Kenji Kawai / Kuniaki Haishima – Infection / Premonition (mp3)

Infection / Premonition (from Tartan Asia Extreme)
aka Kansen / Yogen
Original Scores by Kenji Kawai & Kuniaki Haishima
Isla Vista Music DDCZ-1087

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I’ve seen this requested a few times. Enjoy!

Yes, this is where my Blood Wings Sinfonia projects evolved from. Hearing the Infection score isolated from the film now many years later, it evokes a very strong connection to my projects down to the use of the same stinger from Apt Pupil (along with other cues from aforementioned score) in similar ways along with burying Penderecki in the background, particularly cues I’ve used myself. Infection was a film I became familiar with simply because on one of my trips to California I obtained a copy of the poster as a free give away. A few months later I caught it on TV (when TV was worth parking your butt in front of for more than 30 minutes) and remember it being a very creepy film with a particularly creepy score. I attempted later to extract the score from the DVD’s 5.1 track but too many ambient sounds and voice echoes ruined the sound scape I was going for so I abandoned the project. To be honest, had almost forgot that this film even existed. Thank you very much for the pleasant reminder to re-watch this film.

I own this film! This movie is so scary! I actually cried at the end because I was just so stunned! Thanks so much!

I’ve always been a huge fan of horror films and it’s music. Thanks for this Kawai score!

Thanks 🙂

You’re welcome. 🙂 Don’t forget the "green blood".. :awsm:

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it was shared a long time ago. if it was asked, no one asked there.

http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/%5Bkansen%5D%5Byogen%5D-original-soundtrack-kuniaki-haishima-kenji-kawai-88486/#post1668508
it was shared a long time ago. if it was asked, no one asked there.

Because almost everyone searches for the english title, not the japanese.

I’m hearing elements of The Exorcist in the track Radon. Sounds like the new material recorded for the 2000 "version you’ve never seen" re-release.

In the track Rot, I hear Ottman’s Apt Pupil and Donaggio’s Carrie. From 1:23-1:36 if you listen carefully, you can very easily hear where the Apt Pupil music is looped. You can even hear the pop as the same part plays over 3 more times. The music editor ought’ve cleaned those up better.

To anyone who is curious, rip the 5.1 surround sound track from the DVD. It’s amazing how spread across the channels the music is. The surround channels are a treat all in themselves.

I doubt that. Bet you’re just imagining things.

I doubt that. Bet you’re just imagining things.

Hearing is believing. Go back and listen to the sources I mentioned. It’s a no-brainer.

Listened to Radon and I hear no Exorcist.

Listened to Radon and I hear no Exorcist.

Then you either haven’t seen the 2000 "version you’ve never seen" or the recent Bluray Director’s Cut or need to re-watch it again. You hear it once in the beginning (pre-title sequence) and if memory serves me right, you hear it again as Merrin pulls up in the car at the MacNeill house.

What amazes me is that this was released at all. When I first saw the film and became interested in its music, I thought to myself that yeah there were some pretty chilling original score cues recorded (the sinister and "infectious" main title cue that appears also at random points in the film being a prime example; been a while since I’ve seen the film so I cannot verify that it is here) but I never dreamed a soundtrack album possible due to simply how short the overall score is and how it included so much pre-existing music even if it isn’t used very much and usually accompanies the composer’s original score. It is a hybrid score. Part original, part pre-existing material. Overall, it makes for an enjoyable listen for fans of horror scores like these. It’s unique from a lot of other J-Horror films of the era in that it is actually kinda scary even if the movie was a nonsensical and silly mess (that I loved ever second of). At the time, it was unusual for me to watch a J-Horror movie and not be subjected to a lot of the standard cliches. That’s not me saying that some cliches aren’t there, it’s just that they are handled much more effectively here even though, like I said, it ends up not making a lot of sense in the end.

thanks