Pre-order the albums here ahead of their 3rd November release, listen to ‘The Wind Forest’ and check out the track lists plus more information about each LP below. The Studio Ghibli reissues feature 3 albums of music from Nausicaä Of The Valley Of Wind (1983), Castle in the Sky (1986), My Neighbour Totoro (1987), and will be available on Japan’s Record Day, 3rd of November.Įarlier this year, Joe Hisaishi’s cult manga score for Kissho Tenyo – one of our favourite reissues of 2018 so far – was rereleased via LAG Records. What results is a multi-sensory experience. These audio impressions are equally as important as visual and tangible physical elements.
Protagonists have entire albums created for them. Characters in every film and animation, even inanimate objects or feelings, have their own songs created for them. In Japan, sound is as important as visuals. Hisaishi first caught the attention of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki in the early ’80s, when he was hired to compose an “image album” for the film Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind while it was being made.Īfter hearing the image album, Miyazaki requested that Hisaishi replace the original composer hired to create the music for Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind.Īn “image album” is an LP created specifically for Japanese animations, to give a sense of characters’ personalities. Hisaishi is one of Japan’s most prolific and celebrated composers, creating over 100 film scores and albums to date, including every Hayao Miyazaki animation since they first crossed paths, with the exception of Whisper of the Heart, which Miyazaki didn’t direct.
Read more: Geisha Boogie: 10 essential Japanese records that no one is looking forĪll of the LPs were created by longtime Studio Ghibli composer Joe Hisaishi, including the first scores he ever made for the animation house, for Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind in 1983. Nine albums from legendary Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli are being reissued on vinyl for the first time, this November via Tokuma. With character image albums, song books and symphony versions.
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