Taboo (Gohatto)(1999 Film)

Artist: Ryuichi Sakamoto Label: Milan Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Soundtrack Media: Audio CD UPC: 731383592829 EAN: 0731383592829 ASIN: B0000523KV Release Date: 2000-11-21

Taboo (Gohatto)(1999 Film)

Tracks:

1. Gohatto: Opening Theme
2. Souzaburoh
3. Taboos
4. In Bed
5. Execution
6. Match
7. Gate
8. Temple
9. Suggestion
10. Affair
11. Murder
12. Supper
13. Funeral
14. Persuasion
15. Prostitute
16. Assassination
17. Duty
18. Ugetsu
19. Killing
20. Gohatto: End Theme
21. Gohatto: Piano Version

Customer Reviews:

Haunting...yet eerily pleasurable.......2001-04-21

I own a few scores sketched by Sakamoto, but I can definitely tell you that this one easily took me to a dark place, in a most perplexing yet pleasurable way.

July 17th, 2001. I've had my copy for a few months now and I want to slap myself for only giving this cd 3 stars at first. It's a masterpiece that has inspired me to write my own soundtrack. I've since collected Mr. Sakamoto's "High Heels", "1996", "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and they are treats. The striking stabs and minor riffs are indeed mood altering... and are the perfect match for what's happening visually in the film.

If you are able to go beyond the gay themes in the movie, hopefully you'll be able to see that sometimes beautiful things are evil in the way that they bring out the worst in us.

"Ryuichi Sakamoto's masterful score of Samurai".......2001-01-08

Our composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto who gave us - "The Last Emperor" (1987)(Academy Award Winner)..."The Sheltering Sky" (1990)..."High Heels" (1991)..."Tokyo Decadence" (1991)..."Little Buddha" (1993) and "Wild Palms" (1993)...is up for another challenge with this captivating score.

For "Taboo", Sakamoto uses every electronic sound from elaborate to technical for dramatic and mood swings for his cues...lightness in tone, softer, with mid-range support of counterpoints, rising and falling synthesized tones. The opening theme "GOHATTO" is almost mesmerizing...completely spell-binding with shades of outside control, very effective for Oshima's screenplay...the last two tracks "GOHATTO:END THEME" and "GOHATTO:PIANO VERSION" are simply superb.

Hats off to our friends at Milan for releasing this original score, as for my fellow "film-score-buffs", this is a keeper...and that's my final answer!

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