Ryuichi SAKAMOTO - Aile De Honneamise: Royal Space Force (Soundtrack)

Alternative Fox

£19.35

CATALOGUE NO. FOX042
FORMAT - LP
RELEASE DATE 10th Jul 2020
Genres - Soundtracks

Track Listing
A1. Main Theme
A2. Riikuni's Theme
A3. National Defense Department
A4. Noise/Uproar/Nuisance
A5. Futility/Uselessness/Waste
A6. Song Melody Anyamo
A7. Dr Gunoumu's Funeral
A8. Holy/Sacred Riikuni
A9. Distant Thunder
A10. Shirotsugu's Resolution/Determination
A11. The Last Steps/Phases
A12. War
B1. Getting Up/Leaving The Sickbed
B2. Out To Space
B3. Fade
B4. Track 16
B5. Track 17
B6. Track 18
B7. Track 19

Almost everything about 'The Wings of Honneamise', to use the English-language title, has been slow burning, despite the 1987 film being described by legendary critic Roger Ebert as "one of the most ambitious of all anime productions" and a "visually sensational two-hour extravaganza". A massive movie, but even that review was written eight years after its original release, when the Japanese flick finally made it to US cinemas. Here we are then, almost 35 years on, and the score is available to own on its own, conceived and created by the Ryuichi Sakamoto - composer, curator, producer and owner of a hive mind's worth of musical knowledge. Introductions aside, the soundtrack makes perfect sense with or without watching anything, luring us in onto another cosmic plane through epic synth adventures, playful piano polkas and operatic overtures, resulting in what you could describe as a meeting of classical and RPG chip music.