Spirited Away (Score)

Spirited Away (Score) Artist: Joe Hisaishi
Label: Milan Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731383599927
EAN: 0731383599927
ASIN: B00006HCT7


Release Date: 2002-09-10

Spirited Away (Score)


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Tracks:

  1. One Summer's Day
  2. A Road To Somewhere
  3. The Empty Restaurant
  4. Nightime Coming
  5. The Dragon Boy
  6. Sootballs
  7. Procession Of The Spirits
  8. Yubaba
  9. Bathhouse Morning
  10. Day Of The River
  11. It's Hard Work
  12. The Stink Spirit
  13. Sen's Courage
  14. The Bottomless Pit
  15. Kaonashi (No Face)
  16. The Sixth Station
  17. Yubaba's Panic
  18. The House At Swamp Bottom
  19. Reprise
  20. The Return
  21. Always With Me

Similar Items:

  1. Howl's Moving Castle
  2. Princess Mononoke: Music From The Miramax Motion Picture
  3. Spirited Away
  4. Princess Mononoke: Symphonic Suite
  5. Castle In The Sky (Score)

Amazon.com

Despite an enthusiastic cult following, the talents of master Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki have yet to gain the sort of mainstream acceptance regularly afforded American feature animation in the artist's own country. But Hollywood sponsorship of <I>Princess Mononoke</I> and this new Miyazaki anime masterpiece is an encouraging sign. To create the musical soundscape for his phantasmagorical adventure, the director has again tapped <I>Mononoke</I> composer and longtime collaborator Joe Hisaishi, and the results are another distinctive triumph. Effortlessly blending ancient Japanese modalities and percussion with Westernized influences (pastoral string and piano flourishes, snarling brass, and gentle woodwinds), the composer evokes the gentle lyricism of Sakamoto in one movement, the pulse-quickening action and suspense of Williams the next. The collection ends on the warm note of Youmi Kimura's gentle, neo-baroque song "Always with Me." While American feature animation scores have frequently been preoccupied with pop star career burnishing, Hisaishi has again reinvented and refined an instrumental language that powerfully evokes all the magic of Miyazaki's fantastic images. <I>--Jerry McCulley</I>

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2007-03-11

I ordered this as the tune at the end of the film is haunting and stays with one all day. However, I find the music on the CD is more "Modern Classical" than I remember from the film. It could be rated on a par with John Williams or Karl Jenkins. Therefore all the more enjoyable than I thought it would be. Sound quality is a wee bit uneven as some tracks are quiet so turning up the sound for them, then makes it too loud for some of the other tacks. Its a CD that sits in a pile near my computer so that I can play it on my portable CD player when working on the computer and there's nothing of interest on the radio. Well worth the money and the trouble of ordering it from the USA as I don't think its available in Britain. Chris Walker

4 out of 5 stars Worth the money.......2007-03-08

Joe Hisaishi is definitely one of the best composers of our time. Since all of his scores are for Japanese films, he doesn't get much exposure in the U.S. But his music ranks up there with the likes of Howard Shore, James Newton Howard, and even John Williams. Spirited Away is an incredible movie, and the soundtrack is absolutely perfect. I gave this album only four stars because I think Hisaishi's scores for Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke are even better (I gave them five stars -- a couple of the best film scores of all time). But this one is still worth your money. You'll enjoy it again and again.

5 out of 5 stars Joe Hisaishi is excellent as always........2007-02-28

I've loved all of Joe Hisaishi's work, especially for the Miyazaki films. The music in Castle in the Sky and Howl's Moving Castle are masterful, but Spirited Away is my all time favorite of the bunch. Even my 11-year-old brother, who detests all music classical, loves this CD.

5 out of 5 stars Mark's Thoughts On: Spirted Away.......2007-01-19

Once in a great while, I stumble across a story that into which I seek to immerse myself. When this happens, I hope to find a soundtrack that compliments the story. I must say that this soundtrack fullfilled that desire most adequately. Soft piano, "animated" woodwinds, at turns playful and somber. One need not watch the movie to pick up on the magic that is this wonderful film by Studio Ghibli ( but of course one should!); the music carries its own.

2 out of 5 stars

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