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Joe Hisaishi Film Scores Compilation
Sep. 7th, 2007 09:54 pmThe work Joe Hisaishi has done for all of Hayao Miyazaki's movies alone has made him one of my favorite film composers. I actually discovered these masterpieces of animation that I love so much because of the music. I'd heard such good things about the score for Princess Mononoke that I bought the album before seeing the movie, then became more interested in seeing it because of the great score, and it all progressed from there.
Some of Miyazaki's gigantically imaginative films are literally like nothing else you've ever seen and can be almost alienatingly bizarre. But with the music, Hisaishi is always able to give these fantastic worlds of his a sense of warmth, playfulness, or poignant emotion, helping to give the story heart so we can identify with it. When I first saw the scene in Mononoke where the gorgeous "Adagio of Life and Death" plays, I was no longer distracted by things like how freaking weird-looking that deer thing was, but completely engaged in what was happening and suddenly near to tears. The scene on the train in Spirited Away, which lasts the whole time with no dialogue, may be the most strangely beautiful and arresting few minutes of a movie I've ever seen, but with the volume turned down the effect of it would be nothing.
There are several Miyazaki movies that are represented on this mix very little or not at all. For the most part, what ended up on here was just all my favorite tracks from these scores which I couldn't bear the thought of not including rather than selections that show how Hisaishi's music has changed over the years, and most of them are more recent and from the time by which his style had developed into what he's probably known best for. At least everything sounds more like it belongs together on a compilation this way.
( With music from Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, and Castle In the Sky... )
Some of Miyazaki's gigantically imaginative films are literally like nothing else you've ever seen and can be almost alienatingly bizarre. But with the music, Hisaishi is always able to give these fantastic worlds of his a sense of warmth, playfulness, or poignant emotion, helping to give the story heart so we can identify with it. When I first saw the scene in Mononoke where the gorgeous "Adagio of Life and Death" plays, I was no longer distracted by things like how freaking weird-looking that deer thing was, but completely engaged in what was happening and suddenly near to tears. The scene on the train in Spirited Away, which lasts the whole time with no dialogue, may be the most strangely beautiful and arresting few minutes of a movie I've ever seen, but with the volume turned down the effect of it would be nothing.
There are several Miyazaki movies that are represented on this mix very little or not at all. For the most part, what ended up on here was just all my favorite tracks from these scores which I couldn't bear the thought of not including rather than selections that show how Hisaishi's music has changed over the years, and most of them are more recent and from the time by which his style had developed into what he's probably known best for. At least everything sounds more like it belongs together on a compilation this way.
( With music from Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Princess Mononoke, and Castle In the Sky... )
