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Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Akira Symphonic Suite (LP, Vinyl Record Album)

Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Akira Symphonic Suite (2xLP, Soundtrack)

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  • Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 animated film Akira is, by and large, considered to be among the greatest animated films ever made. Set in the year 2019, in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo populated by marauding motorcycle gangs, shadowy paramilitary organizations, student protesters, and corpulent oligarchs, the film was immediately hailed as a narrative and visual masterwork.

    But before a single frame of the film was drawn, Katsuhiro Otomo wanted to make sure the music, or as he and the score’s composer Dr. Shoji Yamashiro called it, the “sonic architecture,” was in place. For Akira, the visual material was built around the sonic components, and not the other way around. The film as we know could not exist without the score. Now, after a new vinyl reissue by Milan Records, one of the most important suites of filmic music in Japanese cinema history is available for the first time in 29 years.

    - Pitchfork.com
  • Artist: Geinoh Yamashirogumi
    Label: Milan
    Format: LP
    Units: 2
    Country: US
    Genre: Soundtracks
    Style: Score, Soundtrack

  • A1 Kaneda
    A2 Battle Against Clown
    A3 Tetsuo
    B1 Shohmyoh
    B2 Dolls' Polyphony
    B3 Exodus From The Underground Fortress
    C1 Winds Over Neo-Tokyo
    C2 Illusion
    D1 Mutation
    D2 Requiem