tangotreats
08-12-2013, 11:33 PM
Whew... now here's one I didn't see coming. And it's seven years old. I bet you didn't know Taku Iwasaki did a Warsaw score... I didn't until about an hour ago, when a lucky search turned up this...
TAKU IWASAKI (yes, really...)
Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito (2006)
performed by the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor unknown
Not my rip. Courtesy of MetalGear25 at BakaBT. FLAC. No booklet. Romaji track titles.
https://mega.co.nz/#!FwARBDpB!SEqZ813nZiS_-iAB-mfiKHdzjWQVy3k95iJlCNlDJqU
So... Taku Iwasaki, eh? I actually really like Iwasaki - and I think he's far, far smarter than anybody's really given him credit for... not to mention smarter than his recent scores would suggest. He's got himself stuck in a rut. I've always believed he had within him the ability to write great orchestral scores... but I wasn't quite prepared for the maturity and assuredness of his orchestral writing here! There's something about overseas recordings that make Japanese composers give just a little bit extra. Never have I known a composer to step up quite as proudly as Iwasaki has done in this score. Every note is still unmistakeably Iwasaki... but it's bathed in an almost Kanno-esque symphonic sheen... and it also just feels like symphonic music. We've all heard plenty of scores where a crappy composer does a big expensive sounding score and you listen to it thinking that it sounds like a load of nicely arranged trash... This is different. This is a score which belongs in the medium. There are electronics and "typical Iwasaki" in a handful of tracks, of course, but this is basically a grand old symphonic score like you never, EVER thought you'd hear from the likes of Taku Iwasaki in a million years.
About half way through, the orchestral cues suddenly start sounding like a domestic Japanese session (albeit a very well-recorded one with a decent size orchestra) and less like Warsaw. I haven't the foggiest idea why - maybe they ran out of session time and had to finish the score in Tokyo... who knows? If the session was an unmitigated balls-up it may explain why this was Iwasaki's first and last (to date) outing with a full symphony orchestra... But the music is uniformly excellent. The style or flair doesn't vary... but I suspect a significant portion of this score wasn't recorded in Warsaw.
Anyway... Enjoy! Taku Iwasaki does a completely straight symphonic score... and does it very, VERY well indeed!
TT
TAKU IWASAKI (yes, really...)
Gin'Iro no Kami no Agito (2006)
performed by the
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
conductor unknown
Not my rip. Courtesy of MetalGear25 at BakaBT. FLAC. No booklet. Romaji track titles.
https://mega.co.nz/#!FwARBDpB!SEqZ813nZiS_-iAB-mfiKHdzjWQVy3k95iJlCNlDJqU
So... Taku Iwasaki, eh? I actually really like Iwasaki - and I think he's far, far smarter than anybody's really given him credit for... not to mention smarter than his recent scores would suggest. He's got himself stuck in a rut. I've always believed he had within him the ability to write great orchestral scores... but I wasn't quite prepared for the maturity and assuredness of his orchestral writing here! There's something about overseas recordings that make Japanese composers give just a little bit extra. Never have I known a composer to step up quite as proudly as Iwasaki has done in this score. Every note is still unmistakeably Iwasaki... but it's bathed in an almost Kanno-esque symphonic sheen... and it also just feels like symphonic music. We've all heard plenty of scores where a crappy composer does a big expensive sounding score and you listen to it thinking that it sounds like a load of nicely arranged trash... This is different. This is a score which belongs in the medium. There are electronics and "typical Iwasaki" in a handful of tracks, of course, but this is basically a grand old symphonic score like you never, EVER thought you'd hear from the likes of Taku Iwasaki in a million years.
About half way through, the orchestral cues suddenly start sounding like a domestic Japanese session (albeit a very well-recorded one with a decent size orchestra) and less like Warsaw. I haven't the foggiest idea why - maybe they ran out of session time and had to finish the score in Tokyo... who knows? If the session was an unmitigated balls-up it may explain why this was Iwasaki's first and last (to date) outing with a full symphony orchestra... But the music is uniformly excellent. The style or flair doesn't vary... but I suspect a significant portion of this score wasn't recorded in Warsaw.
Anyway... Enjoy! Taku Iwasaki does a completely straight symphonic score... and does it very, VERY well indeed!
TT