNMOoxRJYzk?t=43 Which made the impression of a bigger bass blast when I was a child, but still, great song. And one more, the score to the children running freely for the first time in Wolf Children. Composer: 高木正勝 Masakatsu Takagi https://xss.now.cc/people/17139/Masakatsu_Takagi Track: きときとー四本足の踊り / Kito Kito - Dance Of Your Nature Aside from being generally gorgeous, you can feel the wolves' feet hitting the ground in the rhythm that strikes around 0:30 and 1:20. Perfect score. |
nDroaeDec 25, 2018 11:35 PM
| Okay, very quick and superficial impressions on your pieces/composers first: >While Album. That's nice. I don't remember much about the OST of the show, but for some reason the theme makes me think of an arrangement of one of the songs. >Yasuhiro Misawa. Never heard of him, but that track is quite nice, the piano ostinato gives it an almost dance-like feeling I'd say. >Shiro Hamaguchi. Love his work, great orchestral composer who I wish had more chances to work with big budgets. The Girls und Panzer score is turning into a more serious war score with every new entry and I love that. Also, his Final Fantasy orchestrations are fantastic. His "The Princess and the Pilot" remaining unreleased hurts >Akito Matsuda. Very nice wind orchestra pieces for Euphonium, and also really nice work on Glasslip. His music for shows like Chuunibyou suffers from lack of budget and a sampled brass section, even in the movie. >Masakatsu Takagi. He's okay, The Boy and the Beast is also a fun score. Not terribly familiar with him. >Nana. No thoughts about it yet, I've kept the show on hold for almost 3 years. Now I'll post a couple of tracks from the operatic powerhouse that is the Aquarion OST (for some reason very ignored among Yoko Kanno's works). The classical influences are obvious, but the result is so good that I don't care. A piano concerto in miniature: And this playful, angular piece that kinda reminds me of Shostakovich jazz suites (it's an unreleased track from the original Aquarion that was released together with the EVOL OST alongside a few others): (And I said "operatic", but none of these tracks have operatic vocals or even a choir present, I'll leave that for another day) |
| I changed the thread title :) The Nana tracks sound good but I really need to see the show to appreciate them, I've had it on hold since 2016 (oh, you too eh velego?). If you want to review the whole album later, I guess use the general soundtrack discussion thread, or post a thread for the composer: https://xss.now.cc/people/8342/Tomoki_Hasegawa Here are some of his tracks posted there by @Kazami: Kazami said: You can see major similarities across his music, especially in the tempo changes and snares. This man really made a style of his own <3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsk7ZC0qy7U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sBxKh54Xzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cL-bpis4j4 I also still need to watch/hear Boy and the Beast. I'm bad about getting to movies because I want to watch them on the big screen, but I rarely actually sit down and turn it on, especially for long enough to watch a movie. Re: Bata Bata the piano ostinato gives it an almost dance-like feeling, yeah, that fits :) Don't know why The Princess and the Pilot isn't in my list to watch, must remedy that (and acquire that sadness, I suppose). Ironic that Chuunibyou has a low budget for music despite being a popular KyoAni franchise. I'll have to check out that Glasslip score, since I'm unlikely to see the show, though I have been known to watch shows of ill repute due to the soundtrack - Super Sonico The Animation, and I plan to watch Arjuna because I love that Yoko Kanno score. I have Aquarion in my MP3 library, but it's beyond the point I've reached, and wow, this is AMAZING. Maybe I'll eventually watch this show too, with music that good. :) |
| Ha, I posted a minute before you. :D Such a thread would be the most conservatory-like thing, do it! |
| Thank you! Your Lie in April came up today in that classical influence thread. I actually listened to that original score before I watched the anime, because I liked composer 横山克 Masaru Yokoyama's main theme for Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-q36ohz3i0 The acoustic guitar (I think?) reminded me of Alan Silvestri's "Transylvanian Horses" from Van Helsing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjelN9a9xQs From the Your Lie in April OST there was one track I particularly liked, 1.18 友人A君を私の伴奏者に任命します - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPzoNfHTHI I ended up with a similar (in terms of emotional effect) pick of favorite original track from the previously mentioned Hibike Euphonium by Akito Matsuda, 1.19 意識の萌芽 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJr0Vvk9r0 Or at least I fixated on that because it was the track that stood out to me while I was watching the show, but I need to give Euph more listens. From it I also liked 1.27 一途な瞳 which sounds like a graduation march, though according to Vincent Unfried on YouTube it was actually used for the "tension before the competition." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVkf18miXoU |
| I remembered a couple others I've listened to a lot. 池頼広 Yoshihiro Ike's "Centzontotochtin," the victory track from Ergo Proxy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBhtrlaS2PM Just one of those cases where I listened to the entire soundtrack because of a single track. Not quite one of my favorites, but if I had actually liked Ergo Proxy, it might be. :D Track title source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centzon_T%C5%8Dt%C5%8Dchtin https://lordsofthedrinks.com/2015/05/13/the-aztec-myth-of-the-400-drunken-rabbit-gods-explains-all-levels-of-intoxication/ And then there's the absolute icon that is the Detective Conan Main Theme by 大野克夫 Katsuo Ono. A track to put on while feeling effective and successful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm62hROJ1fE It's routinely referenced in other anime, in modified but clearly recognizable form, for gags in which a character plays detective (or tries to). It seems to be universally recognized and beloved, and a popular choice for brass bands / wind ensembles. Performed by firefighters of Hamamatsu: Japan Ground Self-Defense Force North Eastern Army Band, 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCyBR4uSkeo Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Eastern Army Band, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTBdDX3L7o Kai-City Shikishima Wind Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGowh90W0KM Totsuka Junior High School wind ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAAuHN-ejE Guitar ensemble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8up2fzQ6Uq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvR4P2i1SeM (glorious 144p) Wagakki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcyF9yv4v_M |
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