Rare treats Vol. 5: Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai Symphonic Suite

Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden Rai Symphonic Suite (http://vgmdb.net/album/26928)

FLAC(Log&Cue) & MP3(320 Kbps)

MARTIAL | ADVENTURE | DRAMATIC

FLAC (https://mega.nz/#!1NxFCAxY!-GsAs8sGoTyHDnxFYuBbg2tLZMW1H-H7RNtDCRDWm44)

An obscure album if ever there was one. This is one of those image albums that proliferated in the 80s and early 90s in Japan, a vestige of a past era. This image album was conceived to serve as musical accompaniment for the manga titled �Ginga Sengoku Gun Yuuden Rai� (aka Thunder Jet), and it precedes the anime series soundtrack released in 1994. So, this is a concept album inspired only by the manga publication and the first musical installment of the �Ginga Sengoku Gun Yuuden Rai� world.

As an image album, it doesn�t need to fit too closely into a general scheme and it�s free of time restrictions as most of soundtracks. The composers (who are Kow Otani and Toshiyuki Watanabe) are given plenty of freedom to explore and develop his own ideas. There is no track clocking under the five-minute mark and there are 8 tracks in total.

I�d recommend this album to those of you who enjoy music dominated by brass and percussion, with strong military marches and warlike themes. That is not to say that this album doesn�t have its lyrical moments (track 2, 7, 8), but it�s mostly rough and aggressive. The album is not united by a theme or themes, but by a mood. All the tracks are independent of each other, don�t share musical ideas or motifs, just the mood of being in a war, with heroes and hardened warriors, and a little of drama.

In this album worked two different composers and this shows in the different capabilities of each one. Kow Otani composed 5 tracks for this album, whereas Toshiyuki Watanabe only composed 3 tracks. IMHO, Toshiyuki Watanabe is the superior composer here, he shows more musicianship in his compositions and a better understanding of the orchestral palette. The vocal song is from Watanabe and it�s the kind of delicate and soft ballad that goes well with anything.

It�s not a groundbreaking album and these two composers have other works more brilliant in their respective repertoires. In any case, this album is interesting in its own way, but it has some flaws hard to overlook. Give it a chance and let the music speak for itself.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the share. Your description is very welcome considering the obscurity of this album.

Unbelivable

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now, i have the complete set of OST for Ginga Sengoku Gunyuuden RAI

4 CDs !!!

Finally after 3 years of searching

Thanks for the share. Your description is very welcome considering the obscurity of this album.

wise statement Sirusjr
thanx Kanyenda

Who doesn’t like brass and percussion? 🙂

I was looking fro this one for quite sometime. Thanks

Merci beaucoup!

I was really looking for this one. For a very long time! Thank you very much for posting it!

hadn’t noticed that before. thanks for this ! 😀

Thanks!

These summaries are wonderful. They’re not just well-written but super engaging from a musical and historical perspective and just, wow. Thanks for going above and beyond!

Very nice, thanks 😀

holy shizer! been a long time i ve been looking for this!!! i dint got time to search on the net for this since 2013!!! thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!

Appreciated.

Can you re up this? thanks

Updated FLAC link.

Listen and Enjoy.

thanks